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America’s Oldest Yacht Continues Extensive Restoration
Seaport Museum in Connecticut
The 40.5-meter Coronet has been moved to the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut for the final stage of a nearly thirty-year restoration.
School of Technology and Trades
The wooden-hulled sailing yacht still has three years of restoration work ahead of it and will remain on display at the museum for the remainder of the project. Exact details of the project remain under wraps, but it is understood that the interior will be the next focus point.
The yacht was acquired by the Newport-based IYRS School of Technology and Trades in 1995, and was stripped down to the frame and cut in half so it could be rebuilt. In 2004, she was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
New York-based Poillon
Built in 1885 at the New York-based Poillon shipyard, Coronet is the oldest registered yacht in the US and has had several high-profile owners, including oil magnate Rufus T. Bush and railroad magnate Arthur Curtiss James. , one of the richest men. in America in the 20th century.
She won a transatlantic race with a $10,000 prize money in 1887 and has circumnavigated the globe with visits to Africa, Hawaii, China and the Middle East.
The yacht is now under the care of the Crew hospitality group.
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