Apoise to Go to Auction

If you did last year’s Ha-Ha and happened to be around the Cabo fuel dock on Sunday morning, you may have noticed a big motoryacht. This would have been Apoise, the 220-ft Lürssen — as good as a pedigree as you can get — taking on who knows how many tons of fuel. It turns out she’s about to go under the gavel — on behalf the auctioneer who took possession of her when she was launched in ’06. The owner makes it sound as if he commissioned the boat and all that, but we think the story is more picturesque. After all, who ever heard of an auctioneer paying retail?