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Palmetto Bluff Club
Grace is a gorgeous 60-foot, one-hundred-ten-year-old wooden motor yacht and is one of the last of her kind still operating. As with any centenarian, there have been many people and milestones in Grace's past. She had four different names and eight owners spanning a shoemaker, a dentist, a businessman, and even a trapeze artist, who lived on her while running a floating theater that inspired the acclaimed book and hit Broadway show, Showboat.
Celebrate Bluffton & Beyond
In November 2023, the next chapter in the remarkable story of Grace, one of the last existing pre-World War I gas-powered yachts, began on the picturesque May River that runs through the heart of Bluffton, South Carolina. Under the guidance of The Grace Club—a newly formed founder/member sponsored, not-for-profit organization—after extensive restoration, the beautiful antique motor yacht built for the purposes of commuting across New York Harbor, returned in all her glory to her home at Palmetto Bluff.
The Bluffton Sun
Grace, a 60-foot antique motor yacht originally built in 1913 for the purposes of commuting across New York Harbor, was recently placed back where she belongs, in the May River, thanks to a group dedicated to the boat's restoration. "In November The Grace Club was thrilled to announce that Grace has been restored to her former glory and once again adorns the May River and surrounding waterways," said Gray C. Stahlman, MD, Historian, The Grace Club.
Bluffton Today
It was Nov. 12, 2023, and MV Grace was going home to Palmetto Bluff. The motor yacht was originally built in 1913 by the New York Yacht, Launch and Engine Co. of Morris Heights, N.Y., for millionaire lawyer Joseph B. Cousins, Esq., of the Manhasset Bay Yacht Club, to be used as his personal commuter boat between Long Island and the city. Grace had just completed a thorough refreshment, Spa Time, barnacles gone, brass bright, squeaky clean and ready for service.