The boat was designed by Hugh Angelman and constructed from 1956 to 1958 in Costa Rica. She was originally constructed with
sapele and
purpleheart. Restoration has been done using, among other south American tropical woods,
Hymenaea courbaril. In 1958, four men associated with the
Quaker religion sailed toward
Enewetok atoll in the
Marshall Islands aboard Golden Rule with the goal of preventing atmospheric
nuclear weapons testing. The
US Coast Guard stopped the vessel in
Honolulu, arresting her skipper,
Albert Bigelow, who once served as lieutenant commander in the United States Navy. Different people owned the vessel throughout the years. She sank twice: once in the early 1970s and again in March, 2010. She has been restored since. In July 2015, she had relaunched from
Humboldt Bay, California, her present home dock. She continues to sail on a peace mission to promote
non-violence and to spread an anti-nuclear message to the general public. Her stops are accompanied by public events to inform the public. In the summer of 2017, she sailed from
Eureka, California down the full length of the California coast to San Diego with visits up the
Sacramento River to the state capital. == Veterans for Peace ==