After John Steinbeck's and Ed Ricketts' legendary voyage, the Western Flyer returned to Monterey to fish for sardines until the local industry collapsed in 1947 — it was sold the following year.

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. The renovated vessel will retrace Steinbeck's ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Western Flyer is famous for being the fishing boat that John Steinbeck and his biologist friend Ed Ricketts used on an ecological adventure in 1940.

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 ...

Visitors board The Western Flyer, for a tour of the historic sailing vessel known for John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts’ 1940 Sea of Cortez expedition, on Saturday, Mar. 22, 2025, during a stopover ...