In 2020, nearly 1.3 million boats were sold in the United States. My wife, Lindsay, and I bought one of these boats. Oddly enough, we never planned on buying a Grand Banks 36. And, without question, we never planned on completing a comprehensive refit. Between June 2020 and April 2021, we did both.
Early in our boat search, Lindsay was kind enough to pretend that she believed my rationalization: Buying a boat would benefit all of mankind by making our young kids better humans from simply being on the water. We looked at a beautiful 44-foot custom Hunt, an Eastbay 49, and several Grand Banks 42s and 46s.
Then, on a brutally cold February afternoon, where the St. Lawrence River begins at the outflow of Lake Ontario, Lindsay recognized the…
