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She is 60 feet long, 17 feet wide, 18 feet tall, and weighs 60,000lbs. She’s a historic, wood-hull vessel built on Sapelo Island, GA and launched March 1939 by island owner and tobacco company heir R.J. Reynolds, Jr.  Her name is Kit Jones.

From blueprints by the esteemed yacht designers, Sparkman & Stephens of New York, the Kit was uniquely constructed of native heart pine and live oak timbers which were harvested and milled on Sapelo.  Under the direction of Danish shipwright Axel Sparre, many Sapelo residents – Gullah-Geechee descendants of slaves brought to the island prior to the Civil War – assisted in the construction. In subsequent years, a number of other McIntosh County residents served as masters and mates on the vessel as well. 

History of the Kit Jones continues https://www.savethekitjones.com/aspirations