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Update! I've hired a local boat mover to bring my Roamer home on Monday, so I'll get some pictures to post up.
In my quest to find a local mover willing to take the job, I found some recent history on my boat. It's only pieced together right now, but apparently one time several years ago the boat was owned by some people (possibly druggies) that left the boat in the canal behind their house, and abandoned it when they they were kicked out/evicted/taken to jail. The boat sat in the canal for some time, and managed to fill up with water and sink, where it then sat for a considerable amount of time underwater. I don't know how far it was down for sure yet, but I've heard everything from just a few feet to being completely submerged. Well, a neighbor decided he wanted to restore the boat, and commissioned its raising and salvage. After sitting in his yard for awhile, he too lost his home (foreclosure?) and the people I bought it from purchased it.
The guy I purchased it from had all the right intentions of restoring the boat, but unfortunately suffered a massive stroke awhile ago, leaving him with only partial use of his right side. Even with that he wanted to finish her, but when the county pumped thousands of gallons of water into his front yard during road work a few weeks ago, the stands let go, and the boat fell into the mud. He didn't even have the money to have it righted and shored back up, so he realized it was time to let it go.
So now the next chapter of my boat's history starts, and I'm hoping it will be the turning point in its story.
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