Pago Pago 1974-1975

 Arrived in Pago Pago, American Samoa after a stop at Fanning Atoll about halfway there.  Myself and my one crew member stayed for a year.  I had a job with a surveying business and had a busy social life with all the other cruisers staying there.


 

One of the crew members from another boat told me how much he wanted his own cruising boat.  I volunteered to design it and he and some of his friends would build it.  I drew up a 27' plywood hull that we could build with available materials.  He and his partner then circled through eastern Polynesia, New Zealand, Micronesia, Japan and Alaska where he traded it for a cabin.


Attaching the keel.





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