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Escapade is a Beautiful 37.5-Meter Sailing Yacht

By Brody Patterson

Updated on August 31, 2017

Designed by Dubois Naval Architects and built by Fitzroy Yachts, the Escapade is a magnificent 37.5-meter sailing yacht which has been delivered to its owners earlier this year, owners who have already embarked on a world cruise.

The luxurious yacht boasts an eye-catching champagne-colored hull, black carbon mast, and grey sails, with every design detail carefully considered together with owners. Thus the ship, which was initially planned to be 33 meters long, ended up being 37.5 meters in order to accommodate every request.

The exterior deck space offers more than enough room for those on board to fully enjoy a sunny trip, with sun loungers aft and a tender storage area that can also be used as a Jacuzzi forward. The interior, on the other hand, was developed by Design Unlimited, once again taking into consideration the owners` ideas. The outcome is a welcoming space which can accommodate up to ten guests in comfort and style.

Created by some of the leading names in the world of ship building and design, Escapade is an excellent ship which showcases the high quality results which can be achieved when owners and designers work together and understand each other.

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Built by Fitzroy Yachts to a design by Dubois Naval Architechts , the majestic 37,5-metre sailing yacht Escapade was handed over to her owners earlier this year. The owners of superyacht Escapade are now well underway with their world cruise.

Sailing yacht Escapade by Fitzroy and Dubois - Photo by Andrea Francolini

Bringing together the right design team to create the Escapade yacht was crucial for the owners. They wanted to be involved in every element of the project and chose talented designers who would both understand their vision and give them the creative room to put their stamp on the build.

Built by Fitzroy Yachts, luxury yacht Escapade is an aluminium fixed-keel sloop designed by Dubois Naval Architects with an interior by Design Unlimited .  The owners’ overall brief for Escapade was that she had to be an aesthetically pleasing, fast cruising yacht that would serve as a home to them and their son as they undertook an extended worldwide cruise.

Luxury yacht Escapade - side view - Photo by Andrea Francolini

Super yacht Escapade is sleek and striking with a metallic champagne-coloured hull, black carbon mast and rigging and grey sails.

“Escapade is a totally custom design; when we were designing her with Ed (Dubois) we started with a blank page,” says the owner. “We began at 33 metres and realized we needed more space so we increased and increased before we arrived at 37,5m.”

Luxury yacht Escapade - aft view - Photo by Andrea Francolini

Ed Dubois recalls the story of how this design came to be: “The client approached us about a year before we received the commission. A proposal followed and we were given the job at the 2011 Monaco Show .

Investigation with regard to construction material (aluminium or composite), layout, overall appearance and very many details ensued.

Sometimes a client wants a yacht which is very much a development of one of our existing designs. Other times, a client has the confidence to give us the job because of our background, but wants something rather different.

Luxury superyacht Escapade - Photo by Andrea Francolini

For this client, I think it was something else again; the owner had confidence because of our track record, wanted something ‘different’ but to go through the process step by step to analyse what was important for him and what could be developed from scratch.

The owner was meticulous in every detail and the yard responded with a high level of expertise and dedication. The result is a very sophisticated and successful vessel.”

Escapade Yacht - Exterior - Photo by Andrea Francolini

Escapade yacht has a fixed bimini, integrated into the lines and curves of the yacht. She has a spacious cockpit arrangement, which features a bar, seating, large dining table for al fresco meals, and the twin helms, which offer an extremely versatile space thanks to the curved glass mechanical sliding windows that allows the cockpit to be opened up or enclosed to suit. The exterior deck space is plentiful, with sun loungers aft and a tender storage area that doubles as a Jacuzzi forward.

Escapade superyacht is highly advanced and is the first yacht of her size to feature solid carbon aerofoil rigging ( Hall Spars ), meaning continuous rigging and reduced wind resistance.

Escapade Yacht - Interior - Photo by Chris Lewis

The very latest technology has been utilized to ensure the Escapade yacht performs as well as looks good. The same approach for combining aesthetics with advanced design was taken for the interior. In her design the interior was isolated from the hull, resulting in the quietest interior space the acoustic surveyors had ever come across on a Kiwi-built boat.

