[1] The company and its boats represent an era of New York society comparable to what "Tiffany occupies in the jewelry business.
"[3] One of the Purdy Boat Company's most famous works was the Aphrodite, built for multimillionaire John Hay Whitney.
"APHRODITE'S guest list over the years reads like a "Who's Who" in the worlds of government, business and entertainment with such luminaries as Fred Astaire, Sir Laurence Olivier, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Henry Ford II, FDR advisor Harry Hopkins and Nelson Rockefeller aboard for summer day cruises down Long Island Sound.
APHRODITE also once served as the site for a birthday party for Shirley Temple.
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