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Carl Nyberg 1922-2010


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Longtime Pacific Northwest sailor and writer Carl O.


Nyberg Jr. died of natural causes on November 17, 2010, in Port Townsend at the age of 88.


Carl was born in a houseboat on Portage Bay on November 13, 1922, to Marguerite and Carl Nyberg Sr. It was an auspicious beginning for someone destined to spend so much of his life “messing about in boats.” He started sailing at age five in an old log hollowed out by his dad. He had several small boats over the years. When he was 17 he built a 24-foot schooner, Condor, designed for him by his friend and mentor Bill Garden, now a venerated yacht designer. Carl sailed Condor in Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands for a number of years. After graduating from Broadway High School, he joined the Navy in 1942, serving much of the time in Australia until the end of World War II in 1945. Returning to Seattle he spent some time working in the family business, Nyberg Lock & Key. He also worked at Blanchard Boat Yard and later was an assistant naval architect at Lake Union Drydock. Carl later founded and owned Power Door Engineering.


It was sailing he loved best. He owned and lived


aboard the classic yawl, Winsome for several years. The last boat he owned was Scheherazade, a 35-foot, mid-ship cockpit Chris-Craft sloop. He also crewed aboard the 100-foot schooner Gracie S. owned by his friend, photographer John Kennell. It was later sold to actor Sterling Hayden who renamed it Wanderer.


For many years Carl was part of a loosely organized group of local sailors who grew up sailing together as


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