We must have grown up on the same pond: Puget Sound and PNW. My family had a 36' Richardson and then my dad sold it and built a 47' BILL GARDEN designed trawler type. Twin GM diesels, alaska cedar on oak, etc. T'was a beautiful cruiser the family took every summer waaaaaaaaaaaaay faaar North in BC. Golden summers! Bill Garden was the premier boat designer for the NW and lived on Toad Island in Sydney, BC. after starting out in Seattle. He is considered one of the best navel architects of his time. And our boat, and no doubt your's, proved it. "Sea-kindly" was his description for his trawlers and they certainly were. Smooth sailing to you!

@@crowdog56 Wow....now that's a coincidence! Our Garden ship was built at the old Tacoma Shipyards. We belonged to the Tacoma Yacht Club. Like you, we went pretty far north which to this day is some of the best memories of my life. I've rented places in the Gulf Islands for vacays over the years and loved the memories of all that. We would keep our boat at the Old Scott's Point Marina on Salt Spring (now part of Vancouver Yacht Club) for a month every summer while dad went back to Tacoma to see patients. What a dream.

@@stephenacs Hah- also TYC! Dad Bud Banfield, Commodore in '67. Boat was built at Starlet who also built two 42' at TYC owned by Burns Brown and Gordy Stevens. Ours launched in '64, dad died in '78 and boat was sold in '82- to a Canadian couple. Spent a month at camp on Thetis Island and learned to sail. Learned to waterski in Shell Beach. You and I were very fortunate to have such wonderful experiences heading Up North in the Summers! Halcyon days...

@@crowdog56 I’m dying here my dad was (Dr) Bob Browning. We were great friends of the Burns Brown family. I had a silly crush on their daughter Nancy. We lived at Stevens and 45th and I attended Charles Wright, my sister graduated from Wilson. Our summers land based were at my grandparents on Mission Beach near Marysville. Also spent a lot of time on Ketron Island as our friends the Morris Family owned and developed here (and I think went broke as a result…). BTW, the Tacoma Lion’s Club used our boat for the Daffodil boat parade. My sister and I always had to dress in costume and wave from the deck…ha,

@@crowdog56 BTW, I remember Bud Banfield. He and my dad were friends. My dad was fleet surgeon around ‘64 I think.

Don't try this at home.🙂

Sad story! Sorry to hear about your grandmother and the boat- tragic both! Those Connies were beauties and I would buy a mid to late 50''s in a heartbeat. If I was in the market, that is. Too old now and live too far from good water'.

jewish lightning, haha.

​@@askikr79yeah, because antisemitism is just so funny. Haha.

Despite a history of intense frugality, there is no aphorism of Presbyterian lightning. No one grins over Bhuddist lightning. Could there be a kernel of truth in that most common expression?

Thank you!