WonderlandIn Festival Boats 2022 on July 1, 2021 Sam Conner, the original founder of the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival, built Wonderland in Port Townsend in 1978 of red cedar /epoxy strip plank. Wonderland has been converted to
SV PaddleshellIn Festival Boats 2022 on July 1, 2021 Folks said Interlude, purchased in 2013, “had good bones”. She has neither been an interlude nor were her bones too good… However, her mahogany planks on white oak bent frames
S/V StarlightIn Festival Boats 2022 on July 1, 2021 Starlight and I embarked on a Pacific voyage starting in 1979 that lasted five years. Many wonderful miles and people were encountered. She was designed by Edwin Monk Sr. in
WisperIn Festival Boats 2022 on July 1, 2021 Why Wisper? It’s not a misspelling. She is modeled after an 18 foot Monk designed sloop that I restored from a derelict hull in the 1970s. The original boat was
MV SavonaIn Festival Boats 2022 on July 1, 2021 Savona is a 1942 39′ Ed Monk Sr. designed, Forder built for Russell Rathbone in Kenmore on Lake Washington, Seattle. She spent time at the Bremerton Yacht Club while owned
HalcyonIn Festival Boats 2022 on July 1, 2021 “Halcyon” was purpose designed as a working salmon troller by Naval Architect Bill Garden and built for a member of the Prothero family. She fished the Northwest coast from Alaska
Lady WashingtonIn Festival Boats 2022 on June 30, 2021 Tall Ship Lady Washington is the official state ship of Washington. A traditionally built replica, she was launched in 1989 for the state centennial. The original vessel played a major
VaryaIn Festival Boats 2022 on June 30, 2021 Varya is mahogany planked over oak frames with a fractionally rigged Sitka Spruce mast and synthetic standing rigging. She was designed to be a racer/cruiser and as a result she
LadyhawkFor SaleIn Festival Boats 2022 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
HelmaIn Festival Boats 2022 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