[
 {
  "id": "master-mariners",
  "name": "Master Mariners Benevolent Association",
  "sort": "Master Mariners Benevolent Association",
  "sub": "San Francisco Bay — racing since 1867",
  "life": "1867 – present; regatta revived 1965",
  "place": "San Francisco Bay",
  "start": 1867,
  "regions": [
   "sf-bay"
  ],
  "eras": [
   "working-sail",
   "revival"
  ],
  "summary": "The oldest continuous thread in Bay yachting, and the reason this atlas exists: its member fleet is a working index of a century and a half of design and construction.",
  "essay": [
   "It began as a workboat race. On the Fourth of July 1867 the Boatmen's Protective Association of San Francisco organised a race between coastal schooners and sailing scows — real cargo craft, crewed by the men who worked them, running from Goat Island toward Hunter's Point and Oakland Creek and finishing near Telegraph Hill, where thousands watched. The winners got a silk banner with a gamecock on it.",
   "It was repeated in 1868 and 1869, and the organising body was reorganised under the name Master Mariners Benevolent Association. The regatta ceased in 1878, came back sporadically through the 1880s and 90s, and faded as engines replaced sail in the working fleet.",
   "It was revived in 1965 to mark National Maritime Day, and has run every year since — but with a changed cast. The scows and coasting schooners were gone; what turned out instead were traditional and classic pleasure yachts. That is the fleet the Association carries today: eighty to a hundred boats on Memorial Day weekend, across a dozen or more classes."
  ],
  "facts": [
   [
    "Origin",
    "The Boatmen's Protective Association of San Francisco, Fourth of July 1867"
   ],
   [
    "Original course",
    "Goat Island toward Hunter's Point and Oakland Creek, finishing near Telegraph Hill"
   ],
   [
    "Lapse",
    "Regatta ceased 1878; sporadic through the 1880s–90s"
   ],
   [
    "Revival",
    "1965, for National Maritime Day; annual since"
   ],
   [
    "Modern events",
    "Master Mariners Regatta each Memorial Day weekend; post-race gathering at Encinal Yacht Club; an annual Wooden Boat Show at Corinthian Yacht Club, Tiburon"
   ],
   [
    "Membership",
    "Boat-owner members and Friends of the Master Mariners"
   ]
  ],
  "works": [],
  "links": {
   "designers": [],
   "builders": [
    "stone-boat-yard",
    "nunes-brothers",
    "spaulding-boatworks"
   ],
   "classes": [
    "bird",
    "bear",
    "farallone-clipper",
    "scow-schooner"
   ],
   "associations": [
    "sf-maritime-nhp",
    "spaulding-marine-center"
   ]
  },
  "flags": [
   "No source gives an exact year for the renaming from Boatmen's Protective Association to Master Mariners Benevolent Association beyond 'after 1869'."
  ],
  "sources": [
   {
    "t": "About — San Francisco Bay Master Mariners",
    "u": "https://www.sfmastermariners.org/about"
   },
   {
    "t": "Master Mariners Wooden Boat Show — Cruising World",
    "u": "https://www.cruisingworld.com/how/master-mariners-wooden-boat-show-bit-bay-history/"
   },
   {
    "t": "Yachting on the Bay, 1859 to 2012 — San Francisco Maritime NHP",
    "u": "https://home.nps.gov/safr/learn/historyculture/yachting-on-the-bay-1859-to-2012.htm"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "spaulding-marine-center",
  "name": "Spaulding Marine Center",
  "sort": "Spaulding Marine Center",
  "sub": "600 Gate Five Road, Sausalito",
  "life": "yard from 1951; nonprofit from c. 2002",
  "place": "Sausalito, California",
  "start": 1951,
  "regions": [
   "sf-bay"
  ],
  "eras": [
   "postwar",
   "revival"
  ],
  "summary": "Myron Spaulding's yard, left in charitable trust and now a nonprofit living museum, working boatyard and boatbuilding school in one.",
  "facts": [
   [
    "School",
    "Arques School of Traditional Boatbuilding — founded 1996 by Bob Darr, housed here since 2007"
   ],
   [
    "Vessels",
    "Associated with Freda (1885) and Polaris"
   ],
   [
    "Event",
    "The Sausalito Boat Show, first held 13–15 October 2023 at Clipper Yacht Harbor"
   ]
  ],
  "works": [],
  "links": {
   "designers": [
    "spaulding-myron"
   ],
   "builders": [
    "spaulding-boatworks",
    "arques"
   ],
   "classes": [],
   "associations": [
    "master-mariners"
   ]
  },
  "flags": [
   "'The Sausalito Wooden Boat Show' is ambiguous in casual usage. It may mean the Master Mariners Wooden Boat Show at Corinthian YC in Tiburon, or the newer Sausalito Boat Show run by Spaulding since 2023. No source unifies them."
