Illusion

In Festival Boats 2024 on March 20, 2024
By Rob Wilkinson My brother John and I grew up on Mercer Island Washington, a paradise in the 1950s with gravel roads, cottages on Lake Washington and forests to play
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Whitupau

In Festival Boats 2024 on March 20, 2024
Whitupau is a dugout Oceanic Proa. The main hull is dug out of a western red cedar log, while the ama is dug out of a driftwood log. Typical of
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Air Snipe

In Festival Boats 2024 on March 20, 2024
The Air Snipe (ex SC-1068) was laid down Dec 10th of 1942 as PC-1068 in Camden NJ by Mathis Yacht Building Company (later became John Trumpy & Sons); she was
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Stephanie E.

In Festival Boats 2024 on March 20, 2024
Stephanie E., was built by the well-known boat builder, Dan Jones in Sausalito, Calif. in 1980, She is built to the lines and plans found in John Gardner’s Book: Building
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Second Chance

In Festival Boats 2024 on July 18, 2023
Second Chance was a home built from a Chris Craft Kit in 1955. Through her long life she fell into disrepair and was at some point abandoned in a Long
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Silvana

In Festival Boats 2024 on July 18, 2023
Silvana is a wood cold molded cutter sailboat of 30 feet designed by Lyle Hess and built in Canada by Ernest Mellstrom in 1997. Cold molded wood hull and Deck
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Gray Wolf

In Festival Boats 2024 on July 17, 2023
2023 Race To Alaska winner, Gray Wolf is a cold molded cedar boat with a free standing rig, and water ballast. She was built for ocean racing in Camden, ME
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Bear

In Festival Boats 2024 on July 14, 2023
Commissioned by the Wooden Boat Foundation, Bear was built in partnership with Gray Wolf Ranch and the NW School of Wooden Boatbuilding. Greg Foster designed her from the lines of
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Dorjun

In Festival Boats 2024 on July 14, 2023
Dorjun was designed and built by Fred C. Beebe at Greenport in Long Island in 1905, originally as a surfboat for the U. S. Lifesaving Services in Coos Bay, Oregon.
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Misty B

In Festival Boats 2024 on July 7, 2023
After watching Tally Ho and Arabella coming together on Youtube I decided that I ought to build a boat too. After looking at many plans I came across Glen L
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