










	The summer of 2012 welcomes back the Wooden Boat and Classic Car show at the Des Moines Marina after a one-year hiatus. This excellent and well-attended event will be held on Saturday, July 21. See our Events Page for more details. See you there! We've just learned of another fabulous Grandy Marlineer and hope to be bringing full details to these pages soon. For now, here's a preview of this completely refit 48' vessel.

See these and many other Grandy vessels documented within these web pages!

The history of the Grandy Boat Co. has been sketched in a variety of articles and other publications. Read our own version here (select ‘The Grandy Boat Co.’ button, left).

We are fortunate to have been given a good number of original photographic prints and copies of others. We have added other records, too, mostly newspaper and magazine clippings, to help fill in the blanks.

Should any readers have other Grandy-related material, we would be most grateful if you'd share it with us. Just hit the 'Contact' button, left, and shoot us an email.

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It has now been 45 years since the Grandy yard on Lake Union in Seattle burned down, bringing to an end a Puget Sound boatbuilding tradition that began more than a hundred years ago.

This web project is devoted to the remaining vessels built to Earl and Bill Grandy's exacting standards. Our two principal aims are to record as much information about the history of the Grandy Boat Company as we can uncover and, wherever possible, to illustrate and describe surviving Grandys, from 16' runabouts to 60' Marlineers.

Other departments within this site provide a miscellany of other information related in some loose way to the tradition of Grandy-built vessels and wooden boats in general.

Sunset over Commencement Bay, from the stern of a Grandy cruiser