Ladyhawk

For Sale

In Festival Boats 2021 on June 30, 2021
North Sea fish boat/sailboat built in Esbjerg, Denmark, in 1934. Fished Dogger Bank for 40 years until her retirement in 1977. She was bought and converted to a comfortable sailing
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Barquito II

In Festival Boats 2021 on June 30, 2021
Barquito II is a Chesapeake Bay dead rise skiff with a D.N. Hylan design hull and a builder imagined cabin. She is intended to be a slow cruising highly efficient
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Helma

In Festival Boats 2021 on June 30, 2021
Helma was built in Kalundborg, Denmark in 1938, Helma sailed the waters off Kalundborg and Copenhagen until she was shipped to San Diego in 1960. Her name had been changed
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Mana Kura

In Festival Boats 2021 on June 29, 2021
This 1958 Cheoy Lee Pacific Clipper is an early version of the Frisco Flyer. Soon after taking ownership in 2020, the boat has received 14 new sister frames, an updated
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Ghost Fly

In Festival Boats 2021 on June 29, 2021
The Ghost fly is a Mckenzie River drift boat, built by Keith Steele in 1982. She is made of 16-foot lengths of knot-free old growth Douglas fir plywood with Port
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INCA

In Festival Boats 2021 on June 29, 2021
A Harry Becker design from 1936, byggår 1937-1938, and originally Anne-Marie in Sweden 1938. It became Buckminster-Fuller’s boat in Maine (USA) for many years but never raced against either the
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Haven

In Festival Boats 2021 on June 29, 2021
Haven was inspired by lapstrake runabouts of the 1950s and 1960s by builders like Lyman and Thompson. I was unable to find existing plans for a boat of this type
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Avanti and Red

In Festival Boats 2021 on June 29, 2021
While Avanti and Red are quite different in appearance, both hulls of these little vessels were constructed from one sheet of plywood. With some additional material used for structure decks
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Zoe

In Festival Boats 2021 on June 29, 2021
Classic look and feel but using modern methods and materials. One-piece laminated stem/keel; 9mm Okoume lapstrake planking. Good all-purpose boat: row, motor, or sail.
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Dalai Lama

For Sale

In Festival Boats 2021 on June 29, 2021
Dalai Lama was built at the Matsumoto Shipyard in North Vancouver BC in 1953. Sam Matsumoto built boats in Prince Rupert long before World War II. After the war, he
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