West Coast and SF Bay

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capta

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Jun 4, 2009
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Pearson 530 Admiralty Bay, Bequia SVG
Has anyone seen a 65' gaff ketch by the name of Seafarer? She is a Wm. Hand design built in Taunton Mass in 1909 with a bronze seahorse for a figurehead and three bronze seahorses cast as the binnacle stand.
I sailed her in the South Seas in the 70's and she was shipped back to SF after I sold her and I lost track of her.
If anyone knows the boat, please try to get an email address from the owner as I'd like to say hi.
Thank you.
 

capta

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Jun 4, 2009
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Pearson 530 Admiralty Bay, Bequia SVG
OK, I guess I didn't give a clear description, sorry.
It is a wooden boat, with wooden masts and the main mast is a tree. She is a classic, should sail in any local classic regattas and would turn heads anywhere. Gaff rigged main and Marconi mizzen.
She has all bronze stanchions and big beautiful carved varnished boards on the stern with her name and home port, San Francisco.
Her wheel is varnished wood and the binnacle came off a clipper ship wrecked off Boston in the 1890's with 2 oil lamps to light it.
This is not a modern looking cruising boat, with all the bells and whistles, it is a heavy displacement, beamy boat with a lot of shear, an elliptical stem, a long varnished bowsprit and a varnished boomkin.
 
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