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The Spaulding Marine Center, (formally the Spaulding Wooden Boat Center), in Sausalito, California, is a living museum where one can go back in time to experience the days when craftsmen and sailors used traditional skills to build, sail or row classic wooden boats on San Francisco Bay . The center offers tours, classes and special events, as ...
Founded in 1927, the Saint Francis Yacht Club (StFYC) was formed when some of the members of the San Francisco Yacht Club decided to move their clubhouse from Sausalito to Belvedere, California to escape the rapidly growing commercial activity of Sausalito. This was prior to the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, and travel to Marin County ...
Currach on the shore in Inishbofin, Galway. A number of wooden boats in a tidal harbour near Carna, Galway. A currach ( Irish: curach [ˈkʊɾˠəx]) is a type of Irish boat with a wooden frame, over which animal skins or hides were once stretched, though now canvas is more usual. It is sometimes anglicised as "curragh".
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Abner Green, an unsociable elderly former sea-captain, lives in an old house and trailer by the shores of San Francisco, and is largely shunned and ridiculed by the locals. He is rebuilding an old sailing sloop, with dreams to sail far away from "troublesome" society and be alone.
Gary Mull (September 27, 1937 – July 14, 1993) [1] was an American yacht designer who created many popular fiberglass sailboats .
Kneass Boat Works. Kneass Boat Works was a shipbuilding company in San Francisco, California. To support the World War 2 demand for ships, Kneass Boat Works built: US Navy Sub chasers, US Army barges and tugboats. Kneass Boat Works was started by California native George Washington Kneass (1859–1923) in 1868, at 22 Mission Street, San ...
DAVID SHARP. July 27, 2024 at 3:43 PM. BATH, Maine (AP) — With an Irish flag overhead and bagpipes playing, three sisters of an Irish-born recipient of the Navy Cross christened a warship ...