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Mayflower II continues to get into ship-shape

January 20, 2020 11:00 pm • Last Updated: January 21, 2020 9:36 pm

By Sarah Gordon
Staff Photographer

s.gordon@theday.com

Riggers at the Mystic Seaport Museum work on the rigging on the main and fore masts of the Mayflower II on Tuesday at the museum’s H.B. duPont Preservation Shipyard. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)
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Mystic — Employees of the Mystic Seaport Museum were working on the rigging on the main masts of the Mayflower II on Tuesday at the museum's H.B. duPont Preservation Shipyard.

The ship will remain in Mystic this winter before sea trials in Fishers Island Sound in the spring and departure for festivities in Boston and Cape Cod this summer, the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims' landing in Massachusetts in 1620.

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