[ErnBatavia]

My high school alma mater's most famous grad (Glendale High School, CA).

As a teenager, we had family friends with a weekend home on ritzy and expensive Balboa Island, and they'd point out his "yacht"....huge, and I vaguely recall being told it was a refurbed/converted naval ship (PT boat, maybe?) of some sort.

[wagglebee]

John Wayne’s yacht was originally built for Al Capone and it is VERY impressive:

http://www.1contemporary.com/americana.html