North-American writer Ernest Hemingway saw people's relationship with the sea as very important. Ernest's fishing boat 'El Pilar' is on display in Cojimar, which is used as the setting his Nobel prize winning novel, 'The Old Man and the Sea'
He made the ship his own in 1934, and became its captain
The boat was built by Brooklyn's Boston Wheeler Brothers
The 11.86 meter long and 3.65 meter wide ship is made of mahogany and oak, and has a sea motor, It is a Chrysler 110HP model, has a smaller back-up motor in case of a break down.
