MV CAPE RACE was built in 1963 as the first all steel deep sea trawler constructed in North America by George T. Davie & Sons, Quebec. All designs and subsequent alterations on the vessel where done by John W. Gilbert Associates, the renowned naval architects from Boston Mass. Cape Race was built to the strictest North Atlantic standards and was subject to tough bi-annual certificate inspections by Canadian Coast Guard. She fished the Grand Banks as a side dragger from her home port of Lunenburg until she was converted to a scallop dragger in 1982. In 1996 she was rebuilt with over $1Mil CD$ invested, and re-powered with a new 3512 Catapillar engine.

She has worked in the roughest waters in the world, 12 month a year continuously, until she was purchased in the end of 2005. She is featured in 1990's PBS documentary "Savage Seas", a stunning document showing some extreme conditions that these boats and the man who sailed them where subjected to.

Cape Race is last of the line evolving from the elegant form of sailing schooners of the North Atlantic. Her steel construction and wooden interior combine the 20th-century's highest safety standards with the authenticity of the classic 19th-century North Sea fishing vessel. The prevalent work-boat atmosphere has the warmth and rough edge, generated from her impressive past life.