Bluewater Dream

Each new element was an improvement, but the sum of
the parts is nothing less than a surprising transformation from production boat to custom yacht.

Each refit story has its particular nexus; for Bob Stone it was the day he admitted he was longing to return to bluewater. “I’ve been boating since I was a child. My grandfather kept a 1929 Gatsby commuter at the Knickerbocker Yacht Club in Port Washington, New York. My cousins and I grew up aboard his boat on Long Island Sound,” he recalls. After a short hiatus from cruising following the sale of that boat, Bob, now a successful health care company executive based in Nashville, bought a 42-foot powerboat for cruising the Cumberland River. It isn’t that he doesn’t enjoy inland cruising, he’s a member of both the Nashville Yacht Club and the Commodore Yacht Club, where, in fact, he’s a past Commodore, but, “one day I realized the water didn’t smell right to me; no salt, no salt air,” he says. ...

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