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Yacht monkey business. She is powered by MTU engines of 2399 hp each giving her a maximum speed of 24 knots and a cruising speed of 18 knots. It is best known for its role in scuttling the campaign of Gary Hart for President of the United States. In late March 1987 Hart spent a weekend on a Miami-based yacht called Monkey Business.

The cover of National Enquirer was all the more hilarious for Harts T-shirt which had the inappropriate name of the yacht that ferried Hart and Rice to Bimini from Miami. Sport Fisherman Convertible MONKEY BUSINESS built by manufacturer SPENCER YACHTS in 2003 available for sale. Two young women joined the boat when it sailed to Bimini.

Michael Dukakis went on to win the Democratic nomination. While the boat was docked there one of the women. Gary Hart D-Colo who had long denied reports of marital infidelities.

A Washington Post reporter pointedly asked Hart Have you ever committed adultery Hart refused to answer the. Contact United Yacht Broker Samantha. She had later accompanied him on an overnight trip from Miami to Bimini on an 83-foot luxury yacht with the you-cant-make-this-stuff-up name of Monkey Business.

She launched in 1978 for Donald Soffer who also owned the Turnberry Isle Resort near Miami. After a photo of Rice sitting in Harts lap aboard a yacht named Monkey Business emerged Hart withdrew from the race. With a beam of 754 m and a draft of 185 m This adds up to a gross tonnage of 223 tons.

Speed AvgMax 61 kn 97 kn. A picture soon appeared in the National Enquirer and then in hundreds of newspapers showing Donna Rice sitting in Harts lap with Hart in a Monkey Business T-shirt. Shipping and re-launch successful.