No One Offers Bid on Truman’s Yacht at Customs Auction

MIAMI — Harry S. Truman’s presidential yacht was the only clunker at a U.S. Customs auction that brought in $969,050 selling planes, boats and cars seized in Florida drug raids.

The minimum bid for the 245-foot yacht Williamsburg, built in 1929, was $150,000. Not one of the hundreds of bargain-seekers at the auction Wednesday made a peep.

“It’s got bushes growing through the deck,” noted Mike Scott, who came from Maine for the auction and had stopped to inspect the yacht, which is docked on the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., en route.