Ben Swanson

Well, it's an interesting question because you really don't know the difference until you know.

I mean, as I said, some of my youngest memories were on board a boat.

There's just so much to do.

There's so much recreation.

Yes, sir.

There's no necessarily yard to go play in, no cats or dogs, no farm animals, none of that kind of stuff.

But the marina, boats, I...

Had probably my own boat.

My dad's friend built me when I was eight years old.

Wow.

So I put, I don't know, tens of thousands of miles on a rowboat.

And then when when I could find a outboard motor and make it run, somebody would give you or something.

So went from rowing to motors and haven't looked back since.

Well, it's almost unfair in some ways.

I mean, the arduous task of working on the boat and restoring it to the condition that it's in, that was just hours and hours, thousands and thousands of hours of blood, sweat, and literal tears, getting it, transforming it from, as you said in the opening, basically a derelict...

It would likely have not sold had I not bought it.

Oh, sure.

And it was just my dream to make a fancy classic yacht.

And it had the bones for it.

That's what it started as.