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Building Pride of Baltimore II

	In the spring of 1987, the Clipper boatyard was again opened on the west shore of the Inner Harbor and the public invited to watch the ship emerge from the ground up. On May 3, 1987, the keel was laid and Pride of Baltimore II soon began to take shape. The keel and all the other framing and planking materials were shaped out of Central American hardwoods from Belize. On this ship, modern power tools and techniques were used to speed construction. When quarterdeck onlookers periodically opined that "Them 19th century shipbuilders sure didn't use no kinda power tools," shipwright Leroy Suroski correctly pointed out, "They woulda if they woulda had 'em."

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