On February 17, 2017, we became the new owners of the Mar Azul, a Defever 44 Ocean Cruiser/Trawler.  Being on or close to the water has always been a passion of ours and after moving to S Carolina and living on a deep water creek that could safely house a trawler, we decided to just do it. Now or never! This has been something Bruce has wanted to do for a long time. I am ok with it, actually more than ok and I know that taking this time out to follow a dream will be worth it. We don't know yet where she will take us or when but just getting her to her new home will be a great adventure.  This trip will be invaluable to us in our learning curve as we learn to handle something larger than our 22' Grady White, (which is for sale!) This is just a little bit larger.... little bit. Bryan, our personal and private Captain will assist us on the trip from St Petersburg, FL as we cross the state of Florida and up the east coast to the Toogoodoo Creek, which is just off the intracoastal waterway on the north side of the Edisto Beach and south of Charleston, SC.

We started looking (instead of dreaming online for years) at trawlers last summer while vacationing in the Northwest where there are LOTS of them. Then last fall, we started the serious "looking" and we made some trips down to Ft Lauderdale, Miami, Ft Myers, St Petersburg, FL then up to Murrell's Inlet, Myrtle Beach, Little River, Southport and New Bern NC, then back down to FL!  The trips allowed us to figure out what we thought we wanted was not right at all! After we decided that a Defever 44 would fit our wish list and visiting with the few available on this side of the US, we found a new listing online, so back we go to St Pete, FL! And the rest is history. We had some great little trawler shopping trips, visiting with family and friends at the same time.  The Tatums in NC, ex Defever owners and Captain Bryan in FL were a great help in our decision making!

The Mar Azul was owned by Bob and Elaine Ebaugh in St Petersburg since 2009 and they had some wonderful adventures traveling the blue waters with her. We hope to someday let her take us back to some of the waters she has already traveled. We are changing her name but more on that later. We will slowly be making some changes to the interior as well as we make her our second home.