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VICTORIA MACKENZIE-CHILDS: Ahoy, my name is Victoria
MacKenzie-Childs.
And my husband Richard and I are the proprietors, I guess
you'd say, of Yankee Ferry, our boat and our abode.
Welcome aboard.
We've owned Yankee for about 12 years, and every day feels
like another adventure because it's closer to nature than
living in an apartment or a house in a way because even
parts of the boat that we're living on
are out in the winds.
And I just love that feeling.
We even have chickens and animals on the boat.
And they have their quarters.
And so we have fresh eggs in the city every day.
And that's really funny to me.
Most of the things that you see around are things that
we've made.
And being sculptors, we know how to work with every
material, from steel, to wood, to anything that we would
possibly need to do to keep her pulled together.
It really needs us as much as we need to her.
She's the oldest vessel in the whole Eastern Seaboard that's
actually floating.
Most boats don't make it this long.
So this is the crew quarters, and now it's practically like
an apartment.
It has a tiny little space for an icebox and microwave oven.
This bed is an example of what the beds were life that came
out of the side of the hull.
So that used to sleep 16 crew members.
So just imagine what it would be like hearing all those
people snoring in the night [LAUGHS],
swaying with the boat.
And then the master stateroom, which is where we normally
reside, with bunks for our grandchildren
when they come visit.
So they think it's normal.
They've only always known that their
grandparents live on a ship.
And here is the salon.
And the salon is pretty much the way it would've been 100
years ago in that it was just an open space, just like this,
exactly the same.
On a ship, a bathroom is called a
head, but it has shower.
It has a big old clawfoot bathtub, which we tease is our
whirlpool, or our jacuzzi because on a windy day, if you
fill it up with bubbles and water it's slopping all over
the place like it's made to bubble up around you.
And it's really a fun place to have a bath.
The galley is one of our favorite places.
It's quite large, actually.
It's probably as big as any country kitchen would be.
There's something about hunkering down around a cup a
chowda in Yankee that really, to me, brings us home.
So we have everything that you would call home right with us,
especially the heart.
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