Day 3. The punchline. Aurora. To be honest, we did not really expect to buy a boat on thus trip. We were getting closer, but thought there would be more trips, more inspections. But within minutes of meeting Aurora , we knew she was the right boat.
She was in storage in Rockland. We had trouble finding the right building. The broker was late. We wandered around and finally found her draped in plastic inside a caverpus and nearly empty warehouse. Nobody around to object, so i pulled the plastic back, found a ladder, and we climbed on board. I suppose its time for pictures.
Our first look. Mrs Dave checking her out.
Aurora is a 47’ center cockpit ketch. Designed by Alden in 1972, a one-off for a special customer who knew excatly what he wanted. She was built by the Poul Molich yard in Hundestad, Denmark and launched in 1973. 13.3’ beam.
She has had 3 previous owners. We have researched them all. Its a bit like finding an old race car, and tracking down clues, paperwork in files, logbooks and notes, making random calls to likely long dead numbers and asking questions if anyone answers the phone. Lots of fun.