McIntosh Life Magazine Spring/ Summer 2017 Her history… The Kit Jones is a wood-hull 60-foot tugboat built in 1938-39 on Sapelo Island, Georgia. Richard J. Reynolds, Jr. commissioned this boat along with other vessel designs by yacht firm Sparkman & Stephens, Inc., of New York City; however, the Kit Jones was the only one crafted with local skill and materials. Shipwrights, Axel Holger Sparre along with Emmett Johnson, Sr. were the boat builders on Sapelo Island who built th