Koru

In Festival Boats 2025 on May 8, 2025
This boat is constructed using Dudley Dix’s radius chine technique. She is made from fiberglass sheathed 9mm okoume plywood with Alaskan yellow cedar stringers. A custom sugar scoop transom adds
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Yolinda

In Festival Boats 2025 on May 8, 2025
New Jersey Gunning Skiffs were used before the turn of the 19th century along the Jersey shore by duck hunters who supplied the dining rooms of New York and Philadelphia
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Isswat

In Festival Boats 2025 on May 8, 2025
Isswat was built in 1948 in Whiskey Cove, on Pennock Island just across the water from Ketchikan, Alaska. She spent her early life as a troller, gillnetter and log camp
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Sofia

In Festival Boats 2025 on May 8, 2025
Sofia, a William Garden designed North Sea Trawler, was built by Gordy Hall and another shipwright over the course of 14 months and launched as GAY NINETIES in Sechelt, BC,
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Flying Eagle

In Festival Boats 2025 on May 8, 2025
There is nothing quite like watching a classic Maine Lobster Boat cutting through the cold waters with her low freeboard and graceful sheer. The Flying Eagle, as she was originally
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Katie M.

In Festival Boats 2025 on May 8, 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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Pluto

In Festival Boats 2025 on May 8, 2025
Pluto was purchased around 1986, right before I started working for Anchor Jensen at Jensen Motor Boat Co. in Seattle. The boat seemed in fairly good shape at the time,
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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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