Maria

This is  what the Maria looked like in the 1970's....before the guys added "tophouses". It looks like summer and with the skiff up, I've no doubt my hubby was headed to the salmon banks for a little sockeye fishing. She's a wood boat, so of course there is constant maintenance, and a friend posted this video she took on facebook of the Maria getting a few new planks. The shipwright is a native Tacoman, Mike Vlahovich, who has worked on many a boat from the west coast all the way to the east coast, mainly on Chesapeake Bay, restoring the old skipjacks. By the time this work was done, my hubby had passed away and our middle son was the one who over saw the job. I will be forever grateful to my sons for being there for me.