Meriah is a Francis Herreshoff Mobjack ketch (1935) built in Victoria BC by George Bruigom in 1969. She has a strip plank red cedar hull with extra sheer suggested by Bill Garden who frequently attended to view the project. Most of her interior woodwork came from parts of the Pacific coastal steamship, “Cardina”. Meriah recently went through a significant refit with Abernethy & Gaudin of Brentwood Bay.
Meriah began her cruising life sailing every year from our southern Islands all the way up the Pacific coast to Alaska and return. She was well known all up and down the coast. Capt. Larry discovered her when he arrived from the East Coast in 1986 and began 15 years of introducing British Columbia locals, visitors and students to the adventure of sailing the Salish Sea. When Larry sold the business in 2001 it was time for a new adventure and so with his wife, Nicky, and 4 year old daughter, Victoria, Meriah headed out for an eight year voyage down through the Panama Canal and all the way up and down the East Coast of North America spending a lot of time in the Bahamas. Now back in the Pacific Northwest we have finally returned to one of our favourite destinations… Port Townsend and the Wooden Boat Festival!
