Refitting a Contest 43

I recently read A Year in Provence. It was a fantastic book – very humorous and a great depiction of what it’s like to buy an old house in a foreign country and use the local trades to do the work. I found there to be a lot of similarities between that and my experience here in St Lucia, where I’ve spent the past few months working on my Contest 43.

GDY Kids is my eighth boat. I own a Farr 40 racing boat, too, but this is the one I use for cruising with my family.

I’m originally from Israel but I live in Boston and have been an American for the last 40 years. I’ve been buying and