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Spike was built in 1977 in Costa Mesa, CA. Her designer, builder and original owner, Bob Sloan, was a prominent skipper, a shipwright and a leading figure in the working boat industry of the Pacific Ocean. Bob designed her after the iconic freighting schooners of two hundred years ago that are her forebearers and named her for his friend and mentor, Spike Africa the self-proclaimed “President of the Pacific Ocean”. Bob and his schooner worked hauling freight up and down the West Coast of the Americas and many times across the Pacific. She is the last coasting schooner with a proud history of carrying America’s goods across the world’s oceans. Her every detail combines beauty and grace with sturdy seaworthiness. It is this harmony of form and function that gives Spike her timeless elegance. She starred in the 1990 film “Joe vs. the Volcano”, and has appeared in the television shows “Baywatch” and “Hotel”, and numerous national advertising campaigns.
Friday Harbor, Washington on San Juan Island is now her home port, where she will soon be offering sailing adventures throughout the waters of the Northwest! Please call for more information, 360 378-2224.
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