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“At the age of 18, I confessed that I really would love to do wooden boat building. I was trained by people like John Linderman and Halden Chase. Because of that, I was able to start a school in Sausalito, the Arquez school. The minute I got the job people said...
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“When we were looking for a boat to buy, Stan Honey said that before you buy a wooden boat, you’ve got to talk to this guy Wayne Heddle. And so I called up Wayne. He said David Crosby doesn’t want to sell the boat. His parents, his wife, and his accountant...
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“This brings us to Freda, many people said that I could restore Freda. They felt confident, including Harold Sommers. What we did initially. We pulled off some planks, and I realized that the frames, the deck and even the cabin were shot. I broke a piece off...
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“In 1997. she was advertised in Wooden Boat Magazine as a yacht ready to cross oceans. She was a New Rochelle, and, she smelled awful. She looked decrepit, but she had beautiful Sparkman and Stephens lines. And I thought, Okay, we fixed up that old tub 35 years...
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“I grew up in Eckley, on the Carquinaz Straits. Our family boat was a pumpkin seed design sloop, gaff rigged from 1906. I love the smell of a wooden boat and the feel always spoke to me. In 2004, I got Sequester a 1940 Tahiti catch built by the Sea Scouts in...
