A Global Map of Human Impacts to Marine Ecosystems, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, study released 15 February 2008

Salt-Water Fish Extinction Seen By 2048, CBS News, 3 November 2006
Study By Ecologists, Economists Predicts Collapse of World Ocean Ecology

“And then he said it was a steel boat. And then he said it was sitting on top of a mountain.”

The boat started as a dream for Steve Dundas … a fan of the famous boat designer John Alden, who started his design business in the early 20th century. Dundas settled on a schooner design that Alden came up with in 1932.

The boat is 48 1/2 feet long and weighs nearly 50,000 pounds. It was too heavy for a trailer that could be brought up the narrow dirt road, plus the road was too winding and tilted to handle a trailer anyway.

Dundas has made arrangements for a marine transport company to pick the boat up on Tuesday, and then she’s off to Port Townsend, Wash., where Steve and Guthrie will spend the next few weeks getting her rigged up.

from the article …

The Thayer has been rebuilt from the keel up — “she is almost like a new ship,'’ said William Elliott, general manager of Bay Ship and Yacht Co. His shipyard is doing the work under contract to the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, which owns the old vessel, a national historic landmark in its own right.

The project, which has taken more than two years and cost between $12 million and $15 million so far, is one the largest and most complicated restoration jobs on a wooden vessel in U.S. history. When the shipyard work is done and the Thayer returns to the Hyde Street Pier in San Francisco this summer, the 219-foot-long ship will still not have its three masts in place, and much additional deck work will need to be done.

The Thayer worked from the day it was launched at the shipyard of Hans Bendixsen on Humboldt Bay in 1895 until its last working voyage in 1950.

Several Flickr photos of C.A. Thayer:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=c+a+thayer

National Park Service home page for C.A. Thayer:
http://www.nps.gov/safr/local/thayer.html

Also at National Park Service, San Francisco, the Tyne River steam sidewheel paddle tug Eppleton Hall, which was restored in England and steamed to California:
http://www.nps.gov/safr/local/eppie.html

Our source for Olympic Peninsula marine and nautical sites and links are available on the the boats, coast, sound and strait pages at Olyoo.

Or, try the search for boat or yacht.

Chittagong, shipbreaking photo shoot in Bangladesh: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/locations/ship-breaking.shtml

Edward Burtynsky - Shipbreaking images: http://www.cowlesgallery.com/burtynsky/shipbreaking.html

Via manunderstress.com:
http://manunderstress.com/2006/01/06/ship-breaking/