Above: Marcato, with
her new light grey
hull, after her refit at
Rybovich in Florida
Left: Jack’s Pilatus
PC-12 airplane at the
AeroColorado hangar
Below: an eagle joins
the Marcato party
in Alaska; the newly
designed interiorbehind the sofa, that you get your first clue as to
what occupies the McClurgs, or at least Jack,
when they’re not on the boat. “I just have this
attraction to them. My passion is really pre-war
convertibles from the 20s, 30s and 40s. Anything
where the top could drop and is old.”
He keeps his collection of 20 or so classics in
a big hangar at Centennial Airport in Denver,
Colorado, which also houses his office and
planes. “You see them adding up here?” laughs
Mary. “The cars, the planes, the boats....” Jack and
Mary set up their company, McClurg Century
Investments, in Denver after selling a
pharmaceutical insurance business in 2012. The
new firm makes boutique investments in
everything from public securities to commercial
and residential real estate, “and a little bit of
everything in between”, Jack says. It’s a true
family operation, with Jack and Mary’s daughter
Kori centrally involved.
Both father and daughter fly, in Jack’s case a
Pilatus PC-12. He uses it to commute to the office
from their main home in Steamboat Springs, a
couple of hundred miles away in upstate
Colorado. “So we fly back and forth. The Pilatus
is a great mountain airplane.”
It was flying that got the family into boating.
Mary suffered from motion sickness when she
was younger, which Jack cured her of by
bouncing her around in small airplanes. “We’re93