Escapade superyacht - Galley - Photo by Chris Lewis

The interior of superyacht Escapade was developed by Design Unlimited together with the owners, with particular input from the owner’s wife. “Everything that you see on board was chosen by us,” says the owner. “ Our designers were surprised at how involved we got, but we wanted to make sure we didn’t end up with a yacht that felt like it was designed for someone else.”

Escapade yacht is able to accommodate ten guests and each room has its own colour scheme that features in the bedroom and the bathroom.

Escapade Yacht - Cabin - Photo by Chris Lewis

All in all, Escapade superyacht is a triumph that shows how a yacht that perfectly suits its owners can be achieved with time, dedication, and the right team.

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The 37.5m (123ft) Solent-rigged sailing yacht ESCAPADE has an aluminium hull and superstructure constructed by New Zealand shipyard Fitzroy Yachts and delivered in 2014. Her all-British design features a hull and superstructure by the legendary Dubois Naval Architects and her interiors are by the similarly fêted Design Unlimited.

The focus of the foredeck is a teak-lined jacuzzi and large sunpad, around which is plenty of deck space for sun lounging. On the main deck aft two L-shaped sunpads face versatile open deck space, on the starboard side of which an exercise bike rises through a flush deck hatch. The transom folds down to create a swim platform with a shower and bathing ladder. Port midships is a boarding ladder of ease of access in any weather.

Beneath the Bimini hardtop there is a guest lounge and bar to port and open-air dining to starboard, line-free for absolute safety. Blinds on the Bimini's skylights deliver sun or shade as required and the space is glazed at the sides back to the twin helm stations to keep the breeze at bay.

A companionway leads down to the deck saloon, which features glazing on all sides to deliver all-round views and keep the space bright. To port is a lounge and to starboard a feature bar with back-lit agate. Flooring throughout is Merbau timber and there are more Malaysian design influences including Songket silk panels and hard-carved teak sculptures.

She welcomes up to 10 guests in four cabins. The owner's suite aft has an island double berth with a sofa to port and a vanity table to starboard. Forward of this is a walk-in wardrobe and an en suite with shower room. Both the twin cabins are convertible with an additional pullman berth, and en suite showers room. ESCAPADE's additional fourth cabin is forward, and can be used either as a day room, or a further cabin. She also sleeps up to six crew.

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GEAR BOXES   

• ZFW reverse reduction gearbox with 325 ratio marine transmission

SHAFTS & PROPELLERS  

• Hundested controllable variable pitch propeller

SPEEDS & FUEL CONSUMPTIONS

• Approximately36 liters per hour at 10 knots cruising
• 1 x75hp OYS bow thruster
• 1 x 60hp OYS retractable stern thruster

GENERATORS 

• 2 X 55KW Northern lights diesel generators

GENERATOR HOURS   May 2022:

• Stbd:19,441hours         
•  Port: 19,346 hours

ELECTRICITY   

• 220 V AC/ 3-phase 50Hz

SHORE POWER  

• ABB shore power convertor

POWER MANAGEMENT 

• Mastervolt chargers and invertors, FMAC ship’s monitoring system

BATTERIES  

• 24 volt/420 Amp Hours

STEERING SYSTEM

• Manual hydraulic steering system

FUEL FILTERS  

• Raco r fuel filters

OIL/WATER SEPARATOR   

• RWO oil water separator type OMD-24

FIRE/BILGE PUMP 

• Hydraulic interchangeable fire/bilge pump, there is also a vacuum bilge pump onboard
• Gianneschi boiler

SEWAGE TREATMENT  

• STP sewage treatment plant
• Technomar vacuum flush WC system, planus controlled

AIRCONDITIONING  

• Dometic air conditioning system with 4 x compressor units, new 2021

VENTILATION  

• Fitzroy Yachts Custom ventilation system

Accommodation

• 1 x Full beam Owner’s suite amidships with walk-in wardrobe, shower room en suite on port side and separate WC
• 2 x Double guest cabins with shower-rooms en suite c onvertible to twins, also with pullman

CLASSROOM   

• Office or classroom with ensuite, converts to twin or single
• 1 x Captain’s cabin aft with shower room en suite (2 crew)
• 2 x Double cabin with shower room en suite (2 crew each)

