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On board Drifter, the sailing yacht owned by music legend Jimmy Buffett

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In the wake of the death of music legend and yacht owner Jimmy Buffett, BOAT International looks back at his 2018 interview where he discusses his love of sailing and his adopted home of St Barths... 

Ask Jimmy Buffett about his boat and his eyes light up. The bard of the ocean is accustomed to answering questions about his music career, but it’s not every day he gets to talk yachts, he tells me with more than a hint of glee. And it’s all connected, after all. Without boats, his decades-long music career and the myriad business ventures it has birthed – from his chain of Margaritaville restaurants and hotels in two dozen locations to a Broadway musical inspired by his songbook – simply would not exist.

“I made a pretty good living with people buying my tapes and putting them on boats,” Buffett says when we meet in St Barths. He first sailed down in 1978 and “never really left” – though he splits his time between St Barths, Sag Harbor and residences in Hawaii and the Bahamas. “Back in the days before Wi-Fi and electronic charts, you only took your most precious things in the way of books and music on board. I’d meet people sailing and they always had, besides chart books, Don’t Stop the Carnival [the Herman Wouk novel about running away to the Caribbean], a Bob Marley tape and a Jimmy Buffett tape.” More than forty years ago he played at tiny St Barths bars like Le Select, a dive still known for its live music and “cheeseburgers in paradise.” He surprises fans by playing at bars where they’d least expect. During a previous Les Voiles de St Barths regatta, Buffett played an unannounced show at the race village, and the crowd of sailors went wild.

Buffett’s stage persona – son of a sailor, laid-back surfer, margarita connoisseur, amiable raconteur – isn’t an act, but exactly what you get in real life. In true island fashion, he wears shorts, a Les Voiles regatta T-shirt and baseball cap, and when I turn up at his beach bungalow/office, he’s just finishing a call with his friend, pro surfer Kelly Slater. Buffett is a surfer himself, from when he was a teenager growing up in Mobile, Alabama. “There wasn’t much surf on the Gulf Coast, we had to go find it. We’d surf hurricanes in the ship channel.” He’s over 70 now, though you’d never guess it, and surfs every day he’s in St Barths.

While most guys his age are making the move from sail to power, Buffett has downsized from a Delta 125 that was the family yacht – “a great boat, but we didn’t use it enough” – to a custom 15.24 metre motor sailer designed by Ted Fontaine , known for his modern-classic Friendship sailing yachts. But Buffett isn’t like most guys his age – he surfs, sails, pilots planes and sells out stadiums. For over 40 years he hadn't missed a summer tour, though he does things a bit differently now. He remembers traveling by bus to 250 shows per year; now he'll play a smaller number with time to scheduled in to enjoy a break in St Barths or Cat Cay.

Buffett took delivery of his boat, built at Pacific Seacraft in North Carolina, in February 2018. “It took twice as long and cost twice as much, but that’s to be expected,” he says with a chuckle. Drifter has a bright seafoam green hull, the same colour as the Alerion that Nathanael Herreshoff sailed to Bermuda. “I’m a Herreshoff guy,” he says. “I love beautifully designed, traditional boats.” This modern motor sailer is a bit of a departure for Buffett, who has been a long-time classics aficionado, owning more than a half dozen vintage sailboats from a Herreshoff Alerion to a Sparkman & Stephens Morris 36.

He used the money he made from his second studio album, A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean , to buy his first boat, a Cheoy Lee Offshore 33, Euphoria . His accountant thought he was crazy, but Buffett called it an insurance policy. “I said, ‘Look, I don’t know if this music thing is going to last, but no matter what, I can sail, I can cook, and I can sing, and I know that I can live on the boat and go where I want.’” The years in the mid-1970s he spent gunkholing through the BVIs on Euphoria , and later a Cheoy Lee 48, Euphoria II , proved perfect songwriting fodder – “I wrote so many songs in that time, Please Don’t Say Mañana if You Don’t Mean It is a favorite that comes to mind.” Buffett’s discography became decidedly more nautical as he lived the life he sang about, which rings true to a large section of his fan base.

