Veteran Fishing Boat
The Skansie purse seiner Veteran, launched in 1926, is a beautifully restored sample of one of the most recognized and significant vessel designs to have originated from Gig Harbor, Washington.. One of over 100 purse seiners constructed during the 1920s and 1930s at the Skansie Ship Building Company, Veteran and her sister ships were widely recognized as the state-of-the-art purse seiners of their day. Veteran and sister ship, Avalon, were retained and operated by the Skansie family which, like many Gig Harbor pioneer families, commercially fished for salmon and bottom fished in the waters of Washington State. The Veteran has been carefully maintained to preserve the original design and character and is still able to participate in today’s commercial salmon fishery. Veteran was donated to the Gig Harbor Boat Shop in 2017.
I do not know the small sloop (maybe a pelican sailboat). I think the cutter with the long bowsprit is Ziska, a Lancashire Nobby built in 1903. Designed as a working vessel but finished as a yacht, she probably had a design inspired by racing yachts. Back then, getting the catch to market first and cashing in always was a race. The boat behind the flags is Katie M, built at Port Townsend’s Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building. She was launched in 2009 as a reproduction of a working catboat from the late 1800’s. Katie’s predecessors would have been used for fishing in the shallow waters along the coast of new England.
I took this photo at Port Townsend's 2022 Wooden Boat Festival. woodenboat.org/plan-your-visit/
Veteran Fishing Boat
The Skansie purse seiner Veteran, launched in 1926, is a beautifully restored sample of one of the most recognized and significant vessel designs to have originated from Gig Harbor, Washington.. One of over 100 purse seiners constructed during the 1920s and 1930s at the Skansie Ship Building Company, Veteran and her sister ships were widely recognized as the state-of-the-art purse seiners of their day. Veteran and sister ship, Avalon, were retained and operated by the Skansie family which, like many Gig Harbor pioneer families, commercially fished for salmon and bottom fished in the waters of Washington State. The Veteran has been carefully maintained to preserve the original design and character and is still able to participate in today’s commercial salmon fishery. Veteran was donated to the Gig Harbor Boat Shop in 2017.
I do not know the small sloop (maybe a pelican sailboat). I think the cutter with the long bowsprit is Ziska, a Lancashire Nobby built in 1903. Designed as a working vessel but finished as a yacht, she probably had a design inspired by racing yachts. Back then, getting the catch to market first and cashing in always was a race. The boat behind the flags is Katie M, built at Port Townsend’s Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building. She was launched in 2009 as a reproduction of a working catboat from the late 1800’s. Katie’s predecessors would have been used for fishing in the shallow waters along the coast of new England.
I took this photo at Port Townsend's 2022 Wooden Boat Festival. woodenboat.org/plan-your-visit/