Stevenston Lifeboat

In Festival Boats 2017 on November 14, 2018
Steveston Lifeboat – Profile of a service boat – Whether it’s a fishing net clogging a propeller or a gale driving a boat on shore, fishermen’s lives and livelihoods are
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Spike Africa

In Festival Boats 2017 on November 14, 2018
Spike Africa was built by Bob Sloan in California 40 years ago this year. Bob and his friend Spike Africa (the person) sailed with many of the schooners that were
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Spainnear Uisce

In Festival Boats 2017 on November 14, 2018
Spainnear Uisce, took about 2000 hours for the owner to build over several seasons. Designed by the late Renn Tolman of Homer, Alaska, she was intended as a stable fishing
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Soy Sauce

In Festival Boats 2017 on November 14, 2018
Soy Sauce is a half-scale replica of a World War II Target Raft from Fort Worden with a imaginative modifications for propulsion such as her now well-known “brace and boat”
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Southern Cross

In Festival Boats 2017 on November 14, 2018
Southern Cross is an 11′ 11″ highly modified SCAMP. She has just arrived here in Port Townsend in time for the Wooden Boat Festival from the cold windy shore of
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Slough Coot

In Festival Boats 2017 on November 14, 2018
I bought this Dudley Dix Cape Henry 21 in 2015 sight unseen! I sailed her that summer, rebuilt and refit her in 2016. Homemade windows leaked badly, rot in the
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Sir Isaac

In Festival Boats 2017 on November 14, 2018
Sir Isaac was built in 1984 for short handed ocean sailing. We completed a 10 year restoration last year and are preparing her again for some extended sailing trips.
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Silvana

In Festival Boats 2017 on November 14, 2018
6 month improvement and restoration completed June 2017. It is a sistership of Taleisin. Strip planked with Red Cedar, then three layers of red cedar, triple diagonal. Varnished hull and
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Sillva Bans

In Festival Boats 2017 on November 14, 2018
This replica is Bruce’s rendition of a Pete Culler Cutter as seen in O’Rourke’s book “Culler’s Other Boats”. Homemade cream colored gaff sails to fit the solid fir, lengthened spars
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Shooting Star

In Festival Boats 2017 on November 14, 2018
Registered in Cape Sable, N.S. under the name “Norman D II”. Purchased by the Okes in 2009 and renamed “Shooting Star.” “Shooting Star” was built by an unknown builder as
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