A Native Daughter Is Coming Home
After 75+ years of service, a McIntosh native is returning to Darien. Kit Jones is a local…in the truest sense of the word, as even the wood that was hewn to form her hull was harvested from Sapelo Island. The 60-foot wood-hull vessel was commissioned by R.J. Reynolds, and designed by renowned yacht designers, Sparkman & Stephens of New York. She was built in 1939 on Sapelo Island by its skilled African-American boat builders assisting Axel Holger Sparre; utilizing heart pin