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A beauty of a boat

by Becky Vargo 31 Aug 2018 20:52 PDT
Don and Linda Nase sit inside their 1968 Pacemaker mahogany yacht on Monday, Aug. 20, 2018, at the Grand Haven Municipal Marina. The Nases have been piloting the vessel for the past 43 summers © Tribune photo / Becky Vargo

"Never ask a woman her age," Don Nase shouts from his boat docked at the Grand Haven Municipal Marina in response to a question from a visitor on shore.

He hesitates only briefly before relating that the mahogany beauty is celebrating "her" 50th birthday this year.

Don and his wife, Linda, have been around for 43 of those birthdays, having purchased the large wooden vessel in Saugatuck in 1975.

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