Hiccups.

I guess no business can be done without running into some snags. So annoying though. Dealing with three different people, the most important person to this deal being in Phuket, Thailand, another living off his own sailboat with limited availability and a broker who is pretty much impossible to reach. It seems like I've been playing phone message tag for weeks and have yet to actually talk one on one with the boat broker.

I am not the type of person who can be patient and just let things go, roll with the punches, let the chips fall where they may, blah, blah, blah. I have done everything I can possibly do. Papers are signed, finances are in escrow with the broker, arrangements have been made for the transit up to our marina in Oak Harbor on Monday, September 23. Insurance setup for coverage to start on that day, marina slip booked, Grandma coming down from Victoria, BC to sit with the "infinks", Mark took time off of work, we are good to go, except for the issue of the title.

So to legally own the boat the owner needs to sign over the title of the boat to us, the same as buying a car, but the title is here currently on the boat and oh wait... Ha ha, the owner is 7500 miles away. It's kind of difficult for him to sign a paper then isn't it? Why yes it is. 

So here we are, a boat anchored in a precarious place, interest being ecrued daily on money stuck in escrow, we're all dressed up and actually have a place to go, just don't know if we can go, all because of one piece of paper, all be it a very important piece of paper.

So stand by until tomorrow, when we hopefully can actually get the broker on the phone and see what his magic solution is to getting this title problem solved and if Monday is going to work still, if not then the boat will need to be moved to a safer anchorage now that the winds are shifting as the season changes and we will be back to waiting... How fast can a FedEx plane get to Thailand and back?