Ebb

In Festival Boats 2017 on October 31, 2018
“Ebb” is a glued lapstrake varient of the 1911 Lake George Boat “Winona” 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 Shackleton’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 “free kitten” and is the
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Daddy’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 “Corsair II” was visited by Frank Jacobs, the original owner’s grandnephew. He shared stories of adventures in the 1920’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 “Belhaven 19” to be built back in 2006. She was discovered by her current owner for sale in North Carolina in 2014, purchased “sight unseen”, 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
Chesuki’s design is in “The Dory Book” 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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