From the archive · 15 May 2012
Don and Patty aboard Maria.
A photograph from L’Est Républicain during Don and Patty’s years aboard. The article describes their life at Toul and their attachment to Maria.
Previous-owner records place Maria across Burgundy, Champagne, Alsace and Lorraine, and on the Seine, Saône, Moselle and Meuse. Their ownership from 2002 to 2019 included a charter period before a return to private family cruising.
Read the surviving newspaper clipping
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