"...The Western Flyer, a sardine fishing boat made
famous by the writer John Steinbeck, is now on
a path to breaking that pattern, as it has so
many others before. Seventy-five years after
Steinbeck and a scientist friend chartered the
Flyer and sailed it from California to ..."
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/13/us/in-act-of-love-steinbecks-boat-is-being-given-a-new-life.html