had damaged Sequoia while hauling her out of the water on a marine railway during December 2014. FE Partners won a $700,000 settlement award against the Virginia shipyard on February 22, 2019, and then began the process of removing Sequoia from the railway, placing her on a barge and transporting the barge from Virginia to Maine. In September 2019, the Sequoia was first moved by barge from Deltaville, Virginia, to Cambridge, Maryland. and then during October, from Cambridge, Maryland to Belfast, Maine where Sequoia arrived on October 22, 2019, to begin its restoration by French & Webb Inc for an undisclosed price. 2020 restoration plans According to MegaYacht News, the Sequoia restoration will require 9 to 10 months of careful planning before the refurbishment itself can start. French and his team are sourcing woods to supplement and/or replace her long-leaf yellow pine, mahogany, and teak. See also List of official vehicles of the president of the United States, which includes the other presidential yachts References Further reading Kelly, Giles M. Sequoia: Presidential Yacht. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 2004. "The Presidential Yacht U.S.S. Sequoia: Restoring a Time-Honored American Tradition" (January 1983 cover story of Architectural Digest) External links : Equator Capital Group – Presidential Yacht Sequoia [as of 12 August 2022, this website is no longer dedicated to the USS Sequoia or owned by Equator Capital] Photos and descriptions of U.S. Presidential Yachts on Haze Gray & Underway Sequoia on the History Channel on YouTube Presidential yachts of the United States National Historic Landmarks in Washington, D.C. Ships on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C. 1926 ships Sequoia (presidential yacht) Southwest Waterfront Ships built by the Mathis Yacht Building Company