37VT05 Miss Willoughby

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HIN: HAO370051083 more photos
Hull Laid: October 1983
Yard: Hai O Yachts, Taiwan

Mariah and Beau Hicks

Galley

Owner History

Owner	Bought	Sold	Boat's Name	Home Port
Beau and Mariah Hicks	May 2018		Miss Willoughby	Marathon, FL in the Keys
Carl and Laura Butterfield	1991	May 2018	Carla B.	Ithaca, NY
Bill and Betty DeWitt		1991	Betty D. II

About the Owners - Current

Hicks: Beau & I had been looking for a new live-aboard boat after losing our 41' Island Trader, Xantao, in Hurricane Irma. After living on a sailboat for over a year we had learned what we liked & disliked in a live-aboard which is why we decided to move over to a trawler style our second time around. We came across the Lord Nelson Victory Tugs while perusing yachtworld.com and quickly became enamored with this style of boat. When we found out how awesome the community is and the wealth of information provided about the boats on the LNVT website we knew this was the one for us! Now that we've been living on her for over a year we are happy as can be and we're glad to be continuing our dream of living aboard in the Florida Keys!

Butterfields: We fell in love with our Lord Nelson while she belonged to the previous owners. On returning from a trip to look at a Nordic Tug, we found this Lord Nelson for sale and bought her in 1991. We have traveled the waterways of the northeast to include the Trent Severn Waterway, the Rideau and the Richelieu in Canada. Home port is in Ithaca, at the south end of Cayuga Lake in the Fingerlakes area of New York, and of course we travel the Erie Canal here in New York State.
— From a 1999 letter from Carl Butterfield

Layout

• Galley to port

Mechanical and Engine Detail

• Yanmar 4JH4-HTE 150hp (new Nov '10)

Electrical

Galley

Electronics

Deck

• mast midships

Original Purchase Information¹

Date Ordered	Buyer/Brokerage	Hull Laid	Hai O's Cost to Build2	Shipping (from Taiwan)3	Misc. Expenses4	Admiralty Ltd. Profit	Date Shipped from Taiwan	Closing Sale Date	Approximate Delivered Price5
9/9/1983	Brightstar Yacht	10/83	$53,736.30	$8,543.50	$953.74	$7,709.96	12/24/83	1/13/84	$72,687.34

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Footnotes

1. The data came from Admiralty Ltd.'s Boat Sales Ledger and the LNVT Sales Journal and Ledger

2. Cost to Build = Basic Cost + Cost of Options.

3. Don't have exact cost so this is the average of the cost to ship hulls 4 and 6.

4. Misc. Expenses = Interest + Insurance + bank charge for Letter of Credit.

5. Approximate Delivered Price = Yard Bill + Freight + Misc. Expense + Profit (taxes not included).