Yacht Royalty
Imagine for a moment that you’re scanning the brokerage listings for a custom aluminum cruiser, and you come across the 72- foot express cruiser Valkyrie, a 1988 build. Scanning the pictures, you admire the classic raised pilothouse profile that hearkens back to the commuter yachts of New York and Long Island Sound. And then you discover that this design is from the board of C. Raymond Hunt, master of the rough-watertaming deep-V hull, built by Burger Boats, the Midwestern yard that fairly defines royalty in American custom aluminum yacht construction. It is safe to say that you pick up the phone to speak to a broker, knowing as you do the Burger Boats legend.
When Henry Burger apprenticed to Wolf & Davidson
