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Maggie Mae, a 43-foot yacht, was being towed to the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center for the upcoming 2015 Progressive Insurance New England Boat Show when it got stuck in a 6-foot-high snowbank at Summer and Lincoln streets on Wednesday afternoon.

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BOSTON — By now, Boston residents must feel like they're encased in a city of ice. And all they can do is wait for the annual spring warmup to help thaw out the Hub, which has been walloped by consecutive, crippling snowstorms over the past couple of weeks.

But not to worry: The 43-foot yacht that beached at the corner of Lincoln and Summer streets on Wednesday afternoon wasn't there for the Great Flood that's expected once the Great Meltdown finally occurs.

Rather, the boat was a casualty of the snow that has turned Boston, Massachusetts, into Boston, Alaska, in recent weeks. The vessel was being towed on a flatbed trailer when it got wedged in a snowbank as high as a 6-foot-tall man.

"It's not stuck anymore," said Tony Fazio, a spokesman for Himmelrich PR, the group handling press for next week's boat show at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.

Fazio explained that the drama began around 1:30 p.m., when the boat-vs-snowbank showdown caused traffic problems and turned some heads. Quite a few heads, actually. This being the digital age, images of Maggie Mae, as the yacht is known, quickly found their way onto Twitter, Instagram and other social media sites.

"It blocked traffic for a little while," Fazio said, noting that the scene was all clear by late afternoon.

Maggie Mae is among the roughly 800 watercraft currently being loaded into the convention center for the 2015 Progressive Insurance New England Boat Show, which runs from Feb. 14-22.

Unfortunately for boat show organizers, the show's move-in period coincides with the worst winter weather Boston has experienced in years.

HERE'S JUST ONE of many images of "the boat" that dominated social media chatter in Boston earlier today ...

