Time's up!
A classic Tom Texas-designed Palmer Johnson was sunk off the Florida coast in mid-July during a well-orchestrated event to become an artificial reef known as the AA Hendry Artificial Reef as part of the People's Reef Project. The 127ft Time was at her launch in 1987 a large and innovative yacht built in aluminum in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Now lying 166ft below the surface, she will become a nursery for new reef growth and fish off Hutchinson Island in Florida. The Martin County Anglers Club donated the yacht to the St Lucie County Artificial Reef Program in August 2022. She had been sitting idle for 17 years.
It was a bittersweet in her heyday. “It was a breakthrough design and a star at whatever port she visited,” said JC Espinosa, a member of the original interior design team. “This yacht opened the world of yacht design for me, and it would be impossible to forget her.”