  ],
  "sources": [
   {
    "t": "Spaulding Marine Center",
    "u": "https://www.spauldingcenter.org/myron-spaulding"
   },
   {
    "t": "The Sausalito Boat Show — Spaulding Marine Center",
    "u": "https://www.spauldingcenter.org/events/the-sausalito-boat-show"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "sf-maritime-nhp",
  "name": "San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park",
  "sort": "San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park",
  "sub": "Aquatic Park and Hyde Street Pier",
  "life": "established 1988",
  "place": "San Francisco, California",
  "start": 1988,
  "regions": [
   "sf-bay"
  ],
  "eras": [
   "revival"
  ],
  "summary": "The institutional memory of Bay maritime history: the Hyde Street Pier fleet, a small-craft collection that includes the first Bear boat, and the archives that hold Myron Spaulding's designs.",
  "facts": [
   [
    "Established",
    "1988, National Park Service; about 50 acres centred on Aquatic Park Cove"
   ],
   [
    "Small craft",
    "Merry Bear (1931, Nunes) and Mab (1937 National One-Design by William Crosby, built by Palo Alto Boat Works)"
   ],
   [
    "Fleet",
    "Includes Alma (1891), the last Bay scow schooner"
   ],
   [
    "Archives",
    "Holds the Myron Spaulding design collection"
   ],
   [
    "Boat shop",
    "Restored the 1936 Sausalito power boat Eva B., relaunched at Hyde Street Pier 11 April 2015"
   ]
  ],
  "works": [],
  "links": {
   "designers": [
    "spaulding-myron",
    "nunes-ernest"
   ],
   "builders": [
    "nunes-brothers",
    "anderson-cristofani"
   ],
   "classes": [
    "bear",
    "scow-schooner",
    "monterey-clipper"
   ],
   "associations": [
    "master-mariners"
   ]
  },
  "flags": [],
  "sources": [
   {
    "t": "San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park — NPS",
    "u": "https://www.nps.gov/safr/index.htm"
   },
   {
    "t": "Small Craft Collection — NPS",
    "u": "https://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/historyculture/small-craft.htm"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "sfyc",
  "name": "San Francisco Yacht Club",
  "sort": "San Francisco Yacht Club",
  "sub": "Belvedere Cove, Tiburon",
  "life": "founded 1869",
  "place": "San Francisco Bay",
  "start": 1869,
  "regions": [
   "sf-bay"
  ],
  "eras": [
   "working-sail",
   "gilded-age",
   "between-wars",
   "postwar",
   "revival"
  ],
  "summary": "The first yacht club west of the Mississippi, and a club whose several moves track the Bay's changing waterfront.",
  "facts": [
   [
    "Founded",
    "Summer 1869; incorporated 1873; bylaws modelled on the New York Yacht Club; 115 members by October 1869"
   ],
   [
    "Moves",
    "To Sausalito 1878; clubhouse burnt 1897 with most trophies and records; rebuilt 1898 (now the Trident restaurant); to Belvedere Cove 1926–27; new clubhouse 1934"
   ],
   [
    "Knarr",
    "Hosts the International Knarr Championship when it comes to San Francisco"
   ]
  ],
  "works": [],
  "links": {
   "designers": [
    "nunes-ernest"
   ],
   "builders": [],
   "classes": [
    "bear",
    "knarr"
   ],
   "associations": [
    "master-mariners"
   ]
  },
  "flags": [],
  "sources": [
   {
    "t": "History — San Francisco Yacht Club",
    "u": "https://www.sfyc.org/history"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "stfyc",
  "name": "St. Francis Yacht Club",
  "sort": "St. Francis Yacht Club",
  "sub": "The Marina, San Francisco",
  "life": "founded 1927",
  "place": "San Francisco, California",
  "start": 1927,
  "regions": [
   "sf-bay"
  ],
  "eras": [
   "between-wars",
   "postwar",
   "fiberglass",
   "revival"
  ],
  "summary": "Founded by members who broke away from the San Francisco Yacht Club over its Sausalito troubles, on fill created for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition.",
  "facts": [
   [
    "Founded",
    "6 May 1927, by John Punnett, Jack Johnson and Hart Weaver"
   ],
   [
    "Clubhouse",
    "Original by the architect Willis Polk; rebuilt after fire and earthquake"