Galley & Laundry Equipment

MAIN GALLEY  

• Miele Km 6383 5 plate induction hob
• Miele H 5981 oven
• Miele steam oven DGC 5085
• Miele H5080 microwave / combination oven
• Miele G 5935 Commercial Dishwasher
• Miele coffee machine CVA 5065 
• 2 x Miele PW 6065 commercial washing machine
• 2 x Miele PT 607136 Vario commercial dryers   Miele HM 16-80 rotary iron
• 2 wine cupboards

Communication Equipment

SATELLITE    

• Fleet broadband  Satellite TV Dome              

VHF RADIOTELEPHONE  

• Furuno VHF radiotelephone with DSC

SSB RADIOTELEPHONE   

• Furuno MF/HF 150w SSB radiotelephone

TELEPHONE EXCHANGE  

• Panasonic telephone exchange
• 2 x Handheld GMDSS

Navigation Equipment

MAGNETIC COMPASS  

• 2 x magnetic compass (one at each helm station)

ELECTRONIC COMPASS   

• Thrane & Thrane electronic compass

AUTOMATIC PILOT  

• Simrad autopilot

ECHO SOUNDER 

• Furuno DFF1 echo sounder with Brookes & Gatehouse interface
• 2 x Furuno radars with navnet  interface    

CHART PLOTTER

Maxsea times zero  chart  plotter.

GPS compass      

• Furuno GPS type GP-330B

GPS        

• Furuno GPS Type F150
• Furuno Class AAIS system

NAVTEX       

• Furuno NX-700 navtex system         

WIND INSTRUMENTS  

• Brookes & Gatehouse 3000 displays for wind, speed, depth

Entertainment Equipment

Extensive audio-visual multi-zone entertainment system Lantic in all guest areas. 6 TV in total Samsung smart TV

Tenders & Toys

• Castoldi 17 jet tender
• Zodiac RIB with 15hp Yamaha outboard engine
• Dive compressor
• 4 kits of cylinders and small equipment

OTHER EQUIPMENT  

• Paddle boards
• inflatable toys
• fishing equipment

Deck Equipment

ANCHOR WINDLASS  

• 2 x Muir anchor windlasses with vertical warping capstans. Both anchors are on hydraulically folding anchor arms which recess below deck hatches when stowed

GROUND TACKLE  

• 2 x 180 kgCQR bow anchors
• 2 x 140 metres galvanized stainless steel stud linked anchor chain

PASSERELLE 

• Hydraulically operated aft passerelle by Fitzroy
• Jacuzzi pool in foredeck tender recess (when not occupied by the tender)

SIDE BOARDING LADDER   

• Hydraulically operated side boarding ladder

SWIMMING PLATFORM   

• Hydraulically operated swimming platform aft with stair access to aft deck

SEARCHLIGHT  

• Remote controlled search light on spreader, plus night vision
• Removable deck awning on foredeck

Rigs & Sails

• Hall spars NZ custom carbon fiber mast and in-boom-furling carbon boom

RIG DIMENSIONS

• I    47.62m
• North 3Di carbon main, Blade, Staysail (new March 2021)
• North 3DI Reacher (2014)
• North MPS (2014)
• Mainsail – 350.04 sqm
• Staysail – 119.60 sqm
• Genoa – 412.13 sqm           
• Blade jib – 282.28 sqm
• Total sail area – 1,164.05 sqm

STANDING RIGGING

• Hall continuous carbon elliptical rigging (rig last pulled and serviced in May 2019)

RUNNING RIGGING

• Dyneema SK90 running rigging
• 2 x Harken 1120 foredeck winches
• 2 x Harken 1111 mast winches
• 2 x Harken 1145 aft sheet winches
• 5 x Harken 12T captive winches
• 2 x harken 1.5T captive winches  

Safety & Security Equipment

• 2 x 8 person SOLAS approved life rafts

FIRE FIGHTING  

• NOVEC flooding system in engine room
• Autroprime / FMAC ship’s monitoring alarm     

OTHER EQUIPMENT PRINTERS 

• HP 8600 printer

COMPUTER SYSTEM  

• 4 x PC’s operating Windows OS: Nav1, camera, maretron and server
• 3 x crew laptops

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Escapade is a custom sailing yacht launched in 2014 by Fitzroy Yachts, in New Zealand.

