Flygburen

In Festival Boats 2023 on August 19, 2022
All it took was standing in her cockpit. Her mast was not stepped and she was supported by the static steel of boat stands rather than the undulating sea, but
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Walden

In Festival Boats 2023 on August 10, 2022
Replica of an 1845 sixteen-foot Cutter from USS Massachusetts, the first US Steamer on Puget Sound, which arrived in 1850. Walden would have been one of the smallest ship boats
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Lorraine

In Festival Boats 2023 on July 7, 2022
The seaworthy Nordic Folkboat Lorraine has truly been a gift to steward–from January of 1979 to the present. As a sailmaker of nearly 50 years, I have had the privilege
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Electric Philosophy

In Festival Boats 2023 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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Galileo

In Festival Boats 2023 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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Clatawa

In Festival Boats 2023 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 2023 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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Lacey

In Festival Boats 2023 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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Koru

In Festival Boats 2023 on June 24, 2022
This boat is constructed using Dudley Dix’s radius chine technique. She is made from fiberglass sheathed 9mm okoume plywood with Alaskan yellow cedar stringers. A custom sugar scoop adds an
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ANJA

In Festival Boats 2023 on June 24, 2022
ANJA’s design is based on the legendary Bristol Pilot Cutters of Britain. These boats were able to weather strong storms as well as be sailed short-handed. They would take the
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