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A slightly more restful day after two days sailing from Ouvea. New blog
post titled "Libertalia for Sail!"
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title: Libertalia for Sail
image: Libertalia for Sail
image: Libertalia for Sail

Libertalia is for sale!
I’ve been very slack and have not posted anything on our blog for quite
some time. That’s not to say I haven’t written anything… just nothing
that got completed or met my personal standard for posting. This post is
a bit different – I figure I should post something, so I’m just writing
and will post it without even reviewing it myself. I reckon it’s been
about a month and we’ve been flat out with friends and family on board
and all that entails, and doing a lot of sailing, and preparing
Libertalia for sale!
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Yep, we’ve to’d and fro’d, but ultimately decided that we must sell
Libertalia.
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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 can’t really write about it while it’s happening, and by the
time it’s all over, we may, or may not feel the love enough to publish
our sales journey. So… feel like you’re being told there’s a secret we
can’t tell you? Haha… enjoy the suspense!
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For now we are choosing to sell Libertalia privately. This means we
don’t have a broker working for us, and we don’t get to pay $40k for the
privilege. Your typical broker will take something like 7-10%, but the
world is changing and brokers aren’t 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”.
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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.
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Libertalia really is a fantastic boat and we haven’t yet seen a boat
that we would rather have. We’ve 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.
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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
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We have just completed a 2 day passage from Ouvea and we plan to be in
Noumea at the end of this week.
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For now, life goes on - La Belle Vie!

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