[QUOTE=c.captain;47703]Nice to see this thread return to life…it’s too bad the PEMBINA can’t come back but thank you wildscot for the stories.
That old ship was a tired, rusty, greasy bucket of a vessel, but she had personality and one hell of a story to tell. I even wrote a history of the ship with the intent to send it to Professional Mariner for hoped for publication but never did. I found that history just recently in a box of papers. Reading it again 17 years later brought back a bunch of memories.
Ironically, someone actually has this photo of the ship for sale right now on eBay.
Gotta love them booms! Ships today just do not have a salty look to them like any old stickship did. I truly felt she was the end of the line for all of her kind just like the passing of the windjammers once had been and almost as brutal (ok, not really…but damned how much work it was to put up all that gear with wire lube on everything and everybody!)
ps…was your dad on her after she reverted back to her original name PEMBINA after Pearcy Marine went backrupt?[/QUOTE]
Yes, she certainly did have personality – and my dad just loved her. I had sailed on similar vessels when I was younger (e.g., The Ankobra River, the one we almost sunk in the Bristol Channel), and I felt at home aboard the Kathleen Pearcy. My kids and I (and my mom too) spent a whole lot of time aboard the Kathleen Pearcy/Pembina when she was docked in the Bay or sailing in voyages within the Bay. I remember when she went back to being called the Pembina, and my dad sail on her for some time then. After that, my dad was on aircraft carriers and other military ships before he retired (well, not completely, since he’s one of the chief engineers on the Jeremiah O’Brien). You might be interested to know that I have a VHS tape recording that my dad and husband took on a voyage they made from SF to Thailand aboard the Kathleen Pearcy. That would have been around 1989. There are a whole lot of good shots of the ship. I should probably get that put on a DVD, now that I think of it.