[ { "id": "stone-boat-yard", "name": "W. F. Stone & Son / Stone Boat Yard", "sort": "Stone Boat Yard", "sub": "Hunters Point → Tiburon → Harbor View → Oakland → Alameda", "life": "1853 – 2004", "place": "San Francisco Bay, California", "start": 1853, "regions": [ "sf-bay" ], "eras": [ "working-sail", "gilded-age", "between-wars", "war-plywood", "postwar", "fiberglass", "revival" ], "summary": "Three generations of one English family and a hundred and fifty years of continuous boatbuilding on San Francisco Bay — the longest single thread in this atlas.", "essay": [ "William Stone came from Dartmouth in Devon and set up at Hunters Point in 1853, building commercial schooners, tugs and racing yachts for a city that had existed for four years. That yard is the beginning of organised boatbuilding on the Bay as a continuous business rather than an improvisation.", "His son Frank moved the yard to Tiburon in the 1890s, operated briefly as Stone & Swann, then as Stone & Van Bergen at Harbor View in San Francisco from 1899. Frank's son Lester joined in 1911, at which point the firm took the name it kept: W. F. Stone & Son. Lester became sole proprietor on his father's death in 1923 and ran the yard until he retired in 1970 — a working career of nearly sixty years.", "The high-water mark was Northern Light in 1927: a 140-foot schooner built at the estuary yard for John Borden's Arctic collecting expedition for Chicago's Field Museum, put together by forty-six men working two ten-hour shifts and finished in under a year. Latitude 38 calls her the largest schooner ever built as a sailing yacht on the West Coast.", "The yard built Bird boats — Nos. 12, 16, 18 and 19 in 1928–29 — YMS wooden minesweepers for the Navy in the war, and a long tail of yachts afterwards. Master shipwright Jack Ehrhorn worked there from 1941 to 1970 and again from 1987 to 2004, collaborating with Lester Stone on design as well as construction; his drawings and photographs are now two large collections at the Online Archive of California, and are the single best primary source on the yard.", "The Stone family sold in 1970. The business changed hands several times and finally closed in 2004 — which means that a yard founded before the Civil War survived into the era of GPS." ], "facts": [ [ "Founder", "William Stone, of Dartmouth, England — Hunters Point, 1853" ], [ "Succession", "Frank Stone → Lester F. Stone (joined 1911, sole proprietor 1923, retired 1970)" ], [ "Later owners", "John Whitset (1970); Bill and Grace Bodle; David Olson (2000); closed 2004" ], [ "Master shipwright", "Jack Ehrhorn (1919–2005), at the yard 1941–1970 and 1987–2004" ], [ "Archive", "Jack Ehrhorn collection of Stone Boat Yard drawings (1898–1993) and photographs (c. 1885–2005), Online Archive of California" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "Richmond", "year": "1900", "note": "tug" }, { "name": "Golden State", "year": "1913", "note": "354-ton schooner" }, { "name": "USS Lanikai", "year": "1914", "note": "209-ton schooner-rigged yacht" }, { "name": "Water Witch", "year": "1928", "note": "cutter; sometimes credited as a 'Lester Stone' design" }, { "name": "Bird boats Nos. 12, 16, 18, 19", "year": "1928–29", "note": "Puffin, Cuckoo, Robin, Polly" }, { "name": "Northern Light", "year": "1927", "note": "140-ft schooner for John Borden's Field Museum Arctic expedition; designed by the Chicago naval architect Henry C. Grebe" }, { "name": "YMS wooden minesweepers", "year": "1943", "note": "for the US Navy" }, { "name": "Natoma", "year": "1975", "note": "ketch" } ], "links": { "designers": [ "alden-john", "spaulding-myron" ], "builders": [ "madden-lewis", "nunes-brothers" ], "classes": [ "bird" ], "associations": [ "master-mariners" ] }, "flags": [ "Sources disagree on the yard's move dates. Naval Marine Archive gives Hunters Point 1853–1892, Tiburon 1892–99, Harbor View 1899–1911, Oakland 1911–42, Alameda 1942–2004. The OAC finding aid and Maritime Compass give slightly different years (Tiburon from 1893, Alameda from 1941). One source treats 1975 as an endpoint, which appears to mark the end of a particular ownership rather than the yard.", "Water Witch (1928) is sometimes credited as a 'Lester Stone' design. Stone is best documented as a builder; his role as designer of individual boats should be checked against the Ehrhorn drawings.", "The description of Northern Light as the largest schooner ever built as a sailing yacht on the West Coast, and the detail of forty-six men working two ten-hour shifts, both trace to a single lineage — Latitude 38's reporting, drawing on a 1992 WoodenBoat article. No independent source was found. Latitude 38's earlier (2004) version of the claim was broader still, 'possibly the largest sailing yacht, period'.", "One independent shipyard history gives the founder's name as William I. Stone rather than William Stone. A minor variant, but unresolved." ], "sources": [ { "t": "W. F. Stone & Sons — Naval Marine Archive", "u": "https://navalmarinearchive.com/sbh/shipyards/small/stone.html" }, { "t": "Jack Ehrhorn collection of Stone Boat Yard naval architectural drawings, 1898–1993 — OAC", "u": "https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt800038sz/entire_text/" }, { "t": "Jack Ehrhorn collection of Stone Boat Yard photographs, c. 1885–2005 — OAC", "u": "https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8p84b6t/" }, { "t": "Stone Boat Yard — Maritime Compass", "u": "http://maritimecompass.blogspot.com/2011/10/stone-boat-yard.html" }, { "t": "Revisiting the 1927 Schooner Northern Light — Latitude 38", "u": "https://www.latitude38.com/lectronic/revisiting-the-1927-schooner-northern-light/" }, { "t": "Stone Boat Yard — shipbuildinghistory.com", "u": "http://shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/small/stone.htm" }, { "t": "The Borden-Field Museum Alaska-Arctic Expedition of 1927 — Wikipedia", "u": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Borden-Field_Museum_Alaska-Arctic_Expedition_of_1927" } ] }, { "id": "nunes-brothers", "name": "Nunes Brothers Boat & Ways Co.", "sort": "Nunes Brothers", "sub": "Second and Main, Old Town Sausalito", "life": "c. 1898 on the Sacramento River; Sausalito 1925 – 1959", "place": "Sausalito, California", "start": 1925, "regions": [ "sf-bay" ], "eras": [ "between-wars", "war-plywood", "postwar" ], "summary": "An Azorean family yard that built tuna clippers, a 127-foot schooner for a banker, and the two one-design classes that put working people on the Bay in boats they could afford.", "essay": [ "Manuel and Antonio Nunes came from Pico in the Azores and began building on the Sacramento River around 1898. In 1925 they moved to Sausalito, acquiring the existing Reliance Boat and Ways Co. at Second and Main, and for the next thirty-four years the Nunes yard was the most versatile builder on the north Bay.", "The range is the point. In 1927 they built the 66-foot racing yawl Truant; in 1928 two 112-foot tuna clippers, Funchal and Greyhound; in 1929 the schooner Zaca for the banker Templeton Crocker, on a low bid of $350,000 — a boat later owned by Errol Flynn and restored in Brittany in the 1990s.", "And at the same time they built the Bear. Ernie Nunes and Marty Martinsen conceived it in 1929; the first keel went down late in 1931 and the first boat was sailing by the summer of 1932. It was 22 feet 11 inches of pine and Philippine mahogany over oak, it cost very little, and by the 1950s it was the largest one-design fleet on San Francisco Bay. Sixty-nine were built between 1932 and 1976.", "Ernie Nunes followed it in 1939 with the Mercury — one of the first one-designs engineered specifically for plywood — and opened a dedicated Mercury shop across the street in 1946. The main yard closed in 1959; the Mercury shop in 1962.", "One near-miss deserves recording. Myron Spaulding first pitched the design that became the Farallone Clipper to the Nunes brothers at about $4,900 a boat. Stephens Brothers of Stockton bid $4,750 and got the class. Three of the Bay's most consequential yards are connected by that $150." ], "facts": [ [ "Principals", "Manuel and Antonio Nunes, of Pico, Azores; Ernest 'Ernie' Nunes as designer" ], [ "Sausalito site", "Acquired from Reliance Boat and Ways Co., 1925" ], [ "Closure", "Main yard 1959; Ernie Nunes's separate Mercury shop 1962" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "Truant", "year": "1927", "note": "66-ft racing yawl" }, { "name": "Funchal and Greyhound", "year": "1928", "note": "112-ft tuna clippers" }, { "name": "Zaca", "year": "1929", "note": "schooner for Templeton Crocker; later Errol Flynn's" }, { "name": "Merry Bear", "year": "1931–32", "note": "the first Bear; now in the San Francisco Maritime NHP small-craft collection" }, { "name": "Bear class", "year": "1932–1976", "note": "69 hulls" }, { "name": "Mercury 18", "year": "from 1939", "note": "" } ], "links": { "designers": [ "nunes-ernest", "spaulding-myron" ], "builders": [ "stephens-brothers", "wd-schock", "moore-sailboats", "reliance-boat-ways" ], "classes": [ "bear", "mercury-18", "farallone-clipper" ], "associations": [ "sf-maritime-nhp", "master-mariners" ] }, "flags": [ "The predecessor on the Sausalito site is now established: the Reliance Boat Company, founded by William Hynes in 1920. The name 'Dickerhoff & Nunes', which appeared in this project's original brief, remains unsupported by any source found.", "Zaca's length is given as both 118 and 127 feet, and her launch as both 1929 and 1930.", "Ernie Nunes's collaborator on the Bear is spelled both 'Martinsen' and 'Martinson' in different sources." ], "sources": [ { "t": "The Nunes Brothers Boat and Ways Co. — Sausalito Historical