Dolly

In Festival Boats 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 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 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 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 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 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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Dorjun

In Festival Boats on May 28, 2026
Dorjun was designed and built by Fred C. Beebe at Greenport in Long Island in 1905, originally as a surfboat for the U. S. Lifesaving Services in Coos Bay, Oregon.
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Buส”qสท

In Festival Boats on May 28, 2026
Buส”qสท, pronounced approximately like ‘poke’ but with a ‘b,’ which is Lushootseed for duck (as in the bird), is a 16 foot replica ship’s boat that could have been carried
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SCOUT

For Sale

In Festival Boats on May 28, 2026
I designed and drafted SCOUT’S plans in 2007-2008. In 2009 Helen and I approached Sam Devlin to build our boat and his crew crafted a beautiful boat. We were completely
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Glorybe

In Festival Boats on May 28, 2026
GLORYBE has survived a century of adventures. Her first was reported in Pacific Motorboat in 1917. โ€œPounding on the beach several hours in the January storm in which several Tacoma
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