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nel. Th new marina led to the rapid growth of the commercial fishing industry, which spelled opportunity for a Finnish immigrant named Charles Lindwall. Charlie and his wife, Angelina, had six chil- dren. Th youngest was Paul, born on August 18, 1923, in a house Charlie built on a small island in the Columbia River near Astoria, Oregon. (Th house is still there. When a Lindwall builds some- thing, it stays built.) Paul suffe ed from asthma, so when he was about 5, the Lindwalls moved to the he museum’s California’s Maritime Ranches exhibit includes the ship’s log of the Vaquero II , the one-of-a-kind cattle boat that shuttled between Port Hueneme, Santa Barbara Harbor and the Vail &Vickers ranch on Santa Rosa Island for more than 40 years. Nearby, the Commercial Fishing exhibit includes a wooden ship’s wheel “hand made by Paul ‘Sugar’ Lindwall in 1951,” which “belonged to the fishing vessel Cecelia , one of the first fishing boats owned by the Castagnola family.” Th display case also includes a photograph, apparently taken in the ’70s, which shows Laurence Jackson Castag- nola with his young nephew Morgan aboard the Cecelia , which, like its steering wheel, was built by Sugar Lindwall. Lindwall died in 2011, but his legend lives on in the harbor, both inside the museum and out- side in the marina, where commercial fishermen and serious yachtsmen still trade stories about this master craftsman of the waterfront. Despite its long maritime history, Santa Barbara did not have a true harbor until the breakwater was built in the late 1920s, using rocks quarried on Santa Cruz Island and barged across the chan- “Sugar was the last of the great wooden boatbuilders,” says Marla Daily of the Santa Cruz Island Foundation. T PHOTOGRAPHY © BILL DEWEY. COURTESY LINDWALL FAMILY.

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