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A reunion for Uniflite workers and PBR veterans will be noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18, at Bellingham Maritime Museum, 800 Cornwall Ave., across from the Georgia Pacific mill site. Admission is free; donations appreciated.
Bellingham Maritime Museum will host a reunion Saturday, Aug. 18, for people who worked at Uniflite, a Bellingham boat-building company, and the Vietnam-era veterans who piloted the Patrol Boat River crafts built by Uniflite. It's the first such event since a museum gathering eight years ago."This one is a lot lower-key than the first one," said Mike Granat, museum chairman.In 1957, Art Nordtvedt opened United Boat Builders, the company that was later renamed Uniflite to match the product name of its boats. The company, which employed hundreds of local workers in its heyday, began with runabouts and later built other vessels, including PBRs for the military.Many of the riverboats disappeared during and after the Vietnam War, but the Bellingham museum has five of them, along with other Uniflite boats, on display.Granat said Nordtvedt plans to attend the reunion as a featured guest."He is Mr. Uniflite," Granat said.
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Bellingham Maritime Museum will host a reunion Saturday, Aug. 18, for people who worked at Uniflite, a Bellingham boat-building company, and the Vietnam-era veterans who piloted the Patrol Boat River crafts built by Uniflite. It's the first such event since a museum gathering eight years ago."This one is a lot lower-key than the first one," said Mike Granat, museum chairman.In 1957, Art Nordtvedt opened United Boat Builders, the company that was later renamed Uniflite to match the product name of its boats. The company, which employed hundreds of local workers in its heyday, began with runabouts and later built other vessels, including PBRs for the military.Many of the riverboats disappeared during and after the Vietnam War, but the Bellingham museum has five of them, along with other Uniflite boats, on display.Granat said Nordtvedt plans to attend the reunion as a featured guest."He is Mr. Uniflite," Granat said.
Read more here: http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2012...#storylink=cpy