Teddy Turner Jr. is like a lot of boaters. He’s always eyeing what craft might be next. But even Turner, the son of the late Ted Turner, didn’t imagine he’d be the owner of a Volkswagen Bus boat. As reported by Charleston, South Carolina’s Post and Courier, the strange hybrid has been making quite a splash whenever Turner takes it for a spin around Charleston Harbor.
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It all started when Turner’s favorite boatbuilder, John Lombardi, took on a project at the request of a fellow in the Lake of the Ozarks. He wanted a VW boat that he could rent out to customers, possibly a fleet of them. So Lombardi got to work. “He could make a submarine with some bedsprings and a box of screws,” Turner tells G&G with a laugh…