My Kind of Boat

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MV Wander on Harney Channel. Photo by Aho'i Mench.

This boat was designed by John G. Alden and built at Todd Dry Docks for the president of the company, C. W. Wiley, in 1933. Three sets of plans for design #494 were sold, but only two boats were actually built. A sister ship, the Mary III, was built in 1931 for Chandler Bowditch by George L. Chaisson of Swampscott, Mass. Chaisson was also a longtime builder of the famous Swampscott dories.

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