To
build a schooner of the size of Zaca was not an easy proposition.
Designer Garland Rotch and owner Templeton Crocker looked across
San
Francisco Bay to Sausalito based boat builders Ernie and Antonio
Nunes. The 118' feet vessel was too large to be built in the
Nunes Brothers yard so, in August of 1929, the keel was laid
alongside the shop — in the middle of Sausalito's Main
Street.
A week later, the stock market crashed. But even as the Great Depression
swept the nation, construction of the new Zaca went full speed ahead.
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