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TOM REED, above right, waits for the signal Friday with his crew from Woolwichbased Reed & Reed to begin lifting into place the second 120-foot mast on the Maine Maritime Museum’s sculptural replica of the schooner Wyoming. Maine Maritime Museum commemorated the raising of the six masts on the sculpture of the Wyoming in a “Topping of the Masts” event Friday. Nearly 200 museum volunteers, staff and invited guests attended the event on the lawn behind the museum’s Donnell House. On hand to make sure the process went smoothly are, above from left, Dave Farrar, Matt Wate and Tim Wood. The replica will be the subject of a public dedication and daylong open house on Saturday, June 1. Wyoming was the largest wooden sailing ship ever built in the U.S. It is the iconic symbol of Maine’s shipbuilding heritage that continues today at Bath Iron Works and at a number of other boat and yacht builders along the coast. The Wyoming sculpture is the largest public work of art in New England, and is one of the most photographed scenes in Maine. The total cost of the sculpture exceeds $2.4 million.
TOM REED, above right, waits for the signal Friday with his crew from Woolwichbased Reed & Reed to begin lifting into place the second 120-foot mast on the Maine Maritime Museum’s sculptural replica of the schooner Wyoming. Maine Maritime Museum commemorated the raising of the six masts on the sculpture of the Wyoming in a “Topping of the Masts” event Friday. Nearly 200 museum volunteers, staff and invited guests attended the event on the lawn behind the museum’s Donnell House. On hand to make sure the process went smoothly are, above from left, Dave Farrar, Matt Wate and Tim Wood. The replica will be the subject of a public dedication and daylong open house on Saturday, June 1. Wyoming was the largest wooden sailing ship ever built in the U.S. It is the iconic symbol of Maine’s shipbuilding heritage that continues today at Bath Iron Works and at a number of other boat and yacht builders along the coast. The Wyoming sculpture is the largest public work of art in New England, and is one of the most photographed scenes in Maine. The total cost of the sculpture exceeds $2.4 million.
 
 

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