100-year-old ship on lawn riles wealthy area

By Phoebe Unterman, NBCLosAngeles.com

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- Dennis Holland still has the 1929 Ford Model A he drove to high school half a century ago.

He houses his tool collectionin a barn built that same year on a buffalo ranch in Irvine. He took it apart, brought it to his home in NewportBeach, and reassembledit in his yard.

I just like old things, Holland, 66,said.

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One such thing is the Shawnee. The 72-foot, ketch-style wooden ship, wedged between the barn andHolland's ranch-style home, is the latest in a lifetimes worth of restoration projects.

But the ships presence has alienated some of his neighbors, who say -- privately andnot for attribution-- thata lumbering boat has no place in the neighorbood.The median home price in Newport Beach is over$1 million.

The neighborstook their concerns to the city and now Holland is facing a court order requiring him to remove the ship by the end of April or face fines of up to $1,000 a day or jail time, said Newport Beach Deputy City Atty. Kyle Rowen.

We hope Mr. Holland will comply with the courts orders and move the boat to a suitable location, Rowen said.

To Holland though, the boats massive frame isnt an eyesoreit evokes memories from an almost 60-year relationship with the boat.

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100-year-old ship on lawn riles wealthy area