THE BOAT CO

Accommodation and Tourism > Tours and Sightseeing

In the early 1950s my father, Michael McIntosh, Sr., spent several summers in Southeast Alaska working on a salmon boat owned by The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (A&P), a company started by our forbears. From that experience, the memories of Southeast’s wild and awesome beauty never faded.As a result, in 1979, my parents put together a group of friends (fellow foundation trustees, heads of conservation groups etc.), chartered an ex-Canadian minesweeper out of Vancouver, and headed up the coast on a two-week journey to revisit the area. Any concern about cohabiting on a boat soon disappeared, as they all became totally subsumed by the grandeur of the area.
Shortly after that trip he bought an old wooden-hulled ex-US Navy minesweeper (the M/V OBSERVER), converted it for use as a tour boat and set out to introduce as many people as he could to Southeast Alaska – and so was birthed, The Boat Company.

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