Holiday

In Festival Boats 2023 on July 27, 2018
Holiday has been family-owned since launched in July 1946. My Grandfather Rex Bartlett commissioned Ed Monk Sr. to design her and she was built on Seattle’s Lake Union by the
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Vito Dumas

In Festival Boats 2023 on July 27, 2018
Vito Dumas started her life as “Irupe” in the Rio de la Plata area of Argentina. She made her way to San Diego in 1975 after a voyage up to
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Jean Alden

In Festival Boats 2023 on July 27, 2018
Jean Alden uses the traditional catboat configuration to achieve the objectives of a weatherly pocket cruiser that maximize my available shop space while still fitting on a trailer. Mostly I
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Miss Mile-a-Minute

In Festival Boats 2023 on July 27, 2018
The design is Rascal by Ken Bassett. She was built by the owner and completed in 2014. Cold molded, batten seam construction, planked in mahogany and maple. The bottom incorporates
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Tumblehome

In Festival Boats 2023 on July 27, 2018
Built on Bainbridge Island in the 1980’s, TUMBLEHOME has a sheathed epoxy-cedar strip planked hull. A curvaceous teak wheelhouse allows inside or outside steering. The hull form fairs to a
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Sofia

In Festival Boats 2023 on July 27, 2018
Refit 1996 Some time in the Nineties. Sofia had several planks replaced. These planks were harvested from the blast area around Mt. St. Helens. Because the wood had sat there
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Stella

In Festival Boats 2023 on July 26, 2018
Stella is a 17′ Whitehall rowing skiff handcrafted from western red cedar and Sitka spruce using Gougeon clear finish, composite technology by Joe Titlow in 2015. More details can be
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Trine

For Sale

In Festival Boats 2023 on July 26, 2018
Trine is one of the few remaining 40kvm2 Spissgatter racer-cruisers built between 1938–47 in Sarpborg, Norway. These were not “one-designs” but built to a “restriction measurement rule”. This meant designers
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Nymph of Lorne

For Sale

In Festival Boats 2023 on July 18, 2018
Nymph was built by McGruer & Co. in Scotland in 1963. She spent her first 15 years sailing in Scotland, then sailed to BC via the Atlantic, the Canal, and
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Tomte

In Festival Boats 2023 on July 18, 2018
Tomte was built in 1946 in Alert Bay BC as a logging camp tender for work in Seymour Inlet. She later worked as a fish boat working up and down
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