If you would like to take a deeper dive into all things Gyrfalcon…. This spring Nancy put together an incredible coffee table book about the boat for guests, visitors and potential buyers. Here’s a link to a PDF version. It’s a large file, best downloaded and viewed on a computer. Enjoy. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WrWyCwtaWps0aUJWFULRcUNbHB6sPEmP/view?usp=drive_link
Gyrfalcon returns to Ketchikan! We arrived yesterday (to follow our travels and receive mini-blog updates, go to: Forecast.PredictWind.com/tracking/display/Gyrfalcon). As the US Coast Survey vessel Patton, our boat traveled to Alaska each year from 1941 to 1967 from April to October, surveying the coastline. Her home base was Seattle, but she stored her smaller launch at…
Our boat, fka MV Patton, was named after him. Patton was a guy who grew up in Ohio, went to Western Reserve University (now Case Western), and joined as a officer in the Field Corps of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. He worked at numerous locations, including the Philippines and both continental coasts of…
