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    CLASSIC CRUISERS CLUB

    May 10, 2022 3 minutes

    NAMES

    Lachlan Palmer and Michelle Zimmer

    AGES

    28

    CURRENT BOAT

    1991 39 Novi Westcaper

    HOME PORT

    Brentwood Bay, British Columbia

    YEARS OWNED

    4

    Lachlan Palmer was destined to be a boater. “Right from the get-go, I was surrounded by boats,” he tells . “I grew up boating around the Gulf Islands with my family, aboard my uncle’s 28-foot William Garden-designed trawler and my grandfather’s 1967 32-foot Tollycraft Sedan.” Palmer’s other grandparents lived on the waterfront in home now.

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