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Naively I figured buying a knackered old fishing boat and converting it into a superyacht with all the mod cons would be simpler, cheaper and quicker than starting a new build. Turns out, as our feature on page 102 reveals, I was quite wrong. This line from the piece made me chuckle: "All old boats, they stink. And they’re dirty. There’s nothing happy on an old boat." And this from the master of conversions himself, Jan Verkerk, who’s got Legend and Sherakhan on his resume! They may be dirty, but there is an undeniable romance in taking a hull that’s past its use-by-date and repurposing it into a comfortable cruising boat. You have to be a lot in love and a little crazy, given the challenges you’ll inevitably face, but those that push through come out the other side with extremely capable vessels packed with character. I salute anyone undertaking such a project.
A special mention has to go to the owner of Cariad, too, a new hero of mine – and recipient of a World Superyacht Award this year. When he bought the 130-year-old yacht in 2021 it was in a shocking state. It had sunk three times on its mooring in Singapore and was riddled with worm holes and, to borrow Verkerk’s words, "stank". An intense rebuild in Thailand followed, which has returned this sublime ketch to life. Think what we’d be missing if Cariad had been allowed to waste away to scrap, with over a century of lives and stories evaporating in the mud. Simpler, cheaper and quicker is the wrong way to think about it, I now appreciate. These owners are adding chapters to epics.
Stewart Campbell
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