Built in 1926 and originally named “Helen,” Schooner Lavengro is a 2/3rds scale yacht built on the lines of the Biloxi shrimp and oyster schooners of the early 1900s. During WWII she was loaned to the US Coast Guard Station in Biloxi, where she was used for sail training and as a patrol vessel. From the 1950s onward, she changed …
Destiny
This ship was a locale for Hollywood elite to gather and party together. Humphrey Bogart skippered this schooner as a Transpacific Judges’ boat in the 1936 Transpacific Yacht Race from Santa Monica Light to Diamond Head Light; 2210 nautical miles. Howard Hughes secretly married actress Terri Moore on board. Hughes had the boat stripped, her masts shortened, and rebuilt her …
Veteran
BACKGROUND: The Skansie purse seiner Veteran, launched in 1926, is a beautifully restored sample of one of the most recognized and significant vessel designs to have originated from Gig Harbor. One of over 100 purse seiners constructed during the 1920s and 1930s at the Skansie Ship Building Company, Veteran and her sister ships were widely recognized as the state-of-the-art purse …
Sea Witch
Sea Witch is a well-known classic wooden boat in the Pacific Northwest. Stories of Sea Witch have been in print for decades in the PNW; a Port Townsend original she has been featured in newspaper articles, magazine covers, Jo Bailey’s gunkholing guides, and previous festivals by her former owners. The current owners were bewitched by her in the summer of …
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