A sister to Hemingway’s Pilar rises in Maine.

By Colin W. Sargent

Who’d build a 21st century replica of the Pilar? Novelist Ernest Hemingway’s 38-foot sport fishing boat hunted German submarines off Cuba during World War II. Built by Wheeler Shipbuilding of Brooklyn, New York, the original Pilar cost $7,495. She stars in Hemingway’s novels To Have and Have Not and Islands in the Stream.

When she launches in Maine this September, Pilar’s much younger sister will maneuver around a different enemy: coronavirus.

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