The Chronicles of Adventure!

This September I became the proud owner of Bristol Channel Cutter Adventure - the culmination of a year of dreaming and searching for the right boat.

Finally I found another proud owner who was moving to Nebraska - the heart of the country and about as far away as you can get from the oceans around the USA, and who had to part with his beloved BCC.

As soon as I came upon the BCC, I knew it was the boat for me.

The men and women who own these boats are something of a breed apart.

The Sam L Morse BCC doesn't much like going astern - at least it requires a certain application, and practice.

They are smaller than most people's idea of a live-aboard, and they haven't been in production since about 1994, yet the people who own these boats know they have something special.

The build quality, design and functionality came before such secondary considerations as cost of production and profit.

Ultimately, in defiance of modern business practice, the company ceased production rather than cut corners, and produce something less perfect than they could.

The BCC is rock solid, and yet not sluggish or cumbersome.

The author Ferenc Mate described the BCC as the most beautiful 28 ft fibreglass sailboat in the world - period.

To me he hit the nail right on the head.