Former President George H.W. Bush’s speedboat has a brand new proprietor.
The 38-foot (11.5-meter) “Fidelity V” was auctioned for $435,000 throughout the George and Barbara Bush Basis’s 2024 Presidential Salute benefiting the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, and The Bush College of Authorities and Public Service at Texas A&M College, a spokesperson mentioned.
The occasion final week in Houston featured various the late president’s associates starting from former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to two-time Tremendous Bowl-winning quarterback Peyton Manning. The boat’s purchaser was nameless and it’s unclear what’s going to develop into of the vessel, the spokesperson mentioned.
The occasion raised greater than $1 million in complete, she mentioned.
The speedboat sports activities a presidential seal and boasts three engines with a mixed 900 horsepower. It may well go as much as 75 mph (120 kph) and was used within the waters off Kennebunkport, Maine, the place the Texas household has a summer season retreat.
The fifth of George H.W. Bush’s speedboats to bear the identify Constancy was a 2011-model Fountain 38CC that was bought after each he and his son, former President George W. Bush, had left workplace. One of many earlier boats is on show on the Bush library and museum, and one other of them continues to be in service in Kennebunkport. The elder Bush died in 2018.
