R&D

In Festival Boats 2018 on July 27, 2018
12 of these stout crew boats where commisioned by the navy to ferry crews from alternate locations to both Bangor and Bremerton shipyards during the cold war. However due to
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Vito Dumas

In Festival Boats 2018 on July 27, 2018
Vito Dumas started her life as “Irupe” in the Rio de la Plata area of Argentina. She made her way to San Diego in 1975 after a voyage up to
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Jean Alden

In Festival Boats 2018 on July 27, 2018
Jean Alden uses the traditional catboat configuration to achieve the objectives of a weatherly pocket cruiser that maximize my available shop space while still fitting on a trailer. Mostly I
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Lorraine

In Festival Boats 2018 on July 27, 2018
Lorraine is a Nordic Folkboat built in Denmark in 1959. She was imported for racing in San Francisco Bay then trucked to the Northwest for cruising. I bought Lorraine (named
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Windsong

In Festival Boats 2018 on July 27, 2018
Windsong was built by a school teacher in Grapeview, WA. She has mostly cruised between Olympia and Desolation Sound. Her longest voyage was to SE Alaska up the inside and
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Miss Mile-a-Minute

In Festival Boats 2018 on July 27, 2018
The design is Rascal by Ken Bassett. She was built by the owner and completed in 2014. Cold molded, batten seam construction, planked in mahogany and maple. The bottom incorporates
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Tumblehome

In Festival Boats 2018 on July 27, 2018
Built on Bainbridge Island in the 1980’s, TUMBLEHOME has a sheathed epoxy-cedar strip planked hull. A curvaceous teak wheelhouse allows inside or outside steering. The hull form fairs to a
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Sunbow

In Festival Boats 2018 on July 27, 2018
The CC 35 is one of a series of cruising trimarans designed by John Marples (Searunner Designs) in partnership with Jim Brown, and is a successor to Jim’s older Searunner
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Sofia

In Festival Boats 2018 on July 27, 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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Marian II

In Festival Boats 2018 on July 26, 2018
The Marian II has been lovingly maintained in covered, fresh water moorage since 1928. She was owned for 50 years by Herb and Virginia Cleaver, the founding members of the
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