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Boat Builder's Violins Mystify Woods Hole Innkeeper
An unusual sight aboard a moored sailboat has a Woods Hole innkeeper wondering what's up. We're happy to tell you more about the boat builder and violin maker aboard "Harmony," as posted in the Martha's Vineyard Times.
The Woods Hole Inn posted this intriguing photo and appeal on Facebook Friday:
"Someone please tell me more about the guy who hangs violins on his boat in Eel Pond. I'm curious!"
Falmouth Patch is happy to oblige:
According to the cruising yachtsman Seaver Jones, writing in the Martha's Vineyard Times, the yacht in the Woods Hole Inn's photo — "Harmony," hailing from Vineyard Haven — is a 30-foot 1937 Crocker sloop restored by owner and boat builder Andy Lyon, who also makes handcrafted violins.
At the time of Jones's 2008 "Breakwater News" column, Lyon said he was working on his fourth violin. Judging from the Woods Hole Inn's photo five years later, he is still at it.
Read "Breakwater News," by Seaver Jones.
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