How this all started...

Many years ago on a beach out on Cape Cod Beverly (long before she became my wife) and me (long before I became her husband) were windsurfing, something that we had been doing with increasing frequency since she had introduced me to the sport.  Cape Cod has untold miles of beautiful beaches and this was one of them but sadly access to those beaches was quickly becoming limited.  One by one, many of our favorite “hidden” spots were becoming restricted and unavailable to us.  But on this beautiful day, after driving 3 hours from home we were in.  We were at a beautiful little beach, the sky was clear and the wind was blowing.  We rigged our sails quickly, grabbed our boards and we we're off.  While were were sailing around I noticed a nice sloop anchored just off the beach and got an idea.  Later when we both headed into the beach for some lunch I shared my epiphany with Bev; If we had a boat all the beaches of the world would be open to us.  I don’t remember her response but she seemed to like the idea.  Sadly Bev and I parted ways but the idea of a boat granting me magic-carpet-like access to all the beaches of the world never left me. 

Much water has passed under both our transoms since the those early innocent days exploring the beaches of Cape Cod.  Two marriages, one each for the both of us to other people, two beautiful children for Beverly's, none for me.  We tried to come together but the time and situation didn't favor us sadly we parted ways again, the second time, seemed much harder than the first for the both of us.  We were both fortunate that our health has held and out hearts have never lost it's fondness for the other.  

I retired in 2009, sailed for a year and then came back to ground.  I drove around the country and ended up settling in Eugene Oregon.  I fell in love with the place.  Bought a house and reconnected with Beverly.  In 2012 she came out to visit.  In 2013 I drove back east to visit her and on the spur of the moment we got married with plans for Bev to retire and move out to Eugene the following year.  After settling in for a year Bev got the itch to go sailing.  I had been crewing on a friends beautiful trimaran every summer since I move out here and doing the occasional delivery.  So my sailing jones was sated, not so for Bev.  So we started looking at boats.  I tend to be picky about boats which usually involves looking at lots of them before buying.  Bev, not so much.  After traveling to inspect the 4th  or 5th prospect that was subsequently rejected Beverly started to get a little surly with questions like; "What was wrong with that one?"  and "I want to do more that just look at boats." 

At the beginning of our search we happened across a boat of a model that I'd never seen or even heard of before, a C&C 37/40.  Besides being beautiful this boat has a modern hull form, deep keel with the mass set low in a torpedo shaped form at the bottom of the keel.  They are also light boats with lots of kevlar and a cored hull.  It was love as first site that got even better with the knowing.

                              

Unfortunately I spent a few weeks researching the model and thinking about that one in particular, when I called the broker she was long sold.  We then narrowed our search, focusing mostly on C&C 37/40s.  The next one that came on the market in the Northwest I called with in a week but unfortunately they already had an offer on her plus an incredible 8 backup offers.  The broker asked me if I'd like him to add my name to the back-up offer list which I declined.  I wanted a boat and not join a scrum.  Fortune seems to favor the persistent.  We widened out search area to include California and immediately found one in San Francisco Bay.  So off we were like a shot to Alameda were we found an under used, beautiful example of her type, Malo.