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It stands on the old Dover Marine railway yards, where more than a million wounded soldiers were brought home from the First World War.

“The Sequoia, an elderly and vulnerable wooden yacht, is sitting on an inadequate cradle on an undersized marine railway in a moribund boatyard on the western shore of the Chesapeake, deteriorating and, lately, home to raccoons,” Glasscock noted.

"The Sequoia, an elderly and vulnerable wooden yacht, is sitting on an inadequate cradle on an undersized marine railway in a moribund boatyard on the western shore of the Chesapeake, deteriorating and, lately, home to raccoons," wrote Delaware judge Sam Glasscock in his Monday ruling.

Drakes Bay was a more protected location, where a 36-foot motorized lifeboat was launched on a long marine railway.

“The watermen there worked out of Wormley Creek - and we hauled out their boats,” says Tim Smith, whose family’s nearby marine railway served Slabtown for generations.