Design

Is This America's Most Adorable Parklet?

A Seattle donut shop turned a real 1940s sailboat into public space.
Seattle's Mighty-O Parklet now sails on a sea of asphalt. Friends of the Mighty-O Parklet

She was built in 1946 by an unknown craftsperson in Edmonds, Washington, measures 24 feet and 3 inches on deck, and has an outside ballast of 1,540 pounds.

She’s also Seattle’s newest place to plop your rump—the Endurance, a parklet made from a hacked wooden sailboat.