Escapade measures 37.50 metres in length, with a max draft of 4.00 feet and a beam of 8.50 feet. She has a gross tonnage of 190 tonnes.

Escapade has an aluminium hull with an aluminium superstructure.

Sailing yachts have long combined nature with man-made beauty.

Her interior design is by Design Unlimited.

Escapade also features naval architecture by Dubois .

Other Specifications

Escapade is MCA compliant, her hull NB is FY17.

Escapade is a Lloyds class yacht.

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Sail Number: 18

Vessel Type: Double-head Yawl Rig “Escapade”

LOA: 72′ 06″ / 22.09m – LWL: 54′ 00″ / 16.45m – Beam: 17′ 00″ / 5.18m – Draft: 7′ 10″ / 2.38m (Board up) 14’0″ / 4.26m (Board down) – Centerboard: Bronze Strapped Teak – Displacement: 110,00 lbs – Sail Area: 2,630 sq ft – Hull material: Wood construction – Rig: Double-head Yawl Rig – Designer: Philip L. Rhodes – Built by: Luders Construction Company, Stamford CT – Year Launched: May 25th, 1938 – Original Owner: Henry G. Fownes – Current Owner: Paul Kaplan – Keefe Kaplan Maritime, Inc – Contract Price: $40,000.00 – Status: * Save this Classic

Historical:

Escapade was designed for Henry G. Fownes, Stamford, Connecticut, who wanted the largest boat that could fit under the size limit for the Bermuda Race, but shallow drafted enough to travel down the Intracoastal Waterway. Escapade was designed to the maximum of the Cruising Club of America rating rule which governed the Bermuda Race and limited entries to a length overall of 73 feet.

Rhodes had to convince Fownes of the keel-centerboard style model, Fownes fearing that it was to troublesome. It would not be until Alondra’s first owner Robert Noyes took Fownes on a tour of his old boat did the keel-centerboard style ring true.

Under Henry Fownes Escapade was not a successful racer, not until Wendell Anderson, and successive owner/skippers did Escapade accumulate many impressive racing wins. Brought to the Great Lakes in 1947 by BYC’s Wendell C. Anderson, it was their that she earned the name “Queen of the Lakes” proving unbeatable winning the Mackinac race 5 times, she would have collected more silver, but there were racing overlaps that made it impossible to do so, at the time. Because of this conflict Commodore Lynn Stedman and Carter Sales did some negotiating with the Chicago Yacht Club and it was agreed that they would alternate the dates with Bayview having their race first on even years and Chicago first on odd years. This is a tradition that has lasted to this day.

* Escapade is in need of a complete restoration, she is currently owned by Paul Kaplan at Keefe Kaplan Maritime, Inc. (KKMI), 530 W. Cutting Blvd., Point Richmond CA 94804; 510-307-7900; [email protected]

Provenance. (The Wall of Remembrance – The Owners, Crew & Notable Guest):

• Owner: (1972 Lee Sherman – Fort Lauderdale, FL
• 1965 Peter W. Grimm – Fort Lauderdale, FL
• 1959 Baldwin M. Baldwin – Pasadena, CA
• 1956 James Y. Camp – Bakersfield, California
• 1947 Wendell C. Anderson – Jefferson Company, c/o Corporation Trust Company of Wilmington, Delaware
• 1938 Henry G. Fownes – Stamford, CT

Known Racing History:

“Queen of the Great Lakes”

1980 – Opera House Cup – Overall Winner 1976 – Opera House Cup – Overall Winner 1967 – Port Huron-Mackinac Race – Overall Winner and last time raced in the lakes. 1966 – Miami-Nassau Race – First to Finish ( breaking 26-year-old record set by Ticonderoga) 1965 – Annapolis-Newport Race – Set New Elapsed-Time Record 1963 – St. Petersburg-Venice Race – Overall Winner 1962 – Channel Island Race – First to Finish 1961 – Miami-Jamaica Race – First in Fleet 1960 – Bermuda to Sweden – First to Finish 1960 – Miami to Montego Bay – Overall Winner 1958 – Acapulco Race – Rescued 12-man crew of Celebes still sailed to a second place finish 1954 – Port Huron-Mackinac Race – Overall Winner 1953 – Mackinac Race – Overall Winner 1951 – Rochester Cup – Overall Winner 1951 – Chicago-Mackinac Race – Overall Winner 1951 – Port Huron-Mackinac Race – Overall Winner 1951 – Toledo Yacht Club (Mills Cup) Overall Winner 1950 – Port Huron-Mackinac Race – Overall Winner (set course record 25:47:19, beating the old record by 2 hours) 1941 – Miami-Nassau Race – First to Finish

