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Steinbeck's Western Flyer still floating (almost)
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]
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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.
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
– Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
We know we must go back if we live, and we don`t know why.
– John Steinbeck, Log from the Sea of Cortez
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| Quote: | 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.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Stickers
| Quote: | 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
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Stickers
| Quote: | 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:
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
– Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
We know we must go back if we live, and we don`t know why.
– John Steinbeck, Log from the Sea of Cortez
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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...
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
– Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
We know we must go back if we live, and we don`t know why.
– John Steinbeck, Log from the Sea of Cortez
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"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."
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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.
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