{"id":20333,"date":"2021-07-22T09:20:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T13:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=20333"},"modified":"2021-07-22T10:21:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T14:21:42","slug":"lady-with-a-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/lady-with-a-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady with a Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position:relative;padding-top:max(60%,326px);height:0;width:100%\"><iframe sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"position:absolute;border:none;width:100%;height:100%;left:0;right:0;top:0;bottom:0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23e4e4e4&#038;d=july_august_2021&#038;hideIssuuLogo=true&#038;pageNumber=40&#038;u=portlandmagazine\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Stories start tumbling out as the former Presidential yacht USS Sequoia<br \/>\nhas some work done at a Belfast boatyard.<\/p>\n<p>By Colin W. Sargent<\/p>\n<p>Like many seaports across the United States, the area around 40 Front Street in Belfast is a boulevard of broken dreams and boundless promise. This summer the <strong>French &amp; Webb<\/strong> boatyard will dig deeper toward a plank-by-plank overhaul of the USS <em>Sequoia<\/em>, once known to the world as the \u201c<strong>Floating White House<\/strong>\u201d that hosted eight presidents. When the <em>Sequoia\u2019s<\/em> new owners, <strong>Equator Capital<\/strong> of Washington, D.C., commissioned Belfast boatyard owner Todd French to manage the project, he went down to Deltaville, Virginia, where the once lustrous presidential yacht was moldering, to oversee her journey to Maine along the Eastern Seaboard atop a barge.<\/p>\n<p><em>See the full story\u00a0in the digital magazine above.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20357\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ja21-sequoia.jpg\" alt=\"ja21-sequoia\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ja21-sequoia.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ja21-sequoia-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ja21-sequoia-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ja21-sequoia-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ja21-sequoia-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ja21-sequoia-620x326.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cFloating White House\u201d drops anchor in Maine for a makeover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20333"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20363,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20333\/revisions\/20363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}