The Marie Virginia is an aft-cabin model, hull #106. She was the Marlow Gambler when I bought her - there is probably a story there, but I never met the seller, just the agent, so the backstory remains a mystery.

My intention, two years ago, was to pick up a daysailer on a trailer. After ten years of half ownership in a Coronado 25, up in a Frisco bay slip, the costs & hassle of a big boat were wearing me down. Nineteen feet or under, with a 5hp outboard, on a trailer that I could park in my side yard - for free. That was the idea.

So, off to Yachtworld I went.