Ben Swanson

The hull and the integrity of the boat was good.

The years of neglect, I guess from a young age...

my folks were kind of misers because they started this adventure tour company when it really wasn't a thing.

Oh, sure.

So we were the first charter operators in Southeast Alaska in that era.

And there's just no internet.

It was hard getting the word out.

So it was meager financially.

And they kept that throughout there and still to this day are a bit meager in spending.

So

Even though my dad had owned several classic yachts, he almost wasn't willing to give them the time and attention and money that they deserved.

And so I was able to just... From a young age, I kept... It was kind of a dream, basically, to just take one of these boats to completion.

And Discovery just happened to fit that bill.

So it was a long time coming, but 25 years of...

Alaska and you're just there like brushing away like I'll show them like what was going on through your head bub at that time it started to become it was a passion but um my wife and I had three we had a young son at when we bought the boat and then um later had two other boys so um so it was there was a lot of driving factors to build something successful for sure

That one day they could, in an ideal scenario, that they can take it over and enjoy some of that livelihood.

Literally building a legacy.

Yeah, yeah.

I was young and ambitious.

Coming out of the hospital, I lost 100 days of my life in the hospital.