When we think about boats, we often wonder, “Is she a keeper?” Alcyone is definitely a keeper. She was designed and built by Frank Prothero in his backyard in Seattle.

ANJA’s design is based on the legendary Bristol Pilot Cutters of Britain. These boats were able to weather strong storms as well as be sailed short-handed. They would take the

Sandavore’s keel was laid in 1962 during the fishing trawler heydays. Pacific Northwest shipyards could not churn these boats out fast enough for an industry hungry to fish. As “Barbara

Bill Garden published this design in his 1977 book Yacht Designs. She traces her roots to George F. Holmes who is described as the father of the canoe yawl and

Thistle Dew was the first boat that I built alone. Built from scratch, with plans from WoodenBoat magazine, I so conscientiously tried to fit each piece that I would often

We chose to build this slightly smaller variant of a Piscataqua River Wherry designed by Bud McIntosh as we believe it would give us a nearly ideal fixed-seat recreational rowboat

This canoe is based on a design of a canoe built by the E.M. White Company of Old Town, ME in 1920. It was built by Stewart River Boatworks of

Built to a Sam Devlin design called the Pelicano. Meant to be a commuter boat for my spouse—but no one commutes to work anymore! Build time was about 28 months.

Isabella was built in Denmark and is a solid example of the Nordic Folkboat design class. The Folkboat design evolved from a competition to create a sailboat suitable for use

When I was 13 years old, I built my first boat, a 10-foot plywood skiff. Other boats followed until college, parenthood, and a career in the aerospace industry set a