George Cohon knows how to enjoy life, and to enjoy boating. A founder of McDonalds and Ronald McDonald Children’s Charities in Canada and Russia, he spends time with his wife, Susan, and their family at their home in Toronto and at their second home in Palm Beach, where they both play golf and other sports. They have two golden retrievers that they take to visit children facing surgery at a West Palm Beach hospital. And they go boating on their Hinckley Talaria 48, McHappy 111.
In this interview with the Palm Beach Daily News, Cohon says they started boating 40 years ago on an 18-foot, battery-powered wooden boat on a lake behind their country home north of Toronto. Then, 20 years ago, they bought a home on the Waterway in Palm Beach, and decided they needed a bigger boat. They had a Little Harbor Whisper Jet for a while, then a Hinckley Talaria 44 and then, four years ago, they saw the Talaria 48 at the Palm Beach boat show, and bought it.
They like the Hinckley so much they trailer it up to Lake Ontario when they’re home there, and use it all the time in Palm Beach, both in the ocean and on the Waterway. So far, they’ve put 1,500 hours on the engines. Cohon says their grandchildren love the boat too, sleeping on it and watching movies.
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