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F/V Western Flyer, author, John Steinbeck, and Ed Ricketts chartered this purse seiner to explore the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez) in 1940 resulting in the book: The Log of the Sea of Cortez. The fishing boat sank recently and has been hauled out at the Port of Port Townsend, Puget Sound, Washington State.
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