In 1929, San Francisco socialite and railroad heir Templeton Crocker hired naval architect Garland Rotch to design one of the most luxurious yachts yet constructed. This vessel was to replace a 75’ ketch that Crocker had lost the previous year during a revolution in Mexico. Rotch borrowed the lines for the second Zaca from Canada’s famed Bluenose, the fastest fishing schooner ever built, and in August of 1929 the keel was laid down alongside the Nunes Brothers boatyard in Sausalito, California.
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