Society", "u": "http://sausalitohistorical.squarespace.com/marin-scope-columns/2012/11/2/the-nunes-brothers-boat-and-ways-co-2.html" }, { "t": "Zaca and Sausalito — Sausalito Historical Society", "u": "https://www.sausalitohistoricalsociety.com/2016-columns/2016/2/27/zaca-and-sausalito" }, { "t": "About the Bear Boats — SF Bay Bear Boat Association", "u": "https://bearboats.org/about/" }, { "t": "History — Farallone Clippers", "u": "https://www.faralloneclipper.com/newhistory" } ] }, { "id": "anderson-cristofani", "name": "Anderson & Cristofani", "sort": "Anderson & Cristofani", "sub": "900 Innes Avenue, India Basin, Hunters Point", "life": "partnership 1926 – 1988; boatbuilding on the site from c. 1875", "place": "San Francisco, California", "start": 1875, "regions": [ "sf-bay" ], "eras": [ "working-sail", "gilded-age", "between-wars", "war-plywood", "postwar" ], "summary": "The last of the India Basin scow-schooner yards, and the site where the Bay's working-boat tradition is most physically legible today.", "essay": [ "The site comes first. A Dutch shipwright named Jan Janse Dirks was building on Innes Avenue by about 1875, and the scow schooners that came off that beach — Master Mariner (1876), Wavelet (1878), Paul and Willie (1884) — were the delivery trucks of the Bay economy. Flat-bottomed, shallow, cheap, able to take the ground at low tide and load hay or bricks or oyster shell.", "Henry P. Anderson, a Danish shipwright, arrived in 1893 and bought the yard, trading as H. P. Anderson Boat Building and then Anderson's Ways. In 1907 he built Snark, the boat Jack London commissioned for his Pacific voyage. Alf Cristofani joined him in 1926 and the firm became Anderson & Cristofani.", "They kept building scow schooners into the mid-1930s — long after the type was economically obsolete — alongside fishing vessels like Yuba (1930) and New Rex (1936). In the war the yard turned out APc coastal transports, Accentor-class minesweepers and harbour tugs.", "The property was sold to speculators in the 1980s and bought by the City in 1989 for what is now India Basin Shoreline Park. The Shipwright's Cottage — the Dirks-era building that served as the firm's office — was restored and reopened as a visitor centre in 2025." ], "facts": [ [ "Site origin", "Jan Janse Dirks, Dutch shipwright, from c. 1875" ], [ "Anderson", "Henry P. Anderson, Danish shipwright, arrived in the Bay Area 1893 and bought the yard" ], [ "Partnership", "Alf Cristofani joined 1926" ], [ "Successor", "Allemand Brothers operated on or near the site 1946–2002" ], [ "Preservation", "City purchase 1989; Shipwright's Cottage reopened as a visitor centre 2025" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "Master Mariner / Wavelet / Paul and Willie", "year": "1876–1884", "note": "scow schooners, Dirks yard" }, { "name": "Snark", "year": "1907", "note": "built for Jack London" }, { "name": "Yuba / New Rex", "year": "1930 / 1936", "note": "fishing vessels" }, { "name": "APc coastal transports, minesweepers, tugs", "year": "1941–45", "note": "" } ], "links": { "designers": [], "builders": [ "stone-boat-yard", "kneass" ], "classes": [ "scow-schooner" ], "associations": [ "sf-maritime-nhp" ] }, "flags": [ "Some sources describe Anderson & Cristofani as founded 'in the early 1870s'. That conflates the site's boatbuilding history with the partnership, which by those same sources' detailed chronologies did not exist under that name until 1926.", "Snark's construction is dated 1907 here and 'by 1906' in one independent account. She was building through 1906 and completed in 1907, so the two are compatible rather than contradictory." ], "sources": [ { "t": "Anderson & Cristofani — Naval Marine Archive", "u": "https://navalmarinearchive.com/sbh/shipyards/small/anderson.html" }, { "t": "Anderson & Cristofani — Wikipedia", "u": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson_%26_Cristofani" }, { "t": "Shipwright's Cottage — Wikipedia", "u": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipwright%27s_Cottage" }, { "t": "More About Scow Schooners and Barges — SFPUC", "u": "https://www.sfpuc.gov/construction-contracts/lands-rights-of-way/historical-discoveries/two-buried-ships/more-about-scow" }, { "t": "India Basin, Hunters Point — jamescharleslyons.com", "u": "https://jamescharleslyons.com/india-basin-hunters-point/" } ] }, { "id": "madden-lewis", "name": "Madden & Lewis Company", "sort": "Madden & Lewis", "sub": "200 Johnson Street, Richardson Bay, Sausalito", "life": "founding date unverified; a major fire in 1960", "place": "Sausalito, California", "start": 1920, "regions": [ "sf-bay" ], "eras": [ "between-wars", "war-plywood", "postwar" ], "summary": "A Sausalito yard on Richardson Bay, founded by J. Herbert Madden Sr., that built pleasure craft in peacetime, harbour tugs and motor launches in war, and employed Myron Spaulding while doing it.", "facts": [ [ "Founder", "James Herbert Madden Sr., active in the Sausalito Yacht Club; his role in the Bird class brief is documented separately" ], [ "War output", "Five 60-ft YTL harbour tugs (YTL 316–320); four 76-ft Harbour Defence Motor Launches, all transferred to the Royal New Zealand Navy; wooden subchasers" ], [ "Notable employee", "Myron Spaulding worked here during WWII" ], [ "Other business", "Owned the Sausalito-side operations of the Golden Gate Ferry Company before the bridge" ], [ "Fire", "19 March 1960" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "Osprey, Bird No. 1", "year": "1921", "note": "per one account; another credits W. F. Stone & Son — see the Bird class entry" }, { "name": "YTL 316–320", "year": "1940s", "note": "60-ft, 70-ton diesel harbour tugs" }, { "name": "Harbour Defence Motor Launches", "year": "1940s", "note": "four, 76 ft, to the RNZN" } ], "links": { "designers": [ "spaulding-myron", "brewer-fred" ], "builders": [ "stone-boat-yard" ], "classes": [ "bird" ], "associations": [] }, "flags": [ "Founding and closing dates were not found in accessible sources. Whether Madden & Lewis or W. F. Stone & Son built the first Bird boat is disputed between two secondary sources." ], "sources": [ { "t": "Madden and Lewis Company — Wikipedia", "u": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madden_and_Lewis_Company" }, { "t": "Nothing Sails Like an Old Bird — Full Fathom Collections", "u": "http://fullfathomcollections.blogspot.com/2013/01/nothing-sails-like-old-bird.html" } ] }, { "id": "spaulding-boatworks", "name": "Spaulding Boatworks / Spaulding Marine Center", "sort": "Spaulding Boatworks", "sub": "600 Gate Five Road, Sausalito", "life": "1951 – present", "place": "Sausalito, California", "start": 1951, "regions": [ "sf-bay" ], "eras": [ "postwar", "fiberglass", "revival" ], "summary": "The oldest marina and boatyard on the Sausalito waterfront, one of the last working wooden yards on the Bay, and since 2002 a nonprofit living museum with a boatbuilding school attached.", "facts": [ [ "Founded", "1951, by Myron Spaulding, on waterfront property he bought that year" ], [ "Transition", "Left in charitable trust by Gladys Spaulding after Myron's death; now a 501(c)(3) living museum" ], [ "School", "Home to the Arques School of Traditional Boatbuilding since 2007, long directed by Bob Darr" ], [ "Preserved vessels", "Freda (1885) and Polaris are associated with the Center" ], [ "Visiting boats", "Maintains Dorade on her annual Bay visits" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "Restoration and maintenance of the Bay wooden fleet", "year": "1951–present", "note": "" }, { "name": "Spaulding 28 'Arete'", "year": "completed 2006", "note": "begun by Myron Spaulding in 1958" } ], "links": { "designers": [ "spaulding-myron", "sparkman-stephens" ], "builders": [ "arques" ], "classes": [], "associations": [ "spaulding-marine-center", "master-mariners" ] }, "flags": [], "sources": [ { "t": "Spaulding Marine Center", "u": "https://www.spauldingcenter.org/myron-spaulding" }, { "t": "Spaulding Wooden Boat Center — Wikipedia", "u": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaulding_Wooden_Boat_Center" }, { "t": "Sausalito boatyard maintains maritime history — Pacific Sun", "u": "https://pacificsun.com/sausalito-boatyard-maintains-maritime-history/" } ] }, { "id": "matthew-turner", "name": "Matthew Turner", "sort": "Turner, Matthew", "sub": "Shipbuilder — Hunters Point, then Benicia", "life": "1825 – 1909", "place": "San Francisco and Benicia, California", "start": 1868, "regions": [ "sf-bay" ], "eras": [ "working-sail", "gilded-age" ], "summary": "One of the most prolific wooden shipbuilders in American history. Counts of his output range from about 228 to more than 270 vessels, at least 154 of them from the Benicia yard.", "facts": [ [ "Yards", "First near Hunters Point with his brother Horatio; Benicia from 1883, in partnership with Horatio Turner and John Eckley" ], [ "Output", "Sources disagree: Wikipedia gives more than 270 vessels, citing Bowen (2002); Collectors Weekly gives 228 watercraft, or 'some 200 wooden sailing vessels'" ], [ "Recognition", "A gold-mounted spyglass from Queen Victoria and a silver service from the Norwegian government, both for a sea rescue" ], [ "Legacy", "The brigantine Matthew Turner, launched 2015 at Sausalito, is an education vessel inspired by his Galilee" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "G. R. Roberts", "year": "1848", "note": "schooner; his first design" }, { "name": "Nautilus", "year": "1868", "note": "brig, designed at Eureka" }, { "name": "Galilee", "year": "1891", "note": "brigantine; the model for the modern replica" } ], "links": { "designers": [], "builders": [ "stone-boat-yard" ], "classes": [], "associations": [] }, "flags": [ "Benicia is on the Carquinez Strait rather than San Francisco Bay proper, but the yard is inseparable from Bay maritime history.", "The frequently repeated claim that Turner was the most prolific wooden shipbuilder in American history is stronger than any independent source supports. Wikipedia hedges to 'probably never equaled in the American era of sail'; Collectors Weekly says 'more than any other U.S. shipbuilder of the late 1800s'. This atlas says 'one of the most prolific' and records the disagreement in the counts." ], "sources": [ { "t": "Matthew Turner (shipbuilder) — Wikipedia", "u": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Turner_(shipbuilder)" }, { "t": "Solano Chronicles: Matthew Turner — Museum of History Benicia", "u": "https://mohbenicia.org/solano-chronicles-matthew-turner/" }, { "t": "How a 19th-Century Shipbuilder Opened the Pacific — Collectors Weekly", "u": "https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/how-a-19th-century-shipbuilder-opened-the-pacific/" } ] }, { "id": "kneass", "name": "Kneass Boat Works", "sort": "Kneass Boat Works", "sub": "Mission Street, Pier 70 and 3rd Street, San Francisco", "life": "1868 – 1970", "place": "San Francisco, California", "start": 1868, "regions": [ "sf-bay" ], "eras": [ "working-sail", "gilded-age", "between-wars", "war-plywood", "postwar" ], "summary": "A century-long San Francisco small-craft yard: launches, rowboats, lifeboats, cruisers — and more than five thousand craft for two world wars.", "facts": [ [ "Founder", "George Washington Kneass" ], [ "Sites", "22 Mission Street; 671 Illinois Street at Pier 70 in partnership with Martin Vice; a second yard at 718 3rd Street from 1898; an emergency shipyard in 1941" ], [ "Succession", "Sons George Jr. and Webster Kneass; the yard operated until 1970" ], [ "War output", "Over 5,000 craft including patrol boats, minesweepers and SC-497-class subchasers" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "Pacific", "year": "1882", "note": "18-ft schooner, sailed across the Pacific" }, { "name": "USS Nasomee (YTB-260)", "year": "—", "note": "" }, { "name": "Peruvian Navy patrol boats", "year": "1918", "note": "" } ], "links": { "designers": [], "builders": [ "anderson-cristofani" ], "classes": [], "associations": [] }, "flags": [ "The available source gives a founding of 1868 and a founder born in 1859 — internally inconsistent. One of the two dates is wrong; the source does not say which." ], "sources": [ { "t": "Kneass Boat Works — Wikipedia", "u": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kneass_Boat_Works" } ] }, { "id": "arques", "name": "Arques Boatyard", "sort": "Arques", "sub": "Napa Street then Johnson Street, Sausalito", "life": "1913 – ; the family shaped the Sausalito waterfront for a century", "place": "Sausalito, California", "start": 1913, "regions": [ "sf-bay" ], "eras": [ "gilded-age", "between-wars", "war-plywood", "postwar", "revival" ], "summary": "A barge and workboat yard that became, through the family's postwar landholdings, the origin of Sausalito's houseboat community — and, through the Arques Trust, of its boatbuilding school.", "facts": [ [ "Founder", "Camillo Arques, boatyard at Napa Street from 1913, Johnson Street from 1915; wooden barges for commercial and military clients" ], [ "Succession", "Sons Donlon 'Don' and Bub Arques; the family came to manage large parts of the former Marinship property after WWII" ], [ "Legacy", "The Arques School of Traditional Boatbuilding, endowed by Don and Vera Arques and founded by Bob Darr in June 1996; housed at Spaulding Marine Center since 2007" ], [ "Don Arques", "Died 1993. Known as the godfather of the waterfront for letting G.I.-Bill veterans convert surplus Marinship barges and hulls into houseboats at Waldo Point" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "Wooden barges", "year": "1913 onward", "note": "" } ], "links": { "designers": [], "builders": [ "spaulding-boatworks", "nunes-brothers", "marinship" ], "classes": [], "associations": [ "spaulding-marine-center" ] }, "flags": [ "A 1914 photograph is captioned 'Crichton and Arques Boatyard' and one compiled list names 'Crichton & Arques' among historic Sausalito yards, but who Crichton was could not be confirmed from any institutional source.", "Corrected 29 July 2026. This atlas previously implied the Arques School began at Spaulding in 2007. The school was founded in June 1996 by Bob Darr on the Arques endowment; 2007 is when it moved to the Spaulding Marine Center." ], "sources": [ { "t": "Godfather of the Waterfront — Sausalito Historical Society", "u": "https://www.sausalitohistoricalsociety.com/2021-columns/2021/11/26/godfather-of-the-waterfront" }, { "t": "Don Arques' Maritime Legacy — Sausalito Historical Society", "u": "https://www.sausalitohistoricalsociety.com/2023-columns/2023/12/13/don-arques-maritime-legacy" }, { "t": "About Us — Arques School of Traditional Boatbuilding", "u": "https://www.arqueschl.org/about-us/" } ] }, { "id": "svendsens", "name": "Svendsen's Boat Works", "sort": "Svendsen's", "sub": "Alameda Marina, Alameda", "life": "1963 – 2016 under the founder's name", "place": "Alameda, California", "start": 1963, "regions": [ "sf-bay" ], "eras": [ "fiberglass", "revival" ], "summary": "For half a century the Bay's default haul-out and chandlery, founded by a Danish emigrant who also moulded the Bay's first fibreglass Folkboat.", "facts": [ [ "Founder", "Svend Svendsen, born Denmark 1932, emigrated 1956, died 27 May 2013" ], [ "Founded", "1963 at Pacific Marina, Alameda, with his wife Suzanne; moved 1966 to what became Alameda Marina" ], [ "Folkboat", "Built the first fibreglass Folkboat on the Bay in 1975 from a mould taken off a wooden hull" ], [ "Later", "Sold to Bay Maritime Corp. in 2016; a 'Svendsen Maritime Park' has been proposed" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "First Bay-built fibreglass Folkboat", "year": "1975", "note": "" } ], "links": { "designers": [ "sunden-tord" ], "builders": [], "classes": [ "nordic-folkboat" ], "associations": [] }, "flags": [], "sources": [ { "t": "Remembering Svend Svendsen — Alameda Patch", "u": "https://patch.com/california/alameda/remembering-svend-svendsen-founder-of-svendsens-boat-works" }, { "t": "History — SF Bay Folkboat Association", "u": "https://sfbayfolkboats.org/history/" } ] }, { "id": "stephens-brothers", "name": "Stephens Brothers Boat Builders", "sort": "Stephens Brothers", "sub": "Stockton, California", "life": "active from the early 20th century", "place": "Stockton, California", "start": 1902, "regions": [ "sf-bay" ], "eras": [ "gilded-age", "between-wars", "war-plywood", "postwar" ], "summary": "The Delta yard that won the Farallone Clipper commission — by $150 a boat — and built the class that became the Bay's most admired wooden racer-cruiser.", "facts": [ [ "Commission", "Won the Farallone Clipper contract at $4,750 a boat against Nunes Brothers at $4,900" ], [ "First boats", "Six built 1938; six racing by spring 1939" ], [ "Construction", "Philippine mahogany over steam-bent oak, 7,200-lb iron keel" ], [ "Later", "Theo Stephens finalised the class's masthead-rig conversion on 5 August 1964" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "Farallone Clipper class", "year": "from 1938", "note": "38 ft; the count and span differ between class histories" } ], "links": { "designers": [ "spaulding-myron", "sparkman-stephens" ], "builders": [ "nunes-brothers" ], "classes": [ "farallone-clipper" ], "associations": [] }, "flags": [ "Stockton is on the Delta rather than the Bay, but the Farallone Clipper is a Bay class in every other respect." ], "sources": [ { "t": "History — Farallone Clippers", "u": "https://www.faralloneclipper.com/newhistory" }, { "t": "Stephens Bros. Boat Builders — Wikipedia", "u": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephens_Bros._Boat_Builders" } ] }, { "id": "kettenburg-boat-works", "name": "Kettenburg Boat Works", "sort": "Kettenburg Boat Works", "sub": "Point Loma, San Diego", "life": "1918 – 1993", "place": "San Diego, California", "start": 1918, "regions": [ "socal" ], "eras": [ "between-wars", "war-plywood", "postwar", "fiberglass" ], "summary": "The most admired wooden racing builder on the West Coast: the PC, the PCC and the K-38 came out of Point Loma and set the tone for Southern California sailing for forty years.", "facts": [ [ "Founded", "By George W. Kettenburg Sr., who reached San Diego in 1910–12; incorporated as Kettenburg Boat and Engine Co. in 1918; renamed and relocated as Kettenburg Boat Works in 1929" ], [ "Design", "George W. Kettenburg Jr. drove the shift into sailboats; Paul Kettenburg carried the business on" ], [ "End", "Sold to Whittaker Corp. in 1969; dissolved 1993" ], [ "Archive", "Kettenburg Collection, Maritime Museum of San Diego" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "Alden-designed 22-ft sloop", "year": "1926", "note": "built under commission" }, { "name": "PC class", "year": "from 1929", "note": "" }, { "name": "K-38", "year": "from 1949", "note": "36 built" } ], "links": { "designers": [ "kettenburg-george-jr", "alden-john" ], "builders": [], "classes": [ "pc-class" ], "associations": [] }, "flags": [], "sources": [ { "t": "Kettenburg Boat Works — myKettenburg", "u": "http://www.mykettenburg.com/kettenburg-boat-works" }, { "t": "Kettenburg Boat Works and Owners Association", "u": "https://www.kettenburgboats.com/pc.htm" } ] }, { "id": "wilmington-boat-works", "name": "Wilmington Boat Works", "sort": "Wilmington Boat Works", "sub": "400 Yacht Street, Wilmington, California", "life": "1920 – 1958", "place": "Wilmington, California", "start": 1920, "regions": [ "socal" ], "eras": [ "between-wars", "war-plywood", "postwar" ], "summary": "Hugh Angelman's yard: fishing boats and yachts before the war, subchasers and rescue boats during it, minesweepers after — and the birthplace of the Sea Witch.", "facts": [ [ "Founders", "Hugh Angelman, Willard Buchanan and Tom Smith, 1920" ], [ "War output", "Tugs, SC-497 subchasers, crash rescue boats; Agile-class minesweepers in the 1950s" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "Sea Witch", "year": "c. 1937–41", "note": "the original boat" } ], "links": { "designers": [ "angelman-hugh", "davies-charlie" ], "builders": [ "cheoy-lee" ], "classes": [ "sea-witch" ], "associations": [] }, "flags": [], "sources": [ { "t": "Wilmington Boat Works — Wikipedia", "u": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_Boat_Works" } ] }, { "id": "wd-schock", "name": "W. D. Schock Corp", "sort": "W. D. Schock Corp", "sub": "Newport Beach, Corona and Santa Ana, California", "life": "1958 – present (family-owned to 2011)", "place": "Southern California", "start": 1958, "regions": [ "socal", "sf-bay" ], "eras": [ "fiberglass", "revival" ], "summary": "A Southern California production builder that kept several Northern California wooden classes alive in fibreglass — Mercuries, El Toros — while building the Lido 14 and the Santanas.", "facts": [ [ "Founded", "1958 by William 'Bill' D. Schock; run by sons Tom and Steven; sold after 53 years in 2011" ], [ "Bay classes", "Built 21 Mercuries between 1963 and 1967; also built El Toros" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "Lido 14", "year": "—", "note": "" }, { "name": "Santana 22 / 20 / 28", "year": "1966 / 1976 / 1978", "note": "the 20 and 28 to Gary Mull designs" }, { "name": "Harbor 20", "year": "—", "note": "" } ], "links": { "designers": [ "wd-schock-person", "mull-gary", "nunes-ernest" ], "builders": [ "moore-sailboats" ], "classes": [ "mercury-18", "el-toro" ], "associations": [] }, "flags": [], "sources": [ { "t": "W. D. Schock Corp — Wikipedia", "u": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._D._Schock_Corp" } ] }, { "id": "moore-sailboats", "name": "Moore Sailboats", "sort": "Moore Sailboats", "sub": "Watsonville, California", "life": "dates not researched", "place": "Watsonville, California", "start": 1970, "regions": [ "sf-bay" ], "eras": [ "fiberglass", "revival" ], "summary": "A Central Coast builder that produced Mercuries and El Toros — two Northern California one-designs — long after their original yards had closed.", "facts": [ [ "Classes built", "Mercury 18 and El Toro" ] ], "works": [], "links": { "designers": [ "nunes-ernest" ], "builders": [ "wd-schock" ], "classes": [ "mercury-18", "el-toro" ], "associations": [] }, "flags": [ "Founding dates and principals were not researched in this pass. Stub entry." ], "sources": [ { "t": "Mercury 18 — Wikipedia", "u": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_18" }, { "t": "Highlights in El Toro History — El Toro IYRA", "u": "https://www.eltoroyra.org/community/history/highlights-in-el-toro-history" } ] }, { "id": "jensen-marine", "name": "Jensen Marine / Cal Yachts", "sort": "Jensen Marine", "sub": "Costa Mesa, California", "life": "1957 – ; sold to Bangor Punta 1968", "place": "Costa Mesa, California", "start": 1957, "regions": [ "socal" ], "eras": [ "fiberglass" ], "summary": "One of the first builders to mass-produce sailboats entirely in fibreglass, and the yard whose handshake with Bill Lapworth produced the Cal 40.", "facts": [ [ "Founded", "1957 by Jack Jensen" ], [ "Output", "Roughly 18,000 boats" ], [ "Partnership", "Lapworth designed the Cal line on a handshake that lasted until Jensen's death in 1980" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "Cal 24", "year": "1958", "note": "first fibreglass Jensen design" }, { "name": "Cal 20", "year": "1961", "note": "" }, { "name": "Cal 40", "year": "1963", "note": "" } ], "links": { "designers": [ "lapworth-bill", "schumacher-carl" ], "builders": [], "classes": [ "cal-40" ], "associations": [] }, "flags": [], "sources": [ { "t": "Cal Yachts — Wikipedia", "u": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_Yachts" } ] }, { "id": "cheoy-lee", "name": "Cheoy Lee Shipyard", "sort": "Cheoy Lee", "sub": "Shanghai, then Hong Kong", "life": "family shipbuilding from the 1870s; Hong Kong from 1936", "place": "Hong Kong", "start": 1936, "regions": [ "asia-yards", "socal", "sf-bay" ], "eras": [ "postwar", "fiberglass", "revival" ], "summary": "The Lo family yard that built Western designs in teak at prices no American yard could match — which is why so many 1960s and 70s American-designed ketches are Hong Kong boats.", "facts": [ [ "Origins", "Cheoy Lee Yiu Kee Shipyards, Pudong, Shanghai, traced to the 1870s; relocated to Hong Kong 1936" ], [ "First yacht", "Lion 35 sloop, 1957; pleasure craft reached 90% of output through the 1960s" ], [ "Peak", "252 vessels ordered in 1964; Penny's Bay yard from 1967" ], [ "Licensed designs", "Built Angelman & Davies Sea Witch ketches among others" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "Lion 35", "year": "1957", "note": "first production pleasure yacht" }, { "name": "Shango II", "year": "1977", "note": "40 m motor-sailer; then the largest GRP yacht of its era" } ], "links": { "designers": [ "angelman-hugh", "davies-charlie" ], "builders": [ "american-marine", "wilmington-boat-works" ], "classes": [ "sea-witch" ], "associations": [] }, "flags": [], "sources": [ { "t": "Heritage — Cheoy Lee", "u": "https://cheoylee.com/heritage/" }, { "t": "Cheoy Lee Shipyard, Penny's Bay — Industrial History of Hong Kong", "u": "https://industrialhistoryhk.org/cheoy-lee-shipyard-pennys-bay-lantau-1964-2001/" } ] }, { "id": "american-marine", "name": "American Marine Ltd. — Grand Banks", "sort": "American Marine / Grand Banks", "sub": "Junk Bay, Hong Kong; later Singapore", "life": "1962 – ; wooden construction ended 1974", "place": "Hong Kong and Singapore", "start": 1962, "regions": [ "asia-yards", "pnw" ], "eras": [ "fiberglass" ], "summary": "Robert Newton and his sons built 1,124 wooden Grand Banks 36s in Hong Kong before switching to fibreglass — and in doing so invented the trawler yacht as a category.", "facts": [ [ "Founders", "Robert J. Newton and sons John and Whit Newton, from 1962 at Junk Bay" ], [ "Designer", "Kenneth Smith drew the first production hull" ], [ "Prototype", "Spray, a 36-ft diesel cruiser, launched 1963" ], [ "Production", "1,124 wooden GB36 hulls before the 1974 switch to fibreglass in Singapore" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "Grand Banks 36", "year": "from 1965", "note": "" } ], "links": { "designers": [ "monk-ed-jr" ], "builders": [ "cheoy-lee" ], "classes": [], "associations": [] }, "flags": [ "Attributions of particular Grand Banks models to Ed Monk Jr. are commonly made but were not verified in this pass." ], "sources": [ { "t": "The Making of a Grand Banks — PassageMaker", "u": "https://passagemaker.com/cruiser-reviews/the-making-of-a-grand-banks/" }, { "t": "Grand Banks — The Beginning — Waggoner Guide", "u": "https://waggonerguide.com/grand-banks-the-beginning/" } ] }, { "id": "herreshoff-mfg", "name": "Herreshoff Manufacturing Company", "sort": "Herreshoff Manufacturing Company", "sub": "Bristol, Rhode Island", "life": "1878 – 1945", "place": "Bristol, Rhode Island", "start": 1878, "regions": [ "new-england" ], "eras": [ "gilded-age", "between-wars" ], "summary": "The most technically advanced boatbuilding operation in the world for forty years, and the yard that built every winning America's Cup defender from 1893 to 1920.", "facts": [ [ "Founded", "1878 by Nathanael and John Brown Herreshoff" ], [ "Scale", "From about 20 employees to more than 400; vessels up to 162 ft" ], [ "Museum", "Herreshoff Marine Museum founded on the site, 1971" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "Cup defenders 1893–1920", "year": "—", "note": "" }, { "name": "Herreshoff 12½ and S-Class", "year": "1914 / 1919", "note": "" } ], "links": { "designers": [ "herreshoff-ng", "herreshoff-lf", "winslow-ralph" ], "builders": [], "classes": [ "j-class" ], "associations": [] }, "flags": [], "sources": [ { "t": "Herreshoff Manufacturing Company — steelmuseum.org", "u": "https://steelmuseum.org/americas_cup_exhibit_2017/herreshoff.cfm" }, { "t": "Herreshoff Marine Museum — Wikipedia", "u": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herreshoff_Marine_Museum" } ] }, { "id": "brooklin-boat-yard", "name": "Brooklin Boat Yard", "sort": "Brooklin Boat Yard", "sub": "Brooklin, Maine", "life": "1960 – present", "place": "Brooklin, Maine", "start": 1960, "regions": [ "new-england" ], "eras": [ "postwar", "fiberglass", "revival" ], "summary": "Joel White's yard, founded in a converted herring-packing plant, and the standard-setter for modern cold-moulded wooden construction.", "facts": [ [ "Founded", "1960 by Joel White" ], [ "Context", "Brooklin is also home to WoodenBoat magazine and the WoodenBoat School" ] ], "works": [], "links": { "designers": [ "white-joel" ], "builders": [ "hodgdon" ], "classes": [], "associations": [ "woodenboat" ] }, "flags": [], "sources": [ { "t": "Joel White — Wikipedia", "u": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_White" } ] }, { "id": "hodgdon", "name": "Hodgdon Yachts", "sort": "Hodgdon Yachts", "sub": "East Boothbay, Maine", "life": "1816 – present", "place": "East Boothbay, Maine", "start": 1816, "regions": [ "new-england" ], "eras": [ "working-sail", "gilded-age", "between-wars", "postwar", "revival" ], "summary": "Founded by Caleb and Tyler Hodgdon in 1816 and claiming to be the oldest continuously operating family boatbuilder in the United States.", "facts": [ [ "First vessel", "The schooner Union, 1818" ], [ "Modernised", "Under Timothy Hodgdon from 1979" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "Bowdoin", "year": "1921", "note": "Arctic exploration schooner; now Maine Maritime Academy" }, { "name": "Scheherazade", "year": "2003", "note": "" }, { "name": "Comanche", "year": "2014", "note": "" } ], "links": { "designers": [], "builders": [ "brooklin-boat-yard" ], "classes": [], "associations": [] }, "flags": [], "sources": [ { "t": "Hodgdon Yachts — Wikipedia", "u": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodgdon_Yachts" } ] }, { "id": "blanchard", "name": "Blanchard Boat Company", "sort": "Blanchard Boat Company", "sub": "Lake Union, Seattle", "life": "1919 – c. 1969", "place": "Seattle, Washington", "start": 1919, "regions": [ "pnw" ], "eras": [ "between-wars", "war-plywood", "postwar" ], "summary": "Nearly two thousand boats over about fifty years on Lake Union's north shore — and the yard where Ed Monk Sr. served his apprenticeship.", "facts": [ [ "Founded", "1919 by N. J. Blanchard" ], [ "Output", "Nearly 2,000 boats" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "Malibu", "year": "1926", "note": "100 ft, to a Ted Geary design" }, { "name": "Red Jacket", "year": "—", "note": "72-ft schooner" }, { "name": "Blanchard Senior Knockabout", "year": "—", "note": "" } ], "links": { "designers": [ "geary-ted", "monk-ed-sr" ], "builders": [], "classes": [], "associations": [] }, "flags": [], "sources": [ { "t": "Builders of Classic Boats, Lake Union — HistoryLink", "u": "https://www.historylink.org/File/20366" } ] }, { "id": "camper-nicholsons", "name": "Camper and Nicholsons", "sort": "Camper and Nicholsons", "sub": "Gosport, Hampshire", "life": "1782 – 2005 (shipyard)", "place": "Gosport, England", "start": 1782, "regions": [ "uk" ], "eras": [ "working-sail", "gilded-age", "between-wars", "postwar" ], "summary": "Two hundred and twenty-three years of continuous yacht building at Gosport, and the yard behind the Shamrocks, Endeavour and Gipsy Moth IV.", "facts": [ [ "Founded", "1782 by Francis Amos; William Camper joined 1809; Benjamin Nicholson apprenticed 1842 and the firm took his name" ], [ "Acquisition", "J. G. Fay & Co.'s Southampton yard, 1912" ], [ "Shipyard closure", "2005" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "Shamrock IV / V", "year": "1914 / 1930", "note": "" }, { "name": "Endeavour", "year": "1934", "note": "J-Class" }, { "name": "Gipsy Moth IV", "year": "1966", "note": "for Francis Chichester" } ], "links": { "designers": [ "nicholson-charles" ], "builders": [], "classes": [ "j-class" ], "associations": [] }, "flags": [], "sources": [ { "t": "Camper and Nicholsons — Wikipedia", "u": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camper_and_Nicholsons" } ] }, { "id": "anker-jensen", "name": "Anker & Jensen", "sort": "Anker & Jensen", "sub": "Norway", "life": "1905 – ", "place": "Norway", "start": 1905, "regions": [ "scandinavia", "sf-bay" ], "eras": [ "gilded-age", "between-wars" ], "summary": "Anker designed and Jensen built. The partnership produced Metre boats of a quality that keeps hulls a century old still racing — including Laila, an 8-Metre of 1928 still sailing on San Francisco Bay.", "facts": [ [ "Formed", "1905, when Johan Anker bought into Jensen's yard" ], [ "Ownership", "Anker took full ownership in 1915 but kept the name" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "6-, 8-, 12- and 15-Metre yachts", "year": "—", "note": "" }, { "name": "Dragons", "year": "from 1929", "note": "" } ], "links": { "designers": [ "anker-johan" ], "builders": [], "classes": [ "metre-classes", "dragon" ], "associations": [] }, "flags": [], "sources": [ { "t": "Anker & Jensen — Dragon Class Archive", "u": "https://dragonarchive.org/anker-jensen/" } ] }, { "id": "abeking-rasmussen", "name": "Abeking & Rasmussen", "sort": "Abeking & Rasmussen", "sub": "Lemwerder, Germany", "life": "1907 – present", "place": "Lemwerder, Germany", "start": 1907, "regions": [ "scandinavia" ], "eras": [ "gilded-age", "between-wars", "postwar", "fiberglass", "revival" ], "summary": "Founded in 1907 with backing from the Grand Duke of Oldenburg; built Metre boats and the Burgess-designed Atlantic one-design before turning to superyachts and naval work.", "facts": [ [ "Founders", "Georg Abeking and Henry Rasmussen" ], [ "Early work", "The 5-Metre Frisia; the Atlantic one-design from 1928" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "Atlantic one-design", "year": "from 1928", "note": "to W. Starling Burgess's design" } ], "links": { "designers": [ "burgess-starling" ], "builders": [], "classes": [ "metre-classes" ], "associations": [] }, "flags": [], "sources": [ { "t": "Abeking & Rasmussen — Wikipedia", "u": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abeking_%26_Rasmussen" } ] }, { "id": "okamoto-boatyard", "name": "Okamoto Boatyard", "sort": "Okamoto Boatyard", "sub": "Japan", "life": "dates unverified", "place": "Japan", "start": 1950, "regions": [ "asia-yards" ], "eras": [ "postwar" ], "summary": "A Japanese yard, credited in the WoodenBoat register as 'Okamoto & Son'. Kaze, a 23-ft keel sloop now racing on San Francisco Bay, came from it — an entirely unexplored thread in this atlas.", "facts": [ [ "Kaze", "23-ft keel sloop, beam 6'7\"; the WoodenBoat register gives 1951" ], [ "Now", "Still sailing on San Francisco Bay; won the Red Bra Regatta in 2025 with an all-woman crew" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "Kaze", "year": "1951 or 1956", "note": "23-ft keel sloop" } ], "links": { "designers": [], "builders": [ "cheoy-lee" ], "classes": [], "associations": [ "master-mariners" ] }, "flags": [ "Nothing else about this yard could be established — no location, dates, principals or other boats. One of the most interesting gaps in the atlas." ], "sources": [ { "t": "Kaze — WoodenBoat Register of Wooden Boats", "u": "https://www.woodenboat.com/register-wooden-boats/kaze" }, { "t": "Shellback blog — SF Bay Master Mariners", "u": "https://www.sfmastermariners.org/shellback" } ] }, { "id": "krenkel-george", "name": "George Krenkel", "sort": "Krenkel, George", "sub": "Amateur builder — Richmond, California", "life": "dates unverified", "place": "Richmond, California", "start": 1946, "regions": [ "sf-bay" ], "eras": [ "postwar" ], "summary": "Saw a J. Murray Watts gillnetter design published in Yachting in 1948, bought the blueprints, and spent fourteen years building the boat. Gold Star launched in 1960 and has since logged over 35,000 miles.", "facts": [ [ "Source of design", "Watts's plans as published in Yachting, 1948; Krenkel purchased the blueprints" ], [ "Build", "Fourteen years in Richmond, California; launched 1960" ], [ "Boat", "LOA 46 ft, LWL 36 ft, beam 7'10\"" ], [ "After", "Sold to Lawrence and Margaret Cullen in 1962, who re-rigged her with a Marconi mainsail from Watts's own bowsprit sail plan; still in the Cullen family" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "Gold Star", "year": "1960", "note": "schooner to a J. Murray Watts design" } ], "links": { "designers": [ "watts-j-murray" ], "builders": [], "classes": [], "associations": [ "master-mariners" ] }, "flags": [ "Birth and death dates not found." ], "sources": [ { "t": "Gold Star — SFYC Belvedere Classic", "u": "https://sfycbelvedereclassic.org/fleet/goldstar" }, { "t": "Gold Star Sails the Great Schooner Race — Latitude 38", "u": "https://www.latitude38.com/lectronic/gold-star-great-schooner-race/" } ] }, { "id": "millerick-brothers", "name": "Millerick Brothers", "sort": "Millerick Brothers", "sub": "Boatbuilders — San Francisco Bay Area", "life": "dates unverified", "place": "San Francisco Bay Area, California", "start": 1970, "regions": [ "sf-bay" ], "eras": [ "fiberglass" ], "summary": "Built the hull of Ruby in the 1970s. Beyond that single credit, nothing about this firm could be documented — a live research lead.", "facts": [ [ "Known work", "The hull of Ruby, completed and outfitted by her captain in San Francisco" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "Ruby (hull)", "year": "1978", "note": "" } ], "links": { "designers": [ "pryor-josh" ], "builders": [], "classes": [], "associations": [] }, "flags": [ "No independent source for this firm could be found. Location, dates and principals all unknown. Worth pursuing through the Sausalito Historical Society and Latitude 38's archive." ], "sources": [ { "t": "History — Ruby Sailing", "u": "https://www.rubysailing.com/new-page" } ] }, { "id": "cooper-charles", "name": "Charles Cooper", "sort": "Cooper, Charles", "sub": "Boatbuilder — Teynham, Kent", "life": "dates unverified", "place": "Teynham, Kent, England", "start": 1930, "regions": [ "uk" ], "eras": [ "between-wars" ], "summary": "Built the Cooper Six-Tonner to A. M. Bellingham's design — a small English keel sloop of which Philippa of 1936 appears to be an example.", "facts": [ [ "Class", "Cooper Six-Tonner, about 28 ft LOA, to A. M. Bellingham's design" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "Cooper Six-Tonner", "year": "1930s", "note": "" } ], "links": { "designers": [ "bellingham-am" ], "builders": [], "classes": [ "cooper-six-tonner" ], "associations": [] }, "flags": [ "Known only through brokerage and register listings for surviving boats." ], "sources": [ { "t": "Cooper 6 Tonner, 1936 — Boatshed", "u": "https://www.boatshed.com/cooper_6_tonner-boat-341260.html" } ] }, { "id": "marinship", "name": "Marinship", "sort": "Marinship", "sub": "Sausalito — the war that reshaped the waterfront", "life": "1942 – 1946", "place": "Sausalito, California", "start": 1942, "regions": [ "sf-bay" ], "eras": [ "war-plywood" ], "summary": "Ninety-three