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Albert J. Goddard, who owned and gave name to steamboat A. J. Goddard, was a Seattle businessman who owned a foundry and had expertise in fabrication and steam engineering. [1] When the Klondike Gold Rush started he saw an opportunity to make a profit by transporting prospectors. [2] He intended to supply them with a river boat on upper Yukon ...
March 19, 1976. (1976-03-19) (aged 84) Seattle, Washington, U.S. George Yeoman Pocock (March 23, 1891 – March 19, 1976) was a leading designer and builder of racing shells in the 20th century. Pocock-built shells began to win U.S. Intercollegiate Rowing Association championships in 1923. [1] He achieved international recognition by providing ...
Founder George Pocock grew up in England, where his father was the head boat builder for prestigious Eton College at Windsor at the turn of the century. As a young man, George raced single shells on the famed River Thames. At one of these races he won £50. With the money purchased passage for himself and his brother, Dick, on a cattle boat ...
Coin ceremony. The coin ceremony is an event which takes place at the keel laying, in the early stages of a ship's construction. In it, the shipbuilders place one or two coins under the keel block of the new ship to bless the ship and as a symbol of good fortune. [ 1][ 2] The coins are not normally fixed in place and are often retrieved when ...
Donald Joel Aronow (March 3, 1927 – February 3, 1987) was an American designer, builder, and racer of Formula, Donzi, Magnum Marine, Cary, and Cigarette Racing Team speedboats. Aronow built speedboats for the Shah of Iran, Charles Keating, Robert Vesco, Malcolm Forbes, George H. W. Bush, and Lyndon B. Johnson.
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 ...
Gar Wood returns the Harmsworth Trophy to the United States in 1920. Garfield Arthur " Gar " Wood (December 4, 1880 – June 19, 1971) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, and championship motorboat builder and racer who held the world water speed record on several occasions. He was the first man to travel over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h ...
Huckins Yacht Corporation is one of the oldest boat builders in the United States. The company is located on the Ortega River in Jacksonville, Florida, and is run by its third-generation owners, Cindy and Buddy Purcell. Huckins manufactures custom yachts ranging from 40 to 90 feet that combine classic design and traditional workmanship with ...