Built on the shores of the Delaware Bay in 1925, Sequoia is a Trumpy-designed, 104-foot wooden motor yacht that has hosted eight sitting U.S. presidents, and still sails on the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay. Drawing on photographs, plus government documents, actual experience, and interviews with many crew members, Giles Kelly has compiled a book with an "upstairs, downstairs" flavor chronicling forty-six years of Sequoia’s government service.