It's GONE: We SOLD our Boat | Sailing Soulianis - Ep. 111

Welcome to Sailing Soulianis. I'm Lauren, this is Kirk and our baby daughter Renata. For the last four years, we've been cruising aboard our sailboat Soulianis. In our previous episode, we had just sailed from the Keys to Fort Myers and then up the Caloosahatchee River to store our boat away for hurricane season. We've been thinking for a while now that this might not only be the end of the season, it might be our last time on our Tartan 37. Hey baby. Say mama, come out and say hi. Hi. There she is. I have to pee. Okay. Be right out. What do you want to say? Do you want to say we drove all the way to Florida and it's still cold? Hey. Hey. We just spent another summer in Michigan with family and friends and now we're going back to the boat. We're almost there. We've got two hours to go and we will see our boat again, which we are selling. We may have already sold. That didn't last too long. We've really put Renata through the paces here in the last four days. She has been in the car and in her car seat so long. So we listed our boat for sale about two weeks ago. We told everyone that we were going to start showings next weekend and we were going to spend all this week cleaning up the boat. And on our way down here yesterday, we got a Facebook message that said, I have cash. I want to buy the boat. And sometimes those things feel a little bit like scammy. Like, okay, great. Yeah. You know, you get a ton of messages like that when you list something on Facebook marketplace. Sent a few messages back and forth. He said, how about we do a phone call? Cause this will be faster. So we called him up and he was very serious. He wants to buy the boat. Sight unseen, no contingencies, at full asking price. So we've given him till tomorrow to send us the money. And that could be that. We could just be going down to get our personal items off the boat and officially be starting our new boat hunt. Actually, one of the things that's very important for real as boatless boaters, it's kind of a strange position to be in, but we have a boat that we are very, very interested in that we are going to look at. And there's one other high possibility on the list. It's a little bit further away in Florida that we're hopefully going to go see in the next week or two, but we very well could be not boat owners by tomorrow afternoon. So it's starting to get real. So here we are on the way back to the boat. We've hung out here for a couple hours by this Lake. It's kind of like a little Lagoon, but we found with Renata, she can only do about three hours in the car nonstop where she'll kind of be cranky. She'll eventually fall asleep. She'll sleep for maybe two, two and a half hours and she'll wake up and immediately just be over being in the car. So we try and find a nice place to stop about every three hours. We'll take a couple hour break, have lunch or have dinner, try and burn off some of her energy, let her wander around, and then she'll sleep for another two or three hours. So definitely makes the trip a lot longer, but it's so nice with the van. We're so spoiled carrying around a bathroom with us and a bed and a cooler and like a camp stove and just, we have everything we need. We've got two hours, two and a half hours, till we're back to the boat. We're at the boat. Come on, let's go see her. Just about how we left her. Just a bit more dirty as usual, but not too shabby. Looking a little green under there, but our tent looks pretty awesome. Teak still looks pretty wonderful. Do you remember the boat, babe? The humidifier's running. Smells like an old boat. This is return number five? Yeah. This is our fifth time back. Feels nice in here. Yeah, it does. Feels dry. Very dry. I'm pretty happy. Yeah. I guess that's what happens when you have someone look after your boat, right? Yeah. Thank you so much Len for looking after our boat. Yeah. It was really nice knowing we had somebody here. I feel like like the interior is like ready to go. It's like we were just here. The exterior on the other hand. That's a different story. But the same thing though, like last time we arrived and we were like, oh it's terrible and it did look terrible. Yeah. But then it came off like you split because you waxed. Yeah. I think once we take this cover off and spray down the whole deck. Yeah. It's going to look like just about how we left it. Yep. All right. Sweet. Yeah. I think we've figured this whole process out. Yeah. We literally might be selling our boat today. And the bite, the bite, the boat might be sold today. Yeah. Today or tomorrow. It's kind of a crazy feeling. Yeah. But we have super exciting things ahead. We do. I'm super excited. I was just mulling over the whole, you know, the first day and the last day that you buy your boat is the happiest. The day you buy your boat and the day you sell your boat is supposed to be the happiest days of your life. I think the jury's out on that. Yeah. Yeah. It's, I'll be able to tell you tomorrow. Oh, fingers crossed. If, if, if we do sell the boat, I think it's going to be bittersweet. Very bittersweet. Yeah, for sure. I think it's going to be some tears. It's not like we're selling the boat because she's falling apart. We've outgrown her a bit, but she's still gorgeous and she's still a beautiful sailor and