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There was also the small matter of Ad maybe changing his mind. But he was convinced she would sell quickly.

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Normally, he would commission a full brochure with lots of photographs and details. Andre took a couple of photographs with Sirion still sitting on the yard trailer and posted them on the Internet. When she was taken out of the water, for her usual polish and service, Ad told Andre he wanted to sell her.

He had been talking to Andre on and off about selling her but never had the heart. Ever since Ad had hardly used her, but still maintained her impeccably. Unfortunately, Ad's wife passed away a few years ago. Ad and his wife had used Sirion extensively and cruised all over Europe in her. Andre showed me around and I was very very impressed. It all sounded very good, so I went over to see it. Every year she was professionally cleaned, polished, and waxed and the engine was given a service. Every single year it was lifted out of the water and stored for winter inside. Ad had berthed Sirion in his marina for the last 13 years. The Sirion belonged to a customer of him, an 84-year-old gentleman by the name of Ad. I called the broker Andre and talked to him. It had all my favourite colours (red under the waterline, Dark blue hull, creme superstructure, tinted glass window, open rear cockpit. To date, you will find that hull design in yachts designed by companies such as Mitchel, Nelson and Hardy.

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Their hull design originates from the various professional boats used at the Scilly Islands. There were not all that many details available. This is how I found her This was the photograph as posted by the yacht broker on one of the Dutch marketplaces (similar to Ebay). I am very happy and proud to show you our boat finally. And visiting a lot of marinas, looking at boats and chatting with their owners. A lot of browsing the internet and going to yachting exhibitions. That is how she made me buy my Alfa Romeo Spider and my Jeep Cherokee too. But comfortable enough for the two of us and some occasional guests, kids and grandkids to enjoy. It was my wife who convinced me to reset my requirements and get something a bit smaller, a bit less expensive. I know of a guy who bought a 45 motor yacht and could not get a permanent mooring for the first two years of ownership.Īlso, my wife was adamant that there was no way she was coming with me out into the North Sea. Also, getting a mooring for this size boat is almost impossible. Ever since COVID there has been a rush to buy boats by everybody. But for reasons reason, it became increasingly more difficult to get one.īrexit pushed the cost of purchasing up considerably. I had my mind set on some verBritish-builth built type of seaworthy motor yachts. Not so much a sailing yacht anymore, but a motor yacht. But for as long as we have been married (40+ years) we have never owned a boat ourselves. I have owned all kinds of sailing boats, dinghies mostly, when I was young. Her dad was a famous racing skipper Caribbeanaribean aspente spent a lot of time on all kinds of yachts as well. My wife grew up in Barbados, a tiny island in the West Indies. My parents got me my first little dinghy when I was about 11-12 years old. And I have been sailing on sailing and motor yachts my whole life, at sea, rivers, canals and lakes. My career started in the merchant navy as an engineer. The sea is always nearby and currently, we live smack in between the two busiest rivers in Europe. During our Indian years, I rarely came across pleasure crafts.īut I am Dutch, so I grew up on and near water. In all these years on TeamBHP, I have only seen a few posts about pleasure crafts, because that is what it is. For no other reason than because it is a boat, a motor yacht. Today I am starting a new thread on an addition that doesn't fit into my current fleet of vehicles. In these ten years, I have posted several times about additions to our fleet of cars. Although I love reading up on everything automotive, one of the attractions of this forum is we have so many different non-automotive topics as well. I have been posting on TeamBHP for almost 10 years or so.