Yachts International

A Legend Lives On

here are certain yachts you never forget, and one of my most memorable is a sternwheel steamboat that came out of Jack Hargrave’s design studio in the early 1980s. There’s just something that stirs the soul when a sternwheeler passes by, its buckets gently churning brown water into white foam. When the whistle blows—or better yet, the

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