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Lesser-Known Legend

ou don’t need to be a classic boat aficionado to recognize , the 74-foot 1937 commuter yacht built for Manhattan financier John “Jock” Hay Whitney that later is actually . She was preceded by the original 330-foot, steam-powered built in 1898 and inherited by Whitney from his uncle in 1914, and the boat pictured above, , a 72-foot commuter yacht built in 1928 by Albany Boat Co. in Watervliet, New York.

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