We just picked up a 2004C Dory 22 cruiser.

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My wife and I were considering a sailboat for sometime. Not that we sail (even though I am experienced with smaller sailboats) we just wanted something that we could camp out on the water in. So we were locked in on a (don’t laugh) 26m Macgregor. I already knew it was not a very good sailboat and was going to purchase it as a coastal cruiser. I also had my eye on a Boston Whaler customs vessel with a nice sized berth but it looked like it needed a bit of work that was out of my scope. Then this C Dory popped up out of the blue. I had never really researched them and assumed that a pilot house was just simply out of our price range. Well we got this one for a song and it has a nice Suzuki Df70 with under 100 hours. Of course the boat only has 100 hours on it too since it was never really used. So we made a 12 hour and 1 minute round-trip from Tallahassee to Savannah to pick it up with a site unseen offer. We do a lot of camping and boating. I currently have a small Boston Whaler and a McKee Craft, as well as some nice kayaks and canoes. We probably spend about a month camping out of the year and will certainly spend more when we retire one day. Most of our time has been out on the Apalachee Bay, Saint Joe bay, gulf islands national seashore. We will probably take it to dry Tortuga as well since we missed out on our last trip down there due to a hurricane. Anyway, we are very excited. It’s getting registered today. We are going to Germany for a few weeks on Friday and I’ll be planning planning some boat trips for when we return. Also, that’s “Willow” my Catahoula, and she loves the water.