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Western Flyer from "Log from the Sea of Cortez" flies again.

Santiago - 11-4-2023 at 04:39 AM

Feel good story here.

AKgringo - 11-4-2023 at 07:22 AM

That link doesn't work for me.

Cancamo - 11-4-2023 at 07:58 AM


Try:

latimes.com/california/story/2023-11-03/the-quest-to-return-john-steinbeck-sardine-boat-to-monterey

Great stuff.

pacificobob - 11-4-2023 at 08:41 AM

An excellent feel good story indeed. So many grand old wooden boats meet less fortunate fates. Alaska has many. However some fall into the hands of passionate owners to be restored and maintained in Bristol condition. I have a friend in Ketchikan who has a 38 foot Monterey built fishing boat of similar vintage as western flyer. Not a day passes without some kind of work being done. Thanks for a great post.

StuckSucks - 11-4-2023 at 03:52 PM

Ahhh ... redundancy.

A $7-million dream: Steinbeck’s vintage sardine boat makes its modern debut

bill erhardt - 11-5-2023 at 05:39 AM

Quote: Originally posted by Santiago  
Feel good story here.


Santiago.....Great story. Made my day.

Marc - 11-5-2023 at 08:28 AM

I am from Northern California and Steinbeck country. His stories (Cannery Row, East of Eden, Of Mice and Men, Tortilla Flat,The Red Pony, The Pearl, are set in the Monterey and King City area are familiar to me. As a child my family would visit friends in Monterey and Seaside. That is how I remember it in the 1940’s. A working town and not the tourist trap it is today.
I read The Log From The sea of Cortez while sitting on the beach at Santispac in 1994. Reading his accounts going north from Cabo I could visualize most of what he wrote. The book was great. I may read it again.

KurtG - 11-6-2023 at 02:02 PM

Quote: Originally posted by Marc  
I am from Northern California and Steinbeck country. His stories (Cannery Row, East of Eden, Of Mice and Men, Tortilla Flat,The Red Pony, The Pearl, are set in the Monterey and King City area are familiar to me. As a child my family would visit friends in Monterey and Seaside. That is how I remember it in the 1940’s. A working town and not the tourist trap it is today.
I read The Log From The sea of Cortez while sitting on the beach at Santispac in 1994. Reading his accounts going north from Cabo I could visualize most of what he wrote. The book was great. I may read it again.

For another perspective read "With Steinbeck In The Sea Of Cortez" by Sparky Enea. A fun read

I arrived in Monterey in 1962 when it was transitioning from a working class town to mostly tourism. There were still two canneries working but the Row had stated to develop. I was 18 and had just escaped from Northern Minnesota and thought I had found paradise.