Hi, this is Forbes Horton with Forbes Horton Yachts.

Just want to give a couple tips out there for people that are interested in purchasing a cruising

boat and living the so-called dream.

The engine is typically the most expensive thing to replace when looking at an older boat.

They will last a long time.

Most of the time, they rust out before they wear

out, but replacement involves shafts, motor mounts, cutless bearings, propellers, and then of

course the carpentry and the fiberglass work that's required to remove it. So if you can find

an older boat that someone has already repowered, you're already well ahead of the game.

We're trying something new today, or rather something old.

This week's show is a rerun.

A few episodes ago, I hinted at publishing new episodes three times a month.

I decided recently to fill that extra week

with an old show, the idea being that some of our new listeners may not yet have binged

through the back catalog and caught up. So I'm going to recycle some of my old favorites, some of

the classics. I'm going to record a new intro for them, put them in the

on the wind format with the new music, and publish them in the off weeks. So in effect, we're

now publishing weekly, save for a few holiday breaks here and there, which I'll let you know about

in advance. It'll be very obvious in your podcast feed when it's a recycled episode.

Our first recycled episode features the very first conversation I ever recorded with Matt Rutherford from way back in 2011.

Makes me realize how long I've been doing this, which is kind of cool.

It's also cool because it was recorded before Matt was, quote, Matt Rutherford, the famous explorer who became the first and only person to sail solo and nonstop around the Americas.

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