Drifter

In Festival Boats 2023 on June 28, 2021
The McKenzie River Drift boat is a very popular design built from wood, fiberglass, and aluminum in both 14ft and 16ft lengths and seen on many NorthWest rivers and lakes.
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Bad Rabbit

In Festival Boats 2023 on June 23, 2021
Bad Rabbit was initially a Chesapeake Light Craft Kit pandemic project but since the builder’s husband is over 6’5″ this tandem hull became his boat. In the winter of 2023,
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Pluto

In Festival Boats 2023 on June 23, 2021
Custom design to cruise the waters and estuaries around England, originally with swing keel and careening planks. Extensively rebuilt by me and my wife with 1.5″ extra draft and full
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Pax

In Festival Boats 2023 on July 22, 2019
PAX is the only 45 sq meter Danish Spidsgatter sailing in North America. Pax (Latin for Peace) is a spidsgatter (Danish for “double ender”) built in Kalundborg, Denmark in 1936.
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Caine

In Festival Boats 2023 on July 22, 2019
12′ long of Cedar on Oak, built in 1975 at the Concordia yard in Mass. and restored in 20o4 in Portland Oregon. Annual upkeep and repairs since, CAINE is returning
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Murrelet

In Festival Boats 2023 on July 22, 2019
Murrelet was conceived as a downsizing project after nearly 40 years with my owner-built Lyle Hess Cutter Able. The plans were unavailable from the Nielsen estate but the lines were
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Just Grand

For Sale

In Festival Boats 2023 on July 8, 2019
Our Grand Banks 36 has had extensive upgrades: Our mahogany fly bridge trawler has new aluminum fuel tanks, recent stainless water tanks, a wonderful forced air heat system, hydronic diesel
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SL Puffin

In Festival Boats 2023 on July 8, 2019
Puffin was built by Truscott in St. Joseph, Michigan in 1906. Starting out as a hotel “limo”, by the 1980’s she was in disrepair near Mackinac Island and was rebuilt,
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Maggie Jane

For Sale

In Festival Boats 2023 on July 8, 2019
History: Maggie Jane is a Herreshoff H28 modified (29’ with added doghouse and bowsprit). She was home built and originally sailed in Lake Michigan in the late sixties. Hull construction
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Solitude III

In Festival Boats 2023 on July 3, 2019
Solitude III is a John C. Harris-penned “PocketShip” sailboat. Per the designer, this stitch and glue boat, “is a small cruising sailboat of refined model, meant to sail well on
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