Inspiration, though, has always come from the sea. “Growing up, I read everything about the ocean, Moby-Dick , all the classics, and WH Hudson, Idle Days in Patagonia .” Buffett speaks with a soft, slow southern lilt indicative of his Alabama origins, where he was introduced to boats; truly a Son of a Son of a Sailor , as his famed song professes. “I come from a long line of sailors. My grandfather was a sailing ship captain from Newfoundland who moved to the States. My dad sailed and was a marine engineer. I grew up sailing and was a child of the shipyard.” He learned celestial navigation from his grandfather when he was a kid, and Buffett had ambitions to go to the Naval Academy – as he sings in We are the People our Parents Warned us About – but the Universe had other plans for him. “I’ve still gotten to fly off an aircraft carrier, fly the Shuttle simulator and I’m a sailing advisor to kids at the Naval Academy, so it all worked out.”

His college job was working in the shipyard as an electrician and welder, which gave him an appreciation of yacht building and earned him money to start a band. “They needed a PA system, and I had credit at the music store, so I said: ‘I’ll sign for this PA system, and that makes me the leader of the band.’” Buffett says what sailing has taught him most about life is how to be organized. “I run my band like a boat – like I’m the captain.”

Living down in St Barths, there’s plenty of opportunities for racing, but he prefers the cruising life. “I was never a heavily competitive sailor. I want to go somewhere, not just around in circles.” Though that didn’t stop him from helping 51.59 metre gaff-rigged Royal Huisman Meteor win the Bucket in 2009. Buffett was friends with her captain, Dean Maggio, and helped as a helmsman during the race, providing local knowledge of currents. He fell in love with Meteor , but when it came to building his own boat he didn’t want something quite so big or with such a deep draft. Bahamas cruising was a priority.

Buffett had seen an original Palmer Johnson motor sailer his friend had in Cat Cay. “It was a terrible sailboat – most motor sailers are – but I loved the comfort,” he says. He almost bought the boat but didn’t want to be “chasing worms” in an old wooden hull. Maggio tipped him off about the Surfari concept by Ted Fontaine, which intrigued Buffett as it was more efficient than any motor sailer – blending racing yacht performance, offshore capabilities and cruiser comfort. Fontaine is a surfer, too, and the initial sketches included surfboard storage, sealing the deal.

Maggio was Buffett’s build captain for the yacht, which is constructed in lightweight infused epoxy and carbon fiber composite materials to enhance performance. The entire rig is state of the art, with a carbon mast and boom, and sails are controlled entirely from the cockpit, designed with such ease that she could be singlehanded, but will be run comfortably with two people. She has a movable keel that can be lifted for skirting the Bahama Banks or extended for offshore sailing. She’s also sturdy, with a 9,000lb bulb.

Life on board is designed as Buffett likes it – relaxed, with an outdoor galley and a salon that opens directly out to the cockpit, and she’s stocked with plentiful toys, from surfboards to fishing rods. A nearly five metre beam, widest at aft, gives the kind of living space you’d find on a yacht that’s six metres bigger. “Even with eight people on board, she feels spacious. Dean says you have almost as much room for guests as you do on Meteor ,” Buffett says. “She moves nicely through the water and she’s so comfortable. My wife can use her for lunches off Sag Harbor.”

A rarity in the music world, Buffett has been married to his wife for more than 40 years, sailing down to the Caribbean together all those years ago. They have three grown children. “My oldest daughter likes to sail, the other two like to ride [on boats] and fish.” For now Drifter is a one-off, but could be reproduced as a semi-custom series. Fontaine’s creation got plenty of publicity when a video of Drifter sailing in the Bahamas was played on the big screen during Buffett’s Son of a Son of a Sailor tour.

