Sunnyside

In Festival Boats 2022 on July 6, 2022
Sunnyside was a COVID project built in the spring of 2020. 14 ft in length, 6 ft beam, cruising displacement is 1,000 lb. While her topside, cabin, and coach construction
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Ebb

In Festival Boats 2022 on July 6, 2022
Every now and again, we build a boat for ourselves. We wanted a good rowboat, which meant it had to meet several criteria: • It had to row very well.
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Raging Turtles

In Festival Boats 2022 on July 6, 2022
A beautiful rowing craft! Raging Turtles is my first wood boat project. In 2021 it was restored and upgraded based on subsequent boat building projects and in the SEVENTY48 rowing
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Electric Philosophy

In Festival Boats 2022 on July 5, 2022
Electric Philosophy is a solar electric catamaran designed for comfortable, extended self-sufficient cruising by a couple and one or 2 guests. The concept for Electric Philosophy grew out of the
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Runaround Sue

In Festival Boats 2022 on July 1, 2022
I call this my COVID boat since it was constructed in 2020 and the first half of 2021 while I was hiding in my shop. The sawn frames are constructed
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Hoku Hele

In Festival Boats 2022 on June 30, 2022
This boat was built in Florida and then trucked to the customer In San Diego. The boat was sold and moved to Everett WA sometime in the late ’60s. The
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Bright Star

In Festival Boats 2022 on June 30, 2022
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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Galileo

In Festival Boats 2022 on June 30, 2022
My goal was to build an electrically-propelled power boat with a comfortable cabin that could be easily towed behind a modest car. It also had to be relatively simple to
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Moon Lady

In Festival Boats 2022 on June 30, 2022
Moon Lady was constructed in 2019 by instructor Jody Boyle and his students at the NWSWB in Port Hadlock. She was built pretty much as designed by John Gardner except
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Rage

In Festival Boats 2022 on June 30, 2022
Rage was built at Schooner Creek Boat Works in Portland under a very compressed timetable in order to qualify for a Transpacific Race. Rage has a storied racing career including
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