March 31, 2017
Carle Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 March 2017 – At high tide late Saturday afternoon in Sausalito, a group of people who love wooden ships and salt water will launch a dream.

It is the Matthew Turner, a 100-foot-long tall ship built from scratch by 1,000 volunteers in a tent on the Sausalito waterfront, two blocks south of the town’s only supermarket. The Matthew Turner, named for a noted Bay Area shipbuilder, is the first wooden sailing vessel built in Northern California in more than 85 years.

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