| Jordan Shishmanov states "The “Mayflower” was initially purchased by Hollywood producer and was stationed at Marina Del Ray for number of years. The vessel was used mostly to host parties and rarely left the dock. After the first owner past away, the vessel was forgotten for number of years until it was discovered by the estate and sold on estate sale. There are few pictures left from the second owner. The name “Buena Vista” is clearly visible on the stern of the vessel. It is not clear if that was the name inherited from the first owner or new one. After the second owner purchased the vessel, he decided to commence a refit as the vessel exterior was degraded during the years of little or no maintenance after the dead of the first owner. The vessel was brought up “on the hard” in Ventura ship yard, California, where sat for number of years due to complications with the second owner family life. In 2001 Garry Kleaman, from Burrard Yacht Club, North Vancouver, British Columbia, made an offer to the owner and acquire the vessel. The vessel was in negligent shape. Garry traveled down to California where he spent time getting the main system on the vessel operational in preparation to commence 1,145 nautical miles trip from Ventura up north to Vancouver, BC. The trip north had some controversies, and after small fire in the exhaust system and return back to the shipyard for repair, the vessel arrived in Canada where it was registered by the name “Castaway K” In February 2004 we purchased the boat from Garry Kleaman. There was still plenty of work to do. Garry did few major project during the few years that he owned the boat. I have to give him credit for replacing all of the windows with Diamond Seaglaze aluminum frame tempered windows as well as some work in the cabins. The outside was painted by Garry’s wife Wendy Kleaman and the boat was looking somewhat refreshed. I was incredibly happy to acquire with the support of my lovely wife Annie, a vessel of such caliber. Cruising the oceans of the world has been a dream of mine for many years and finally we had the vessel that was capable of one day making my dream a reality. We registered the vessel with Canadian Ship Registry under the name “Sea Witch”, which the boat still proudly wears." |
