More Faster Backwards: Rebuilding David B

By Christine Smith
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Published: Dec. 16, 2011
Words: 72960 (approximate)
Language: English

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More Faster Backwards is the story of Christine and Jeffrey Smith’s uncertain struggle to rebuild the Motor Vessel David B and their journey to Alaska on an untested seventy-seven year old wooden boat to begin the life of their dreams.

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ON JUNE 16, 2006, the David B left Bellingham, Washington bound for Juneau, Alaska, on her maiden voyage as a passenger vessel. Eight years earlier, Christine and Jeffrey had found the David B tucked behind a breakwater on Lopez Island. The tired old wooden boat, built in 1929, was showing her age. When the young couple stepped aboard the neglected vessel, her sturdy work-boat style captured their hearts with an ageless beauty that only the young dreamers could see.

Their desire was to own and operate a small expedition cruise ship in Alaska. With their love for one another and without much income, they pinned their hopes and sheer will on rebuilding the dying boat. What they thought would be a two-year project, became an eight-year tug-of-war between time and money as they raced to finish rebuilding the David B before it was too late.

More Faster Backwards is the story of Christine and Jeffrey’s uncertain struggle to rebuild the David B and their journey to Alaska on an untested s... (Read more) ON JUNE 16, 2006, the David B left Bellingham, Washington bound for Juneau, Alaska, on her maiden voyage as a passenger vessel. Eight years earlier, Christine and Jeffrey had found the David B tucked behind a breakwater on Lopez Island. The tired old wooden boat, built in 1929, was showing her age. When the young couple stepped aboard the neglected vessel, her sturdy work-boat style captured their hearts with an ageless beauty that only the young dreamers could see.

Their desire was to own and operate a small expedition cruise ship in Alaska. With their love for one another and without much income, they pinned their hopes and sheer will on rebuilding the dying boat. What they thought would be a two-year project, became an eight-year tug-of-war between time and money as they raced to finish rebuilding the David B before it was too late.

More Faster Backwards is the story of Christine and Jeffrey’s uncertain struggle to rebuild the David B and their journey to Alaska on an untested seventy-seven year old boat to begin the life of their dreams.
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Review by: Lisa Sajna on Feb. 16, 2012 :
As the daughter of an old boat lover, I grew up with an appreciation of these old hulks. Though I never had the money, the moxie, or the talent to undertake a restoration, nothing makes me happier than seeing one of these fine old vessels sailing again. Christine Smith shares the experience of renewing the David B., a former workboat, into a charter boat small enough to slip into coves and rivers the large cruise ships can't. Along the way, she shares an appreciation of local and natural history, recipes, the hunt for original equipment for the boat, her respect for her husband's seamanship and lessons learned - a number of them, the hard way. Her respect for nature comes across as completely unforced, and not like a sermon, unless, like me, you see God in nature. Smith's easy writing style is engaging. It reads like an evening conversation at anchor, sitting around the wood stove they use for both heating the vessel and making meals. I look forward to a rumored cookbook in the works based on several years' worth of passenger meals.
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