If we are going to have the opportunity of obtaining the S/V Soggy Paws, we must raise $20,000 USD for the down payment over the next two weeks!! In addition, I will need airfare to the Philippines to enter officially into the purchase agreement. Please help us with this!

While we will not get possession until the retrofit is completed at the end of March, we are already making additional plans for her use in April. We have some Kurdish friends living in IRAQ who had ISIL come to within 15 miles of their home before they were stopped and pushed back. This family is very uncomfortable remaining there and would like to leave. Visas are hard to obtain unless you arrive in US and seek refugee status. The dangers of crossing into Syria to Turkey to Greece, etc. are very large. However, it may be possible for us to sail to Basra, the only Iraqi port, to pick them up safely without them having to cross dangerous enemy lines. Their very lives might depend on this rescue! The S/V Soggy Paws has three staterooms, enough for my new bride and I in one, two crewmembers in a second, and this family in the third.

This will not happen unless we can obtain this ship. She is 44 foot in length. So this is no rowboat, lol.

Please consider helping with this project. Every dollar will be highly appreciated.