The Cobalt 243 cuddy cabin, new for 2011.

Split but splendid in its personality, the 243 becomes a study in both long-term value and immediate gratification. The 243's appeal to the emotions is obvious in its graceful beauty, luxury afloat in the comfort, the convenience of amenities chosen for enjoyment pure and simple. The 243's embrace of enduring value comes in combining spread-out spaciousness for captain and crew with ubiquitous storage, easy movement stem to stern, and a masterpiece of a sliding companionway door that enables both wide-open access to the cabin and a separate cockpit entrance to the head compartment, itself roomy and well-optioned. Here is a boat bringing sumptuous textures and well-dressed surfaces together with hard functionality in the newish suggestion that cuddy owners really can have it all.

And again this evening, a CFO dances the night away.