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Sailing the West Coast: C.A. Thayer
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C.A. ThayerDates & Times
Date:
Sunday, November 18, 2018
Time:
12:30 PM
Duration:
2 hours and 30 minutes
Description
Explore the wooden sailing vessel, C.A. Thayer, and learn about her many lives during the past century. Visitors can go below deck to experience a beautiful example of the craft of wooden shipbuilding. Open house and guided tours available.
About C.A. Thayer
About C.A. Thayer
Thayer is fairly typical of West Coast, three-masted lumber schooners in size (219' extreme) and cargo capacity (575,000 board feet). She carried about half of her load below; the remaining lumber was stacked ten feet high on deck, and secured with chain (as illustrated in this 1912 photo). In port, her small crew (eight or nine men) served double-duty as longshoremen; unloading 75,000 to 80,000 board feet was an average day's work.
After sustaining serious damage during a heavy, southeasterly gale, C.A. Thayer's lumber trade days ended in an Oakland shipyard, in 1912. But it was really the rise of steam power, and not the wind, that pushed her into a new career.
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