It has been my pleasure to rebuild this soulful vintage workboat now called MV Olive Oyl. I purchased the 1927 diesel-powered salmon fishing troller for $1 in 2006. As a shipwright and boat restoration specialist I’ve always had a keen eye for good design and craftsmanship in classic boats. The wood-planked hull was used as a male mold to create a totally new high-tech boat hull built with layers of Okoume plywood saturated with West System epoxy (cold molding). The expert designer-builder Andrew Berg had immigrated from Norway was known for fine craftsmanship and attention to detail. He built this troller at a small yard on the Duwamish Waterway. In 1942 the Berg Shipyard was established on Dakota Creek in Blaine, employing up to 200 men. They built mine-sweepers, torpedo retrievers, barges, tugs, fishing boats and pleasure craft. Licenses aboard provided evidence that the boat had been used in fisheries in Washington, Oregon, Alaska and Southern California. To my great surprise, in 2023 I was contacted by a man named Jason who, as a youngster, had fished with his Dad aboard this boat. Jason had seen an article published in “Cruising” (www.sailpowercruising.com) about my effort to rebuild the troller and recognized the vessel immediately. He described good times with his father who fished very successfully off the coast of Southern California. Before is Dad owned it, the vessel had been run aground in SE Alaska, eventually to be refloated and repaired. Jason traveled to see the rebuilt boat “Olive Oyl and joined me for a cruise around Bellingham Bay. It’s become a handsome, comfortable cruising boat with my labor, love and a lot of cash.