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David Crosby
Want to own some rock 'n roll history? How about the yacht of David Crosby, he of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young?
It's a piece -- albeit an expensive piece at $1 million -- of Baby Boomer history to have the boat that Crosby says he sailed for 40 years and upon which he composed some of the music that reflected the attitudes, hopes and frustrations of the generation.
"After 40 years of sailing my Alden Schooner, and writing many of my best songs aboard her I have reached that point when I must let her go," says a quote attributed to Crosby in a for sale ad that appears in the current issue of Rolling Stone magazine.
The 59-foot wooden boat is named "Mayan".
Crosby and his band mates -- Steven Stills, Graham Nash and Neil Young -- were known primarily for such songs as "Ohio" which protested the National Guard shootings of protesting students at Kent State in 1970.
"Mayan"
Other songs reflect the influence of the time Crosby spent at sea:
"Wooden Ships" -- "Wooden ships on the water very free, and easy"
"Southern Cross" -- "Off the wind on this heading lie the Marquesas; we got eight feet of waterline, nicely making way"
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