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“Evening Star has a soft spot in my heart because I used to sail it in San Diego when it was the queen of the fleet. I found it here in the estuary. I ended up buying the boat and told him I would find somebody to continue with it. Fellow bought it, got...
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“My dad was a sailor. We had the Bird Boat about 30 years. Sunda was my second boat and when I saw her, the stern captured your breath practically, it was just like the boat built by my great grandfather, the first Marconi rigged boat on the West Coast. I had...
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“The C A Thayer was built by Ben Dixon in 1894. She was originally designed to carry lumber from Port Blakely, Washington, down to San Francisco. When vessels like the Thayer were built, it was a very, very efficient process. I mean, she was built in something...
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“I’ve always been on Brigadoon. I think the story is that the first time I was on the boat, I was a month old, swinging in a hammock down below. I’ve always just been enthralled with the boat I’ve been crewing since I was a young teenager and...
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“We were over in San Rafael and saw this schooner rig from the road. We stopped and went down and looked at it. And that’s where Brigadoon was. It’s L Francis Herreshoff’s first design. That wasn’t the boat we were looking for because it was a...