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The great escape: sailing yacht Escapade's epic adventure

“I just wanted to show you this picture. This is a dead person.” The owners of 37.5 metre Escapade are cycling through thousands of photos from their journey from New Zealand up to Myanmar’s Mergui islands, and we’ve just got to Sulawesi, in the Flores Sea.

“We drove inland for six hours, to go and see the villages of the animist Toraja tribes. They keep their dead for a year, sometimes more, in their houses. Our guide explained how he had lived with his dead grandfather in the house for seven years,” the Swiss owner of the yacht tells me. “But they were very welcoming – and the architecture is just beautiful.”

Most owners spend years talking about a cruise as expansive as this but, for the owners of Escapade, it was a case of: build yacht, get yacht, explore. Straight after taking delivery of the sloop from New Zealand’s Fitzroy Yachts in 2014 – the last yacht built by the yard before it closed its doors – passage was made for Australia, and after that the compass was pinned on north west until they hit Myanmar.

The weren’t new to yachting, however: the couple had spent 12 years chartering yachts . “We once chartered Mirabella I for three straight weeks,” the owner says. Nor were they strangers to Southeast Asia. The owner’s company has a factory in Indonesia and headquarters in Penang, Malaysia. But still the ambition of the trip – a form of extreme shakedown cruise – has to be admired, especially so because it formed only leg one of what is a global cruise. Leg two is the passage across the Pacific, with the final stretch taking them across the Atlantic to Europe.

I meet the family in the midst of planning for the Pacific passage, shortly after leaving the boat back in New Zealand after returning from Myanmar. “We’ve met other superyacht owners that tell us we have to spend at least a month in Vanuatu. They say it’s practically the most beautiful place they have ever seen.”

They’re happy for the advice since out in the Pacific they’ll be in uncharted waters. On the first leg of their trip, however, local knowledge served them well – and ultimately saved them money. The first agent they engaged to help smooth their passage with various permits, visas and services on the trip north through Indonesia to Thailand charged them around $8,000. The fee was so significant, the agent said, because bribes to local officials were built into the bill. “That’s impossible to account and legislate for,” the owner says. “I have had a factory in Indonesia for 10 years. So I know they may ask for a bribe, but you should never pay it because they come again and again. You should work by the book – and it works. It might take a little more time but once you have established that they leave you in peace.”

On the return leg they changed tack and used a local – Raymond Lesmana, from Sail Indonesia – who charged them just $800 for the same service. “Some agents believe that superyachts are just cows to be milked. And I don’t like feeling like a cow to be milked,” the owner says.

The choice of agent for the outward passage was a blip, however, in what was an eventful cruise through the Flores Sea, which included a visit to the island of Komodo.

There, among the dragons, they were left face to face with the walking fossils when their guide ran away. “All the guides have these big sticks, that’s all they have in the way of defence,” the owner says. “Our guide tried to prod a big one out of the way, and it whipped its tail at him and chased him off!” The family had sticks, too – “but didn’t know how to use them”, the eldest son chips in. “The trick is to be behind them, and not to move too much. But you can generally poke them out of the way.”

The remoteness of some of Indonesia’s islands was rammed home during one encounter with a fisherman. “This guy came up alongside in his boat and said: ‘Do you want fish?’ Then he opens up this box and he’s got loads of freshly caught fish, like groupers and huge fish like that,” the owner’s wife recalls. “He gave me five, so I asked him how much they cost. He said: ‘I don’t know, I’ve never sold them.’ We eventually ended up exchanging the fish for some rice, cooking oil and sugar. It was a good trade – the fish was delicious.”

