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The most distinctive feature in Tim Carr and Cindy Bach’s backyard is a terrace bar table made from a 1956 Lippincott Comet sailboat the previous owner had managed to refinish. The couple removed the mast and boom from the 16-foot vessel — they used the former to make a newel post and the lat ter to craft a handrail for the staircase from the house’s first floor

to its lower level — and drilled holes in the hull so rainwater could drain through it. A carpenter friend made a bar top to cover the cockpit, then mounted the boat on 6-inch-by 6-inch wooden posts. “The thing we really liked about that sail boat was the top of it was flat,” Carr says. “A lot of the boats are curved [or] humped. They would not make a very good bar.”

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