Obsessing About Two Obsessions At The Sunset Bay Marina

My sister Susan and I took a walk along the Stuart, Florida Riverwalk yesterday afternoon, and along the way wound up walking down D Dock at the Sunset Bay Marina, as seen in the photograph on the left. This marina has a wide variety of boats docked there, from modest cabin cruisers to superyachts. There seemed to be several superyachts along D Dock, and so we decided to head that way and take a look. If we were going to daydream about owning a yacht, we might as well dream big.

We first checked out a good-sized yacht named Obsession, out of Stuart, Florida, as seen in the photograph on the right. A very nice-looking boat, certainly large enough to take us to the Bahamas every once in a while. Since I myself own a condo in Denver as well as having to pay half the expenses for our place in Stuart, and Susan, having sold her townhouse in Fort Collins, Colorado, now has some discretionary income, I told her she would have to be the one to buy the yacht. I myself would pay for lessons to learn how to pilot it, so we would hopefully avoid winding up at the bottom of the sea. Susan is still mulling that over. In any case, we moved on to the next boat, a true superyacht, docked on the other side of the pier.

And the name of that superyacht? Obsession, out of Stuart, Florida, as seen in the photograph on the left. What? How is that possible? Isn't there some kind of name registry, so that each yacht's identity can be verified, kind of like a license plate? Obsession out of Stuart and Obsession out of Nassau, I can understand. But two Obsessions, both out of Stuart?  What if Susan actually decided to buy that superyacht and we headed to, say, Columbia? And what if the US government got a report that a yacht named Obsession out of Stuart was carrying drugs back to the U.S. Would they mistakenly bomb the Obsession coming back from Columbia instead of the Obsession heading back to Florida from Mexico loaded to the rafters (beams?) with illegal drugs? And so, I have become obsessed about the two Obsessions. Perhaps it would be best just to sit on the patio of the Sailors Return, located right in front of D Dock, have a beer, and simply look at the yachts instead of owning one. I really didn't want to pay for those seamanship lessons, anyway.