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Vigornia as bought, prior to the repaint
and after the repaint
Where did the name come from?
Apparently, Vigornia was the Roman name
for Worcester, the home town of the original owners.
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VIGORNIA
the next boat
We purchased Vigornia
in April 2000. We'd been playing around with ideas along the lines
of "if we were to build a new boat, what would we include?"
This is problematic, as most fanciful designs will only fit a shell of 120
feet or thereabouts. We had a few ideas:
 | More living space
| A traditional style shell
| An old engine with lots of brass bits
to polish
| A washing machine
| A generator
| A cross bed |
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One day, idly surfing the web while
downloading e-mail, I found Vigornia for sale on brokerage at ABNB.
This appeared to offer most of the features that we were looking for and
so a snap decision was made to take a look. As the majority of our
needs were met, we ended up buying Vigornia and finding a new home
for Swanmore. We decided that we didn't care too much
for the original colour scheme, but otherwise everything was fine. Vigornia
was built for long distance cruising and for a short while was used as the
previous owner's almost permanent home.
Vigornia was the opposite of
Swanmore - a cheap boat with lots of frills. However, it served us
well for a few years and we had some enjoyable holidays. Best of
all, we were able to work out a few plans for the next boat.
One thing that we did NOT
like, though was the colour scheme - maroon and dark green. So, as
quickly as we could, over to Lawrence at Fenny Boat Services for a
repaint.
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