FINE FUTURE
Dec 10, 2019
4 minutes
BY KIM KAVIN
ven Todd French, who knew something special was happening, wasn’t expecting this kind of a response. In October, the 104-foot arrived at his French & Webb shipyard in Belfast, Maine. The National Historic Landmark had to be brought by barge, with her 1925 hull, a John Trumpy design, needing what French says will be a three-year refit to make her seaworthy again. Even despite her condition, hundreds of people showed up just for a glimpse of her—perhaps thinking about how President Franklin Roosevelt signed legislation on her aft deck, how President Kennedy celebrated a birthday on board, and how President Nixon decided to resign the presidency aboard
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