September 11th is a date that will live long in the memories of most of the population of the western world but for all the wrong reasons.

For us it is a date with an additional significance because in 2007 we went to view nb Phoenix III, a boat that we then went on to buy. We kept Phoenix III until the spring of 2014 when we sold her and bought Caxton.

This first blog post diarises how we bought our boat.