Morning Star was built from Bruce Roberts Goodson's plans for the Mauritius 43 center cockpit aft cabin ketch. She was built in our backyard in the Berryessa District of San Jose over a 19.5 year period. She is 43' 9'' long, 13' beam, 5' draft and displaces approximately 30,000 lbs.



We had a marine surveyor out to survey the work at key points for documentation of the quality of work. We felt this would facilitate buying insurance and for selling her when that sad day came. Dorie says that selling her is like losing a child. Our last survey done for a new insurance company in 2006 and included rigging and an out of water survey, HAD NO FINDINGS. This means that the surveyor found nothing to comment about fixing. He said he seldom was able to make a survey with such good results.