In all, Escapade spent two months in the Flores Sea, including some time in Bali, which left the deckhands with some cleaning to do. “The marina was right under the take-off for the airport, so every morning the boat was black with soot!” the owner says. They found refuge in Medana Bay on the neighbouring island of Lombok, and took to taking the ferry across to Bali. Its capital, Denpasar, provided a better impression: “You can find lots of good, small restaurants and there’s lots to see – cultural sites and fauna,” the owner says. “From this point of view, it’s quite interesting.”

A stark contrast to the bustle of Bali was the “lost” island of Pulau Nangka, where they stopped shortly after passing Singapore. This tiny speck just south of the Malacca Strait has a single resident, “the guardian of the island”, the owner says. “He was so nice. He took us across the island,” the owner’s wife remembers. “He just had a machete and he chopped through the bush and up to the peak. He’s the guard, paid by the government. He goes off the island once a month to collect his salary in a small boat, but otherwise he lives there alone.”

Escapade stayed at anchor for three nights and the owners allowed their son to camp out on the beach with his tutor. “They had a bonfire on the beach and the guardian showed them where to camp to avoid being completely eaten by mosquitoes!” This was far from the only selfless act encountered and reflected the impression that, particularly in the smaller places, superyachts are made to feel very welcome. In Maumere, Indonesia, the harbourmaster took his own car to fetch their eldest son from the airport. “We wanted to pay him for the kilometres but he refused,” the owner says. “He said: ‘No, no, no, we’re happy to see you coming here.’”

In Malaysia, the boat was made race-ready for its very first regatta, the Raja Muda. This is a three-passage event from Port Klang, to Pangkor, Penang and finally Langkawi. Escapade suffered in the light winds of the southern part of the event, but on the longest – and last – passage the yacht came in a pleasing third. Racing was never really part of the plan, the owners say, but is “the cherry on the cake”. Christmas and New Year 2014 were spent in Phuket, Thailand, where they stayed for a month. Then, in early 2015, they eyed their prize: Myanmar. “We loved a previous visit to the country about 20 years ago and always wanted to go back – but this time by sea. And we had heard the Mergui islands were really virgin and uninhabited,” the owner says. He wouldn’t be disappointed. They took on a guide at Port Victoria in Thailand – a requirement – and set course for the once off-limits archipelago. They felt truly alone among the area’s 800 islands, spying only two other boats the whole time, “one of which was flying a Swiss flag”, the owner laughs. “We felt like Robinson Crusoe. The islands are covered with virgin rainforest. The beaches are white sand and very clean. One island had a small sea gypsy village on it, which was really interesting, but everywhere else we went was uninhabited.”

Below the waterline, things weren’t quite so impressive, the owner recalls. Locals commonly fish with dynamite, which has destroyed many of the reefs, leaving scars on the sea bed and an absence of much to see beneath the waves. “You could see the leftovers, the remnants,” the owner, a keen diver, recalls sadly. “Apparently it’s now been stopped but it could be decades before the coral comes back.”

The blissful isolation lasted 10 days but commitments in Europe and a need to get a snagging list of items taken care of back in New Zealand meant it was time to reverse their route. There was one big change to the southern passage, however. On the way back down, Escapade skirted the islands in the northern part of the Flores Sea, making a date with some of the world’s most incredible dive sites . The Taka Bonerate National Park stands out in the memory of all on board. “There were huge coral leaves, which were one or two metres in diameter, undulating in the current. They were just fantastic,” the owner says.

No trip by a keen diver to this area would be complete, though, without a visit to Raja Ampat, widely regarded as one of the world’s best diving areas. “I’ve probably dived in 40 different places,” the owner says. “Raja Ampat is in my top three. I’d say the best are Sipadan in Malaysia, the Galápagos and Raja Ampat, but not necessarily in that order.” The most enduring memory, though, came courtesy of the Toraja in Sulawesi, and their habit of living with the dead. “We’ve lived in Southeast Asia for 30 years and it’s become much more developed in that time, but this was really something new,” the owner says. “They were the most fascinating people we encountered.”

It’s all a far cry from the hotel in a rainy UK where I meet the family. But the grey scene beyond the windows of the restaurant doesn’t dampen the enthusiasm of Escapade’s owners for their next big adventure. The Pacific awaits....

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