Gig Harbor (Wash.) Visitors Guide 2018
Annual visitors guide for Gig Harbor, Washington. A co-production from the Peninsula Gateway and City of Gig Harbor.
Annual visitors guide for Gig Harbor, Washington. A co-production from the Peninsula Gateway and City of Gig Harbor.
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The cover: A beloved Thunderbird sails the harbor<br />
In 1957, the Douglas Fir Plywood Association mailed a challenge to area boat designers and boatbuilders: Build a plywood<br />
sailboat that could race and cruise, sleep four, be built by reasonably skilled amateurs, be powered by an outboard engine,<br />
and outperform other sailboats. Ben Seaborn, a notable yacht designer of the period, took on the challenge, along with Ed<br />
Hoppen and Eddon Boat Company employees Herb Schuey and Phil Manley. Together, they worked through the details during<br />
the construction of the first. Thunderbirds No. 2 and No. 3 — Pirouette and Windsong — built simultaneously at Eddon Boat<br />
Company can be viewed as the true prototype T-Birds as some details were modified for subsequent boats. Those two boats<br />
defined the building plans that were used by homebuilders. Today, there are more than 1,000 Thunderbirds worldwide with fleets<br />
in Australia and the United States. The original Thunderbird is at the <strong>Harbor</strong> History Museum. Pirouette was purchased by the<br />
<strong>Gig</strong> <strong>Harbor</strong> BoatShop and lovingly restored at the Eddon Boatyard by talented volunteers. It is used for the Community Sailing<br />
Program at the BoatShop. Photograph by Chance Busey. Photo taken at the LeMans Regatta on Nov. 16, 2017.<br />
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