Deja Vu joins our family
After 11 years of working towards it, we have a boat again!
Our 2002 Amel Super Maramu 2000. I had wanted an Amel since 1997, when we bought our first cruising sailboat. However, they were so new at that time, one was out of our budget. We ended up buying a Nautical 56, which I dearly loved.
We—Bobby, my husband; Lona, me; Robby, our oldest son; Michael, our youngest at the time—sailed Immanuel around the world from 1997-2004. Our daughter, Tiana, joined us during vacations from university.
After not working for nearly eight years during our circumnavigation, we had to do something to make income once we returned to the US. Bobby started a window coverings business and we eventually sold Immanuel. Definitely not “one of the second happiest days of a person’s life.”
Robby and Michael had gone off to college so Bobby and I adopted two boys from China—Luke who is now 13 and Jonathan who is currently 10; they were three and two when they came home to our family.
Bobby and I never really were able to settle back into life on land. So…in 2020 we started looking for another boat 🙂
I decided I didn’t really want an Amel anymore because I wasn’t wild about having the same boat as that popular YouTube sailor’s boat. However, used boats in our price range during the COVID years were few and far between. We couldn’t find a boat we liked as well as the Amel, so we went ahead and bought what is now Deja Vu. And we’re very glad we did.
Sailing Deja Vu 