LIBERTY YACHTS

We became enamored with Taiwan boats in the late 60's & negotiated directly with C.T. Chen of TaChiao Yachts for one of his CT-41's. At that time, they cost $22,000 delivered to the U.S.!! A Scottish builder, starting a yard in Taiwan, heard of our interest in the CT-41 & contacted us while we were still living a normal life in Pasadena, CA. He ended up selling us one of his Freedom 45's, a take-off of the Bill Garden "Porpoise". Subsequently, the Scotsman invited us to join him in Taiwan as his General Manager & Office Manager for Freedom Yachts. To make a long story short, we ended up losing most of our money in a short period of time! After the demise of Freedom Yachts, a lot of things happened. The Scotsman tried to "hide" his personal 60' Garden ketch during the Freedom bankruptcy in a cemetery outside of Taipei, so it was aptly known throughout Taiwan as the "cemetery boat". We obtained ownership rights of that boat, built it, shipped it to Seattle, lived aboard it & then sold..