Santa Barbara Harbor

Santa Barbara Harbor is defined by its long, curved breakwater constructed of stone brought from Santa Cruz Island. This breakwater was completed in nineteen twenty-nine after years of local efforts to create a permanent shelter for vessels along a coastline that previously offered no protection from winter storms. Its creation was driven by Major Max Fleischmann, who contributed significantly to the costs on the condition that his own two-hundred-eighteen-foot yacht could moor there once the work was done.