Isabella

In Festival Boats 2023 on July 9, 2021
Isabella was built in Denmark and is a solid example of the Nordic Folkboat design class. The Folkboat design evolved from a competition to create a sailboat suitable for use
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RIPTIDE

In Festival Boats 2023 on July 7, 2021
RIPTIDE was built in 1927 by the Schertzer Brothers Boat and Machine Company, then located on the north end of Lake Union near the foot of Stone Way in Seattle.
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Emma Rose

In Festival Boats 2023 on July 7, 2021
Emma Rose is relatively new to us. After 20 years of sailing the Salish Sea and Canadian North Coast it was time to for a powered cruiser to make the
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Tusitala

In Festival Boats 2023 on July 2, 2021
The sailing vessel Tusitala, Samoan for story-teller, does indeed have a story to tell. She is a gaff-rigged cutter, 30.5 feet, commissioned by Robert and Marge Saxton, of Round Pond,
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S/V Starlight

In Festival Boats 2023 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
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MV Savona

In Festival Boats 2023 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
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Halcyon

In Festival Boats 2023 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
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Varya

In Festival Boats 2023 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
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Helma

In Festival Boats 2023 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
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Haven

In Festival Boats 2023 on June 29, 2021
Haven was inspired by lapstrake runabouts of the 1950s and 1960s by builders like Lyman and Thompson. I was unable to find existing plans for a boat of this type
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