The Argonaut II in Reid Harbor

We are sitting in Reid Harbor and just enjoyed a great fish taco dinner and sunset...I was all fixed to share with you the beautiful sunset, but then realized I had taken this photo earlier in the day of quite an amazing boat, and decided the history and story was worth sharing.

Built as the corporate yacht Greta M for the Powell River Company in 1922, Argonaut II was purchased in 1937 by the United Church of Canada and renamed Thomas Crosby IV. She was a mission boat for thirty years, serving as a floating hospital, library, post office, maternity ward, mortuary and church. The vessel operated fifty weeks a year, calling on remote canneries, indian villages, lighthouses, logging camps and minig camps along the isolated coast of British Columbia. She was renamed Argonaut II in 1967 for use as a charter and private yacht.

To read more about the yacht and her schedule of ports she is calling at, click here!