The maiden voyage was magnificent and we've made the news!
Update ~ 6/4/09
The Bainbridge Review has printed a great story written by Tad Sooter.
The video clip they ran on Bainbridge Island TV
and a slide show are featured on their website:
Bainbridge Review Story
Below is the video:
Update ~ 5/31/09
We would like to thank King 5 News Photographer Richard DePartee
for the excellent coverage, and Bob Schoonmaker
of the Bainbridge Island Chandlery for contacting the media.
You can click here to read the story.
Below is the King 5 video: Labor of love...
CNN has also picked up the story.
Summer Solstice, 2007 ~ Port Townsend,WA.
Roy and Dee Jackson welcome you to the launch of the
Dolores M. Jackson!
A Murray Peterson Schooner
www.doloresmjackson.com
Success!!! She is in the water in Eagle Harbor, Bainbridge Island.
More pictures are posted! See the launch pictures page.If you have pictures, PLEASE, send them to the webmaster: Shari. Again, thanks and love to all the wonderful family and friends who were there.
It was the event of a lifetime!
************Shari
Update ~ 3/15/09
The rest of the mast stepping pictures are finally up!
There are too many... Visit the mast stepping page to see them.
Update ~ 1/22/09
I'm finally getting the rest of Roy's story "Tahiti, The Hard Way" up on our site. See the story page to read the new installment.
Update ~ 10/20/08
Dennis Palmer, a friend and pro-sailer, has put a lovely piece on his blog - "sailingnorthwest.blogspot.com" about the Dolores M. Jackson;
click here for his great article and more recent photos.
Update ~ 7/3/08
The slide shows have been changed so you control the pictures. Take a look!
Update ~ 6/20/08
The masts have now been stepped! All is well and she is back at her dock on Bainbridge. Pictures are now up on the mast stepping page.
Update ~ 8/08/07
An article has hit the front page of the Bainbridge Review!
Read it here: Magnificent Obsession