HYANNIS, MA- Senator Kennedy Sailboat Mya Transport

HYANNIS, MA- Sen. Edward Kennedy will be sailing the seas off the coast of Florida during Congressional breaks this winter, according to a spokesman from his staff.

His sailboat, the Mya, a familiar sight in Nantucket Sound, was pulled from the water and today loaded on a trailer for the trip from Cape Cod to a marina in the Sunshine State.

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More on the Kennedy family of Hyannisport Kennedy spokesman Keith Maley said in an e-mail this morning that Kennedy will spend Thanksgiving at the family compound in Hyannisport, a longtime family tradition.

An avid sailor, the Massachusetts Democrat spent many hours this summer aboard the Mya while recuperating from chemotherapy and radiation therapy following surgery for a brain tumor in May at the Duke University Medical Center.

In fact, on his first day back on the Cape after undergoing that surgery, Kennedy, his wife and their two dogs Splash and Sunny, boarded the Mya - a 50-foot-long Concordia schooner - for a sail across Nantucket Sound.

Less than two weeks later the Senator sailed his boat in the 37th annual Figawi, a boat race between Hyannis and Nantucket. With his wife Victoria Reggie Kennedy and Sen. Chirstopher Dodd, D-Conn., aboard, Kennedy brought the Mya in second in the five-boat division. His time over the 19.7-mile course was 1 hour and 54 minutes.

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[signal20leo]

Two Mass State Troopers at 50 dollars and hour to escort shithead's boat. No wonder we are in the shitter.

[scob62]

Senator Kennedy did more good than all you sad little whiners, get over it. The Bushes are better people than you too.

[BCAD01]

I am NO fan of Sen Kennedy whatsoever and it's good to see the trucking picked up the tab for those state trooper details. Why are the Kennedy's put in such a good light? What about Mary Jo Kopechne?

[herk1952]

Nice boat!

Alas, too much draw for the Chappaquiddick, Matey!

[truebluewitness]

Video was very well done.

I'm sure Ted is wishing he had a taste of ANY kind of water right now.

[gracefultxn]

She's beautiful! Fair winds and following seas, Senator...

[Kayadogkw]

Godspeed Senator, May the Heavens know such a helmsman. The Oceans weep sorrow in your wake. Mya has lost her Captain. May she voyage to sea eternity.

Gratefully, Capt. Ernest L. Heether Jr.

[danl1956]

no, didn't get to meet him, and I know what you mean, when I cross empty, it is tight thru there....

[g826665]

Great gig, did you meet the senator?

I'm so jealous that you got to use both lanes going over the bridge. I was always scared I was going to curb rash the rims on my KW on that high curb, there is no room.

[danl1956]

The trucking company paid for the police escort, I am the truck driver that moved the boat.