Watercolour I

Built in Belgium in 1929, this 127 foot inland craft originally hauled coal on European waterways. She was purchased in the mid 1980s by a French company who replated the hull and tailored a magnificent pleasure yacht after vessels used to tour the rivers along the wine country of France and the canals of Holland. Watercolour first appeared in the Uniited States in 1985 shipped by freighter to Manhattan. She was then used most frequently in Southern Florida for exclusive parties and cruises (she was also filmed in two episodes of Miami Vice). Watercolour was purchased in Miami by her present in owner in the Summer of 1993 after surviving the furies of Hurricane Andrew. Interior remodeling began that Fall in Annapolis, Maryland under the direction of international interior designer Kelly Gale Amen of Houston, Texas (www.kga.net).

In 1994, her owner moved from Dallas to Vancouver, Canada and contemplated on how to bring Watercolour to that beautiful city. The only solution became apparent after several months of research: she was cut into three massive sections and moved by truck from the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay to Vancouver. She was then reassembled and moored in downtown Vancouver where she still remains.

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