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“That’s right, she cut my water off,” Sugar put in. So Angelina went to Vic, who used her to fish albacore out of Morro Bay. Sugar rejoined his father at the Lindwall Boat Works on the wharf, and he built a house in the Samarkand neighbor- hood for Lucy and their two young daughters— Carol, aka Punki, and Diane, aka Diney. Th house was as carefully craft d as a Lindwall boat, and he and Lucy shared it for 65 years. Sugar’s tenure on the wharf, however, turned out to be more short-lived. He and his father soon moved the Lindwall Boat Works to a 1.5- acre lot at Micheltorena Street and Highway 101 (in those days not yet a freeway) and began turn- ing out wooden boats for local fishermen. One of the first was Cecelia for the Castagnolas. Sugar soon inherited his father’s role as the yard’s presiding boatbuilding genius. Like Charlie (who died in 1959), Sugar insisted on using only high-quality wood and expensive Monel fasteners, made from a nickel alloy that does not corrode. “He’d hand-pick-out every piece of wood that was in every one of his boats,” daughter Carol Bowie says. “Th boats are still in wonderful shape.” In 1959, Lindwall took a break from fishing boats to design and build the 65-foot cattle boat Vaquero II, said to be the biggest wooden vessel ever built in Santa Barbara. Its launching that year Above – The Commercial Fishing exhibit at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum includes this wooden ship’s wheel, which Sugar Lindwall built for the Cecelia , and a photo of Laurence Jackson Castagnola and his nephew, Morgan (current owner of Cecelia ). Bottom – The 48-foot Cecelia , one of the first boats constructed by Lindwall Boat Works, was launched from Santa Barbara’s West Beach in 1951. The vessel joined the Castagnola Brothers fishing fleet.

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