Beware The Bart Roberts!

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Formerly a Canadian icebreaker, the Bart Roberts now flaunts crossed cutlasses on its funnel and flies the skull-and-crossbones.

Nearly three centuries after he died a grisly death during a battle with a British man-of-war, Bart Roberts has returned to the waters of the Treasure Coast. Not “Black Bart” himself, of course, but a new, $35-million yacht that would have stunned the old pirate with its imposing array of creature comforts and 21st-century gadgetry.

Moored at the Indian River Terminal in Fort Pierce, the 265-foot, 2,000-ton vessel recently underwent final adjustments before embarking on its maiden voyage. It was the last phase of a $20-million makeover that transformed it from a Canadian Coast Guard ice-breaker, the Narwhal, to one of the most lavish ships-for-hire on the planet. Now, with the skull-and-crossbones flying at its mast – along with the flag of the Cayman Islands, its port of registry – the M/V Bart Roberts is ready to make its debut with an itinerary that will take it from Panama to Alaska to Tahiti and the Great Barrier Reef.

Read the entire article in the September 2003 issue

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