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“The sky lounge
is blue to keep it dark up here for nighttime running,” says Chuck
McGuirk, one of Sassy’s owners. “It has shooting stars
on the ceiling, fiber-optics, and a 42-inch pop-up TV. Once we get done
running the boat, we can entertain up here.”
Or they can retire to
one of the other customized spaces aboard. Just aft of the sky lounge
is an open deck with an oversize Jacuzzi. (“You don’t see a
lot of them in a 94-foot boat,” McGuirk notes. “We can fit six
people.”) Hargrave also designed a walk-through head on this deck,
with doors opening to the Jacuzzi area and the sky lounge inside. It will
be an effective waypoint for dripping-wet children to stop and change
clothes before piling into the sky lounge for movies.
The McGuirks wanted
the rest of their yacht’s layout and features to have similarly practical
uses. The main deck saloon is open with lots of seating and places for
kids to sprawl on the floor with board games. Forward on the main deck,
the galley is oversize, with both a dinette and an island with barstools.
Below decks, the master
cabin has a walk-in closet that has been converted to house bunks, for
the children of the couple in that stateroom. The athwartships VIP cabin
forward is adjacent to a twin cabin for that couple’s children, and
the second twin cabin has a Pullman berth to accommodate a couple and
a child. The rest of the clan calls the crew’s quarters home.
“There’s 13
of us,” McGuirk says, “and there’s room for 16 people to
be able to sleep in beds.”
Of all the yachts the
McGuirks might have chosen, the Capri makes the most sense. It’s
one of three lines Hargrave produces, including the Raised Pilothouse
and Signature Series, from 68 to 120 feet. While those models have thus
far been in keeping with Hargrave’s design history, the Capri series
was meant to be a break from tradition with a more curvaceous, European
look. Sassy’s blue disco certainly makes sense in that scheme.
Joyce says there are
design surprises in store for all three of Hargrave’s lines, in keeping
with the builder’s philosophy that yachts should be customized to
their owners’ wishes. He sees Sassy as evidence that Hargrave
is willing to do what other builders aren’t for customers like Chuck
McGuirk who have unique ideas and tastes. “He said we were the only
people who were actually nice to them,” Joyce says. “They had
children with them, and they were fluffed off at every boat show.”
Now that the yearlong
order-to-delivery process has ended, DiCondina says the boat’s decor
has grown on her. “It’s nothing I would’ve gone out to
do, but it’s everything they dreamed it would be and more,”
she says. “And you’d be surprised how many compliments we got
at the boat show. A lot of people really loved it.”
Most important among
those people were Chuck McGuirk and his family, and they still loved it
as Sassy cruised toward her home port of Grand Haven, Michigan,
this summer.
“They exceeded
what we expected,” he says of the Hargrave team. “The quality
in the boat, the people that represent it, they’re very accommodating
people. And they’re very good about taking care of you after the
sale.”
Hargrave Custom Yachts
Phone: (954) 463-0555. www.hargrave-usa.com.
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