Tamales Bay and the Matinicus Double-Ender

[Slice]

I wanted share with the board some photos of my father’s Matinicus Double-Ender (peapod), Tomales Bay and several other gorgeous boats. This boat is named Layla and these photos were taken a few years ago on a TSCA (Traditional Small Craft Association – Sacramento Chapter) camping trip to Tamales Bay. The bay epitomizes this boats history and tradition, and suits it grandly.

Sailing and rowing this bay I felt like Sir Francis Drake or Jack London and couldn’t help but wonder what it felt like to see it then. I imagine it was not too much different, maybe harder to take game nowadays… but easier to acquire oysters!

Res Ipsa Loquitur.

Jim

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A sailor is born, not made. And by "sailor" is meant, not the average efficient and hopeless creature who is found to-day in the forecastle of deepwater ships, but the man who will take a fabric compounded of wood and iron and rope and canvas and compel it to obey his will on the surface of the sea. Barring captains and mates of big ships, the small-boat sailor is the real sailor. J. London

[Larry S]

Jim,
One sees many of these on the New England coast; beautiful crafts and can cost a
pretty penny or so. Looks like you are training that good looking young lass to do
all the work setting up camp while you guys are sitting around swapping lies. Hope
you're teaching her how to sail, as well.
Best,
Larry S

[Slice]

Thanks Larry, I have to say she seems to have more fun setting up the tent and poking dead jellys with a stick than sailing.

Surprisingly, the craft was a pretty resonable build, and dad using it with my mom ALOT and taking the grandkids out is priceless. I think the maintenance is what would get you but hes pretty handy with the wood.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Looks like 100 years ago...............nice.

[BobVP]

I grew up on Tomales Bay (Inverness Park) and when I say "grew up on..." I mean it almost literally. My brothers and I built boats and rafts and fished and hunted....camped on Hog Island and remote beaches...fished all night at times and pushed our boats through the mud flats before dawn to hunt. One of the four of us was on the water of either Papermill Creek or the bay almost everyday of the summer and lots and lots of days of the winter months as well.

Nice to see every now and then. I feel blessed to have been raised in that place.

[Slice]

Wow, Bob, I'm not sure there is a better place to grow up. Thats really cool.

I grew up on Mt Diablo, with my backyard the park. I know every sqare inch of that place. Pretty poor fishing though, haha, i actally still tried.

Tomales Bay would be an amazing place to grow up. How has it changed since you were a kid?

[Dabalone]

Something magic about that bay, inspires nothing but good thoughts. Spent a lot of time over the years around the mouth diving for abalone and inside the bay spearfishing halibut, in between those activities I found a real calmness while there. Beautiful boat, if it were to pass by you inside the bay your thoughts could easily transport you back in time.