Ebb

In Festival Boats 2017 on October 31, 2018
โ€œEbbโ€ is a glued lapstrake varient of the 1911 Lake George Boat โ€œWinonaโ€ which is in the Mystic Seaport collection. The Lake George Boats were recreational boats derived from the
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Dreamer

In Festival Boats 2017 on October 26, 2018
This is the Graduate 25, design #712, from the Build-a-Boat Plans catalog from Sydney, Australia. It was built near Portland, Oregon at Heydon Island on the Columbia River in 1987
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Dorjun

In Festival Boats 2017 on October 26, 2018
Built for the U.S. Lifesaving Service, her design and hull shape are similar to the lifeboats used in Shackletonโ€™s epic voyage. In 1937 she sailed through the Straits of Magellan
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Defiance

In Festival Boats 2017 on October 26, 2018
This sweet custom Tugboat was built on a Clipper Craft dory body built in Portland, OR in 1986. She fell into our lap as another โ€œfree kittenโ€ and is the
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Daddyโ€™s Third

In Festival Boats 2017 on October 26, 2018
I built my first St. Pierre Dory 21 years ago and decided to go all electric when I found out they needed to be heavily ballasted. At that time steel
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Corsair II

In Festival Boats 2017 on October 26, 2018
In 2011 โ€œCorsair IIโ€ was visited by Frank Jacobs, the original ownerโ€™s grandnephew. He shared stories of adventures in the 1920โ€™s. We learned that she and Jacobs had been commissioned
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Compadre

In Festival Boats 2017 on October 26, 2018
Compadre is a 43-foot bridge-deck cruiser built in 1929. She is one of three yachts built to this basic design by Stevens Brothers in Stockton, California. Her hull is Port
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Clementine

In Festival Boats 2017 on October 26, 2018
Clementine was the first โ€œBelhaven 19โ€ to be built back in 2006. She was discovered by her current owner for sale in North Carolina in 2014, purchased โ€œsight unseenโ€, then
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Cito

In Festival Boats 2017 on October 26, 2018
Built by J. Wass for himself and his growing family. He was a professional shipwright and Cito was not his first Spidsgatter that he built for himself. He built her
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Chesuki

In Festival Boats 2017 on October 26, 2018
Chesukiโ€™s design is in โ€œThe Dory Bookโ€ by John Gardner, from which I traditionally built her of fragrant Port Orford cedar and Oregon white oak. The building of her was
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