So OK lets make our own Big Left Turn as T&J would say and sell everything we own that works and is made of plastic and buy yet another WOODEN boat??? Hanna Jane started life in 1940 likely in someone's shop or maybe even back yard and when completed was named "Squaw" later she became "Seattle" and then in 2014 we came along and finally gave her a name appropriate for an old wooden lady. Hanna has circumnavigated 3 times and is a Vessel of Historical Interest in the state of California. We have a brass plaque on the wall that says the same. We found her on Craigslist tied to a dock in Port Hadlock. Our first impression when he saw her was "RUN FOR THE HILLS" as she was not wearing her best outfit and was obviously in need of some love. OK maybe time, effort and tons of money would be more appropriate! Anyway after confirming that the 90's Yanmar diesel ran well and the hull planks were all there we let go the fifteen hundred dollars it cost to adopt the right to take over as her custodian for a while. If course the expenses did not stop there. Anyway you would think since we already own a 54' wooden trawler that we still in the process of restoring that we would know better than to take this path but know one ever said boat owners were intelligent people! Hanna Jane is obviously a Tahiti Ketch designed in the late 20's by John G. Hanna and was intended to be home built during the depression when labor costs were low and the simple yet blue water design was achievable for many who wanted to sail the ocean but could not afford most vessels of the time. Since we have had Hanna we have stripped her interior of anything that was not nailed down and some things that were. We have hauled her out and are now learning from a friendly shipwright we met how to make repairs on her. "Wild Bill" as I affectionately call him has a beard down to there and looks a little weather beaten under that old stained cowboy hat but you have never met a more honest and pure individual and we consider ourselves blessed to know such a man. I will continue to write about her restoration and post some pictures but at some point I have to work to continue paying for the privilege of knowing her.