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To: aMorePerfectUnion; stylin19a; yesthatjallen
The photos you're displaying are from two different presidential yachts. The "Honey Fitz" was a refitted, fancied up WWI mine sweeper, which had a standard inside bridge, and no tall masts for sailing, it has railings with wooden caps-rails. It was FDR's "Sequoia" . . . It is pictured in the six of your photos. Here is the bridge of the "Honey Fitz":


The other Kennedy yacht is the "Manitou," which was a racing sail boat yacht without an enclosed bridge, and is the one you see with stanchion and rope/metal railings, stays for the mast, with an external ship's wheel and binnacle, the one with Kennedy at the wheel. This is the wheel of the "Manitou":


It is the Manitou which has the decking curvature and the kind of wood work that matches the photo with the bell. The "Honey Fitz" has essentially flat decking, as it has metal decking under the added wood.


The Manitou, under sail, now for sale for $1,300,000

1,271 posted on 04/03/2018 6:22:28 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you racist, bigot!)
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To: Swordmaker

Thanks for sharing your expertise.


1,284 posted on 04/03/2018 6:29:46 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Q is Barron Trump, time-traveling back from the future, to help his dad fight the deep state.)
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To: Swordmaker
The exact photo of the bell that is being circulated as JFKs' alleged bell appears on the link I provided.

Do you have a photo of that bell which shows that bell or one like it on a JFK boat? Not various pictures of the boat from different angles with similar wood but a picture of that bell on the JFK boat?

I'm willing to believe the same bells with the same engraving can be found on both boats but I have only found that bell with that engraving on the boat I posted.

And the other links I included with my original post also confirm that bell with that engraving is on that boat.

Here is the link to my original post.

Eye of the Wind Bell

As I said before I believe either someone made an honest mistake with their attribution of the bell or they're trolling.

1,788 posted on 04/03/2018 10:25:29 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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