ships in three and a half years, twenty thousand workers, and — when it closed — the vacant waterfront that became Sausalito's houseboat community and, eventually, the home of its boatbuilding schools.", "essay": [ "The Maritime Commission telegraphed the W. A. Bechtel Company on 2 March 1942. The Sausalito site — a Northwestern Pacific Railroad repair yard on Richardson Bay — was chosen the next day, Washington approved the proposal within ten minutes of receiving it on 9 March, and construction began on 28 March after forty-two families were moved off Pine Point. The first Liberty ship, William A. Richardson, launched about six months later.", "The yard built ninety-three vessels in roughly three and a half years and set a record that still stands: the tanker Huntington Hills, built and delivered in thirty-three days in 1945. The workforce peaked around twenty thousand across three shifts, and was integrated by both race and gender at a time when little else in American industry was.", "What matters here is what happened afterwards. Black employment collapsed at closure and, because of redlining, many former workers settled in the federally built Marin City rather than Sausalito itself. The emptied waterfront filled instead with surplus barges and hulls converted into houseboats — the beginning of the community Don Arques presided over. Spaulding Marine Center, the Arques School and Hank Easom's yard all sit on ground that was Marinship." ], "facts": [ [ "Operator", "W. A. Bechtel Company for the US Maritime Commission; president Ken Bechtel" ], [ "Output", "93 vessels. Accounts differ: 15 Liberty ships, 16 fleet oilers and 62 tankers by one; 15 Liberty ships and 78 tankers by another" ], [ "Record", "The tanker Huntington Hills, built and delivered in 33 days, 1945" ], [ "Workforce", "About 20,000 at peak, on three shifts, integrated by race and gender" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "William A. Richardson", "year": "1942", "note": "first Liberty ship from the yard" }, { "name": "Huntington Hills", "year": "1945", "note": "tanker; 33 days from keel to delivery" } ], "links": { "designers": [ "easom-hank" ], "builders": [ "arques", "spaulding-boatworks", "easom-boat-works", "nunes-brothers" ], "classes": [], "associations": [ "spaulding-marine-center" ] }, "flags": [ "Closure is given as May 1946 by one source and shortly after the Japanese surrender in September 1945 by another.", "The breakdown of the 93 ships differs between two histories that agree on the total." ], "sources": [ { "t": "Marinship — Wikipedia", "u": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinship" }, { "t": "Marinship on the Fast Track — Sausalito Historical Society", "u": "https://www.sausalitohistoricalsociety.com/2019-columns/2019/1/23/marinship-on-the-fast-track" }, { "t": "Historic Context Statement: Marinship (2011) — City of Sausalito", "u": "https://www.sausalito.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/9344/636326254065130000" } ] }, { "id": "reliance-boat-ways", "name": "Reliance Boat & Ways Co.", "sort": "Reliance Boat & Ways Co.", "sub": "Second and Main, Sausalito", "life": "1920 – 1925", "place": "Sausalito, California", "start": 1920, "regions": [ "sf-bay" ], "eras": [ "between-wars" ], "summary": "Founded by William Hynes in 1920 on a small beach cove at Second and Main, and bought out five years later by the Nunes brothers — who then worked the site for thirty-four years.", "facts": [ [ "Founder", "William Hynes, 1920" ], [ "Site", "A cove at Second and Main, Sausalito, described as a labyrinth of old docks with crab and salmon boats moored against ancient pilings" ], [ "Sold", "To Manuel and Antonio Nunes in 1925" ] ], "works": [], "links": { "designers": [], "builders": [ "nunes-brothers" ], "classes": [], "associations": [] }, "flags": [ "This entry resolves an earlier open question. A predecessor firm to the Nunes brothers is sometimes given as 'Dickerhoff & Nunes'; the documented predecessor on the site is the Reliance Boat Company, founded by William Hynes." ], "sources": [ { "t": "The Early Boatyards of Sausalito — Sausalito Historical Society", "u": "http://sausalitohistorical.squarespace.com/marin-scope-columns/2012/7/23/the-early-boatyards-of-sausalito.html" } ] }, { "id": "pasquinucci", "name": "Menotti Pasquinucci", "sort": "Pasquinucci, Menotti", "sub": "Turney Street, Sausalito", "life": "1894 – c. 1955", "place": "Sausalito, California", "start": 1894, "regions": [ "sf-bay" ], "eras": [ "working-sail", "gilded-age", "between-wars", "postwar" ], "summary": "An immigrant from Viareggio who opened on Turney Street in the mid-1890s and whose family built more than seven hundred small craft over sixty years — mostly fishing boats, and some yachts.", "facts": [ [ "Founder", "Menotti Pasquinucci, of Viareggio, Italy; opened 1894–95" ], [ "Succession", "Son Frank Pasquinucci continued the yard; about sixty years in all" ], [ "Output", "More than 700 small craft, mostly fishing boats" ], [ "Yachts", "Built for San Francisco Yacht Club members, including Pagan Lady, 1907" ], [ "Related", "Salvatore Pasquinucci is credited with the 1904 sloop Kathleen, described by the Park Service as possibly the second-oldest yacht on San Francisco Bay" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "Pagan Lady", "year": "1907", "note": "" }, { "name": "Dolphin", "year": "c. 1924", "note": "sloop, later sailed by the Sausalito harbourmaster Syd Foster" } ], "links": { "designers": [], "builders": [ "nunes-brothers", "arques" ], "classes": [ "monterey-clipper" ], "associations": [ "sfyc" ] }, "flags": [ "The relationship between Menotti and Salvatore Pasquinucci is not established in the sources consulted." ], "sources": [ { "t": "The Early Boatyards of Sausalito — Sausalito Historical Society", "u": "http://sausalitohistorical.squarespace.com/marin-scope-columns/2012/7/23/the-early-boatyards-of-sausalito.html" } ] }, { "id": "easom-boat-works", "name": "Easom Boat Works", "sort": "Easom Boat Works", "sub": "Sausalito", "life": "1955 – 1989", "place": "Sausalito, California", "start": 1955, "regions": [ "sf-bay" ], "eras": [ "postwar", "fiberglass" ], "summary": "Hank Easom's yard on the old Marinship waterfront: thirty-five years of custom and cold-moulded work, including boats to Gary Mull's designs, closed in 1989 under new environmental regulation.", "facts": [ [ "Founded", "12 March 1955, the day after Easom's Coast Guard discharge" ], [ "Site", "Former Marinship waterfront, Sausalito; a further yard bought from his mentor in 1975" ], [ "Closed", "1989" ], [ "Work", "Custom and cold-moulded construction, including a 30-ft cold-moulded Gary Mull design of 1974" ] ], "works": [], "links": { "designers": [ "easom-hank", "mull-gary" ], "builders": [ "marinship" ], "classes": [], "associations": [] }, "flags": [], "sources": [ { "t": "Local Legend Hank Easom Leaves His Mark On the Bay — Latitude 38", "u": "https://www.latitude38.com/lectronic/local-legend-hank-easom-leaves-mark-bay/" } ] }, { "id": "richardson-bay-boatworks", "name": "Richardson Bay Boatworks", "sort": "Richardson Bay Boatworks", "sub": "Sausalito", "life": "1986 – present", "place": "Sausalito, California", "start": 1986, "regions": [ "sf-bay" ], "eras": [ "revival" ], "summary": "Founded in a rented shed on the Richardson Bay waterfront in 1986 by the master shipwright Ross Sommer, now run with his son — one of the working yards keeping the Bay's wooden fleet afloat.", "facts": [ [ "Founded", "1986 by Ross Sommer, master shipwright, in a small shed on the Richardson Bay waterfront" ], [ "Now", "Run with his son Andrew Sommer" ], [ "Notable work", "The Bear Unbearable, hull #60 of 1956, restored here" ] ], "works": [], "links": { "designers": [], "builders": [ "spaulding-boatworks", "nunes-brothers" ], "classes": [ "bear" ], "associations": [ "master-mariners" ] }, "flags": [ "Graham Wheelock, credited with Unbearable's restoration, could not be identified further — whether he is a shipwright at the yard or an owner working there is unresolved." ], "sources": [ { "t": "About Us — Richardson Bay Boatworks", "u": "https://www.richardsonbayboatworks.com/about" }, { "t": "Nunes Bros. Unbearable — Classic Sailboats", "u": "https://classicsailboats.org/nunes-bros-unbearable/" } ] }, { "id": "moore-dry-dock", "name": "Moore Dry Dock Company", "sort": "Moore Dry Dock Company", "sub": "Oakland Estuary", "life": "1905 – 1961", "place": "Oakland, California", "start": 1905, "regions": [ "sf-bay" ], "eras": [ "gilded-age", "between-wars", "war-plywood", "postwar" ], "summary": "The Estuary's industrial giant: more than a hundred ships in the Second World War alone, and a plans collection now at San Francisco Maritime running from 1768 to 1962.", "facts": [ [ "Founded", "1905, as Moore & Scott Iron Works, when Robert S. Moore, Joseph A. Moore and John Thomas Scott bought the National Iron Works at Hunters Point" ], [ "Moved", "To the Oakland Estuary in 1909, acquiring the W. A. Boole & Son shipyard at the foot of Adeline Street" ], [ "Renamed", "Moore Dry Dock Company, 1922" ], [ "WWII", "Over 100 ships — 82 C3 cargo ships, C2s, Ashland-class dock landing ships; 82nd among all US corporations by value of war production contracts" ], [ "Closed", "1961" ], [ "Archive", "Ship plans 1768–1962 and photographs 1878–1933, San Francisco Maritime NHP" ] ], "works": [], "links": { "designers": [ "dickie-david-w" ], "builders": [ "union-iron-works", "stone-boat-yard" ], "classes": [], "associations": [ "sf-maritime-nhp" ] }, "flags": [], "sources": [ { "t": "Moore Dry Dock Company — Wikipedia", "u": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_Dry_Dock_Company" }, { "t": "Moore