Wooden Boat AtlasDesigners, builders & classes · v3.0

Atlas / Builders & Yards

1951 – present · Sausalito, California

Spaulding Boatworks / Spaulding Marine Center

600 Gate Five Road, Sausalito

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.

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
  • 1951–presentRestoration and maintenance of the Bay wooden fleet
  • completed 2006Spaulding 28 'Arete' — begun by Myron Spaulding in 1958

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