FOUND! (?)

Several boats later...and no joy in Florida in finding our trawler. With just 24 hours to our departure from Florida...a new listing is found on yachtworld. A 1999 Mainship named Sea Dog and she's less than an hour away from us in Punta Gorda!
We get an appointment and both love her instantly - this is the one.
But, we have a conditional offer in on another boat two years newer than this and the owner has accepted an offer for $30,000 below asking price... less money than the 1999 list. We leave Fort Myers at midnite to drive 10 hours out of our way to view the 2001 in Pensacola before continuing on back home to Canada.
We promise the broker for the 1999, that we will let him know what happens. We decide to give him a post dated offer 'in case' ....
The Pensacola boat is an instant 'no thanks' for both of us.
We stop in Chattenooga to call the other broker and give him the green light GO on the offer we had previously given to him.
Our offer goes in at 3:30pm....but the owners are leaving the country
in 12 hours for a month in Mexico.
By the time we reach our hotel late evening, the owners had put in a
counter offer to ours. We flipped back an offer higher than our first and went to bed.
We continued our drive back home and were finally able to get a wifi connection at 5:30pm.... I see 'thee' email!
The owners have countered again and as far as we are concerned.....this is a
done deal!!!!!
Next steps:
We have a haulout and survey scheduled for Jan 26th and Peter is flying back to Fort Myers on the 25th. Pending no major issues, the deal closes Feb 28 and we will be in Punta Gorda Florida to take possession. They have agreed to let us stay at their dock behind their home for 2 weeks, and will give us some much needed orientation to this new stranger in our lives.
This will no doubt go down as one of THEE quickest listings/sales in the current
economic market! One half day listed....And 24 hours before we
departed. Fate we ask?