Pacific Swift

In Festival Boats 2017 on November 13, 2018
Built by S.A.L.T.S. Sail and Life Training Society, as a working exhibit at Expo 86 in Vancouver, British Columbia, the Pacific Swift has sailed over 100,000 deep-sea miles on training
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Pacific Pioneer

In Festival Boats 2017 on November 13, 2018
The Pacific Pioneer launched in 1951 as the P&T Pioneer in service to the mill at Port Gamble. Today the Pioneer is being converted into a comfortable tug to enjoy
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Pacific Grace

In Festival Boats 2017 on November 13, 2018
The Grace is built of Nimpkish Valley Douglas fir. The 8” square deck-support beams are yellow cedar. The caprails and sole (flooring below deck) is hard-wearing purple heart from South
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Pacific

In Festival Boats 2017 on November 13, 2018
Pacific was built to longline for halibut in the North Pacific. She has also trolled for salmon and tuna. The halibut fishermen of B.C. regarded her as on of the
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Otter

In Festival Boats 2017 on November 13, 2018
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Opus

In Festival Boats 2017 on November 13, 2018
Some boats are race boats. Some boats are cruising boats. Opus, a modified Wee Seal, designed by Iain Oughtred, is a boat that just seems to make people smile wherever
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Olo

In Festival Boats 2017 on November 13, 2018
Olo is a copy of a 1960’s Keith Steele drift boat which had been modified to be self bailing and used with Martin Litton on commercial trips through the Grand
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Nutmeg

In Festival Boats 2017 on November 13, 2018
Nutmeg is a reproduction of one of Nat Herreshoff’s favorites boats. Completed in 2009 in Anacortes, WA at Aspoya Boats by Jay Smith, Torgy Torgersen and original owner Jim Taylor.
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Northern

In Festival Boats 2017 on November 13, 2018
Northern was one of the wildly profitable halibut schooners that fished the Northwest coast for most of the 20th century, modeled after the Scandinavian North Sea trawlers. She was built
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Nonie Too

In Festival Boats 2017 on November 13, 2018
Nonie Too was built in the winter of 1999-2000 at the Silva Bay Shipyard School. She spent some time in the east on a lake and has returned to this
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