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

MOSS LANDING — The Western Flyer has returned to Moss Landing after a 100-day journey replicating the same voyage taken by author John Steinbeck and scientist Ed Ricketts in 1940. After nearly ...

One of the historic vessels on display was the Western Flyer, used in 1940 by author John Steinbeck and marine biologist Ed Ricketts on an expedition. Steinbeck chronicled the adventure in "The ...

Called “the most famous research vessel to ever have sailed,” the Western Flyer was chartered by John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts for their 1940 Gulf of California expedition, which was chronicled in ...

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 ...

Wood from the Western Flyer, the boat John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts chartered for a 1940 trip to the Sea of Cortez, is now a guitar and a surfboard made in a collaboration between Santa Cruz Guitar ...

Novelist John Steinbeck, left, and marine biologist Ed Ricketts co-authored a beloved book after their 1940 adventure aboard the Western Flyer, a fishing boat now being restored.

The Western Flyer, made famous by the expedition written about by John Steinbeck in “The Log from the Sea of Cortez,” has crossed into Mexican waters on its latest trip.

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 ...