My Boat

In Festival Boats 2022 on July 3, 2019
I completed “My Boat” April 2011. My Boat was named by one of my granddaughters when she was two. We were camping on a local lake when a storm came
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Ziska

In Festival Boats 2022 on July 3, 2019
For the first 20 years of her life she was very successfully raced on the coast of Ireland, mostly sailing out of the Royal Cork Yacht Club, where she is
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Thelonius

In Festival Boats 2022 on November 21, 2018
Thelonis was custom built in 1953 for a Portland Oregon dentist who wanted a ‘traditional-style’ boat, so Ed Monk, Sr modified one of his 1920’s plans. Built by Admiral Marine
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Seven Bells

For Sale

In Festival Boats 2022 on November 14, 2018
A classic pilot-house cruiser, this 1929 Stephens Brothers boat was built in Stockton, CA, one of eight or nine boats using the same blueprints. Seven Bells has won the top
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Martha J

In Festival Boats 2022 on November 13, 2018
She’s a “Pulsifer Hampton” previously owned by the Foley family, who donated her to WBF as a support vessel for programs and regattas. She was built by Richard Pulsifer in
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Hope

In Festival Boats 2022 on November 13, 2018
I found this dory in a friend’s barn, full of refuse, dead insects and rodents, bird skeletons, dilapidated, rotten and smashed in. It was love at first sight. Over several
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Waterstrider

In Festival Boats 2022 on August 22, 2018
Chesapeake Light Craft Skerry, stitch and glue double-ender with sprit rig. From Port Townsend to Ross lake, Lake Crescent and the San Juan Islands, Waterstrider has been a fun family
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Marionette

For Sale

In Festival Boats 2022 on August 22, 2018
Marionette is #6 of 22 K-50s built in San Diego. She was commissioned in 1964. Kettenburg Boatworks was famous for building lightweight and very fast wooden racing sailboats and the
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Martha

In Festival Boats 2022 on August 22, 2018
Built in 1907 for San Francisco Yacht Club Commodore J. R. Hanify, and named after his wife, Martha Fitzmaurice Hanify, Martha is a B.B. Crowninshield design built at W. F.
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Gikumi

In Festival Boats 2022 on August 22, 2018
The Gikumi has just celebrated its 67th year of commercial service on the British Columbia coast. It was built in Vancouver British Columbia and had lived continuously in Telegraph Cove
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