Maggie Jane

For Sale

In Festival Boats 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 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 โ€œTolman Alaskan Skiffsโ€ by Renn Tolman.
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Duffy

In Festival Boats 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 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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Idyl

In Festival Boats on May 8, 2025
Idyl was launched in June 2024, after a two-year build. She has okoume ply planking on yellow cedar framing and sapele floors and keel. External ballast is a 1000 lb.
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Savona

In Festival Boats on May 8, 2025
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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Hershey’s Boat

In Festival Boats on May 8, 2025
This boat was built because my favorite 12′ Wee Lassie canoe was too small for both me and my dog Hershey. I also wanted a boat capable of making camping
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Camelot

For Sale

In Festival Boats on May 8, 2025
Camelot’s known history is one of neglect punctuated by aggressive care and upgrades. Her design is rumored to be a sistership to one owned by Elmer Nordstrom, but that is
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Auklet

In Festival Boats on May 8, 2025
Rumor is sheโ€™s done the inside passage, looking forward to cruising the San Juanโ€™s in style
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Waterwoody

For Sale

In Festival Boats on May 8, 2025
Having developed similar designs, this boat is a culmination of where my inspiration has led me. Constructed of Marine plywood sheathed in fiberglass and epoxy, the interior is a visual
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