This beautiful Rinker mid-sized cruiser was loaded on a Wednesday afternoon at Riverdale Marina www.riverdalemarina.com in Riverdale, IL from and delivered on Saturday morning to its final destination - Phillipi Harbor Club http://www.phillippiharbor.com near Sarasota, FL.   

The boat’s owner is a doctor from Chicago who recently purchased a second home in Sarasota.   This boat will now reside permanently in Florida as he plans to buy another boat for use at his home port of Riverdale, IL.  The receiving marina was first rate - boasting the largest indoor drystack facility I had ever seen - three levels high and able to accomodate boats up to 35′ in length.  In the Florida sun and salt water, dry stacking makes alot of sense for preserving your boat, especially if your plan is to visit only occasionally.

From this delivery, we headed to Ponce Inlet (Daytona Beach area) to pick up a center console fishing boat bound for Seabrook, Texas.   Soon we would hear about a storm on its way towards Texas, called “Hurricane Ike”…