Clementine

In Festival Boats 2026 on May 29, 2026
Built in 2006, Clementine is the first build of the Belhaven 19 designed by Graham Byrnes of B & B Yacht Designs (BandByachtdesigns.com). Construction is marine plywood with stitch and
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Savona

In Festival Boats 2026 on May 28, 2026
Savona is a 39′ Ed Monk Sr. Bridgedeck Cruiser. She was built in 1942 by Bud Forder of Forder Boatworks in Kenmore, WA on North Lake Washington for Russell Rathbone.
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Schooner Suva

In Festival Boats 2026 on May 28, 2026
The schooner Suva recently celebrated her centennial anniversary and will once again offer public sails during the Wooden Boat Festival. She will be located at the Northwest Maritime Center dock,
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Macaw

In Festival Boats 2026 on May 28, 2026
Macaw is a Presto-type gaff-rigged centerboard ketch. Designed by Sam Crocker and built by his son S. Sturgis Crocker at Crocker Boat Yard in Manchester, MA in 1956. She was
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Dolly

In Festival Boats 2026 on May 28, 2026
“DOLLY” was one of the last boats built by John Guzzwell, of TREKKA fame, as a gift to his wife, Dorothy. She is designed to cross oceans yet makes a
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Murrelet

In Festival Boats 2026 on May 28, 2026
Murrelet is a Honduras mahogany planked, locust framed, copper riveted, modification of the original danish double ender designed for E.B. White by Augie Nielsen. She displaces 3000 pounds and draws
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Blue Starr

In Festival Boats 2026 on May 28, 2026
Blue Starr was laid up in 1970 by two brothers at the now-defunct Nanoose Bay Shipyards in Nanaimo. Both shipwrights building workboats, they strictly worked on Blue Starr after-hours, together,
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Comrade

In Festival Boats 2026 on May 28, 2026
Herbert William Davis, Jr. commissioned H.C.Hanson to design this boat in 1929, and he continued his plans after the stock market crash. He was a recent widower, and both his
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Zostera

In Festival Boats 2026 on May 28, 2026
Zostera was built in 1927 as the Willmar II at Bidwell Boat Works in Vancouver, B.C for troll fishing off the coast. She carried up to 5000 pounds of iced
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Dodo

In Festival Boats 2026 on May 28, 2026
Dodo was built in Henderson Bay and launched in Potlatch, WA in 1934 as a working steam tugboat. Designed by Harold R. Lanning, Sr., Dodo is typical of small Puget
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