The best 2 days of boat ownership is the day you buy it and the day you sell it.
That's bullshit. That day I bought this boat was stressful as fuck! And once I refinished all her brightwork and thoroughly cleaned out the cabin belowdeck I discovered she could be very comfortable and pretty, and THEN I discovered that she sails superbly in rather bad weather! That last bit was the best surprise of all, but judging by her looks I figured it was probably.
I don't know about that selling part yet. I am pretty sure that owners of this particular vessel seldom survive to do that; the last one just lucked out due to how much I pestered him to sell to me. Then he probably died from being a drunk before too long afterward anyway. Poor guy.
You obviously have a love for boating and a love for a particular boat. I was mostly referring to the average "I'd love to have a boat" person, having never owned a boat before.
Oh. Yeah. I guess that is a recipe for disappointment. Or possibly death, it depends.
What kind of boat?
Holy shit, her website is down. I should fix that. Thanks for asking, it made me try to bring up the website I made for her and now I see I have to fix it!
Well anyhow, she's a , built by Cheoy Lee in Hong Kong in 1965. As you can see, she's not a yawl right now, because a previous owner unstepped the mizzen and just sailed her as a sloop and found this was simpler and faster. I since found out that this is not a surprise, as Arthur Robb designed this boat to be a sloop, and adding the extra mast was just affectation to drive sales because extra masts did that in the 60s for some reason. I'd still like to restep it someday, just for the sake of having the only yawl rigged boat in town, but I probably never will because she sails superbly even with her shortened mainboom [to allow room to clear the mizzen], as her original design had a great deal of weatherhelm due to the long mainboom that this one lacks. Bur she was apparently designed specifically for racing up the Thames... which is odd because she's fantastic on the open ocean thanks to her narrow hull and long overhangs [and somewhat heavy displacement at a bit over seven long tonnes].
The day I sold my boat was one of the worst in my 50 years.
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