Yonder was laid up in 1928 at the Hoffar-Beeching Shipyards in Vancouver, BC.  She has a deep entry forward and is a heavily built full-displacement cruiser which has served her well over the years.  

According to legend, W.S. Day, who would later become the fourteenth Commodore of the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club, was touring the Hoffar Beeching yard when he saw a fishing boat under construction.  He was in the market for a yacht and somehow a deal was struck to complete the vessel as a yacht.  She was christened Northern Light and would years later be renamed Yonder.   Day enjoyed his power yacht from 1928 to 1936.