Construction
The brigantines are based on original plans designed in the 1930s by Henry Gruber but never built. Noted yacht designer W.I.B. Crealock was brought in to adapt the plans to meet modern Coast Guard regulations and to fit LAMI's own stringent specifications based on their years of trial and experience. Master shipbuilder Allan Rawl was retained to oversee the project and direct the many carpenters, electricians, engineers and riggers hired or volunteering as shipwrights.
With the arrival of a truckload of South American Purpleheart hardwood for the keel in 2000, the Twin Brigantine project was kicked off right in the parking lot adjacent to LAMI in the heart of San Pedro, CA. Over the course of the next two years, the project evolved as a living history project open to the public to view and witness as the hulls were framed out with American White oak and fastened with bronze. Launched on 27 April 2002, they were proclaimed as the "Official Tall Ship Ambassadors of the City of Los Angeles" by Mayor James Hahn and witnessed by Exy Johnson herself before motoring out to a fitting out berth where the interiors were finished and completed as their masts stepped, rigged and sails bent on. They were commissioned on 28 March 2003.
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