By Greg Knight
‘Sundowner’ returns after three decades
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Ty Knudson shows off the original, long-form registration for his 43-foot sailboat, Sundowner, which recently returned to Wrangell from an around-the-world trip. The U.S. Coast Guard no longer generates the older, foldout version of vessel registrations.
Whoever wrote the sage advice, “You can never go home,” never met Ty Knudson and his sailboat, the Sundowner.
Knudson, who registered the 43-foot boat in Wrangell in 1978, was a Wrangell resident until 1980. After working as a faller in the timber industry, he decided to take a trip to Hawai’i.
“After a tough winter here I went to the islands,” Knudson said. “And, I was just going to go for the winter and come back.”
Knudson didn’t return, though, and he embarked on a trip that would last more than 30 years and take him halfway around the world.
“I met my future wife there...
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