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45-foot Flush-Deck Motoryacht Built in 1966

43-foot Trunk-Cabin Motoryacht Built in 1930

SSS Chaser was originally commissioned as the M/V Albacore for the California Department of Fish and Game in Southern California. She was used as a patrol boat and later as a research vessel. In 1986, the ship was donated to the Napa Sea Scouts. As SSS Chaser, she has cruised the West Coast of North … Read more

75-foot Nova Scotia Fishing Schooner

25-foot RIB

100-foot Dinner cruise motoryacht

Flagship of the Hornblower Cruises fleet. Capacity 600 passengers.

Served the coastal lumber routes between California and Washington, with occasional lumber voyages to Mexico, Hawaii, and Fiji. Switched to fishing in 1912, as steam schooners took over the lumber trade. She was the last large commercial sailing ship on the West Coast at the time of her retirement in 1950. She's been part of … Read more

Brigadoon was built as Joann in 1924 by the Britt Brothers in Lynn, MA. She is the first design by L. Francis Herreshoff, son of Nat Herreschoff. She sailed on the East Coast under various owners during the 1920s,1930s and 1940s. Sterling Hayden, sailor, actor, and writer renamed the boat Brigadoon of Booth Bay and … Read more

Gaff-Rigged Ketch

378-foot Coast Guard Cutter