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The Traverse City Record-Eagle (MI)
May 15, 2000
Remember the Malabar: Tall Ship Sails for Maine -- After 13 years on Grand Traverse Bay, tall ship to set sail for her new home port
TRAVERSE CITY - The tall ship Malabar, a popular day-cruise boat sailing on Grand Traverse Bay for 13 years, has been repaired and will set sail for her new home port.
The ship is headed to Maine Wednesday if weather and final work allow.
The 105-foot Malabar had been taken out of service for the Traverse Tall Ship Co. by its owner, Richard Budinger, after some weak areas were found in the boat's ferro-concrete hull. She will be replaced by another schooner, the 65-foot West Wind. Budinger decided to sell the boat because the cost of repairing it -- about $600,000 --was more than his company could afford.
Cpt. Hajo Knuttel, working for the Malabar's new owner Steve Pagels of Bar Harbor, Maine, said the weak spots in the hull have been repaired. He and others worked on the boat over the past 11 weeks while she was berthed at the Harbor West Marina in Leelanau County's Elmwood Township.
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The Malabar, after a time of repairs and restoration at Pagels' Downeast Windjammer Cruises home facility in Bar Harbor, will head for charter service based out of Greenport, Long Island in New York. Knuttel said the Malabar started out as a charter boat working out of Greenport, "so she's going back to her roots."
Pagels has six similar boats working, six more undergoing restoration and is looking at another for purchase, Knuttel said.
"He has a real passion for these boats and loves to see them resorted and working again," Knuttel said. "He does it out of love. He doesn't need the money."
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By BILL ECHLIN, Record-Eagle staff writer
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