   ],
   [
    "Tinsley Island",
    "Purchased 1958 for $10,750"
   ],
   [
    "Regatta",
    "The St. Francis Perpetual Trophy Regatta, launched 1964, became the Rolex Big Boat Series"
   ]
  ],
  "works": [],
  "links": {
   "designers": [],
   "builders": [],
   "classes": [
    "iod",
    "metre-classes"
   ],
   "associations": [
    "sfyc"
   ]
  },
  "flags": [],
  "sources": [
   {
    "t": "History — St. Francis Yacht Club",
    "u": "https://www.stfyc.com/history"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "corinthian-yc",
  "name": "Corinthian Yacht Club",
  "sort": "Corinthian Yacht Club",
  "sub": "Tiburon",
  "life": "founded 1886",
  "place": "Tiburon, California",
  "start": 1886,
  "regions": [
   "sf-bay"
  ],
  "eras": [
   "gilded-age",
   "between-wars",
   "postwar",
   "revival"
  ],
  "summary": "Founded in 1886 by amateur sailors — 'Corinthian' in the original sense — and host of the Master Mariners Wooden Boat Show.",
  "facts": [
   [
    "Founded",
    "1886"
   ],
   [
    "Traditions",
    "Opening Day on the Bay, Blessing of the Fleet, Midwinter Races"
   ],
   [
    "1907",
    "Its sloop Discovery defended the Perpetual Challenge Cup against Southern California's Valkyrie, winning by more than 22 minutes over 14 miles"
   ]
  ],
  "works": [],
  "links": {
   "designers": [],
   "builders": [],
   "classes": [],
   "associations": [
    "master-mariners"
   ]
  },
  "flags": [],
  "sources": [
   {
    "t": "Corinthian Yacht Club — Maritime Heritage Project",
    "u": "https://www.maritimeheritage.org/news/corinthianYachtClub.html"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "encinal-yc",
  "name": "Encinal Yacht Club",
  "sort": "Encinal Yacht Club",
  "sub": "Alameda",
  "life": "founded 1890",
  "place": "Alameda, California",
  "start": 1890,
  "regions": [
   "sf-bay"
  ],
  "eras": [
   "gilded-age",
   "between-wars",
   "postwar",
   "revival"
  ],
  "summary": "The third-oldest club on the Bay, founded by residents of Alameda's Gold Coast, and host of the Master Mariners Regatta's post-race gathering.",
  "facts": [
   [
    "Founded",
    "1890"
   ],
   [
    "Original clubhouse",
    "At the end of a 1,000-ft pier off Grand Street, designed by Commodore Joseph A. Leonard; the Chronicle called it the finest of its type on the Pacific Coast"
   ],
   [
    "1950s",
    "Members sailed Stars, Snipes and El Toros, many built in the clubhouse workshops"
   ],
   [
    "Current site",
    "Marina Village, from 1960"
   ]
  ],
  "works": [],
  "links": {
   "designers": [],
   "builders": [],
   "classes": [
    "el-toro"
   ],
   "associations": [
    "master-mariners"
   ]
  },
  "flags": [],
  "sources": [
   {
    "t": "Club History — Encinal Yacht Club",
    "u": "https://www.encinal.org/club/history"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "richmond-yc",
  "name": "Richmond Yacht Club",
  "sort": "Richmond Yacht Club",
  "sub": "Brickyard Cove, Richmond",
  "life": "founded 1932",
  "place": "Richmond, California",
  "start": 1932,
  "regions": [
   "sf-bay"
  ],
  "eras": [
   "between-wars",
   "war-plywood",
   "postwar",
   "revival"
  ],
  "summary": "Twelve men in a tin shed on the Inner Harbour in 1932 — and, eight years later, the birthplace of the El Toro.",
  "facts": [
   [
    "Founded",
    "August 1932"
   ],
   [
    "War",
    "Clubhouse and harbour requisitioned by the Maritime Commission in 1942; the club used temporary quarters including the basement of Richmond City Hall"
   ],
   [
    "El Toro",
    "Redesigned from a Sabot pram in autumn 1940; the first boat built in a club night-school class"
   ],
   [
    "Site",
    "Permanent Brickyard Cove location from the 1960s"
   ]
  ],
  "works": [],
  "links": {
   "designers": [],
   "builders": [],
   "classes": [
    "el-toro"
   ],
   "associations": []
  },
  "flags": [],
  "sources": [
   {
    "t": "Our Story — Richmond Yacht Club",
    "u": "https://www.richmondyc.org/about/story"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "mystic-seaport",
