PonTuna Salad
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Honey, what do you want to do tonight?
That is what my bride of 33 years asked me one Saturday afternoon in mid-February. Buying a boat wasn't the first thing that came to mind, but since the Charlotte boat show was underway and we needed a life jacket for our Husky, we thought we would go look, for the life jacket that is.
We have had 3 Sea Ray bow riders over the last 25 years and wasn't looking for a new boat. Well after we didn't find a dog life jacket, we went to the Sea Ray section of the show. After looking at the prices, it didn't take long to see that our current boat was just fine.
Since this had been a mild winter, I kept hearing from my wife "it's a beautiful day, why can't we go out on the lake like the Dalton's?" I told her they have a pontoon with an outboard and don't have to winterize and I don't want to do that every time we go out.
Back to the show. We walked past a pontoon and I told her "at the stage of life we are in our next boat probably should be a pontoon". But I was thinking down the road. I didn't realize it would be the shortest road I have traveled.
We stopped and looked at a pontoon and talked to the owner of the dealership about the boat for about 5 minutes, but spent an hour just "talking". By that time the show was closing, but we took some info about the boat.
Fast forward to Wednesday. We both got off early and we decided to go look at pontoons. The first place we went was the Bennington dealer, just to "look" and on Saturday we had a 24SSBXP on order.
We finally got the build date today which is May 1 with dealer receipt May 10. Wouldn't you know that the date is the the boat will be ready for us to pick up, we are leaving on a 2 1/2 week trip to Europe?
That is what my bride of 33 years asked me one Saturday afternoon in mid-February. Buying a boat wasn't the first thing that came to mind, but since the Charlotte boat show was underway and we needed a life jacket for our Husky, we thought we would go look, for the life jacket that is.
We have had 3 Sea Ray bow riders over the last 25 years and wasn't looking for a new boat. Well after we didn't find a dog life jacket, we went to the Sea Ray section of the show. After looking at the prices, it didn't take long to see that our current boat was just fine.
Since this had been a mild winter, I kept hearing from my wife "it's a beautiful day, why can't we go out on the lake like the Dalton's?" I told her they have a pontoon with an outboard and don't have to winterize and I don't want to do that every time we go out.
Back to the show. We walked past a pontoon and I told her "at the stage of life we are in our next boat probably should be a pontoon". But I was thinking down the road. I didn't realize it would be the shortest road I have traveled.
We stopped and looked at a pontoon and talked to the owner of the dealership about the boat for about 5 minutes, but spent an hour just "talking". By that time the show was closing, but we took some info about the boat.
Fast forward to Wednesday. We both got off early and we decided to go look at pontoons. The first place we went was the Bennington dealer, just to "look" and on Saturday we had a 24SSBXP on order.
We finally got the build date today which is May 1 with dealer receipt May 10. Wouldn't you know that the date is the the boat will be ready for us to pick up, we are leaving on a 2 1/2 week trip to Europe?
congratulations on the new boat..... bummer on the Europe trip, but the Benny will be waiting with open arms when you return!
