Custom Yacht sales
The price has also been adjusted to $375,000CAD which is about $290, 000 USD at current exchange rate. You just need to add sails.
I did my summer varnishing at the anchor this year instead of at the dock. I little more work but way more pleasant. The work is easy to keep up as I use a lot of covers. Life has left me with little time for the boat right now, two young boys under two years old, living and work, I spend my "spare time" making sure Astrid is looked after with little left to actually use. I get asked so much about how it feels to sell her and that is a difficult question. One I am reluctant to actually answer but of course, it is not easy with mixed feelings. I first saw a 28ft Bristol Channel Cutter when I was 19 years old and right away it appealed to me as the perfect boat. I just loved it and in the following years I toted around a couple of dog eared Wooden Boat magazines, one that featured Lyle Hess and also an issue that featured the 30 ft Lyle Hess "Tenacity". I grew up with Wooden boat magazines as my Dad had bought them since day one and now I have them. I read all the Pardy books of course as well as the Hiscock's. Rebuilt my Stone Horse cutter always wanting it to be a Hess design! So it took until my mid-30's before I stared building Astrid and I dedicated almost a decade of time to building her, obsessing over every detail of construction. She turned out to be everything I hoped for and when I am aboard I seriously could just stay there, happy to be aboard and content to look after her and be in the beautiful BC coastal environment. But one thing I have learned in life is it is impossible to predict what will happen next. I plan for one thing and another happens and it is usually all good or will turn out that way in the end. Things just change and the quest for a simple life continues. There are new adventures, new projects, smaller boats, skiing, hiking and canoeing, things to discover and teach my two young boys. In the end I just can't afford to keep Astrid unless it alone is the way of life and that is a different life which is not right for our family right now. I feel good that I was able to achieve what I did, was able to finish her and even have a short while with her. So she waits for the right owner who can take her on the adventures she was built for.
Here are a few pictures of this summer.
