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The Spaulding Marine Center in Sausalito (2007) The working boatyard at Spaulding Marine Center Spaulding boatyard at night. The Spaulding Marine Center, (formally the Spaulding Wooden Boat Center), in Sausalito, California, is a living museum where one can go back in time to experience the days when craftsmen and sailors used traditional skills to build, sail or row classic wooden boats on ...
104-foot Air Rescue Boat, 1943. Even before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Stephens Bros. was building vessels for the U.S. government. The Navy’s Bureau of Ships and the U.S Coast Guard contracted the company to build wooden minesweepers that were used to remove magnetic mines or to protect slower ships from submarine torpedo attacks. At 136 ...
The all-sea trip around Cape Horn to California by standard sailing vessels typically took about 200 days (about 6.5 months) and covered 16,000–18,000 miles (26,000–29,000 km). Some trips took almost a year. The all-sea route enabled enterprising emigrants to ship baggage and supplies they hoped to sell in California for gold dust.
Aegean Yacht; Albin Marine; Alexander Stephen and Sons; Alloy Yachts; Aloha Yachts; Alsberg Brothers Boatworks; Amel Yachts; Archambault Boats; Ariel Patterson
California: San Francisco: San Francisco Maritime National Park Association, USS Pampanito: Y California: San Francisco: National Liberty Ship Memorial: California: San Pedro: Los Angeles Maritime Museum: California: Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Maritime Museum: Y California: Sausalito: Spaulding Wooden Boat Center: California: Vallejo
Steam schooner Wapama Wapama in 2005 Esther Johnson, Australian waters as U.S. Army X-9 Wreck of a lumber schooner, San Francisco, CA. Soon steam schooners (wooden but powered) replaced the small two-masters in the dog-hole trade and larger schooners, such as the still existing C.A. Thayer and the Wawona, were built for longer voyages and bigger cargo.
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The penultimate wooden-built clipper before Robert Steele's yard changed to composite construction, Serica was the first tea clipper home in 1864 and only beaten by Fiery Cross in 1865 because no tug was available. Three Brothers (clipper) 1862 United States (New York, NY) Scrapped in 1899 331.0 ft (100.9 m)