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Steinbeck's Western Flyer still floating (almost)

Stickers - 2-18-2013 at 01:48 PM

Great article in today's L.A. Times about his famous "Sea of Cortez" boat that might be coming back to California.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-steinbeck-boat-20130...



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[Edited on 2-18-2013 by BajaNomad]

BajaNomad - 2-18-2013 at 01:59 PM

Good luck to them. It certainly won't be easy based upon my experience with the people trying to "save" the SS Catalina. Similar circumstances in many ways.

Stickers - 2-18-2013 at 02:05 PM

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Originally posted by BajaNomad
Good luck to them. It certainly won't be easy based upon my experience with the people trying to "save" the SS Catalina. Similar circumstances in many ways.


But at least they can take this one out of the water for restoration.

bacquito - 2-18-2013 at 04:45 PM

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Originally posted by Stickers
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Originally posted by BajaNomad
Good luck to them. It certainly won't be easy based upon my experience with the people trying to "save" the SS Catalina. Similar circumstances in many ways.


But at least they can take this one out of the water for restoration.


Do you think they can??
Really interesting read, than ks

BajaNomad - 2-18-2013 at 05:25 PM

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Originally posted by Stickers
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Originally posted by BajaNomad
Good luck to them. It certainly won't be easy based upon my experience with the people trying to "save" the SS Catalina. Similar circumstances in many ways.


But at least they can take this one out of the water for restoration.


As indicated... similar circumstances:



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BajaNomad - 2-18-2013 at 05:29 PM

Sunk in September, 2012:

http://www.goskagit.com/all_access/exhumed-from-the-deep/art...

http://usresponserestoration.wordpress.com/2012/11/28/the-we...


Then again, in January 2013:

http://expeditionyachtsales.com/2013/01/20/saga-of-the-fv-we...

http://www.thecalifornian.com/article/20130126/OPINION01/301...

monoloco - 2-18-2013 at 05:44 PM

"In 1940, nobody in Monterey's then-vast fishing fleet wanted to rent Steinbeck or Ricketts a boat. Ricketts was an eccentric who predicted — correctly — that overfishing would kill the sardine business. Steinbeck was famous, but books such as "The Grapes of Wrath" were banned in Salinas."

Stickers - 2-18-2013 at 05:53 PM

That boat needs to be back in Monterey Harbor.

“In addition to being famous for literary reasons, the boat is a good example of the technology of the Puget Sound seine boats of that time,” he said. “It would be like having (Jack) Kerouac’s car from ‘On the Road.’ I mean, it’s a vessel that was the platform for famous literary history. It’s probably the best-known boat in American nonfiction literature.”

While the Monterey newspaper characterized the group as “perhaps the strangest crew ever assigned aboard a local work boat,” Steinbeck and company managed to sample the marine life while carousing their way down the coast of Baja California into the Gulf of California and back again.