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Northshore September 18

Northshore magazine showcases the best that the North Shore of Boston, MA has to offer.

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110 PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF DYLAN SALZMANN FRESH BACK IN SALEM HARBOR, DYLAN SALZMANN recounts a morning spent gliding out to Misery Island on 15-knot east- southeast winds, then back toward Manchester-by-the-Sea, where, upon tacking into Marblehead Harbor, he announced his arrival with a cannon blast. Considering that the yacht he was sailing, the When and If, was built for General George S. Patton Jr., the cannon—which fires 10-gauge blanks, not live ammunition—is a fitting way to call attention. en again, a 63- foot racing schooner tends to draw a crowd on its own. "Everywhere you go, people are turning their heads looking at this boat," says Salzmann, the vessel's 30-year-old captain. "People are on mega-yachts, on really nice boats of their own, and they're admiring the When and If." e last 79 years has been a long, circuitous journey for the boat that Patton, who commanded the U.S. Army during the Battle of the Bulge, commissioned at the outset of World War II to circumnavigate the globe "when the war's over and if I live through it," as one foggy origin story of the boat's name goes. Instead of embarking on a transoceanic sojourn, BY JEFF HARDER GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON'S WHEN AND IF IS ANCHORED IN SALEM HARBOR, OFFERING TRIPS TO ORDINARY CITIZENS TO HELP FUND THE ROUND-THE- WORLD VOYAGE THAT PATTON NEVER TOOK. H I S T O R Y O N T H E H I G H S E A S

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