Jacqueline Kennedy, Aristotle Onassis, and Franklin Roosevelt Jr. aboard Onassis’s yacht, the *Christina O,* in 1963.

Rocking the Boat

The Christina O, Aristotle Onassis’s yacht, is remembered as Jackie O’s fabulous hangout. In reality, the former First Lady gave the shabby boat the air of glamour

By Oline Eaton

There was a moment aboard the Christina O that felt almost mystical. A moment wherein time collapsed, and my hand lay on the blue lapis fireplace in what I would call a den but which I’m sure they have far fancier names for on yachts. And I thought to myself, Jackie surely once put her hand here.

I don’t know if that’s true, but that was the story I told myself then. That’s what I wanted to believe. That in that moment, I stood where she once was.