Dry Dock Company ships plans, 1768–1962 — Online Archive of California", "u": "https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6d5nf1zx/" } ] }, { "id": "union-iron-works", "name": "Union Iron Works / Bethlehem San Francisco", "sort": "Union Iron Works", "sub": "Potrero Point, San Francisco", "life": "1849 – 1982 under Bethlehem", "place": "San Francisco, California", "start": 1849, "regions": [ "sf-bay" ], "eras": [ "working-sail", "gilded-age", "between-wars", "war-plywood", "postwar" ], "summary": "The only major shipbuilder on the West Coast before the Second World War, and the industrial backdrop against which every small wooden yard in this atlas operated.", "facts": [ [ "Founded", "1849 by Peter Donahue as Union Brass & Iron Works; pivoted to iron shipbuilding" ], [ "Bethlehem", "Bought by Bethlehem Steel in 1906; the Union Iron Works name kept until 1917" ], [ "Also acquired", "Risdon Iron Works, 1911; United Engineering Works, Alameda, 1916" ], [ "Notable", "The battleship USS Oregon, designed by the company's chief engineer George W. Dickie" ], [ "End", "Divested by Bethlehem in 1982, sold to the City of San Francisco for one dollar" ], [ "Archive", "Bethlehem Steel Shipbuilding Division, San Francisco records, Online Archive of California; roughly 50,000 plans at SF Maritime" ] ], "works": [], "links": { "designers": [ "dickie-david-w" ], "builders": [ "moore-dry-dock", "kneass", "anderson-cristofani" ], "classes": [], "associations": [ "sf-maritime-nhp" ] }, "flags": [ "No institutional relationship — shared ownership, apprenticeship pipeline or subcontracting — between Union Iron Works and the Bay's small wooden yards was established. Labour-history and apprenticeship records, which might show individual shipwrights moving between the two worlds, were not searched." ], "sources": [ { "t": "Bethlehem San Francisco, Union Iron Works — shipbuildinghistory.com", "u": "https://www.shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/large/bethsanfrancisco.htm" }, { "t": "Union Iron Works — Wikipedia", "u": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Iron_Works" } ] }, { "id": "dickie-brothers", "name": "Dickie Brothers / John W. Dickie & Son", "sort": "Dickie Brothers", "sub": "Potrero Point, then Alameda", "life": "1871 – 1907", "place": "San Francisco and Alameda, California", "start": 1871, "regions": [ "sf-bay" ], "eras": [ "working-sail", "gilded-age" ], "summary": "A Scottish shipbuilding family who ran two Bay yards in succession and produced, in the next generation, both the chief engineer of Union Iron Works and the naval architect whose six thousand drawings survive at San Francisco Maritime.", "facts": [ [ "Founders", "John Watson Dickie (1842–1927), Scottish-born, emigrated to San Francisco in 1870, and his brother James S. Dickie" ], [ "Dickie Bros.", "Founded 1871 at Potrero Point; failed in 1883 after an unpaid $350,000 Mexican gunboat contract" ], [ "John W. Dickie & Son", "Alameda Inner Harbor; closed 1907. A mill and shipyard at Raymond, Washington followed, 1906–07" ], [ "Next generation", "David A. Dickie (1880–1968), John W.'s son and partner; David W. Dickie, the naval architect, understood to be James S. Dickie's son; George W. Dickie, chief engineer of Union Iron Works" ] ], "works": [], "links": { "designers": [ "dickie-david-w" ], "builders": [ "union-iron-works", "stone-boat-yard" ], "classes": [], "associations": [ "sf-maritime-nhp" ] }, "flags": [ "Three men in this family were called David or George Dickie and are easily conflated. The atlas separates them; the placement of David W. as James S. Dickie's son rests on a finding-aid note." ], "sources": [ { "t": "John W. Dickie & Son records, 1900–1910 — Online Archive of California", "u": "https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8hh6mdf/entire_text/" }, { "t": "Dickie Bros. — shipbuildinghistory.com", "u": "http://shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/19thcentury/dickie.htm" } ] }, { "id": "lawley", "name": "George F. Lawley & Son", "sort": "Lawley, George F. & Son", "sub": "Scituate, South Boston, then Neponset", "life": "1866 – 1945 or 1946", "place": "Boston, Massachusetts", "start": 1866, "regions": [ "new-england" ], "eras": [ "working-sail", "gilded-age", "between-wars", "war-plywood" ], "summary": "About 1,677 hulls in eighty years, including two America's Cup defenders — the yard that was to Boston what Herreshoff was to Bristol.", "facts": [ [ "Founded", "1866 at Scituate by George F. Lawley, an English-born boatbuilder who emigrated in 1851" ], [ "Moves", "City Point, South Boston, 1874; Point Norfolk, Neponset, 1908–09" ], [ "Output", "About 1,677 hulls" ], [ "Also", "The US Navy's first airship, DN-1; naval craft in both wars" ], [ "Archive", "Lawley Family Collection, Mystic Seaport — about 500 items spanning four generations, 1839–1990" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "Puritan", "year": "1885", "note": "America's Cup defender, to Edward Burgess's design" }, { "name": "Mayflower", "year": "1886", "note": "America's Cup defender, Burgess" }, { "name": "Columbia", "year": "1895", "note": "schooner" }, { "name": "Helvetia", "year": "1891", "note": "steam yacht" } ], "links": { "designers": [ "burgess-edward", "paine-frank" ], "builders": [ "quincy-adams", "nevins" ], "classes": [], "associations": [ "mystic-seaport" ] }, "flags": [ "Closing year given as 1945 by one source and 1946 by another.", "Frank C. Paine is said to have taken a controlling interest in the yard from 1930. That is recorded in this atlas's Paine entry but was not corroborated in the yard histories consulted — worth confirming before it is treated as settled." ], "sources": [ { "t": "Geo. F. Lawley & Son — Naval Marine Archive", "u": "https://navalmarinearchive.com/sbh/shipyards/yachtsmall/lawley.html" }, { "t": "Lawley Family Collection — Mystic Seaport", "u": "https://research.mysticseaport.org/coll/coll279/" } ] }, { "id": "quincy-adams", "name": "Quincy Adams Yacht Yard", "sort": "Quincy Adams Yacht Yard", "sub": "Germantown, Quincy, Massachusetts", "life": "1932 – 1968, on a site working from 1906", "place": "Quincy, Massachusetts", "start": 1906, "regions": [ "new-england", "sf-bay" ], "eras": [ "between-wars", "war-plywood", "postwar" ], "summary": "Built most of the Yankee One Designs — including, indirectly, two boats still sailing on San Francisco Bay — and launched L. Francis Herreshoff's Ticonderoga.", "facts": [ [ "Site", "47 Palmer Street, Germantown, Quincy; now the Clipper Marina condominiums" ], [ "Yankees", "Built most of the Yankee One Design class, 1940–41, including Honey, Broomstick, Sweet 16 and Snafu" ], [ "Also", "Alden One-Designs, 1946–47; the passenger ship Buccaneer, 1941; WWII subchasers and minesweepers" ], [ "Bay link", "Flame and Flotsam, both Yankee One Designs, still sail on San Francisco Bay — Flotsam built instead at Stone Boat Yard, Alameda" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "Ticonderoga", "year": "1936", "note": "L. Francis Herreshoff's 72-ft clipper-bowed ketch, launched here" } ], "links": { "designers": [ "burgess-starling", "herreshoff-lf" ], "builders": [ "lawley", "stone-boat-yard" ], "classes": [ "yankee-one-design" ], "associations": [ "master-mariners" ] }, "flags": [ "Founding is sharply disputed: one history has the site opening in 1906 as F. D. Lawley, Inc., closing in 1929 and reopening as Quincy Adams under Harold Noyes; another gives the Quincy Adams Yacht Yard's own span as 1932–1968. Sources also disagree on whether Fred Lawley was George Lawley's son or grandson." ], "sources": [ { "t": "Quincy Adams Yacht Yard — Naval Marine Archive", "u": "https://navalmarinearchive.com/sbh/shipyards/yachtsmall/adams.html" }, { "t": "Quincy Adams Yacht Yard — Sailboatdata", "u": "https://sailboatdata.com/builder/quincy-adams-yacht-yard/" } ] }, { "id": "concordia", "name": "Concordia Company", "sort": "Concordia Company", "sub": "South Dartmouth, Massachusetts", "life": "1926 – present", "place": "South Dartmouth, Massachusetts", "start": 1926, "regions": [ "new-england" ], "eras": [ "between-wars", "postwar", "fiberglass", "revival" ], "summary": "A brokerage that became a builder, and produced 103 yawls so consistent in quality that owning one is still a form of identification.", "facts": [ [ "Founded", "1926 by Llewellyn Howland as a brokerage, named for a family whaling vessel" ], [ "Succession", "Waldo Howland took over operations in 1932, with C. Raymond Hunt, and ran the firm until selling to Bill Pinney in 1969" ], [ "Moves", "Boston to Fairhaven 1938 — the year the Great New England Hurricane struck; to South Dartmouth 2007" ], [ "Concordia yawl", "Design No. 14, introduced 1938, in production to 1966; 103 built, the last being Irene, hull 103" ], [ "Built where", "Largely by Abeking & Rasmussen in Germany, under a partnership" ], [ "Archive", "Records of Concordia Company, Mystic Seaport, 1938–2001" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "Concordia yawl", "year": "1938–1966", "note": "103 built" } ], "links": { "designers": [ "hunt-ray", "williams-fenwick" ], "builders": [ "abeking-rasmussen" ], "classes": [], "associations": [ "mystic-seaport" ] }, "flags": [ "Design credit for the Concordia yawl is given to Ray Hunt by most sources and to Fenwick Williams by at least one. This atlas records both." ], "sources": [ { "t": "Records of Concordia Company — Mystic Seaport", "u": "https://research.mysticseaport.org/coll/coll350/" }, { "t": "History — Concordia Yawls", "u": "https://concordiayawls.com/history" } ] }, { "id": "nevins", "name": "Henry B. Nevins, Inc.", "sort": "Nevins, Henry