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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 ...
Stevens Brothers Boat Builders and Designers company (Stevens Bros.), an American boat designer, began in the back yard of brothers Theodore (Thod, 1882–1933) and Robert (Roy, 1884–1953) Stevens. Their boatbuilding firm in Stockton, California operated from 1902 to 1987.
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.
The yard started building high-spec tenders for the owners of luxurious steamships which were launched further up the River Clyde. 1898 First large steam-powered boat, the 59 ft (18 m) wooden screw-driven schooner, Ernani. 1901 Alexander starts buying shore property in Sandbank to stop other boat yards being built. 1905
Pages in category "Yacht clubs in California" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... OCSC Sailing; S. St. Francis Yacht Club;
YT 254, Menatonon (YTB-254) tugboat built by Stone Boat Yard in 1944 W. F. Stone & Son in 1917, on Dennison Street, Oakland building four wooden ships; the three ships are the 117-foot (36 m) schooners Mauno, Motau and Murua for Burmes-Philip Co. W. F. Stone & Son USS Lanikai at Pearl Harbor, in 1918, as the USS Hermes The schooner Golden State built in 1913 The Northern Light en route to ...
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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