The 80’s & more Changes in Ownership

Sometime in the early eighties, as best we can ascertain, Curlew was sold once again to one Steven King, not the author, who we have been told sailed her to Hawaii to do interisland charters. We do know that in the mid 1980s, after a voyage to San Francisco, the well traveled Curlew was found to be in need of extensive repairs... By then it appears she had been repossessed by a bank, and had been placed in dry storage in a Quonset hut.

Curlew was discovered in 1985 by Pat and Marlene Russell, and shipped to Bainbridge Island in the sate of Washington, for repairs. By late October, 1990, Curlew, after an extensive restoration, began her journey from Bainbridge Island WA, where the restoration was to done, to Long Beach her new home. With a crew of four, including Pat, Bobby Wiesa, Marinus Middeldorp (Kiwi) and Sean Brennan, Curlew was soon sailing the southern California waters once again, stronger and more graceful than ever, and now meeting the stringent United States Coast Guard safety requirements for carrying passengers for hire.