Here are images of the natural world of the Pacific Northwest, and of sailing in New England, including a voyage aboard the U.S.S. Constitution. I wandered, sailed, hiked and backpacked around the Pacific Northwest before coming to New England. Up in Maine I found a small British built cutter and renamed it TATOOSH. In the Chinook language of the Northwest, Tatoosh is the name of the Thunderbird. The legendary home of this mythological creature is Tatoosh Island which is just offshore of Cape Flattery on the Washington coast - the northwestern most point of the contiguous United States.
TATOOSH sails on Buzzard's Bay with a new owner while TATOOSH2, having spent two years in Ventura, California, finally made it to New England - not to Boston - but a bit further north to Manchester by-the-Sea and Crocker's Boat Yard. There TATOOSH2 had a new new engine and a 3 blade folding propeller installed. Although not planned a new shaft and coupling were also installed. Somehow - somewhere - the old shaft got bent as evidenced by the very scary vibration when TATOOSH was first launched. Relaunched - and without vibration - TATOOSH sailed down to Boston Harbor and her new home at Constitution Marina in Charlestown.
TATOOSH2 has been sold, and now there is PEREGRINA!
Formerly Andiamo, JOLLY MOON and several other names, PEREGRINA is a Stevens Custom 40 we found up in Eliot, Maine, a bit up river from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. A Sparkman & Stephens design, the Stevens Custom 40 is a smaller version of the much more numerous Stevens 47. Only ten of these boats were built. PEREGRINA is Spanish for "pilgrim" or "the wanderer" and we expect she will live up to her new name!
Cutter rigged with a lot a space below deck and a true bluewater boat, she needed much work at Patten's Yacht Yard, but she is now in Boston and our new home at Constitution Marina.
I have thrown in some information about my friend Webb Chiles who has finished his fourth circumnavigation and now divides his time between a condo in Chicago and The HAWKE of Tounela currently in New Zealand.
Webb has put together a great new website InThePresentSea which I highly recommend you visit.
There is other interesting stuff - so please look around - there is always more to come!
Tatoosh Island
Legends of the Thunderbird
from the Quillayute and Hoh tribes
S.V. TATOOSH
- and her Refit
Gaff Sloop SKYE
A very classic wooden boat.
Coastal Images
Images of Nature
After the Storm
Exploits of the
Steam Tug Tatoosh
Maritime Disasters
at
Tatoosh Island
Captain Chris
and the
Orcas Belle
Aboard the U.S.S Constitution
During her voyage from
Marbelhead back to Boston.
Some Interesting Links
- and other stuff!
