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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...
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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...
