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Vintage PMY Covers – 1987

Vintage PMY Covers from 1987
  • By Christopher White
  • March 21, 2014
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By Christopher White

Take a little stroll down memory lane with a gallery of
some of our favorite Power & Motoryacht covers from 1987.

We started the year off strong with a cover painted by Robert Rodriguez.
It was a painting of a “mermaid, in honor of this month’s New York National Boat Show.”
The boat she’s holding is a 38-foot Ocean Yachts Super Sport.

“Our Florida girl with a new Wellcraft Scarab Excel,”
was what we had to say about this cover in February 1987.
I don’t know if we still have a “Florida girl” on staff…I’m going to have to find a company directory.

March’s cover featured a Donzi ZF-23 shot by Forest Johnson.
A good looking cover for sure, but come on, no topless mermaid? No bikini-clad blonde?

The 120-foot Tropic C, designed by Frank Moulder and built at the Heesen yard in Holland,
graced the cover of our May 1987 issue. The 120-footer was built for Blas Casares,
who wanted (and got) a large 20-knot boat.

This “beautiful girl” as we called her in the table of contents was shot in front of a
Thunderbird Formula 311 SR-1 for a story we ran on driving performance boats.

A Striker 62 shot in the Bahamas with a bow-riding umbrella.

The Viking 45 Fishinoff was shot for the cover of our 1987 Fall Boat Show issue. There are boat shows in the spring too though, like the Palm Beach International Boat Show, going on right now.
Check out some of the boats that’ll be there ➤

The newest Cigarette at the time, a 31-footer
(bedecked with yet another beautiful blonde) shot down in Miami.

Maybe it was the cold of December that made us want to put this young lady on the cover. In our table of contents we said she was “yacht spotting,” though I don’t see too many yachts.

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