'This boat belongs in Canada': Yacht nerds fret over sale of historic B.C. vessel

The Taconite yacht was commissioned by William Boeing © Joe O'Connor

The sale of the Taconite means the 1930s teak 'jewel' commissioned by William Boeing and built in Vancouver is poised to leave Canadian waters.

Gordie Levett's first job was paperboy, dragging a canvas bag full of afternoon editions of the Vancouver Province around his West Vancouver neighbourhood. Levett had his regular customers, the tippers, the cheapskates and the in-betweens, but the most memorable was Perth McIntyre, a slim, slow-talking, white-haired sea captain. McIntyre's home overlooked the water. The boat he captained was the Taconite, the finest private yacht in the Pacific Northwest, commissioned by William Boeing, the Seattle aviation pioneer whose company built seaplanes — and classic wooden yachts — in the old Boeing plant on Vancouver's waterfront in the 1930s.

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