Gone Without Wind
Hong Kong is well placed as a commissioning centre for new yachts coming from the Chinese shipyards. A strange mix of East and West and one of the most expensive cities on earth, life in Hong Kong can be an interesting experience.
Leave a commentWhen you buy a new yacht, there are a number of ways you can go about this. Normally, you would buy from a local dealer who will help you with the design and specification and liaise with the shipyard on your behalf. But there is another way to save large amounts of money – to buy direct from the shipyard.
Leave a commentWe finally move aboard Destiny as soon as she is delivered and our Hong Kong boat life is underway. We have to first stow all our gear and deal with the snagging issues as they come along
Leave a commentAfter four years in the build process, we finally take delivery of our yacht in Hong Kong. Hard to believe she is really with us now! But the last few months has been a very stressful time, trying to get us to the end of the process. We still have a lot of work to do before we will be ready to cruise, but at least we are now living onboard ….
Leave a commentAlmost a year to the day, I wrote a blog with an update on our boat. At the time, we had no idea how long we would be separated and when the boat could be finished. We certainly did not expect that a year later we would still be sitting in limbo.
Here we are in April 2021 and it still seems we are no closer to getting together again and taking delivery of Destiny from the boat yard. Building a boatRead More
The time arrives for our next quarterly factory visit to Selene in China. This is always an exciting time when we will get to see and feel the boat inRead More
September 2018 sees Destiny start to look like a real boat! The deck finishes cooking in its mould and towards the end of the month everything is ready to beRead More
So we have the lower hull structure – but that’s only part of the boat! The next step in the manufacturing process is to laminate the upper half – orRead More
The day has finally come when we get to see our new Selene 60 trawler for the first time. We’re excited to be able to witness the release of theRead More