Joe-

Thanks for the update.

However, I do get irritated when news people make ignorant statements such as:

The three-masted, bald-headed (having no topmasts) Wawona is the largest
       sailing schooner built in North America.

The Wawona is a midget compared with the 6-masted schooner Wyoming that was built in Bath, Maine, in the early 1900's. She was in fact the largest wooden sailing ship ever built, even larger than McKay's Grand Republic.

I still fail to understand why the Northwest Seaport has proven so inept at fundraising over the years. One would think that Seattle would be fertile ground for serious fundraising, and that an old historic ship would be viewed as something special to preserve, I'm truly baffled.

Charley Noble