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JFK's yacht for sale at boat showPublished 10/10/08
Amidst the shining white fiberglass at the United States Sailboat Show at City Dock lies a floating piece of history, also for sale.
J. HensonTOP: President John F. Kennedy aboard Manitou. BOTTOM: Manitou chugs into Annapolis Harbor along the Naval Academy seawall, before docking for the boat show. It is made of wood, a 62-foot Sparkman and Stephens-designed yawl built by M.M. Davis and Sons in Solomons Island in 1937 for a wealthy fellow who sailed it in the Great Lakes. Now the boat is nearly fully restored. History enough, but it gets better. Manitou was President John F. Kennedy's sailing White House. There is the famous photograph of him at the helm taken in August 1962 on Narragansett Bay, months after he selected Manitou from the sailing craft kept by the...
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