No it develops a nice growth of weed or mussels over the next year
I had the money to buy a new 32ft yacht fully equipped. However I do not like the modern designs for numerous reasons. As my wife will never come with me due to excessive motion sickness, I decided I could not justify to myself buying a new yacht. I then decided that £40,000 would buy an adequate yacht for my needs, but did not know what. The maximum size for singlehanding, from experience, would be 36ft. Looking at a variety of different boats, I struggled to find what I wanted. Then my brother suggested a Westerly Fulmar. I had always thought Westerlies were more like floating caravans, but the Fulmar has done everything from international match racing, offshore racing, round the cans racing, extensive cruising and been used by sailing schools. What could be called a perfect type of yacht. It also has a ¾ rig meaning the headsail and spinnaker are smaller than a masthead rig of the same size boat. This crystalised my buying direction to one class of boat. Ultimately I bought Concerto for only £21,500 in Dec 2013, thinking the balance of the budget would be sufficient to bring her up to a modernised as new standard. It has cost a lot more, but do I care? No, it was my money and I have her exactly as I want her. I should mention that the balance of what I could have spent was put into a flat that my daughter used for most of the degree course. When she moved out and sold it, I not only had a reasonable rent from her, I also made over £12,000 profit as prices had risen. Naturally I gave a chunk back to her so she could buy a house.Thank you for taking the time to break that down for me. It's extremely informative.
Can I ask, knowing what you know now, would you have bought a newer boat, for say £20-30k more, or still gone with your current "custom" route for the fitout, with expenses as incurred in real life. It's a personal decision obviously and for some, I imagine emotional.
I absolutely agree with the buy cheap, buy twice, mantra.
Have you had a go with Nikwax tech wash on your oils? I'm sure someone has said that before, but actually I've found it rather good.
Where are you presently and can we have another video soon?
Reminds me. Are you accompanied, because I could have sworn I saw a yacht called Serenity in two of the ports you visited in Part 1? Maybe you have a stalker? They were blonde, around 5ft 6 and shapely.....
New term for me.
For editting I use Openshot, which is also free. I used to use a paid for video editor until the company withdrew support and made it impossible to use. Openshot is not a bad editor but can be slightly clunky and can just close without notice, so I save every few minutes. This is probably because my videos have a huge number of video clips to work from and lots of very short clips being combined, then there are titles being added. I have shown a few people who are possibly interested in learning editting and are amazed at how complex a video can look. In this photo of the program with the part 2 video loaded, the line of blue boxes are all the video clips plus backgrounds and titles.
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Generally attributed to JP Morgan I believe.
Forgot to mention - it's even more depressing when the Admiral finds your calculations...
The best solution is to sow some seeds by remarking how a particular addition or replacement would make sailing safer or, more comfortable for her. Surprising how often spending can become their idea