  "name": "Mystic Seaport Museum",
  "sort": "Mystic Seaport Museum",
  "sub": "Mystic, Connecticut",
  "life": "founded 1929",
  "place": "Mystic, Connecticut",
  "start": 1929,
  "regions": [
   "new-england"
  ],
  "eras": [
   "between-wars",
   "revival"
  ],
  "summary": "Founded in 1929 as the Marine Historical Association, and now the single most important archive of American yacht design drawings — Rhodes, Burgess, Gielow, Garden, the Schocks and more.",
  "facts": [
   [
    "Founded",
    "1929, as the Marine Historical Association"
   ],
   [
    "Vessels",
    "Charles W. Morgan (the only surviving wooden whaler), Emma C. Berry (1866), Joseph Conrad (1882)"
   ],
   [
    "Ships Plans",
    "Holds the papers of Philip Rhodes, W. Starling Burgess, Henry J. Gielow, William Garden, Ralph Winslow and the Schocks"
   ]
  ],
  "works": [],
  "links": {
   "designers": [
    "rhodes-philip",
    "burgess-starling",
    "gielow-henry",
    "garden-william",
    "winslow-ralph",
    "schock-edson-b",
    "schock-edson-i"
   ],
   "builders": [],
   "classes": [],
   "associations": []
  },
  "flags": [],
  "sources": [
   {
    "t": "Mystic Seaport — Wikipedia",
    "u": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystic_Seaport"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "woodenboat",
  "name": "WoodenBoat",
  "sort": "WoodenBoat",
  "sub": "Brooklin, Maine — magazine and school",
  "life": "magazine founded September 1974",
  "place": "Brooklin, Maine",
  "start": 1974,
  "regions": [
   "new-england"
  ],
  "eras": [
   "revival"
  ],
  "summary": "Jon Wilson sold his Alden ketch to finance the first issue in 1974. The magazine, and the school that followed, are the institutional core of the wooden-boat revival.",
  "facts": [
   [
    "Founded",
    "September 1974, by Jon Wilson, financed by the sale of his Alden ketch"
   ],
   [
    "School",
    "The WoodenBoat School operates at Brooklin; its founding date is commonly given as 1981 but was not confirmed in this pass"
   ]
  ],
  "works": [],
  "links": {
   "designers": [
    "white-joel",
    "alden-john"
   ],
   "builders": [
    "brooklin-boat-yard"
   ],
   "classes": [],
   "associations": []
  },
  "flags": [
   "The WoodenBoat School's founding year is unconfirmed here."
  ],
  "sources": [
   {
    "t": "WoodenBoat — Wikipedia",
    "u": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WoodenBoat"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "nwswb",
  "name": "Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building & the Wooden Boat Festival",
  "sort": "Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building",
  "sub": "Port Townsend and Port Hadlock, Washington",
  "life": "school founded January 1981; festival from 1978",
  "place": "Port Townsend, Washington",
  "start": 1978,
  "regions": [
   "pnw"
  ],
  "eras": [
   "revival"
  ],
  "summary": "Port Townsend turned a declining Victorian port into the capital of American wooden boatbuilding — first with the festival, then with the school that trains the shipwrights.",
  "facts": [
   [
    "Festival",
    "The Wooden Boat Foundation dates to about 1978; the first Wooden Boat Festival drew over 2,000 people that year"
   ],
   [
    "School",
    "Founded January 1981 by Bob Prothero, Libby Palmer and Henry Yeaton at the Boat Haven; moved to Glen Cove 1983 and Port Hadlock 2000–2004; over 1,800 graduates"
   ],
   [
    "Maritime Center",
    "Northwest Maritime Center founded 1999; merger with the Wooden Boat Foundation announced March 2005"
   ]
  ],
  "works": [],
  "links": {
   "designers": [
    "monk-ed-sr",
    "garden-william"
   ],
   "builders": [],
   "classes": [],
   "associations": [
    "woodenboat"
   ]
  },
  "flags": [],
  "sources": [
   {
    "t": "Mission and History — Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building",
    "u": "https://nwswb.edu/about-us/missionandhistory/"
   },
   {
    "t": "Origin Story — Wooden Boat Festival",
    "u": "https://woodenboat.org/origin-story/"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "old-gaffers",