Though the build took longer than expected, Buffett was distracted by an even more time-consuming project as his music was being made into a Broadway show, named Escape to Margaritaville after his biggest hit. He rewrote songs to fit the characters in the musical, which was being crafted by TV comedy writers. “It was important to me and my producer that the writers lived these songs as kids and grew up on the music,” Buffett says. “The New York Times clobbered us, but who cares? It was never meant to be the-a-ter; it’s fun!”

At this point in his life, that’s what Buffett really wants – to have some fun. “First of all, I can’t believe I made it this far. After an airplane crash [in 1994], falling off the stage [in 2011]… time is short right now, and I’m going to do the things I want to do.” His fans, known as Parrotheads, will be glad to hear this includes continuing to tour. “I love it! Who gets to do this? It’s always been about the fact that people are paying good money to see you, and you owe them a show, and I’ve gotten to live a pretty good life based on people liking what we do. There’s never any disconnect because I couldn’t do it without them. I feel very obligated, dedicated and appreciative, so there’s no reason to stop.” For those who can’t make it to a concert, it’s easy to catch up via a live broadcast on margaritaville.tv or by tuning into Radio Margaritaville on SiriusXM satellite radio. Staff at the McMurdo Station in Antarctica – a place that’s on his bucket list – even sent Buffett a recording of them listening.

Buffett also wants to give back to the places he loves. In 2017, he teamed up with Kenny Chesney and Toby Keith to play a benefit concert for Puerto Rico, and when we meet he’s about to go to the island to visit his Margaritaville Resort employees. “I’m a drop in the bucket, but I’m still going to do what I can with the people who work for us at a human level,” he says. He’s also played free fundraising concerts for St Barths post-hurricanes, encouraging fans to come down and stay at hotels, revitalizing the economy after the storms. “The people who live in ordinary houses here, those are whose homes were destroyed,” Buffett says. At one benefit concert for St Barths he expected an audience of 1,200 – and 5,000 fans showed up. “That got the French saying mon dieu!”

His next career ambition is to finish the book he’s writing – a fictionalized retelling of the recording of his 1979 album Volcano in the Caribbean . “You can’t make up the shit that happened,” he says. It’s clear that even after nearly 50 albums, Buffett still has plenty more stories to tell and adventures to live. As we’re finishing up, he remembers he’s left his surfboard down on the beach. “I gotta go get it – maybe I’ll get in the water. It’s looking like I could catch a wave.”

This feature is taken from the November 2018 issue of BOAT International. Get this magazine sent straight to your door, or subscribe and never miss an issue.

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Famous Sportfishing Boat Owned By Jimmy Buffett Listed For Sale

Once known as " LAST MANGO II " and owned by Jimmy Buffett, this classic 42-foot Rybovich Spencer is now listed for sale in Montauk , New York with SI Yachts broker Steve Messenger. No longer donning the name bestowed upon it by the famous Margaritaville singer, this sportfishing yacht built in 2003 has been called " BLUE EYES II " since the current owner purchased it from Buffett.

"The owner of the boat was personal friends with Jimmy and bought it from him directly," said Steve . "It was custom built for Jimmy Buffett by Rybovich Spencer and when it was completed, he had the shipyard completely destroy the mold, so it could never again be copied."

Buffett made countless trips throughout the Florida Keys, Bahamas, and up to the Hudson Canyon fishing with friends, putting nearly 5,000 hours on the twin 670-hp Cummins QSM11 diesel inboards. The engines have since been re-manufactured and the top end speed is now 35 knots, with a cruise speed of 24 knots. The asking price is listed at $999,000.

"This is the ultimate opportunity for Jimmy Buffett fans to own something that was a big part of him and his life," continued Steve. "Everyone knows about his love for the ocean, boating, fishing, and the whole lifestyle through his music. I can't imagine how awesome the feeling would be to crank up 'Volcano', with a cold drink in my hand, slow trolling in the Bahamas!"

If you're interested in buying this 2003 Rybovich Spencer 42 Express Walkaround Sportfish, we invite you to connect with Steve Messenger by calling (732) 232-9581 or by email at [email protected] . 

