Stickleback Canoe

In Festival Boats 2017 on November 21, 2018
The Stickleback is a double-paddle canoe designed by Iain Oughtred. The design is intended for glued-lap construction, but we were interested in a more traditional look, so we chose cedar
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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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Stella

In Festival Boats 2017 on November 14, 2018
Stella is a 17 ft. Whitehall rowing skiff handcrafted from western red cedar and sitka spruce using Gougeon clear finish, composite technology by Joe Titlow. The boat was first launched
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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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Sofia

In Festival Boats 2017 on November 14, 2018
Refit 1996. Some time in the Nineties. Sofia had several planks replaced. These planks were harvested from the blast area around Mt. St. Helens. Because the wood had sat there
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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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