Blue Starr

In Festival Boats 2025 on May 8, 2025
Blue Starr was built by two shipwright brothers of Nanoose Bay Boatworks – at the time in Nanaimo – in 1970. They primarily worked on fish boats, so many work
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Ramona

In Festival Boats 2025 on May 8, 2025
After a small stroke in 2011 I took on building a wooden kayak to help with the paralysis and weakness of my right side. This was a really uplifting fun
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Dolly

In Festival Boats 2025 on May 8, 2025
Dolly was builton Lake Union in 1990 by John Guzzwell, renowned for circumnavigating in the home-built sloop, Trekka, and the subsequent book, Trekka Round the World. Designed as a stretched
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Sit-on-Top Kayak

For Sale

In Festival Boats 2025 on May 8, 2025
This kayak was designed by Jack Bedard, of Bedard Yacht Design in Tarpon Springs, Florida. It has a dry cockpit through the use of scuppers, along with two waterproof dry-bag
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KHOYA

In Festival Boats 2025 on May 8, 2025
Way back in 1979 KHOYA handily circumnavigated Vancouver Island; immersing her current owner into the heart of Native country and the wild riches of our Pacific Northwest waters. Later sailing
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Dorjun

In Festival Boats 2025 on May 8, 2025
This year Dorjun celebrates her 120th birthday! Dorjun was designed and built by Fred C. Beebe at Greenport in Long Island in 1905, originally as a surfboat for the U.
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Maggie Jane

For Sale

In Festival Boats 2025 on May 8, 2025
Maggie Jane is for sale Home Port: Quartermaster Harbor, Vashon Island Year Built: 1968 Owner: Michael Murray Designer: L. Francis Herreshoff Design: Modified H28 Maggie Jane is a modified, strip
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BE HAPPY

In Festival Boats 2025 on May 8, 2025
BE HAPPY is a 21-foot Tolman Widebody with a pilot house and cuddy cabin. Built from scratch using the instructions provided in the book “Tolman Alaskan Skiffs” by Renn Tolman.
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Duffy

In Festival Boats 2025 on May 8, 2025
Edwin Monk Sr. penned an evolving series of Bridgedeck cruisers from the late 1930s through the early ’70s becoming the quintessential mid-20th-century northwest cruisers. While mostly similar in layout and
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Marianita

In Festival Boats 2025 on May 8, 2025
Marianita was built over a few years in my shop, a former two-car garage. She is glued-lapstrake using 3/8″ marine grade plywood for the hull with two layers of 1/4″
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