BROKER'S DESCRIPTION

From the cockpit moving forward, any angler would be excited about this oversized space that's covered in teak, complete with two custom Pompanette fighting chairs; a center station with bait freezer, refrigerated drink boxes, and a propane stainless steel grill to cook your “Cheeseburger in Paradise.” You can walk all the way around the deck while fighting a fish. And there are 18 in-deck rod holders, 6 on the tuna tower.

As you enter the cabin through the centerline companionway, you step in to the galley on the starboard side, moving forward you’ll find the head. Forward is the stateroom to sleep off the fun of “Margaritaville.” The four person dinette is found on the port side and in the table you will find a custom “Last Mango” porthole emblem.

As the “Son of a Son of a Sailor,” (Jimmy Buffett’s Grandfather was a lifetime Merchant Mariner known as Capt. Buffett) Jimmy knew boats from the time he was 3 feet tall. This fishing machine has full electronics that are easily viewable from all cockpit locations, Rupp outriggers, Full Tuna Tower, and (2) two custom paddleboards. No matter what your idea of a great day on the water includes, you can find it here on this unique yacht and opportunity.

BELOW: The custom tuna tower on this 42 Rybovich gives the captain amazing 360-degree views and control of the boat.

BELOW: The walk-around design was a must for Jimmy Buffett who wanted to be able to fight a fish from all sides of the boat.

BELOW: The double helm seats are on a raised platform, giving the captain better visibility.

BELOW: Rod storage is found above the dinette. Note the original log book!

BELOW: A real page out of Jimmy Buffett's Log Book from a trip to Cat Cay, Bahamas in 2019.

BELOW: The galley area on the 42 Rybovich. Cheeseburger anyone?

BELOW: A palm tree found on the dinette table. What island must Jimmy have been dreaming about?

If you're interested in buying this 2003 Rybovich Spencer 42 Express Walkaround Sportfish, we invite you to connect with Steve Messenger by calling (732) 232-9581 or by email at [email protected]. Please visit the listing page for more information on the boat, as well as the full set of pictures.

ABOUT SI YACHTS

SI Yachts, one of the largest and most successful boat dealers and yacht brokerage firms in the Northeast, is now part of the Germain Motor Company family. Originally called Staten Island Yacht Sales before expanding into other markets, SI Yachts was founded in 1964 by Frank Bongiorno. Frank, who established the company as the longest operating Viking Yachts dealer in the world, as well as revitalized Staten Island Marina, has retired after more than 60 years in the marine industry. 

SI Yachts is a new boat dealer for premium brands such as Viking , Princess, Absolute, Prestige, Pardo Yachts, Valhalla Boatworks , and Scout Boats . The company has expanded over the years with offices in Jupiter, Florida, Newport, Rhode Island, Old Saybrook, Connecticut, and five locations throughout New York.

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• May 9, 2023

Jimmy Buffett's 'Last Mango' is a Yacht Rock Dream Machine

Last Mango Boatworks , the team behind the custom catamaran built for legendary singer Jimmy Buffett , has released a video depicting the boat's evolution.

The custom-built 42' Freeman was built in collaboration with Freeman Boatworks , Merritt Boatworks , and Pipewelders Marine . It was named Last Mango in homage to Buffett's 1985 country-tinged album " Last Mango in Paris ."

The hull comes courtesy of South Carolina's Freeman Boatworks, who built the one-of-a-kind platform to give Buffett additional creature comforts and performance compared to smaller boats he'd previously run. The hull was also reshaped to accommodate a custom pilothouse built by Merrit Boatworks in Pompano Beach, Florida. A custom tuna tower courtesy of Pipewelders Marine in Fort Lauderdale, Florida was added on top to make the 42-foot offshore fishing boat a truly unique vessel.

For those unaware, Buffett is a longtime boater while his music has been a staple of yacht rock playlists since the early 70's. The "Margaritaville" singer has spent his downtime aboard a number of boats over the years, most recently a 50-foot (15.25 m) Pacific Seacraft sailboat named Drifter .

