M/V SKARN is a 2000 Boarncruiser 35 Classic Line, built by Boarnstream Yachts in the village of Jirnsum, the Netherlands. She came to us without a name and we welcomed her into our lives, christening her Skarn in May 2026.

We hope she becomes a place of happiness, belonging, and peace for our family and friends. A place of quiet mornings, shared adventures, and time together.

May she give us many good stories and always bring us safely home as we move forward into these new chapters of winding canals, open lakes, big seas, and quiet harbors. She is a companion for our family's slow journeys, shared discoveries, and the kind of wandering that leaves space for wonder.

In the winter of 2025/2026 (...and into the spring) Skarn had an extensive electrical and electronic refit done by kenco.nl. This included, but is not limited to: a Raymarine ecosystem: radar, VHF, AIS, autopilot, Axiom MFDs, and augmented reality systems. Victron brings their isolation transformer, 5 kW Quattro inverter, monitored shunt, several DC/DC converters for 60 W USB chargers, Ekrano, GlobalLink, and battery monitoring of the three 300 Ah LiFePO4 batteries. Other highlights are a WhisperQuiet 6 kW generator, Actisense EMU, and progressive thruster controls.

"Skarn? That's a weird name for a boat. What does it mean?"

A skarn is a coarse-grained calc-silicate rock created when hot, metal-rich fluids from a nearby igneous intrusion infiltrate and chemically replace limestone, dolostone, or other reactive sedimentary rocks. This metasomatic reaction produces diagnostic minerals such as garnet, pyroxene, wollastonite, and epidote arranged in concentric zones that record the temperature and chemistry of the circulating fluids. Because these fluids can carry and deposit metals such as iron, copper, tungsten, and gold, skarns are globally significant hosts of high-grade ore bodies.

...and for those of us who are not geologists: imagine a big block of chalk (limestone) and someone pours super-hot, metal-filled soup from deep inside the Earth onto its edges. The soup soaks in and replaces the chalk grains with shiny crystals like garnet and pyroxene, transforming the rim into a brand-new, colorful rock. That new rim is a skarn - often stuffed with useful metals, a bit like hidden treasure around the outside of the soup pot.

SKARN embodies generosity, community, protection, exploration, and disciplined strength. It reminds us that this time is a gift, binding us in cooperation, treasuring our haven, setting our course and minds forward to the future, and moving with honor and thoughtfulness.

In geology, a skarn is born where different worlds meet: hot mineral-rich fluids moving through older stone, transforming it into something new, strong, crystalline, and often unexpectedly valuable.

That idea feels right for this boat. Skarn is also a meeting place: between land and water, family and friends, work and rest, the known and the next horizon. Over time, through care, weather, journeys, and shared memory, she becomes more than her hull and systems. She becomes a place where ordinary days are changed into something lasting.

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