B., Inc.", "sub": "City Island, New York", "life": "1907 – 1962", "place": "City Island, New York", "start": 1907, "regions": [ "new-england" ], "eras": [ "gilded-age", "between-wars", "war-plywood", "postwar" ], "summary": "City Island's most exacting yard: Brilliant, Stormy Weather, the New York Thirty-Twos, and twenty-four minesweepers.", "facts": [ [ "Founded", "1907, when Henry B. Nevins (1878–1950) bought the Hansen boatyard; later absorbed the adjoining Byles yard" ], [ "End", "Nevins died in 1950 after a yard accident; his widow sold in 1954; the yard closed in 1962. The site is now PS 175" ], [ "Chief architect", "Charles D. Mower, postwar" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "Solita", "year": "1914", "note": "Alden yawl" }, { "name": "Brilliant", "year": "1932", "note": "Sparkman & Stephens schooner; now sail-training at Mystic Seaport" }, { "name": "Stormy Weather", "year": "1934", "note": "S&S yawl" }, { "name": "New York 32 class", "year": "1936", "note": "20 built" }, { "name": "YMS minesweepers", "year": "1942–43", "note": "24 built" } ], "links": { "designers": [ "mower-charles", "sparkman-stephens", "alden-john" ], "builders": [ "lawley" ], "classes": [], "associations": [ "mystic-seaport" ] }, "flags": [ "The Mystic Seaport finding aid for the Nevins shipyard collection returned an error when checked; the collection is believed to exist but the reference needs re-verification." ], "sources": [ { "t": "Henry B. Nevins — Naval Marine Archive", "u": "https://navalmarinearchive.com/sbh/shipyards/yachtsmall/nevins.html" }, { "t": "Henry B. Nevins — Wikipedia", "u": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_B._Nevins" } ] }, { "id": "luders-marine", "name": "Luders Marine Construction Co.", "sort": "Luders Marine Construction Co.", "sub": "Byram then Stamford, Connecticut", "life": "1908 – 1968", "place": "Stamford, Connecticut", "start": 1908, "regions": [ "new-england" ], "eras": [ "gilded-age", "between-wars", "war-plywood", "postwar" ], "summary": "Founded by Alfred Luders in 1908 and run by his son Bill, who pioneered moulded plywood there and built two America's Cup boats.", "facts": [ [ "Founded", "1908 by Alfred E. Luders at Byram, Connecticut; moved to Stamford Harbor 1912" ], [ "Closed", "1968; the site is now a marina" ], [ "Built", "The 12-Metres Weatherly (1958) and American Eagle (1964); WWII subchasers and minesweepers" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "Weatherly", "year": "1958", "note": "12-Metre; defended the America's Cup 1962" }, { "name": "American Eagle", "year": "1964", "note": "12-Metre" } ], "links": { "designers": [ "luders-bill", "rhodes-philip" ], "builders": [], "classes": [], "associations": [] }, "flags": [], "sources": [ { "t": "Luders Marine Construction — Naval Marine Archive", "u": "https://navalmarinearchive.com/sbh/shipyards/yachtsmall/luders.html" } ] }, { "id": "rice-brothers", "name": "Rice Brothers", "sort": "Rice Brothers", "sub": "East Boothbay, Maine", "life": "1894 – 1956", "place": "East Boothbay, Maine", "start": 1894, "regions": [ "new-england", "pnw", "sf-bay" ], "eras": [ "gilded-age", "between-wars", "postwar" ], "summary": "The Maine yard that built Adventuress — a boat that then spent thirty-five years working out of San Francisco.", "facts": [ [ "Founded", "Frank, William and Henry Rice began building in 1894; incorporated 1903; closed 1956" ], [ "Site", "Between what are now Washburn & Doughty and Hodgdon Yachts" ], [ "Archive", "Shipyard records at the Boothbay Region Historical Society" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "Adventuress", "year": "1913", "note": "85-ft schooner to B. B. Crowninshield's design; later a San Francisco bar pilot schooner" }, { "name": "Grayling", "year": "1915", "note": "sardine carrier" }, { "name": "Light vessels", "year": "1917–1938", "note": "for the US Lighthouse Service" } ], "links": { "designers": [ "crowninshield-bowdoin" ], "builders": [ "hodgdon" ], "classes": [], "associations": [ "nwswb" ] }, "flags": [], "sources": [ { "t": "Rice Brothers — Naval Marine Archive", "u": "https://navalmarinearchive.com/sbh/shipyards/yachtsmall/riceme.html" }, { "t": "Rice Bros. shipyard records — Boothbay Region Historical Society", "u": "https://boothbayhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Shipyard-Records-5-Rice-Bros-8-26-22.pdf" } ] }, { "id": "smith-rhuland", "name": "Smith and Rhuland", "sort": "Smith and Rhuland", "sub": "Lunenburg, Nova Scotia", "life": "1900 – 1967 or later", "place": "Lunenburg, Nova Scotia", "start": 1900, "regions": [ "new-england" ], "eras": [ "working-sail", "gilded-age", "between-wars", "postwar", "revival" ], "summary": "Two hundred and twenty-five vessels from one Lunenburg yard, including the schooner on the Canadian dime.", "facts": [ [ "Founded", "1900 by Richard W. Smith and George A. Rhuland at 280 Montague Street, Lunenburg" ], [ "Output", "More than 225 vessels, 1901–1974" ], [ "Record", "Naval Marine Archive maintains a full hull-number database for the yard" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "Bluenose", "year": "1921", "note": "hull 119; to William J. Roué's design; lost off Haiti 1946" }, { "name": "Bluenose II", "year": "1963", "note": "for the Oland family" } ], "links": { "designers": [ "roue-william", "mcmanus-thomas" ], "builders": [], "classes": [ "gloucester-schooner" ], "associations": [] }, "flags": [ "End date unresolved: one source gives 1967, but a 2005 article headlined a Nova Scotia yard closure, suggesting activity continued in some form. The site is now used as a repair yard." ], "sources": [ { "t": "Smith and Rhuland — Naval Marine Archive", "u": "https://navalmarinearchive.com/sbh/canadayards/smithandrhuland.html" } ] }, { "id": "alexander-robertson", "name": "Alexander Robertson & Sons", "sort": "Alexander Robertson & Sons", "sub": "Sandbank, Argyll", "life": "1876 – 1980", "place": "Sandbank, Argyll, Scotland", "start": 1876, "regions": [ "uk" ], "eras": [ "working-sail", "gilded-age", "between-wars", "postwar" ], "summary": "The Holy Loch yard where David Boyd spent his career, and where two America's Cup challengers were built.", "facts": [ [ "Span", "1876 to 1980" ], [ "Designer", "David Boyd joined at the end of 1929 and became the yard's principal postwar designer" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "Sceptre", "year": "1958", "note": "12-Metre America's Cup challenger" }, { "name": "Sovereign", "year": "1963", "note": "12-Metre challenger" } ], "links": { "designers": [ "boyd-david" ], "builders": [ "camper-nicholsons" ], "classes": [ "metre-classes" ], "associations": [] }, "flags": [], "sources": [ { "t": "Alexander Robertson & Sons — Wikipedia", "u": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Robertson_%26_Sons" } ] }, { "id": "borresen", "name": "Børresen Bådebyggeri", "sort": "Borresen Badebyggeri", "sub": "Vejle, Denmark", "life": "from the mid-1930s", "place": "Vejle, Denmark", "start": 1935, "regions": [ "scandinavia", "sf-bay" ], "eras": [ "between-wars", "postwar", "fiberglass" ], "summary": "Three hundred and twenty-five wooden Dragons and a hundred and forty Knarrs from one Danish yard — which means a good many of the Knarrs racing on San Francisco Bay were built here.", "facts": [ [ "Founders", "The brothers Børge and Albert Børresen; first Dragon built 1935–36, apprenticeships completed 1938" ], [ "Sites", "Dragevej on Vejle Fjord; a second yard at Brønsodde, the former Ustrup Shipyard, from 1962" ], [ "Scale", "325 wooden Dragons — 30 a year at peak in the early 1960s, with a workforce of about thirty; 140 Knarrs; 40 Finn dinghies for the 1952 Helsinki Olympics" ], [ "Recognition", "Royal Warrant Holder from 1967, after Crown Prince Constantine of Greece won Olympic gold in a Børresen Dragon in 1960" ], [ "Material", "Moved to fibreglass in 1971" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "Dragons", "year": "1936–1971", "note": "325 in wood" }, { "name": "Knarrs", "year": "—", "note": "140" } ], "links": { "designers": [ "anker-johan", "kristofersen-erling" ], "builders": [ "anker-jensen" ], "classes": [ "dragon", "knarr" ], "associations": [] }, "flags": [ "Knarr production began in Norway at the Grimsøykilen and Kilen yards before Børresen took it up; total Knarr production is given as about 450 boats.", "No Folkboat production by this yard was confirmed." ], "sources": [ { "t": "Børge Børresen — a life for the Dragon — swedesail.de", "u": "https://swedesail.de/en/borge-borresen-a-life-for-the-dragon/" }, { "t": "Knarr (keelboat) — Wikipedia", "u": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knarr_(keelboat)" } ] }, { "id": "arendals", "name": "Arendals Yard, Gothenburg", "sort": "Arendals Yard", "sub": "Gothenburg, Sweden", "life": "first Folkboat 1941–42", "place": "Gothenburg, Sweden", "start": 1941, "regions": [ "scandinavia" ], "eras": [ "war-plywood" ], "summary": "Where the first Nordic Folkboat was built — keel laid in October 1941, launched on 23 April 1942, clinker-planked.", "facts": [ [ "The boat", "Construction of the first Folkboat began at Arendals in October 1941 and she was launched the following spring, 23 April 1942" ], [ "Construction", "Clinker wood" ] ], "works": [ { "name": "Nordic Folkboat No. 1", "year": "1942", "note": "" } ], "links": { "designers": [ "sunden-tord" ], "builders": [ "borresen" ], "classes": [ "nordic-folkboat" ], "associations": [] }, "flags": [ "Folkboat production spread to many builders from 1942; early Scandinavian production yards beyond Arendals were not identified." ], "sources": [ { "t": "Nordic Folkboat — Wikipedia", "u": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Folkboat" } ] } ]