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Boat made famous by Steinbeck: Western Flyer Foundation names executive director
Monteray Herald,The Western Flyer Foundation has named its first executive director who will oversee the administrative role of the famed fishing boat’s new…
View Full ArticleBoat Steinbeck made famous is headed home
By Chris Counts, The Carmel Pine Cone,IF ALL goes according to plan, a boat that was immortalized in books by John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts, the Western Flyer, will make its long-awaited return to Monterey
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Return of the Western Flyer
By Paul Molyneaux, National Fisherman,After a seven-year rebuild at the Port Townsend Shipwright’s Co-op, the Western Flyer, splashed again on June 29 of this year.
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Monterey County Weekly,The Western Flyer, the fishing boat that John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts, along with others, piloted down to the Gulf of California in 1940…
View Full ArticlePort Townsend bids farewell to Western Flyer
By Brian Kelly, The Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader, View Full ArticleWestern Flyer Foundation Appoints Sherry Flumerfelt As Executive Director
Western Flyer Foundation hires first executive director in preparation for the purse seiner’s arrival in Monterey this fall Moss Landing, CA (7-July-2022) – The Board of Directors of the Western […]
View Full ArticleWestern Flyer sails again
By Paula Hunt, Peninsula Daily News,Boat made famous by John Steinbeck has been under restoration in Port Townsend
View Full ArticleRestoring and relaunching the WESTERN FLYER
By Leo Goolden, Sampson Boat Co.,Video featuring the Western Flyer’s return to the water in Port Townsend on June 29th, 2022.
View Full ArticleA piece of western Washington literary history heads back to sea
By Eric Wilkinson, King5 News,The Western Flyer was built in Tacoma and chartered by John Steinbeck when he wrote ‘The Log from the Sea of Cortez.’
View Full Article“…open the page… let the stories crawl in by themselves”
This school year, students in Monterey County were invited “…to open the page and to let the stories crawl in by themselves” (John Steinbeck, Cannery Row), in the Western Flyer […]
View Full ArticleNorthwest Now – Featuring the Western Flyer
PBS,The Western Flyer was made famous when legendary writer John Steinbeck set sail on her inspiring him to write two books about his famous voyage. On this edition of Northwest Now we take a closer look at the restoration of this historic boat.
View Full ArticleMonterey Bay, An Incredible Classroom
Educational programs to be carried out on the Western Flyer in Monterey Bay are currently being developed through a collaboration of Western Flyer Foundation, Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University, […]
View Full ArticleThe boat Western Flyer, of Steinbeck lore, is returning to Monterey, but more money is needed to make it a home.
By David Schmalz, Monterey County Weekly,After it’s outfitted with scientific equipment in Moss Landing next winter, the restored Western Flyer will take a journey to a familiar location: the Sea of Cortez.
View Full ArticleWestern Flyer takes another step in restoration
By Tom Leyde, Monterey Herald,Purse seiner used by Steinbeck and Ricketts for Sea of Cortez voyage
View Full ArticleWatch the Western Flyer get put back together again.
Monterey County Weekly,This 14-minute video shows the original wheelhouse being re-installed on Dec. 4.
View Full Article“Inspire me a bit.”
A roundabout giving appeal, and Ed Ricketts’s roundabout approach to ecology. In 1940, Jack Calvin wrote a long letter to Ed Ricketts, urging him to come to Sitka on a […]
View Full ArticleWestern Flyer Restoration Episode 35
The original wheelhouse is installed back onto the Western Flyer.
View Full ArticleHunt for a lost book from the Ed Ricketts collection
In this episode of Stories, Shorts, and Outtakes, we hear from Don Kohrs, head librarian at the Harold A. Miller Library of Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station. Don tells the […]
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