We bundled up, well at least I did, and headed out to step the mast and rig the boat one more time. We got lucky and the day after Thanksgiving was sunny with temps in the lower 40's. Yet another lesson learned, always open letters from the boat insurance company. A quick look at the calendar showed we had only a few days left to get them pics or have them cancel our policy. I opened them to discover that we had ten days to send them detailed pics of the boat from all angles, inside and out, plus photos of the rigging, sails, and motor. Luckily, I happened to come across the un opened envelopes in the boat file before I covered her for the winter. We had received 2 letters from the company we insured Memory Maker through and I had assumed Cindy had opened them. The weather in Indiana is always unpredictable but it is getting to the time of year that we can start having winter weather any day so I was planning on covering Memory Make up for her long winter's nap. Checked out the motor, fired it up, paid the man, loaded it up and headed home. Luckily Cindy's phone picked up a stray Verizon tower and got us to the owner's house. If you are outside of Verizon's coverage area the gps will not give directions. Another lesson learned with my phone's GPS. It was not long before it was time to go look at the motor. Cindy tried some bourbon while we shared some loaded cheese fries. Just go there on any day other than Sunday as most places close on Sundays. We walked around the town for a while and checked out a local antique mall before going to the bourbon bar on the sw corner across from the courthouse. Downtown Bardstown is very neat with nice shops and places to eat and sample local bourbon. Jim Beam, Heaven Hills, and several other distilleries are all located right around the Bardstown area. That is where we come in.Ä«ardstown is about an hour and half south of us in Bourbon Country, as the locals call it. He got it out and fire it up this year and listed it for sale. He put it back in his garage and there it set for another year. The bottom of the motor was almost dragging the ground. Satisfied that it ran he mounted it on his small john boat. He takes it home, fills it full of oil, sticks it in a bucket of water and fires it up. He was new to boats and did not know the difference between long and short shaft motors. After a couple of years he sold the motor, still un ran, to the person we got it from. Was going to fill it with oil and mount it on the boat the next day but his boat was stolen that night. He said the original owner bought it and took it out of the box. Just a bit of dust under the cowl from sitting around for so long. The owner said the motor had never been in the water and once I saw it I believed him as it is brand new. Things have been crazy busy for us as of late with the holidays coming, busy at work, and still working on the house, but we took time out to run down to Bardstown KY to look at a 2006 Nissan 3.5 hp long shaft outboard for Memory Maker.
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