Practical Boat Owner

Hail Zeasar

Cats have long enjoyed a relationship with sailors; living on trading, exploration and naval ships to control vermin, but it’s not often you see them on a 47ft leisure yacht.

Weighing in at 8kg, and covered head to toe in luxurious ginger fur, Zeasar isn’t your average ship’s cat. For a start, he’s twice as big, but he’s also sailed part-way across the Atlantic.

Snuggled up in the cockpit of

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