The Western Flyer awaits its return to the Gulf of California, 85 years after Ed Ricketts, along with John Steinbeck, Steinbeck's wife Carol and a crew consisting of Captain Tony Berry, Tex Travis ...

The Western Flyer, a fishing vessel made famous by John Steinbeck's book "The Sea of Cortez," is returning to the Gulf of California after 85 years.

John Steinbeck aficionado Derek Kozaites of Long Beach, right, holds a copy of the author’s “The Log from the Sea of Cortez,” autographed by The Western Flyer Capt. Paul Tate, on Saturday ...

The Western Flyer completed a 4,700-mile journey, retracing a historic route with students and scientists aboard, bringing ...

John Steinbeck’s Western Flyer boat transformed into floating classroom on Monterey Bay. Aboard the same fishing vessel Steinbeck used for his 1940 Sea of Cortez expedition, undergraduates ...

After years of drama surrounding the Western Flyer, a 72-foot purse seiner that sailed to Mexico with author John Steinbeck and biologist Ed Ricketts aboard, resulting in the publishing of "The ...

The name “Western Flyer” was the name of a boat that author John Steinbeck chartered in 1940 to get out of town after “The Grapes of Wrath” was published.

The Western Flyer, a state-of-the-art purse seiner when it was built in 1937, was chartered by John Steinbeck and his marine biologist friend, Ed "Doc" Ricketts, for a six-week expedition that ...