MainEac

For Sale

In Festival Boats 2024 on March 27, 2024
The lines for this boat were taken from an old E. M. white 16 ft pulling boat that belonged to Tom Henessey ,an outdoor columnist for the Bangor(Maine) Daily News.
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Red Jacket

In Festival Boats 2024 on March 26, 2024
Red Jacket is a Staysail Schooner designed by Ted Geary and built by Blanchard Boat built in the Seattle /Tacoma in 1920. She has been sailing for 104 years. She
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Deja Vu

For Sale

In Festival Boats 2024 on March 26, 2024
The original Catspaw Dinghy is a traditional planked boat designed by Joel White. Deja Vu is an adaptation of the design to strip plank construction which consists of 1 X
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Secretary Isle

In Festival Boats 2024 on March 22, 2024
Secretary Isle, designed by Frank Fredette and built in 1952 by John Nicholson of Victoria. Called a troller-cruiser by the designer. The hull is white oak frames with red cedar
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Dog Paddler

In Festival Boats 2024 on March 22, 2024
This is a unique, sit-on-top wooden kayak I constructed that is designed by Bedard Yacht Design. It is a very stable kayak that is ideal for fishing, photography, or paddling
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Pallin’ Around

In Festival Boats 2024 on March 21, 2024
In 2022, we bought this abandoned 50-year-old boat as a foreclosure from Pleasant Harbor Marina on the Hood Canal. As our first project as a married couple, we hauled Pallin’
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Dragons Fly

In Festival Boats 2024 on March 21, 2024
Dragons Fly was built in Bellingham WA, by Brown and Elder. A Bob Finch one off, 4 layer cold molded mahogany, over 2″ stringers. She has long chord fin keel,
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Lux

In Festival Boats 2024 on March 21, 2024
Lux is Latin for ‘Light’. Lux began her career in the early 1980’s as the ‘Spirit of C-Troop’ – a training vessel for a troop of Sea Scouts in Vancouver,
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Puffin

In Festival Boats 2024 on March 21, 2024
As a new owner of this fine “little ship”, it is a real pleasure to have Puffin a part of the wooden boat show once again. Bill Garden designed this
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Limfjord

In Festival Boats 2024 on March 20, 2024
Built in 1969, strip planked mahogany, with 3” sheer plank added. Bent Jesperson kept her in Sidney B.C. as the family boat. The 3 kids learned to sail, evidently quite
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