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John Alden design #669, commissioned by the Colonel George S. Patton in 1938 as a private yacht. Built by FF Pendleton in Wiscasset, Maine in 1939. Constructed of double planked mahogany over black locust frames and an oak keel.
Patton intended to sail the schooner around the world with his wife Bea "when and if the war ended," but he never fulfilled his dream after dying in a car accident in Europe shortly after the end of the war.
Donated to the Landmark School near Boston in the 1970's where she offered sail training programs with dyslexic children.
In 1990 she broke loose in a gale and wrecked, assessed as a total loss, she was successfully salvaged and towed to the Gannon & Benjamin shipyard in Martha's Vineyard. After a painstaking rebuild she was re-launched in 1994.
Her deck and transom were rebuilt in upstate New York in 2012, since then she has been actively sailing the East Coast. She has been a part of Tall Ships Festivals in both 2015 and 2016.
Her home port in the winter is now Key West, where she offers public and private charters under the most recent owner, Capt. Seth Salzmann.
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