00:00This is a story about Trevor Gordon and a boat.
00:05Trevor lives on a sailboat with his wife Maddie in the Santa Barbara harbor, but it's not
00:09about that boat, it's about this boat, and how it found water.
00:14It's currently sitting in a field, long neglected, lacking a transom, and any structural framing,
00:19but has seen the tuned perspective full of potential.
00:23Its exact origins are foggy, it was likely built to haul abalone and sea urchin from
00:28nearby islands back to the mainland.
00:30Its point of bow designed to cut through chop, but it definitely sank, at least we're pretty
00:35sure it sank.
00:36Trevor found a photo on a forum of a capsized vessel that bears an eerie resemblance to what
00:41lies before him today.
00:43Forum user Canyon replied to the foreboding statement, it is destroyed, and any dreams
00:48of putting it back together might just be that, a dream.
00:52Internet naysayers be darned.
00:54Trevor did have a dream, to build it back into a functioning vessel, a utilitarian pickup
01:00truck for the water, a boat that could enable him to explore and surf places away from crowds,
01:06places far up the western coast, places like British Columbia.
01:11Relying on little more than intuition and a rough sketch, he went to work.
01:15addition.
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