Honey Fitz

We hadn't been on the Intracoastal Waterway, ICW, very long after leaving Stuart when a large vessel was quickly approaching us from behind.  Turns out it was the Honey Fitz. She is a 93-foot commuter-style motor yacht, built in 1931 by Defoe Boat Works in Bay City, Michigan for Montgomery Ward's tycoon Sewell Avery. It was later purchased by the US Coast Guard and served as a mine sweeper during World War II.  After the war she went on to be used as a pleasure vessel for 5 sitting US Presidents.  The most famous being President Kennedy who had named it Honey Fitz after his maternal grandfather.  The vessel was purchased back in 1998 by an oil tycoon in Texas who has had it restored to it's former glory during the "Camelot" years.  Take a close look at the stack on top of the boat and you can see the presidential seal on the side.