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    BOB MCNEIL’S AMAZING LEGACY

    Nov 12, 2021 4 minutes
    WORDS WILL SOFRIN

    What do you do with a guy who can’t sit still and is always in search of something to keep himself occupied? You give him a wooden boat…

    American sailor Bob McNeil was no stranger to boats when he stopped by Rutherford’s Boatshop one day to tell Jeff Rutherford that he wanted Jeff to find a boat, a boat that would be a great project. Jeff came back to Bob with the idea of restoring , a 58ft (17.7m) Herreshoff P-Class yacht built in 1911 (CB193). was in a decrepit state when Jeff found her, sitting in the back of a boat shop in Barnstable, Massachusettes, would be undergoing a massive restoration in Rutherford’s Boatshop in Richmond, California

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