A 16-foot boat is inside Hilton Head’s lighthouse. Here’s how it got there in 1 piece

There’s one U.S. Coast Guard exhibit in the Lowcountry, and it’s inside the Harbour Town lighthouse in Sea Pines.

The newest addition to the Hilton Head exhibit is a 16-foot model of the Coast Guard Academy training vessel named “The Eagle,” according to a news release from the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary.

The model is 26 feet above ground inside the lighthouse, and was installed to commemorate the second annual Coast Guard Appreciation Day on March 24.

It took at least 10 people to hoist the boat model through the door of the lighthouse and up the center of the three-story lighthouse museum to its new home.

The 350-pound boat model will be dedicated during Harbour Town’s “Spring Fest” from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. on March 24.

You can find more information about the festival on the Sea Pines website.

This story was originally published March 7, 2019 at 10:09 AM.

Katherine Kokal

The Island Packet

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Katherine Kokal graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and joined The Island Packet newsroom in 2018. Before moving to the Lowcountry, she worked as an interviewer and translator at a nonprofit in Barcelona and at two NPR member stations. At The Island Packet, Katherine covers Hilton Head Island’s government, environment, development, beaches and the all-important Loggerhead Sea Turtle. She has earned South Carolina Press Association Awards for in-depth reporting, government beat reporting, business beat reporting, growth and development reporting, food writing and for her use of social media.