BISH

In Festival Boats 2025 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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Bright Star

In Festival Boats 2025 on March 28, 2024
“Bright Star” is a Tolman Jumbo 24, from a design by Renn Tolman of Homer, Alaska. As are all the Tolman boats, she is a plywood stitch-and-glue wooden boat, and
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Red Jacket

In Festival Boats 2025 on March 26, 2024
Red Jacket is a Staysail Schooner designed by Ted Geary and built by Blanchard Boat built in the Seattle /Tacoma in 1920. She has been sailing for 104 years. She
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Deja Vu

For Sale

In Festival Boats 2025 on March 26, 2024
The original Catspaw Dinghy is a traditional planked boat designed by Joel White. Deja Vu is an adaptation of the design to strip plank construction which consists of 1 X
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Stephanie E.

In Festival Boats 2025 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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Anse La Roche

In Festival Boats 2025 on May 17, 2023
Roy Jackson and his wife Dolores took on the 50-60 thousand hour build in their backyard and dedicated weekends and evening over the course of 35 years. In the spring
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Yankee Dime

In Festival Boats 2025 on May 15, 2023
Designed in 1913 as a class racer by Manley Crosby (The Crosby families began designing and building boats in 1744 on Cape Cod and continue today with the 8th generation
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Grasshopper

In Festival Boats 2025 on June 17, 2022
It all started on the back of a napkin, when multihull sailor, designer, and builder Russell Brown had an idea. He had 2 Tornado hulls, a 15hp Honda long shaft,
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Isabella

In Festival Boats 2025 on July 9, 2021
Isabella was built in Denmark and is a solid example of the Nordic Folkboat design class. The Folkboat design evolved from a competition to create a sailboat suitable for use
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RIPTIDE

In Festival Boats 2025 on July 7, 2021
RIPTIDE was built in 1927 by the Schertzer Brothers Boat and Machine Company, then located on the north end of Lake Union near the foot of Stone Way in Seattle.
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