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Safety has always been a prime concern for us when boating. Our kids started when they were infants so making sure everyone came home safe and not traumatized was paramount. Our plans for Rose Lee are to live aboard and migrate south each winter via the offshore route to the BVI,s. In Nova Scotia we have some very challenging conditions to sail in lots of rock shoals wind and fog. We decided a life raft was a must and had one on our previous boat, however with the number of thing s we were doing this was going to wait for a few years do to costs. Enter my Dad. I have to explain a few things about Dad, he is a bit of a romantic about the sea and a life long sailor. I grew up reading Dads old issues of rudder magazine and Gam to name a few. I remember Dad ordering plans for a Tahiti ketch and we spent hours going over those plans and dreaming of maybe one day building that boat which could take you down into the trade winds. Like many things life sometimes gets in the way and the ketch was never built, however the seed was planted in an 11 year old boy that one day I wanted to follow the trades and visit palm trees by boat. When Joyce and I had decided that we were going to retire on a boat my Dad was one of the 1st people we shared our dream with. He was our biggest supporter (likely pretty skeptical like everyone we told). When the boat landed in NS many years later the dream was pretty solid. Dad was the 1st one to jump in a car and come over to check out the boat which was several hundred miles. Fast forward I was updating Dad on the progress of the boat prior to launching and he asked about a life raft. I explained that the life raft was on the list but not at the top. Dad responded that he would like to help us out and would like his contribution to be the raft:) How nice is that, the raft went to the top of the list and we purchased a new 6 person solas offshore raft with mounting frame. The installation wasn't difficult but I did have to drill four through hole in the cabin top. What an excellent gift a bit of my Dad will always be on deck with us where ever we go.
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