This nearly 100-year-old wooden yacht is moving from Seattle to Lake Lanier - Dawson County News

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This nearly 100-year-old wooden yacht is moving from Seattle to Lake Lanier

Katie and Taylor Grimsley will soon welcome their new 30-foot Vic Franck Sea Queen, a yacht built in 1928, to Forsyth County, where they are expecting it to become a common sight on Lake Lanier. - photo by For the DCN

wooden yacht — Katie and Taylor Grimsley will soon welcome their new 30-foot Vic Franck Sea Queen, a yacht built in 1928, to Forsyth County, where they are expecting it to become a common sight on Lake Lanier. - photo by For the DCN

There are vessels on Lake Lanier of all sizes, shapes and ages, but a boat moving to the lake next month might be the oldest of them all.