it's going to be hard to say goodbye. That's a gator. That's a pretty big gator. I looked up past her shoulder and my heart just dropped. I was like, holy crap. That is a large prehistoric animal. In the wild. Yeah. Baby? Baby? There's the baby. I'm unpacking some things from the car here and I've got the old familiar hum of the fridge going, the sound of the fenders creaking on the boat, and just the slight movement of the boat as the wind gusts come and go. And the smell, the smell of the boat of just all the wood mixed with a little bit of diesel. Like it's, it's, it's tough not to, not to get choked up because your memory is so strongly coordinated with smells and your, your sense of smell and your sense of hearing. And like, that's why songs can be so emotional sometimes, or like walking into your childhood home and just having that familiar smell. Lauren and I have had a lot of amazing adventures over the past four years on this boat and it's going to be so hard to leave. It really is. I'm just looking around at all the, all the stuff I've put so much effort into and maintaining and fixing. See, this is what I'm dealing with. So this is day two of the cockpit locker chronicles. How much time her and I have spent in here. Looking pretty comfy there. Bigger problems are at hand, such as the state of the fridge. And I'm supposed to be making cocktails. I love. All right, let's crimp some battery cable. And how much we've grown. This is us. Don't, don't, don't. You can't do that. This is us going to buy a boat. What different people we are now. We're up here on the foredeck hiding from our baby. This boat has meant so much to us and this journey has meant so much to us. And this has been such a cool thing and experiencing it all with you guys on YouTube. Like this is, this is real. This is real life. We are not, you know, people who've, who've met us in person always tell us like, man, you guys are just exactly like you are on camera. And that's that, that's what, there's no filter here. And then we get to rip out our fuel tank. Yay. Yay. Boom. What a beautiful freaking day to be sailing. And we're going to go back into town and try to get our dinner. I'm going to do this now. You're going to get a nap when we get back to the boat. Yeah. Yeah. Big steps. We're just normal everyday, regular people trying to fumble our way through this life and enjoy it and learn and grow. This was Lauren's brilliant idea. Sounds perfect. Yeah. Our dinghy wrapped around our prop. Either we're a perfectionist or we're idiots, or this just isn't that simple. As soon as you start to charge a battery, it starts accepting less and less amperage. We clearly didn't learn anything. There's a thing called R&D. Yeah. Yeah. And this boat has been such a huge learning and growing opportunity for the both of us. We're in the water. Everywhere I look, I'm just getting flashes of memories. It's our home. It's like a big boa. We're getting close. We have protective packaging for offshore passages here. Friggin' refrigerator is so large. Us working over here on the chain plates. You're going in there. I need a tool. Your tool's already in there. Yelling at each other back and forth about which bolt we're on. I would say the number. Yeah. And then I would say on. On. Five. On. Turn. Whatever. We're getting better at this whole communicating thing during boat projects, which is pretty cool. Just not when the camera's in our face. You okay? Um, didn't we film just like three hours ago? We did. Pretty sure our boat is sold. I'm positive our boat is sold. I just opened my bank account and we have funds in the bank. So this is no longer our boat and she is no longer solely on us. Now what? Now what? Lauren and I were just talking about what all we have to do next because we have a still a very crazy busy next six weeks ahead of us and I'm all rearing and ready to go and Kirk like wants a boat, another boat yesterday. And I'm like, Hey, let's take like a month off of boating. No, no. Kirk wants a boat. Need a boat. Need a boat. Need a boat now. No, but in all seriousness, seriousness, it feels good. I think, I think we've both been ready for this. Yeah. I got a little misty eyed earlier today while I was putting the food away in the fridge, but I'm very happy. What do you think? Baby. We started this journey as just the two of us here and now we have a new journey to start with the three of us and I don't even know what to say. I'm just, I'm like at a loss for words right now, but I'm, I'm happy. Life just keeps moving. Finish with one chapter. You got to turn the page and move on to the next thing. And I think we are so it's exciting. It's very exciting. We've actually already been hunting for boats for the past two and a half years. We knew this would be happening. Renata, baby, baby. We have a really, really solid understanding of what we're looking for. It's just been really difficult to find. So there's still a couple more opportunities out there, hopefully for us. And we won't be boatless for long. No, that's for sure. So they say the happiest day of your life is the day you buy your boat and the day you sell your boat. I don't think it's the happiest day, but it's exciting. And I think it's made more exciting because we just went and saw another boat. So today could be both days all wrapped into one.