"The 50-foot dream boat that George De Shon spent nearly 25 years building has never floated, but on Wednesday it flew.
De Shon wasn’t there to see it. He died last March at age 82.
A few dozen neighbors came by to watch as the yacht that had been part of their Tacoma neighborhood for decades was gently lifted from the backyard of De Shon’s home off South Jackson Street. It sailed over the house and onto a waiting boat trailer.
Merna, De Shon’s wife of more than 50 years, was there. Her family said she was too overcome by the boat’s leaving to want to talk about the dream her husband crafted in their backyard.
Diana Wells who lives a street away said she never thought the boat would leave. It had been there so long. She knew about it even before she moved to the neighborhood.
“It’s like history here,” she said. “It was like this thing out of a legend. How did it get back there?”"
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