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Funding Is Found to Restore 1885 Schooner Coronet.
photography by John Mecray
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11/01/2006
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Since 1980, the International Yacht
Restoration School (IYRS) in Newport, Rhode Island, has mounted a campaign to
save the 40.5-meter (133-foot) schooner Coronet, one of the
last survivors of yachting’s golden era at the end of the nineteenth century.
Although the grand lady has fallen into disrepair, her future is now assured
thanks to the intervention of Coronet Restoration Partners, a new organization
led by Jeffery Rutherford of Rutherford Boat Works in San Francisco and classic
boat restoration expert Robert McNeil. Coronet will be
restored at the IYRS campus to the highest historical standards, and then she
will serve as an educational attraction in Newport.
 Photograph by Kim Fuller. (Click image to enlarge)
IYRS
401-848-5777
www.iyrs.org
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