Raven

In Festival Boats on July 27, 2018
RAVEN was built by Frank Black, a fish boat builder in Coos Bay, OR, for his own use in 1974. We were attracted to her sturdy design by Kenneth Smith
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Leslie Jean

In Festival Boats on July 27, 2018
Leslie Jean is a 15′ Whitehall that is a combination of many designs. Mostly the lines were taken from an article in National Fisherman Magazine from 1954 and 1977 written
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R&D

In Festival Boats on July 27, 2018
12 of these stout crew boats where commisioned by the navy to ferry crews from alternate locations to both Bangor and Bremerton shipyards during the cold war. However due to
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Vito Dumas

In Festival Boats on July 27, 2018
Vito Dumas started her life as “Irupe” in the Rio de la Plata area of Argentina. She made her way to San Diego in 1975 after a voyage up to
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Jean Alden

In Festival Boats on July 27, 2018
Jean Alden uses the traditional catboat configuration to achieve the objectives of a weatherly pocket cruiser that maximize my available shop space while still fitting on a trailer. Mostly I
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Lorraine

In Festival Boats on July 27, 2018
Lorraine is a Nordic Folkboat built in Denmark in 1959. She was imported for racing in San Francisco Bay then trucked to the Northwest for cruising. I bought Lorraine (named
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Windsong

In Festival Boats on July 27, 2018
Windsong was built by a school teacher in Grapeview, WA. She has mostly cruised between Olympia and Desolation Sound. Her longest voyage was to SE Alaska up the inside and
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Miss Mile-a-Minute

In Festival Boats on July 27, 2018
The design is Rascal by Ken Bassett. She was built by the owner and completed in 2014. Cold molded, batten seam construction, planked in mahogany and maple. The bottom incorporates
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Tumblehome

In Festival Boats on July 27, 2018
Built on Bainbridge Island in the 1980’s, TUMBLEHOME has a sheathed epoxy-cedar strip planked hull. A curvaceous teak wheelhouse allows inside or outside steering. The hull form fairs to a
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Sunbow

In Festival Boats on July 27, 2018
The CC 35 is one of a series of cruising trimarans designed by John Marples (Searunner Designs) in partnership with Jim Brown, and is a successor to Jim’s older Searunner
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