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Seventeen months later the ship went for a first sail in 20 knot winds off San Diego. In 1994, with a crew of six, the ship sailed north for Bellingham, WA, and then cruised the San Juan Islands, participated in Tall Ships events, raced with schooners up the British Columbia coast and one trip to Alaska. [citation needed]
The design was built by Nordic Yachts in Bellingham, Washington, United States between 1980 and 1989, with 39 examples built. A luxury tax imposed in the US in 1991 caused the shut-down of the company. [1] [3] [4] Gary Nordvedt, the founder of Nordic Yachts established Norstar Yachts with his brother Steve, in Bellingham as a powerboat builder ...
[2] [5] This made her one of the last three sail-powered pilot vessels in the United States, along with the Boston-based schooner Roseway, which was retired sometime between 1971 and 1973, [6] and Adventuress, also once a San Francisco pilot boat, which was retired in 1952, and is also a registered National Historic Landmark.
Adventuress was built for John Borden at the Rice Brothers' yard in East Boothbay, Maine, and was designed by B.B. Crowninshield.Borden intended to sail to Alaska to catch a bowhead whale for the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
The Thunderbird class sailboat was designed in 1958 by Seattle Washington naval architect Ben Seaborn, [1] in response to a request from the Douglas Fir Plywood Association (now APA - The Engineered Wood Association) of Tacoma, Washington for design proposals for a sailboat that would "... be both a racing and cruising boat; provide sleeping accommodations for four crew; be capable of being ...
The Golden Rule was rebuilt between 2010 and 2015 by a team led by Veterans For Peace.It has since sailed up and down the West Coast of the US, to Hawai’i and back. Vets for Peace began a project in September 2022 to sail a "Great Loop" from Minnesota down the Mississippi to the Gulf, up the east coast and through the Erie Canal , through the Great Lakes, to end in Chicago in September 2023. .
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In 1970, Jay Benford gave Perry his first job as a yacht designer. Benford was promoting ferro-cement boats in Seattle. Soon, Perry had his first published design, a 47-foot ketch in National Fisherman. Boatbuilder John Edwards who would found Hans Christian Yachts sent a letter to Perry in response to the 47-foot ketch. Eventually, this ...