Motor Boat & Yachting

THE HALF-MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION

 have lost count of the times I have heard “The two best days of owning a boat are the day you buy it and the day you sell it.” My best days have always been the ones when I have been able to use it. Which leads me to the sale of my current boat, a 2006 Princess V48 that I have owned for the last seven years and loved every moment of my time aboard. However, having shipped it from the UK to Florida when I moved to the US and subsequently cruised it all the way up the east coast and through the waterways to Lake Erie, I am now left with a bit of a quandary. The vast majority of visitors’ berths in the Great Lakes are for craft under 50ft, making impromptu weekend trips significantly easier in a smaller boat. So, regretfully, I have decided to

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