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The photo above purports to show Hemingway’s Pilar exiting Havana Harbor amid the fleet, but the boat is white, not black as Pilar appears below at the Vigia Finca, Hemingway’s former home outside Havana. Yankee sailors used to say there were only two colors one painted a boat: white or black. “And only a damn fool paints his boat black.” It’s hard to believe in the days before air conditioning, that even tough old Ernest Hemingway would put up with the oven temperatures produced inside a black boat in the tropics. Not to mention the shriveling of planks and working of fasteners. The photo above may show Pilar, or it may not, but to give yourself a slide show of Pilar as it appears today, click on any photo below.
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