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Built: by Winninghoff Boats, Rowley, MA. Length: 24'

The second Mytilus, built in 1990, is a welded aluminum vessel used by the WHOI Coastal Research Center.  Before the vessel arrived at Woods Hole, the CRC had a contest to select a name for the boat.  Maggie Rioux and Michael Moore won the contest.  Mytilus is a genus name for the blue mussel.