Mountain boat to Port Townsend

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“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.