Schooner C.A. Thayer at 111

Article May 21, ‘06 in San Francisco Chronicle about $12-15 million restoration progress and relaunch of the 111-year-old, 219 foot tall ship schooner C. A. Thayer:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/05/21/BAGGUIVIRI1.DTL

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