But the Last Mango was several years in the making.

"So this project starts three years ago," says Scott Cothran, Director of Sales & Marketing for Freeman Boatworks. "This very educated guy named Vinny calls, very educated boat talker asking very educated questions about doing some kind of pilothouse and wanting design information. I got off the phone and looked at one of the guys I work with and said: 'that guy is fishing for information. He is a competitor. Don't answer calls from that guy.'"

That 'Vinny' was Captain Vinny LaSorsa, Buffett's longtime boatswain.

For Vinny, chauffeuring Buffett around Charleson, South Carolina four years earlier was the inspiration for reaching out to Freeman.

"So four years ago, a few of my friends had ridden on Freeman boats, and I actually saw a 33' Freeman zooming around Charleston Harbour, and they got my attention."

With Buffett's approval, LaSorsa reached out to Freeman, only to be rebuffed as the company was wary of the seemingly knowledgeable 'captain' who implied having a mysterious boss.

According to Cothran, "Then I get a phone call from one of the guys in South Florida, saying: 'you need to quit blowing this Vinny guy off.' I asked who does he work for, because he's gotta be a competitor. He knows way too much about boatbuilding and about the marine industry. And he's got some mysterious boss that clearly doesn't exist. He goes: 'his boss is Jimmy Buffett. Answer the dang phone call.'"

(Photos courtesy Captain Jimmy LaSorsa)

After confirming that LaSorsa and Buffett were indeed real, and serious buyers, Freeman began putting their team into order.

It all began with Buffett explaining his vision.

"We met Jimmy Buffett when he came to my house to talk about the build for his awesome new Last Mango," says company president Sally Freeman . "What was so great was that he bought a boat from us when he could have bought a boat from anyone in the whole wide world, and he chose a Freeman. That's pretty darn cool."

With Cothran leading the charge, and the ultra-knowledgeable LaSorsa watching over his shoulder, the growing team began allocating plans for a custom 42-foot Freeman catamaran that would utilize a pilothouse rather than a centre console.

"You don't understand the stuff that's gotta come together," says Cothran. "We gotta get with Yamaha, we gotta get with Garmin, we've gotta get JL (Audio). All these parts have gotta come together, they've gotta be perfect, and they've gotta happen very quickly. Doing a boat in record time, we've got to involve every bit of our team, our best of our best. They're gonna do it in a short amount of time, and we're still running full production on everything else. We're racking our brain trying to think of how we're going to do all this while still keeping the quality of everything along the way."

The pilothouse would prove to be one of several features requiring outside expertise. To fabricate a pilothouse for a hull that had never had one, the team added Roy Merritt of Merritt Boatworks to the mix.

"Jimmy Buffett came to us about a project," said Merritt. "I wasn't too keen on the idea, but between Vinny and Jimmy there's always a certain amount of arm twisting that goes on, if you know what I mean. When you're a builder you like doing different things, and that's what interests me. So we agreed to do it. Jimmy went ahead and purchased the boat, and we went ahead designing the pilothouse and what was going to go in it. We mocked it up, and we built it."

The final touch came from Pipewelders Marine, who added a custom stainless steel tuna tower, effectively turning the Last Mango into a fully customized offshore dream machine.

"Probably the highlight of the build was that so many people poured their heart and soul into it, and then Jimmy flies in to meet everybody at the plant," said Cothran. "It was a really cool experience. He signed stuff and hung out with everybody. It shows the common touch he has. That was fun."

"This was a great build," added Mark Hanke of Merritt Boatworks. "It was a one-off build. It's one of the projects that brought a lot of the guys together to show the quality and craftsmanship and trades, from your carpenters, to your painters, to your electricians, to your mechanics."

Captain Vinny summed it up nicely: "You're only as good as who you work with. I took an idea and a dream of Jimmy's and was fortunate to have him believe in me enough to carry out his vision. Throughout carrying out that vision we've had so many people willing to be right there for me, to help me make sure that I succeed. I don't think it can get any better than that."

