#116: They’d had a dream before they were married.

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They were going to sail away, when they were young. They had a dream of sailing the seven seas. Unfortunately they didn’t have boat. They also had no money, being young, to buy a boat. The dream had languished. Time had passed, they had married, found employment and earned money.

Two years ago the dream had reborn. They had rented a boat house at the local marina and built a boat from plans that Mary had ordered over the internet. It was a Skoota PowerCat from Woods Design in the UK. They called it ‘the Skoota’. When the time was right they were going to sail away. At least for a weekend.

“Hmmm. Good plan.” he said. The time was right.

“I like it” he said

“Sort, sell, pack and scram” she said.

“That even makes sense” he told her.

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(3 days later)

“This has been a hell of a week already and it’s only Wednesday.” he said as they sat in the back of a taxi leaving the apartment.

“It certainly has been.” she said “Mission accomplished though.”

“Yup..” he said.

They’d just left the apartment office where they’d just made the rounds. They’d canceled the lease and the various utilities and picked up all the deposits. The preceding two days had been a mad scramble. They had sold everything that they could sell, including their cars. What they couldn’t sell they donated to charity. What they couldn’t donate to charity they threw in the dumpster. The money had been used to stock the boat, and buy some new things for the boat that might come in handy.

Like Ammo.

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(at the boat yard)
The cab took them as close to their slip as it could. They paid the driver, gave him a tip, walked to the boat, boarded and left.

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“What do you think?“ he asked her.

It was cold. It was ice on the river cold. She snuggled up against him some. They were in the wheelhouse. It had a heater so it was fairly warm inside. Still she liked to snuggle.

It had snowed that night. Just a dusting but the boats and the crab claw sail was covered with snow.

“That Crab Claw is a work of genius” she told her...and it was. He’d attached flexible solar arrays to it’s top side and installed electric wenches to position it. It was controlled from behind the wheel.

The Skoota had been designed as a pure power boat. Reggie had modified that somewhat. While Mary had been dealing with people he had been dealing with engineering. In three days he had not slept but for catnaps while he’d added a snub mast in front of the cabin. From the mast he hung a modified CrabClaw sail. It was a combination sail, solar collector and a nifty shade too. Even on a cloudy day it produced enough wattage to power the twin electric thrusters. The Power-Cat was silent as it moved downriver at just over steerage way.

It’s Range was unlimited and the fuel was free. All it needed was the wind and the sun. The Honda outboards were just for backup.

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The Next Episode is
#117: “Are we going anywhere?”…
The Previous Episode was
#115: Gone to Pay Rent…
the First episode was
#1 : Prologue

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