Be Happy

In Festival Boats 2024 on May 23, 2024
BE HAPPY is a 21 foot Tolman Widebody Skiff built for fishing and overnight cruising. Built from marine plywood and encapsulated in epoxy and fiberglass she took a little more
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Little Bean

In Festival Boats 2024 on May 23, 2024
The 400 plus pound box of wood arrived in November 2021 just in time for a long-term Covid project. My wife had just had rotator cuff surgery and our outdoor
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Freyja

In Festival Boats 2024 on May 23, 2024
Originally built by Leiter Hokkett in 1938 in Ballard, WA, Freyja is one of two Viking Class sloops designed by Charles D. Mower. Originally designed for coastal New England, there
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BISH

In Festival Boats 2024 on May 14, 2024
BISH is a Murray Peterson Susan schooner. Port Orford Cedar on steam-bent white oak frames. Teak decks on laminated doug fir deck beams. Hand crank SABB lifeboat engine. All standing
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Golden Rule

In Festival Boats 2024 on April 17, 2024
The Golden Rule was the very first of the environmental and peace vessels to go to sea. In 1958, a crew of anti-nuclear weapons activists set sail aboard her in
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Sunshine Special

For Sale

In Festival Boats 2024 on April 17, 2024
Back in 1972, the boat was brought to Seattle from the Great Lakes and the Sunshine Special got her name and her first yellow stripe and she has had the
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Black Dogs

For Sale

In Festival Boats 2024 on April 17, 2024
A Northwest built version of a William Atkins โ€œRescue Minorโ€ Article by James Thomas from Small Craft Advisor Magazine For some years Iโ€™d heard stories about a boat an acquaintance
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Little Packet

In Festival Boats 2024 on April 4, 2024
Christopher Jenkes commissioned a smaller version of Lester Stone’s personal yacht, when he saw the drawings he said, “That’s a nice little packet, and the name stuck. In addition the
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Argonaut II

For Sale

In Festival Boats 2024 on April 4, 2024
For more than a century, Argonaut II sailed the waters of the Pacific Northwest and most famously served the remote native tribes and rural communities of British Columbia. Originally built
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Luna

In Festival Boats 2024 on April 4, 2024
LUNA, a Bolger-designed Chebacco, was constructed by Jerome McIlvanie of Yakima, Washington between 1996 and 2001. The boat is 19โ€™ 6โ€ long and has a beam of 7โ€™ 9โ€. After
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