My father in law Alan and MiL Carol have had some hard times. Both at 70+ and an unfortunate death by suicide of the boy over a year ago they raised who was disowned by Alan's daughter
has made their retirement years difficult.
Carol's son (my wife's brother) Darren is an annoying little guy at times but still a very good mate. He hasn't forgotten how I looked after him when he was a loser, stoner teenager.
He is now a successful businessman in Australia and bought Carol & Alan a house for them to live in - close to where we live.
A couple of months ago he gave Alan $10k to buy a boat. We found one that need some work but was basically sound. We had a couple of K's left over to fit it out as a fishermans boat.
A day at Burnsco in Manukau and with Alan bolting stuff on since then and tomorrow i'm going to connect some wires. Then we're going for a test run and a test fish
So looking forward to helping one of my old fishing mates out. Called round today to see what we need and the happiness from Carol & Alan was so apparent.
So happy to be able to help. Hope the boat floats though
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