I reckon its been about a month and weve been flat out with friends and family on board and all that entails, and doing a lot of sailing, and preparing Libertalia for sale! Yep, weve tod and frod, but ultimately decided that we must sell Libertalia. The sales process itself will be worthy of 1,000 words and we are already collecting scandal and intrigue that will make for fascinating reading even for those of us who experienced it the first time! However, we cant really write about it while its happening, and by the time its all over, we may, or may not feel the love enough to publish our sales journey. So... feel like youre being told theres a secret we cant tell you? Haha... enjoy the suspense! For now we are choosing to sell Libertalia privately. This means we dont have a broker working for us, and we dont get to pay $40k for the privilege. Your typical broker will take something like 7-10%, but the world is changing and brokers arent as critical to the process as they once were. As such, some are willing to negotiate fees based on the value they add. A novel idea in the field! So, we may end up in a broker relationship or two. The biggest perceivable advantage of that for now is that we can list on the worlds largest and most popular yacht sale website. There is definitely a hole in the market for someone (maybe me) to build an attractive, intuitive, highly functional website that facilitates the sales and marketing of yachts worldwide, and is open to Joe Public. One of the hundred ideas we have discussed for Life After Libertalia. There is a great deal of water to go under the sales bridge yet. At some stage we need to leave New Caledonia and head somewhere else... It is likely to be NZ or Australia, but if a buyer wanted the boat delivered to Hawaii... The world is still our oyster, even though it is slowly trying to close up around us. Libertalia really is a fantastic boat and we havent yet seen a boat that we would rather have. Weve worked hard and spent an embarrassing amount of money to bring her to where she is today. Assuming we sell her soon, and there is a slim chance we end up keeping her, we will dearly miss her and all the wonderful experiences she has given us. There has already been tears as the reality of saying goodbye has begun to appear through the clouds. If you know someone who might be interested, or just want to have a nosey, this is probably one of the better listings here: https://goo.gl/GUxXD2 We have just completed a 2 day passage from Ouvea and we plan to be in Noumea at the end of this week. For now, life goes on - La Belle Vie!