The sun slowly descends as a crowd in cocktail attire gathers by the dock of a home in Miami Beach. A yacht cruises into view, upstaging a fire rescue boat that has been dancing around the canal, shooting water into a pale sky with pumpkin-coloured streaks. The group leans in closer, and phones go up in the air to get the perfect shot of the sunset and yacht with a cappuccino-coloured hull that slowly motors towards the party. After a flawless manoeuvre, the 29.3-metre Sanlorenzo lines up with the dock.
It’s a big day for owner Jorge Luis Garcia, a Miamian who left Cuba as a child with his family in the early 1980s. “This is such a huge dream come true, ” he says in a touching speech to his family and friends who have come to celebrate the arrival of Legacy, his new SD96 Sanlorenzo.
Garcia set himself the goal of owning a yacht more than a decade ago after a neighbour invited him to spend time on his family boat. Garcia didn’t know what kind of boat it was and had no idea what to expect. As he walked with his friend along the docks of Miami’s Bayside Marina a stone’s throw away from the Freedom Tower - an enduring symbol for Miami’s Cuban exile community -
