The first phase of restoring the Western Flyer fishing boat is nearing completion in Port Townsend, Washington, and its return to Monterey is tentatively set for next fall. The 76-foot purse seiner ...
The original captain’s desk sits in the wheelhouse, where legendary author John Steinbeck may have jotted notes for his Log from the Sea of Cortez. A guy wire like the one he wrote would “sing under ...
MONTEREY — Eighty-five years ago, to the week, the Western Flyer set sail for the Gulf of California. Amongst the crew were renowned author John Steinbeck and marine biologist Ed Ricketts, taking on ...
In 2023, a boat made famous for chartering Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck and his best friend, Marine Biologist Ed "Doc" Ricketts, from Monterey to the Gulf of California on a marine ...
WEEKEND. ACTION NEWS 8' CHRISTIAN BALDERAS HAS MORE. #### THIS IS THE WESTERN FLYER'S NEW CHANCE AT LIFE... <THIS IS SUCH AN INCREDIBLE COMEBACK STORY.> THE 1930'S VESSEL WAS A FISHING ...
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Western Flyer from Steinbeck’s Sea of Cortez returns to Gulf of California after 85 years
A fishing vessel that was built during the Monterey Bay's sardine boom and made famous by a Nobel Prize-winning author will return to the site of its former glory after 85 years. The Western Flyer, a ...
Originally built in 1937 in Tacoma, Washington, the Western Flyer was a state-of-the-art sardine seiner that became a symbol of American literature and environmental awareness after Steinbeck and ...
When 10-year-old John Gregg checked out a copy of John Steinbeck’s “The Log From the Sea of Cortez” from a bookmobile in his rural coastal Georgia town he had no idea he would one day buy the Western ...
The Western Flyer, a fishing vessel made famous by John Steinbeck's book "The Sea of Cortez," is returning to the Gulf of California after 85 years. The renovated vessel will retrace Steinbeck's ...
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