Ben Swanson

Sure, sure.

And just years of neglect, what we brought it back from.

And it's become amazing.

But to your question of the lifestyle, once moving past all that, and even now, because it's an old wooden boat, it takes a lot of man hours of

uh of labor off season but when you're there uh we have a lot a lot of repeat guests oh for sure that of course start its guests and become friends that have uh taken as many as 22 trips but a lot of guests that have taken five or six cruises that we've visited in the off season and um

They're paying us good money to come and you almost live in a Discovery Channel or National Geographic.

That's just our summer season.

Wildlife around every corner, fresh food for dinner, fresh seafood for dinner.

For sure.

It's it's pretty every now and then you got to pinch yourself and just say, of course, or the seasons gets long and the crew gets surly.

And you say, look, you're living somebody's dream.

This is somebody's dream job in that realization, which probably came a little later in life.

But it's pretty cool now.

I mean, I dinner with guests every night and.

So you share stories from their backgrounds and their upbringing.

And almost every one of them is just envious of being in the captain's seat and getting to do it.

You know, we're there paying us good money to take them and see that we get to do as a livelihood.

Well, the onset was a lack of money.

So, as I mentioned, it was good.

It had great bones to start with.