HERITAGE LANDING – OPEN DAY EXTRAVAGANA

Check this out – Our beautiful classic fleet at Heritage Landing was turned out in all its magnificence, attracting plenty of attention — although it’s fair to say that Jeff Bezos’s floating palace, a “yacht” was the main attraction and provided a rather hard-to-miss backdrop!

With visitors flocking to the Landing to see Jeff’s cruiser, we couldn’t help but attract plenty of curious public, who surely spied the obvious comparison of the two eras.

Business was brisk, the questions were flowing, and our boats were stealing hearts — even if we had to share the limelight with a ‘yacht’ that was probably longer than our entire fleet and had a bigger crew to boot!

A TV! News film crew managed to capture our beautiful fleet while filming the ‘backdrop’, clearly hoping that Jeff might be on board.  Unfortunately, the presenter missed the irony and spectacle of our beautiful boats in the foreground.

Who knew a fleet of classic boats could hold its own against one of the world’s biggest displays of billionaire excess?

         

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