Maranee was launched in Algonac, MIchigan on June 28, 1940, and spent her first 19 years cruising the Great Lakes, Georgian Bay and the St Lawrence River. She started a new life on the west coast when she was shipped to Seattle via railcar in 1959. She is still powered by her original Hercules M-130 gas engines. On her spreader flies the burgee of the Vermilion Yacht club in Ohio, a gift from that club's bridge in honor of Maranee's time as flagship there in 1946.