Private ownership (1977–present)

On 18 May 1977 Thomas Malloy bought Sequoia from the government for $286,000. Within three months he sold her on, for $355,000, to partners headed by…

After a sale to the Ocean Learning Institute of Palm Beach in March 1980, the Presidential Yacht Trust acquired Sequoia for about $1.1 million later t…

In August 1982, according to the Wikipedia article on the yacht, Anne Gorsuch Burford, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, told eight Reagan…

The Presidential Yacht Trust took Sequoia around the country in 1984, on a tour that lasted eight months and covered some 6,000 miles.

Freshly restored at a cost of about $2 million, Sequoia passed in review in New York Harbor during the International Naval Review marking the centenni…

In May 1987 Vice President George H. W. Bush entertained Yang Shangkun — who became President of China the following year — aboard Sequoia.

Sequoia was added to the National Register of Historic Places on 23 December 1987 and designated a National Historic Landmark in March 1988.

On 17 October 2000 Bill Clinton attended an event aboard Sequoia, becoming the tenth U.S. president to set foot on the yacht.

On 23 April 2003 the Navy Museum at the Washington Navy Yard hosted a reunion of former Sequoia crew members, whose families were taken for a cruise o…

On 11 October 2005 wounded soldiers and their families cruised aboard Sequoia to Mount Vernon, Virginia, where they joined General Peter Pace, Chairma…

In October 2016 FE Partners acquired Sequoia for $7.8 million after litigation with her previous owner, and began planning a full restoration.

After a barge move from Deltaville, Virginia, to Cambridge, Maryland, in September 2019, Sequoia was taken to Belfast, Maine, in October 2019 for rest…

In October 2023 Sequoia was moved back to Cambridge, Maryland, for a renovation expected to take about five years and cost some $15 million, carried o…