Full Story - Honest Lawbreaker

Bill McCoy built luxury yachts for the Vanderbilts and Andrew Carnegie before Prohibition dried up his business. When the law changed, he sailed to the Bahamas, loaded up on quality whiskey, and anchored just outside the three-mile territorial limit — international waters, completely legal on his end. Contact boats came out to meet him. He never diluted his product, never bribed anyone, and never dealt with organized crime. When the Coast Guard finally caught him, he didn't fight it. Nine months in jail. Then moved to Florida, where he lived and died on his boat.