Kettenburg Boat Works

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.

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

• 1926Alden-designed 22-ft sloop — built under commission
• from 1929PC class
• from 1949K-38 — 36 built