About...

We bought the Goodbye George in 2012, and with it came a pretty complete paper-trail history, carefully compiled and curated by the boats third owner, and summarized as follows:

Built in 1979 by C.T.F. Marine Co. LTD. in Taiwan for Holt Leisure Parks, Ltd., Kip Marina, Inverkip, the then 'Venturer 2' was delivered to Scotland aboard the SS Maple that same year, and remained at Kip Marina until its resale in 1987. 

Details of pricing are listed, and boggle the mind, but it would be a little unseemly to share.

The second owner appears to have moved the boat closer to home, and records show that it was moored on the non-tidal Thames from 1988, perhaps until its resale in 1993, when the registration document drops the '2', calling it simply 'Venturer'.

In keeping with British registry of private vessels, little detail is consistent - with build documents giving a length of 32'6", the official brochure giving 34'9", and sale documents from 2006 stating 11.9m LOA - and this is not just an error in converting imperial to napoleonic measurements! The most recent measurement, from our own pre-purchase survey, gives an LOA of 34'1" by 11'7" beam.

Venturer spent 5 years on Caversham Lakes, just outside Reading with its third owner, before moving farther afield, and the wealth of charts found in the forward chart locker, showing plotted courses and dated anchorages throughout the Mediterranean is nothing short of inspiring. 

Venturer changed hands again, via a Mallorca based broker, and continued its Mediterranean adventures until it was brought 'home' to Lowestoft via the European inland waterways, where we found it, fell in love, transported it to it's new home port of Emsworth, and prepared it to return to the Med, under its new moniker of Goodbye George.