Olo

In Festival Boats 2019 on July 27, 2018
Olo is a copy of a Keith Steele drift boat modified with a sealed compartment and a self-bailing rowing station. She is used as a training boat for Grand Canyon
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Noddy

In Festival Boats 2019 on July 27, 2018
John Welsford SCAMP, 11′-11″ Balanced Lug, Cuddy Cabin, Water Ballasted Off-Center Centerboard Mini-Microcruiser. Plywood kit built by owner at Northwest Maritime Center 2012-2013 Propelled by 100 sq-ft Lugsail and oars
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Ripple

In Festival Boats 2019 on July 27, 2018
Ripple is a locally-built cutter with 3 trips to Alaska under her keel. She was built by the Northwest School for Wooden Boat Building, the first of 3 Atkins Gary
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Lazy Jack

In Festival Boats 2019 on July 27, 2018
Lazy Jack is a Chesapeake Bay style power skiff. Karl Stambaugh based the Redwing 18 design on Howard Chapelle’s Camp Skiff design from the 1940s, stretched half a foot and
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Bright Star

In Festival Boats 2019 on July 27, 2018
Bright Star is a Tolman Jumbo 24, from a design by Renn Tolman of Homer, Alaska. As are all the Tolman boats, she is a plywood stitch-and-glue wooden boat. The
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Holiday

In Festival Boats 2019 on July 27, 2018
Holiday has been family-owned since launched in July 1946. My Grandfather Rex Bartlett commissioned Ed Monk Sr. to design her and she was built on Seattle’s Lake Union by the
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Daddy’s Third

In Festival Boats 2019 on July 27, 2018
Daddy’s Third is a 26 ft St. Pierre Dory powered by two electric trolling motors. This is the third version of an electric dory I have built since 1996 and
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Raven

In Festival Boats 2019 on July 27, 2018
RAVEN was built by Frank Black, a fish boat builder in Coos Bay, OR, for his own use in 1974. We were attracted to her sturdy design by Kenneth Smith
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Leslie Jean

In Festival Boats 2019 on July 27, 2018
Leslie Jean is a 15′ Whitehall that is a combination of many designs. Mostly the lines were taken from an article in National Fisherman Magazine from 1954 and 1977 written
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R&D

In Festival Boats 2019 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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