Katie M.

In Festival Boats 2025 on April 25, 2025
Our catboat Katie M was built locally at the Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building and was launched in 2009. She is a reproduction of a working catboat from the
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Chloe

In Festival Boats 2025 on April 18, 2025
After her launch in 1960, details of Chloe’s history are sketchy until her purchase by Greg Smith of Rowayton, CT in the 1970s. After her planking was damaged in a
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Island Runner

In Festival Boats 2025 on April 18, 2025
Hull materials, framing, house construction details:Island Runner is a 42’ Lake Union Dry Dock built Dreamboat, designed by Otis Cutting. Documents show the hull was originally vertical grain fir planking
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Miss Mile-a-Minute

In Festival Boats 2025 on April 18, 2025
Designed by Ken Bassett, built by owner Pete Harrington over a 4 year time span and launched in 2014, Miss Mile-a-Minute is planked in mahogany and maple. The construction is
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Solitude III

In Festival Boats 2025 on April 18, 2025
Solitude III is a John C. Harris-penned “PocketShip” sailboat. Per the designer, this stitch and glue boat, “is a small cruising sailboat of refined model, meant to sail well on
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Whitehall 17

For Sale

In Festival Boats 2025 on April 18, 2025
The Whitehall pulling boat was my first love affair. With a boat, that is. Searching for the perfect first woodworking project I found the Whitehall in John Gardner’s Building Classic
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Jean Alden

In Festival Boats 2025 on April 18, 2025
I chose to build a catboat for three reasons. First, I wanted a sailboat with a cabin that would go on a trailer. Slip prices are prohibitive where I live
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Tranquil

In Festival Boats 2025 on April 18, 2025
The Grand Banks 36, a classic trawler design, was initially built with a wooden hull until 1973, when the company transitioned to fiberglass construction, while maintaining the traditional look. The
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JD Crow

In Festival Boats 2025 on April 17, 2025
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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Saga

In Festival Boats 2025 on April 15, 2025
There is very little historic documentation about these boats, but we know there were many variations within the general type. I wanted to build this in-part to discover why this
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