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Album #2 A photobiography

7a. 1974 Thesis, 35' Choey Lee Lion, teak. Bought my first boat in Sausalito. Owned it for a couple months, sailed it to Santa Barbara. Sold it and...

7b. 1974 our Thiesis @ Ned's rickity dock in Sausalito. With cash in my hand, Carol and I sailed to Hawaii, but luckily we made it to Santa...

7c. 1974 Carol on Thesis Boom in San Fracisco Bay

7d. 1976 I began buiding the Daedalus about mid '75. 14 months later I'm removing the mold from the Daedalus. Party time!

7e. 1976, Carol on her way to class at UCSB

7f. 1976 Carol's '57 Morris Minor Woodie. Her ride to class.

7g.1977 Carol & Fred working away. 30 Months from scratch to launch. If you take a couple days off it becomes 15 years. I also, worked full time at...

7h. 1977 Yessir that's my baby. Note the under water port hole.

7i.1977 The Santa Barbara fire after traveling several miles north burning hundreds of homes it almost reached the boatyard. With ashes falling on...

7j 1977, two days before launch. That cradle Carol is unbolting were two basketball backboard supports, I salvaged.

7k. 1977 The Daedalus trucking on the beach road to the Santa Barabara Municipal Marina launch ramp at up to 32 knots. That's us on the deck. I had...

8a. 1978 Carol low tide Morro Bay. That was our 1st stop on our way back to SF. Those are oysters on the left, many 1000's of them. Carol just steped...

9a. 1979 remote Magdelena Bay, Baha. We tried to dig up that whale jaw bone. It weighed hundreds of pounds, so we sadly gave up. That whale bone...

9b. 1979 Magdalena Bay, Baha, sea shell collecting. This was way up the north western corner of Mag Bay That road was an old whaling station road...

9c. 1979 Magdalena Bay, A big uh oh, surprise. Upon our return a fishing boat (With no fishing gear?) was anchored up close to us in a very isolated...

9d. 1979 An absolutely beautiful wrought iron VW in Puerto Vallarta. I wanted to put just the body on my deck, but could not find the owner. Oh boy!

10a. 1981 Carol @ Bean Hollow. This was previously a 10 acre pheasant hatchery right on the beach, half way between SF and Santa Cruz.. It was now an...

10b. 1981 moving Daedalus from Bean Hollow to Half Moon Bay Harbor, Pillor point. Then around SF down the bay to Pete's Harbor, Redwood City. I had...

10c. 1982 Carol, hood ornament on our old Bentley at Pete's harbor. The Calif. Hwy Patrol were not amused at all. Even when I explained that I could...

10d. 1982 Carol's map. 4,400 miles SF to Mississippi then on to the semi-tropical, warm water, seafood galore, white sandy bays and bayous of Coastal...

11a. 1983 A 25 knot breeze in protected waters...Joy...! At sea in heavy weather, the Daedalus just bounds along. She was just right and way over...

11b.1983 Fred at Cabo San Lucas, looking at Joshua.

11c. 1983 Salvaged Bernard Moitessier's Joshua at Cabo San Lucas. photo from the deck of the Daedalus. Hurricane John bashed Cabo in Dec '82, before...

11d. 1983 Carol, Panama Canal. We wer fortunate that the Canal took Visa, or we would have had to go around the horn. They charged u8s $100 and...

11e 1983 Daedalus headed North West to the Carribean thru the Panama Canal. Yes, NW.

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