Just a few drizzles when we arrived at the sellers place this morning. He spent some time showing me how to put the mast up with the included winch and it started to hail. Temps plunged, but it stopped after a bit. Went to transfer insurance for trailer and on the way back it started hailing again, then it turned to snow.
Back at his place, we quickly completed the transaction and loaded everything into the van, then hooked the trailer up. The lights worked (yay). Pulled out, everything good. Did a quick check, all safeties on, seems fine.
Drove home no issues other than the odd feeling with the van and the boat interacting, one pushes, and the other pulls, will need to get the feel of that.
It took a few tries in the driveway to get it close to where I wanted. One issue is that our driveway slopes down, and the bottom of the hitch hits when I try to back up. Had to leave the boat pretty close to entrance. I may need to move it one more time since I want it over about 5 more inches and cannot think of a way to move it without reconnecting it. Need to borrow Superman for just a second.
Anyways, long story short, the Van had no problems pulling the boat. Now putting it in the water, and taking it out again could be more interesting with 2 wheel drive.