{"id":6899,"date":"2013-08-23T09:29:21","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T14:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=6899"},"modified":"2013-08-23T09:29:21","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T14:29:21","slug":"earl-mc-millen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=6899","title":{"rendered":"BECOMING EARL MC MILLEN"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For $1, You Could Own this Yacht<\/h1>\n
Sure, the 61-footer needs six figures\u2019 worth of restoring, but hey, she\u2019s a classic.<\/div>\n
By Kim Kavin \/ Published: August 21, 2013<\/div>\n
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Back in the year 1929, Stephens Brothers in Stockton, California, built 14 yachts. One of them was the 61-foot Vida Mia, a motoryacht of grand scale and a symbol of extraordinary wealth in her day.<\/p>\n

Today, you can own her for a buck.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right: Just one U.S. dollar will get you this 84-year-old classic. She has been abandoned at the Kewalo Basin Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, since 2009, according to harbormaster Charles Barclay. He\u2019s offering her up for $1 to anyone with a plan and the means to get her out of there and start her restoration, which would cost at least six figures. Among other issues, her wooden hull is peeling varnish and rotting.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want someone to be the angel for this boat and return it to the glory it used to have,\u201d Barclay told KITV News.<\/p>\n

If nobody steps up to buy\u00a0Vida Mia<\/em>, she\u2019ll be totally scrapped. What a sad day that would be, since her history is storied. She is said to have hosted everyone from Elizabeth Taylor to Louis Vuitton to John Travolta.<\/p>\n

Are you the one who wills save\u00a0Vida Mia<\/em>? Give Barclay a call in Hawaii at (808) 594-0851.<\/p>\n

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Mc Millen Yachts<\/a> in Newport Rhode Island has restored some of the finest yachts ever built. His crew are as good at it as any group anywhere.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For $1, You Could Own this Yacht Sure, the 61-footer needs six figures\u2019 worth of restoring, but hey, she\u2019s a classic. By Kim Kavin \/ Published: August 21, 2013 \u00a0 For $1, You Could Own this Yacht Enlarge Photo Back in the year 1929, Stephens Brothers in Stockton, California, built 14 yachts. One of them … Continue reading BECOMING EARL MC MILLEN<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1788],"tags":[1789],"class_list":["post-6899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earl-mc-millen","tag-yacht-restoration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6900,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899\/revisions\/6900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}