Way back in the late Autumn of of 2017, Kay and Paul Sumpner mounted an exercise to find someone to build the boat of their dreams. Kay's dad (the Nick in Old Nick) had been a liveaboard boater and it was always the couple's dream to follow in his footsteps. Armed with a massive spreadsheet, they worked their way through numerous boatbuilders, comparing and contrasting and looking at the style and finish of the boats they built. They whittled their search down to a select few - one of which was Ortomarine. Early in 2018, Kay spotted that Ortomarine was selling a newly built boat (as a result of the owner falling ill, sadly) and arranged to meet them to look at it. They promptly fell in love with the boat and the craftmanship with which it had been built and decided there and then that Ortomarine would be their boatbuilder.
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