Pittsboro, NC

Finally a boat-related post!  

We have looked for a replacement Splendide washer/dryer machine in the past.  Our washer/dryer is original to the boat - so over 20 years old and is going to fail at some point soon.  The interior frame is terribly rusty, as you would expect from something stored at the coast year round.  It actually looks pretty good but it's pretty finicky to get it to operate.

 

I had looked on Facebook marketplace in the past so a new one was in my "feed".  We contacted the seller in Winston-Salem - just a little over an hour away.

Country girl doesn't get out much - so the neat Winston-Salem skyline was fun to view.  Lucky it was Saturday - the streets were deserted.  I'm sure during a weekday this place is a zoo!

 

I had exchanged messages with the seller on Facebook - she told me that they were refurbishing a bus to live on and had decided to "go another route" for washing clothes.  After a wrong turn, we found their bus - quite the project!!

But they were really neat young folks.  Wish them well in their adventures.  It's amazing how interesting buying something from Faceboook or Craigslist sometimes turns out.  

The young man helped Duane load up the washer.  It's brand new!  Never been used with plastic protectors still in place.  Apparently the previous owner of the bus was going to install it but never did.  These folks don't want to set it up so decided to get rid of it.   Lucky us!

So we got it home and into the basement for a trial run.  Works perfectly.  Now the trick will be to get it onto the boat and installed.  That will be another saga, I'm sure because I believe we will have to disassemble part of the boat to get the bulky machine in place.  We'll worry about that later when we finally get back to Oriental.