FAME

For Sale

In Festival Boats 2024 on May 1, 2023
Schooner FAME was the personal boat of the designer, BB Crowninshield. She was built in 1910 by the Rice Brothers yard in Maine. FAME was completely restored by Dennis Conner
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Alca i

In Festival Boats 2024 on September 6, 2022
Alca i was inspired by Colin Archer and designed by George Buehler (from Whidbey Island). She was constructed in 2003 to subarctic exploration vessel standards with 2″ thick oak plank
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Runaway

In Festival Boats 2024 on September 2, 2022
From the comments of our surveyor, “this boat has good bones”!  Well, that’s what we loved about her 10 years ago when we bought her, and really, it was about
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Admiral Jack

In Festival Boats 2024 on August 22, 2022
Admiral Jack is the newest addition to Northwest Maritime’s fleet! A comfortable tour boat in the summer and a state-of-the-art floating classroom during the school year.
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La Vie en Rose

For Sale

In Festival Boats 2024 on August 22, 2022
La Vie en Rose is the product of a 3-year collaboration between the previous owner and designer Paul Gartside. She was built in Sidney, B.C., by Jespersen Boat Builders. Her
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JD Crow

In Festival Boats 2024 on August 22, 2022
Ron Bowen built J.D. Crow in the spirit of British Columbia’s long tradition of beautiful and seaworthy homebuilt sailboats, with Allen Farrell as premier guru. Ron was a fisherman, logger,
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Flygburen

In Festival Boats 2024 on August 19, 2022
All it took was standing in her cockpit. Her mast was not stepped and she was supported by the static steel of boat stands rather than the undulating sea, but
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Lorraine

In Festival Boats 2024 on July 7, 2022
The seaworthy Nordic Folkboat Lorraine has truly been a gift to steward–from January of 1979 to the present. As a sailmaker of nearly 50 years, I have had the privilege
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Clatawa

In Festival Boats 2024 on June 27, 2022
Clatawa is a nine-foot flat-bottomed skiff from the design boards of Edwin Monk, who wished to give people with basic woodworking skills and a few sheets of plywood the means
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Lacey

In Festival Boats 2024 on June 24, 2022
The hull was started by the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in 2013 and after sitting for several years progress was resumed in 2019. The school then finished the planking
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