Nov. 29, 2006 - (Boojum) I Think I Might Love You More

Its happened. Trev told me it would and don't you just hate it when someone gets to say 'I told you so?'. When we sold Jasmine I spent night after night on the PC desperately looking for a new boat. Trev said wait, be patient, the right boat will come up. We agreed that we wanted a boat that didn't need a complete renovation, that we could go away with and ideally had a really nice beam. Anyway,..... Beroe didn't meet any of that criteria!! I've still carried out the odd check up on boats for sale sites and have continually announced to Trev, 'see, nothing has come up!'...until...last week. There it was, the boat that I was really looking for. Called Boojum, a 46ft gaff cutter built by W.E. Thomas in 1909.

I love Beroe but I looked at the pictures and description and realised 'I think I love you more!!' We love the old Bristol Channel Pilot Cutters and she reminds us of them and meets all of our intended requirements and and is (or should I say was) in the price range that we'd been looking at. I reluctantly told Trev who said "Shes lovely. Thats the one. Thats the one that I told you to wait for. I told you, I told you to wait".

What can I say? Why do I keep looking at boats for sale? I do feel very lucky to have the boat they we've got....but perhaps it's because Beroe is still in her engine in project stage so we haven't really used her? I'm sure I'll love her more again when we can have some fun with her!