Co-founder of Wilmington Boat Works and author of the Sea Witch — the clipper-bowed gaff ketch that became the West Coast's romantic cruising archetype and is still being built.
- Yard
- Co-founded Wilmington Boat Works, 400 Yacht Street, Wilmington, in 1920 with Willard Buchanan and Tom Smith
- Sea Witch
- Designed and built c. 1937–41; later redrawn below the waterline by Charlie Davies
- Production
- Later runs built by American Marine and by Cheoy Lee in Hong Kong
- c. 1937Sea Witch ketch — 34 to 42 ft; still in production and replica build
Sourcing notes & unresolved questions
- Birth and death years not found. One source names the original builder as 'Wilbo' — almost certainly a contraction of Wilmington Boat Works, but stated here as found rather than corrected.
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