Isswat

In Festival Boats 2022 on June 30, 2022
Isswat was built in Whisky Cove on Pennock Island in 1948. She has worked hard over the years as a commercial fishing boat, log tug, and party barge. There are
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Stormbird

In Festival Boats 2022 on June 30, 2022
For the last 75 years the Stormbird has been cruising Puget Sound and for a brief time Canadian Gulf Islands. I believe that my wife Cathy and I are the
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Magic Carpet

In Festival Boats 2022 on June 30, 2022
From “wooden boat magazine” September 1989. Magic Carpet was designed and built to be a competitive Ultra Light Displacement Boat (ULDB), structurally strong enough to win any contest with the
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Clatawa

In Festival Boats 2022 on June 27, 2022
Clatawa is a nine-foot flat-bottomed skiff from the design boards of Edwin Monk, who wished to give people with basic woodworking skills and a few sheets of plywood the means
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La Vida e Bella

In Festival Boats 2022 on June 24, 2022
“La Vita e Bella” is a glued lap, epoxy saturated ply, 13.5 ft Melonseed Skiff. She was built by John Barto, himself; who redrew Chamberlain’s historic lines drawings, to make
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Grebe

In Festival Boats 2022 on June 24, 2022
In 2019, I built Grebe, Selway Fisher’s “Drake 13 Sharpie” design. The hull is built tack-and-tape style from 6mm okoume plywood. The transom and daggerboard case is 9 mm. Spars
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Lacey

In Festival Boats 2022 on June 24, 2022
The hull was started by the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in 2013 and after sitting for several years progress was resumed in 2019. The school then finished the planking
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Symfoni

For Sale

In Festival Boats 2022 on June 24, 2022
“Symfoni” is new, so her history is just beginning. Some decades ago, as a kid, I admired the loveliness of the hauled-out royal yacht of Norway in East Boothbay, Maine,
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South Paw

For Sale

In Festival Boats 2022 on June 24, 2022
Built by previous owner Frank Klister at the Port Townsend wooden boat center in 1997. I know it has been displayed at the festival before. I recently discovered it tarped
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Merva

In Festival Boats 2022 on June 24, 2022
Merva’s history begins with a remarkable journey by sledge, drawn by a team of horses, from Mr. Morriss’ yard to the water’s edge for launching. Afterward, she cruised the waters
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