  "name": "Old Gaffers Association",
  "sort": "Old Gaffers Association",
  "sub": "Maldon, Essex — and international",
  "life": "founded 1963",
  "place": "United Kingdom, with international affiliates",
  "start": 1963,
  "regions": [
   "uk"
  ],
  "eras": [
   "revival"
  ],
  "summary": "Founded at the Little Ship Club in Maldon in 1963, out of a Solent gaff race of thirteen boats in 1959 — the organisational template for traditional-rig preservation worldwide.",
  "facts": [
   [
    "Founded",
    "1963, Little Ship Club, Maldon, Essex"
   ],
   [
    "Origin",
    "A 1959 Solent gaff race of thirteen boats"
   ],
   [
    "Scope",
    "Gaff, lug and spritsail rigs; affiliates in France, the Netherlands, Canada and Australia"
   ]
  ],
  "works": [],
  "links": {
   "designers": [
    "strange-albert",
    "griffiths-maurice"
   ],
   "builders": [],
   "classes": [
    "pilot-cutter",
    "canoe-yawl"
   ],
   "associations": [
    "master-mariners"
   ]
  },
  "flags": [],
  "sources": [
   {
    "t": "Old Gaffers Association — Wikipedia",
    "u": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Gaffers_Association"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "herreshoff-museum",
  "name": "Herreshoff Marine Museum",
  "sort": "Herreshoff Marine Museum",
  "sub": "Bristol, Rhode Island",
  "life": "founded 1971",
  "place": "Bristol, Rhode Island",
  "start": 1971,
  "regions": [
   "new-england"
  ],
  "eras": [
   "revival"
  ],
  "summary": "Founded by family members on the site of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, and home of the America's Cup Hall of Fame.",
  "facts": [
   [
    "Founded",
    "1971, by members of the Herreshoff family"
   ],
   [
    "Site",
    "The former HMCo yard at Bristol"
   ]
  ],
  "works": [],
  "links": {
   "designers": [
    "herreshoff-ng",
    "herreshoff-lf"
   ],
   "builders": [
    "herreshoff-mfg"
   ],
   "classes": [],
   "associations": []
  },
  "flags": [
   "This atlas previously said MIT holds <em>all</em> Herreshoff Manufacturing Company construction drawings. MIT describes its 17,000-object Haffenreffer-Herreshoff collection as the primary design record of the company, but no source asserts exclusivity. Softened 29 July 2026."
  ],
  "sources": [
   {
    "t": "Herreshoff Marine Museum — Wikipedia",
    "u": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herreshoff_Marine_Museum"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "ggwbf",
  "name": "Golden Gate Wooden Boat Foundation",
  "sort": "Golden Gate Wooden Boat Foundation",
  "sub": "Sausalito — publisher of this atlas",
  "life": "active; Yankee refit 2025–26",
  "place": "Sausalito, California",
  "start": 2020,
  "regions": [
   "sf-bay"
  ],
  "eras": [
   "revival"
  ],
  "summary": "The nonprofit restoring the 1906 schooner <em>Yankee</em>, and the publisher of the Wooden Boat Atlas. Its own boat is a W. F. Stone design, which is a fair summary of why this atlas begins where it does.",
  "facts": [
   [
    "Vessel",
    "Yankee, a 52-ft gaff schooner designed by W. F. Stone in 1905 and launched 18 April 1906"
   ],
   [
    "Refit",
    "A structural refit begun before the pandemic and resumed in Sausalito, 2025–26 — ten phases, funded one at a time"
   ],
   [
    "Publishing",
    "Maintains a restoration logbook, a vessel history, a nautical lexicon and a self-grading quiz at yankee2026.org"
   ],
   [
    "This atlas",
    "Publisher of the Wooden Boat Atlas"
   ]
  ],
  "works": [],
  "links": {
   "designers": [
    "stone-frank",
    "spaulding-myron"
   ],
   "builders": [
    "stone-boat-yard",
    "spaulding-boatworks"
   ],
   "classes": [],
   "associations": [
    "master-mariners",
    "stfyc",
    "spaulding-marine-center"
   ]
  },
  "flags": [
   "Founding date not yet established."
  ],
  "sources": [
   {
    "t": "Yankee — 1906 · Golden Gate Wooden Boat Foundation",
    "u": "https://yankee2026.org/"
   },
   {
    "t": "History — Yankee 1906",
    "u": "https://yankee2026.org/history.html"
   }
  ]
 }
]