The Sonia was built right here in Gig Harbor in 1928, at Skansie Shipyard, for my father in law. She was a 68 foot seiner and he fished with her in Alaska and on Puget Sound. He died when my hubby was 7 1/2 and his mother chartered her out in order to make enough money to live on. Finally, when my hubby was old enough, he took over as captain. By then, laws had changed and he couldn't fish with her in Alaska, because only a boat with a 58 foot keel length or less could seine there. He ran her as a tender in Kodiak and fished with her in the San Juans. In the 70's he had a local shipwright help him remove the old house in one piece and another friend with a boom truck help haul it up to our yard where the kids sailed many a sea from their ship of dreams.
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