Boat International — January 2018

http://www.boatinternational.com | January 2018

hadCamarina Royalefor a few years and
my vision was that if I ever got another boat,
I would probably go for an expedition yacht,
something that’s a little more seaworthy, that
has a little more capability for toys and carrying
stuff with us.”
The breakthrough came (for Jack at least) in
March, just a month after the fire. Their broker
called: why didn’t they go and look at 43 metre
Copasetic, that tall, commercial looking boat that
had once been their neighbour? “We’d been
running around looking at boats all day and our
broker said we could get onCopaseticthat
afternoon, but Mary refused to go.”
So Jack went alone, and “was immediately in
love”, Mary sighs. She was eventually persuaded
to look around the boat, but wouldn’t budge:
“I really didn’t want it.” The couple spent a day
stewing and it was Mary who finally relented.
“I knew he loved it. If the price was right, then so
be it. I couldn’t be the reason he didn’t have it.”
There was one condition, however: Mary
demanded an unlimited budget for a refit. If they
had to own such a guy’s boat, she wanted to make
the interior her own.
The first time I see the refitted, refreshed and
renamed boat (she’s now calledMarcato, after an
Italian word that means “to play with emphasis”)
is in Newport in August. Jack and Mary are in
town to enjoy the J Class World Championship
and take part in aBoat International
Owners’ Club event at the New York
Yacht Club’s base here. We pad round the
boat with their young captain, Jason
Halvorsen, taking in the new design

• which is all Mary’s work. She’s
  produced a crisp, elegant interior that
  relaxes as you climb up through the decks,
  the pale tones contrasting beautifully
  against thedark bamboofloors. It’s been
  very well executed – both by Mary and
  Rybovich, where the work took place.
  Mary had a tight grip on all decisions,
  right down to stone choice. “We visited
  just about every stone yard in Florida,” she
  says. The biggest change took place in the
  upper saloon. What was a smallish study
  before has been opened right up by
  reclaiming territory from the owner’s
  bathroom to produce a lounge with
  amazing views and access to an expansive
  upper aft deck. And it’s here, in the
  pictures of classic cars covering the wall

Above: Mary’s new

upper saloon,

complete with Jack’s

classic car prints.

Left:Copaseticbeing

built back in 2005 at

Hike Metal Products’

yard on Lake Erie

Left: the Guarino

& Cox-designed

Copasetic(now

calledMarcato)off

thePitonsinStLucia

PHOTOGRAPHY: BILLY

BLACK; MORGAN ANDERSON