Brigantia is sold!

By private treaty as they say in the property world.

She's going to a chap up Tollesbury way for a knock down bargain basement price but hey ho, at least she's going. And the knock down bargain basement price doesn't seem quite so low when you add what brokerage fees, lift out charges, yard storage charges etc. would have come to if we hadn't sold her by Wednesday next!

The reality is that the current market is awash (aha, a nautical pun ... almost) with small yachts and the advantage is all with the buyer. There's Leisure 23's and Westerly Pageants and the like with full standing headroom to be had for the sort of money I'd ideally like to have sold Brigantia for (which is also half what they were fetching two or three years ago). OK, Brigantia will sail rings around them but that's not a major selling point at this, or really any other, end of the market.

If I were stupid enough to actually add up everything we've spent over the three years we've owned Brigantia and then divide that total by 3, the resulting cost per annum would be less than the cost of a two week flotilla holiday in the Med and substantially less than a fortnights charter in the Caribbean

Whilst the weather might be slightly better (!), basically for as much or more, perhaps a lot more money, we could have had a mere 14 days sailing per annum on a charter yacht. Instead, we've had anything up to 60 plus days aboard our own little boat.

In effect, the money with which my palm is about to be crossed is a bonus which will go straight into the Erbas improvement fund (yes, even on Erbas we can find room for improvement! It's not easy finding things to do but there are some)

No regrets