Thanks Uwek!
She's A Billings kit bashed into the Oretha F. Spinney, using Model Shipways plans. I was told by a customer of mine that his father crewed on her in Jan, of 1942, under the command and ownership of the actor, author and sailor, Serling Hayden, They sailed her from San Diego, through the Panama Canal and the Caribbean to the Bahamas and Florida, keeping an eye out for German U-boats all the way. She was subsequently commandeered and commissioned into the US Coast Guard for the afore mentioned purpose, as were many private yachts and boats of her type, to spot and report the presence of the enemy who was prowling those waters early in the war. The cruise was chronicled in the January, 1942 issue of "Yachting Magazine" by my customer's father. I suppose it can still be sourced.
I was told (apparently apocryphally) that she had been the stand in for the " We're Here" in the 1937 movie of "Captain's Courageous" Apparently this was just a sailor's yarn, YOU know " This is a TRUE story!, No $#!+ !" Evidently, the REAL stand ins were the "Bluenose" and a set. There were great photos of the "Spinney" under sail in the article, She was a dead ringer for the "Bluenose"
Maybe the version of the Sailor's yarn I heard was used by an unscrupulous Yacht broker as a selling point to seal the deal with Hayden, YOU know, "This is no $#!*, She REALLY WAS the stand in for the "We're Here" in the movie!"
Pete