Mark doxon was in princess Louisa Inlet, up past Vancouver in British Columbia, when he lost a starter on his Riviera 47 Flybridge. Theinletisaspectacularlysecluded cruising location, with towering fjords all around. It's also a place with no cellphone service, where Doxon was far more likely to encounter actual bears than technicians bearing replacement parts.Doxon drove the yachf s dinghy to a nearby youth camp and used its phone to call the team at Riviera. "The next thing I knew, there was the seaplane and the starter and the technician waiting for me,"he says. "The boat was fixed two days later. They had gotten it there from Vancouver."
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