Glorybe was built in 1914 in a boatyard on Vashon Island owned by Charlie Taylor and Lewis Lee Grandy, the latter having started as an apprentice to Taylor. The yard was primarily turning out sailboats at the time, but also turned out a new style of power boat which was a precursor to the Lake Union Dreamboat and the Blanchard raised deck cruisers. Two of Grandy’s sons (Earl and Bill) went on to establish “Grandy Boatworks” on Seattle’s Lake Union in 1927. There were four boats like GLORYBE built by the Taylor-Grandy yard. In January 2002 GLORYBE was nearly destroyed in a marina fire where she was moored. She was restored as part of the curriculum of the Marine Carpentry program at Seattle Central Community College where the owner was a student. She relaunched in June 2005.
