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This well-conceived, ShowBoats Award-winning custom tri-deck motor yacht gives a new meaning to the phrase, “going to the dogs.”
by Marilyn Mower
photography by Pamela Jones
11/01/2004
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For Atlanta residents Steve and Tina Bostic, weekends meant escaping to Lake
Lanier, enjoying the water aboard a succession of express cruisers. When they
decided to move up in size, these former owners of an education business
assigned themselves plenty of homework. “I think we attended every boat show in
the country for three years, climbing literally on hundreds of boats,” said
Tina.
 Steve and Tina Bostic aboard Best N Show with dogs Max and Sassy. If their
kennel keeps producing winners, they joke that the next boat will be called
Westminster. (Click on image to enlarge)
The Bostics’ plan for retirement included a boat large enough for
extended cruising. But they elected to take it in stages. “We decided to buy a
production boat to give us some time to learn more and to see if we liked the
lifestyle,” said Steve. “Even though our brand-new sixty-three-footer had some
bugs, and even though we lost about fifty percent of our original investment on
that boat, we learned we liked the lifestyle a lot. We also learned that to be
satisfied, we needed a custom boat.”
Enter Patrick Knowles, who had designed
the interior of a Fort Lauderdale apartment for the Bostics. “Patrick helped us
organize our ideas and define a set of requirements. Chief among those were
plenty of space, a length of less than one hundred feet for easy operation in
the Bahamas and along the East Coast, and a boat that could be operated by four
crew,” Steve said, adding that after owning a number of fiberglass boats, he was
interested in experiencing an aluminum hull.
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The Bostics’ analysis of current
yacht designs led them to realize that the features of the typical raised
pilothouse yacht were lost on them. “The pilothouse commandeers a huge space on
the main deck, we didn’t need two helm stations and we don’t spend a lot of time
in the sun, so the flying bridge wasn’t important,” said Steve. When he saw
Lazzara’s approach to a third deck on its 94-footer, he knew they were on the
right track. When Steve began taking his ideas to various shipyards, he was
surprised how few builders seemed interested in building a custom yacht of this
size. Burger Boat, however, found the project a worthy follow-up to its 2002
spec boat, Wimil.
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