The famed ship California

Welcome to the Adal Bear Show on your host Paul Vogel saying and this is episode number 388.

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Awaiting for our orders. brought to you by Plexidone. As part of our Smithsonian Associates Art of Living Author interview series,

our guest today is Historian,

Author Stephen Ujufusa. Stephen Ujifusa. Stephen Ujifusa has appeared as a

guest on the CBS Sunday morning show in NPR and his new book,

Barons of the Sea brings to life the dynasties that built and owned the magnificent clipper ships of America's 19th century era of maritime glory.

At 7 o'clock as dawn broke over the red and green dappled coastline a scooner drew up alongside flying cloud

carrying a pilot that would guide the ship through the Golden Gate into San Francisco Harbor

for several weeks as the ship spread along at full clip,

the crew had been hard at work getting the flying cloud ready for a triumphant arrival.

They painted her weather-beaten sides jet black,

touched up the gold boot topping line that accented her hall, tar and

her rigging scrub the decks and polish the brass until it gleamed in the morning sun.

Now our moment had come.

Flying cloud sailed past the former Spanish fortress known as the Presidio

and then passed the Marin Headlands and up the bay to the docks.

The crew then unbent and stowed all sails before a steam tug assisted her to her birth. It was September 1st, 1851. Captain

Creasy's log entry for the day was as laconic as ever. Anckered in San Francisco Harbor at 11 hours 30 minutes a.m. after a passage of 89

days 21 hours. The operator of the Semaphore Tower atop Telegraph Hill cranked the

two wooden arms to the signal for a ship.

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