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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.--( BUSINESS WIRE )-- SI Yachts , a luxury yacht dealer and broker with offices in the Northeast and Florida, has listed for sale the famous boat owned by Jimmy Buffett, LAST MANGO II.

This 42 Rybovich Spencer Sportfishing boat was custom built for the Margaritaville singer and then the mold was purposely destroyed, ensuring it would always be one of a kind.

"This is the ultimate opportunity for Jimmy Buffett fans to own something that was a big part of him and his life," says Steve Messenger, the yacht broker who has it listed. "Everyone knows about his love for the ocean, boating, fishing, and the whole lifestyle through his music. I can't imagine how awesome the feeling would be to crank up 'Volcano', with a cold drink in my hand, slow trolling in the Bahamas!"

The Buffett boat is located in Montauk, New York and is listed for sale at $999,000.

You can read the full story here: https://www.siyachts.com/yachting-news-and-events/famous-sportfishing-boat-owned-by-jimmy-buffett-listed-for-sale

About SI Yachts:

SI Yachts is one of the largest and most successful new boat dealers and yacht brokerage firms in the Northeast with offices in New York, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. SI Yachts also recently opened an office at the Jupiter Yacht Club in Jupiter, Florida. New boat brands offered at SI Yachts include Viking, Princess, Absolute, Prestige, Pardo, Valhalla Boatworks, and Scout Boats.

For more information about SI Yachts, please contact marketing director Rob Bowman at [email protected] or at (828) 282-9810.

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The SURFARI 50’s overall styling, ergonomic design, its unique aesthetics and outstanding performance under sail or power set it apart from the competition in the same manner that the Friendship 40 did when it was introduced years ago. This is a yacht which until now did not exist.

The SURFARI 50 is a boldly styled yacht in appearance, with powerful sheer line and low-profile deckhouse. The SURFARI 50 is designed with variable between 5.5’ and 8.5’ with the hydraulically operated lifting bulb keel or a fixed draft of only 6’-7” the yacht has been designed to allow access to secluded anchorages and coastal waterfront homes.

No wind, no problem. The SURFARI 50 is designed to get the owner to their favorite surfing, kayaking, paddle boarding or diving location quickly and comfortable. To do so in speed the SURFARI 50 is outfitted with twin 80 HP Yanmar JH 80 diesel engines, each with a geared folding 4 blade propeller which will propel the hull at 10 kts.

“Getting there” fast, comfortably and in style is the primary design feature only found on this hybrid performance hull form. The Yanmar JH 85 engines are proven to be smooth running, fuel efficient and quiet. The expected speeds under power have been calculated to approach ten knots at cruising speed.

The SURFARI 50 was specifically designed to afford each owner the option to fully customize the interior and exterior accommodations plans. Each arrangement offered maintains the unique single level open cockpit plan that features a fully functional galley equipped with gas grill, two burner cook top, two drawer 12V refrigerator AND an under counter freezer. a deep oversized sink, a pull-out trash bin and ice maker complete the exterior galley-up concept.

The galley / cockpit is expected to be the primary living space onboard. Large UV protected, tinted safety glass windows and large opening overhead hatches are designed to provide exceptional ventilation, unobstructed visibility and a direct lines of sight between the interior piloting station and the exterior sports deck.

The forward helm station will have navigational repeaters for the radar and chart plotter, engine controls for the twin engines, sail control panels and autopilot. The unique center console control station is ideally positioned to promote a social operating atmosphere with full functionality.

The unique advantage of the SURFARI 50 is that the design does not compromise sailing performance for powering performance. The SURFARI 50 does not sacrifice aesthetics for function. The SURFARI 50 is a unique design, it is according to designer Ted Fontaine “a game changer, this is a boat people do not even know they want. Spend an hour on board and it all makes sense. He sails fast, powers fast, keeps you out of the sun, provides easy access to the water, can easily carry paddleboards and kayaks and you only go below to sleep on use the head or to sleep for the night. It is a water born floating home with a permanent dock.

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