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.

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