Power & Motoryacht

In Memoriam

Back during the ’80s, for reasons that continue to escape me, I decided to jump-start a mid-life crisis. Most guys wait until they’re into their fifties to do this sort of thing. I figured I’d crank ’er up a decade early.

So, I quit commercial seafaring cold turkey and caught a train from Tampa to the wilds of Westchester County, New York, on

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