Presidential yacht fight heats up in Delaware

Sequoia?Presidential?Yacht?Group claims in a Chancery Court lawsuit filed late last week that FE Partners reneged on a $5 million loan agreement in a 'dastardly' plan to take control of the historic vessel.

By Randall Chase,?Associated Press / February 5, 2013

English: Washington Navy Yards (Apr 23, 2003) -- The former Presidential Yacht USS Sequoia travels down the Potomac River near Washington D.C. in this undated US Navy photo.

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The owners of the former?presidential?yacht?Sequoia are asking a Delaware judge to prevent a lender from seizing it.

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Sequoia?Presidential?Yacht?Group claims in a Chancery Court lawsuit filed late last week that FE Partners reneged on a $5 million loan agreement in a "dastardly" plan to take control of the historic vessel.

Washington, D.C.-based FE Partners says the lawsuit is grossly inaccurate and without merit.

The Delaware lawsuit was filed after a New York judge dismissed a similar complaint last month on jurisdictional grounds. Both parties are Delaware limited liability companies.

The Sequoia plaintiffs claim that FE Partners lent only half the $5 million that was promised, leaving them in financial distress and subject to "trumped up" default claims that allow FE Partners to buy the?yacht?at a fire-sale price of $7.8 million.

According to the plaintiffs, the 104-foot Sequoia, built in 1925, is the longest-serving?presidential?yacht?in American history. It was the official?yacht?for?presidents?from Herbert Hoover through Jimmy Carter.

The Sequoia was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1987 and is currently docked at a marina about a mile south of the U.S. Capitol. The?yacht?is available for rental, at about $10,000 per charter.

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