Bye bye boat, blink and some ponderings on trust

Sold the dinghy today and the bloke came from Norfolk to pick it up. He insisted on paying with cash which is a bit of a no no on Ebay. I did pretty well selling the boat within the week. With this sort of budget people needed to come and see the boat.  The second person to see it bought it. He came with a trailer - looked a bit furtive when handing over the dosh though I think he was nervous about handing over a large wodge of cash. And part of me was still wondering how it could go wrong - were the notes counterfeits? I had decided this was more secure than a cheque. Was it? What was his address and so on. I furtively took a couple of photos of his license plates - it would have been rude to have done it obviously - he asked me to write him a receipt by hand. Both of us were trying to trust the other while trying to make sure that there was no funny stuff at the same time. Verry interesting how you go about deciding if you can trust people.  A lot of it is providing details about yourself to fill in gaps.

He told me he is planning to store the boat in Salcombe and sail it round Bolt Head - which gave me a bit of a twinge - I'd like to do that! But now he can and I can't. Ah well.