Steinbeck's famed Western Flyer sails back to Monterey after restoration
The Western Flyer will be escorted to Monterey and begin a new life offering science education programs for local students and marine research.
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The Western Flyer will be escorted to Monterey and begin a new life offering science education programs for local students and marine research.
His childhood dream was rooted in Steinbeck’s Cannery Row. $7 million later, he owned a piece of it: the 1937 sardine boat that had plied the Sea of Cortez.
The Western Flyer will be escorted to Monterey and begin a new life offering science education programs for local students and marine research.
ED RICKETTS AND JOHN STEINBECK WERE, IN STEINBECK’S OWN WORDS, “OBVIOUSLY RIDICULOUS” WITH THEIR 1940 IDEA OF A SIX-WEEK-LONG EXPEDITION TO THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA. No wonder that when they
Gregg’s checking out “The Log From the Sea of Cortez” back in 1969 is just one of many serendipitous and ironic events surrounding the Western Flyer and its restoration from fishing vessel to floating marine science classroom.