Designed as a salmon troller, Petrel was built in 1928 by the Columbia Boat Building Co in Oregon. She fished the Pacific Northwest for over 65-years until a retired cabinetmaker/boatbuilder bought her in 1994 and undertook a comprehensive 5-year keel-up rebuild. With impressive craftsmanship, he transformed Petrel into what one journalist described as: “a vessel so cute, so right, so honest, she’s like that perfect boat a kindergartner might draw from imagination”.