Martha

In Festival Boats on July 3, 2025
Built in 1907 for San Francisco Yacht Club Commodore J. R. Hanify, and named after his wife, Martha Fitzmaurice Hanify, Martha is a B.B. Crowninshield design built at W. F.
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Hiyu

In Festival Boats on July 3, 2025
Hiyu is a 10โ€™6โ€ version of Harry Bryanโ€™s Fiddlehead design, referred to as a โ€œdecked canoe.โ€ Okoume plywood was used throughout the construction. The designer intended the boat to be
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Sassafrass

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In Festival Boats on July 3, 2025
After completion of the refit of Sassafrass, we spent several years cruising the Pacific coast of North and Central America and through the Panama Canal into Eastern Caribbean. When our
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Corsair

In Festival Boats on July 3, 2025
Corsair was shipped to San Francisco from Copenhagen with her mast stepped in 1960 where she was often found in local club races winning the Master Mariner Race with best
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Dissertation

In Festival Boats on July 3, 2025
I started this boat just as I retired in 2017. I added an extra year to the build due to a serious pulmonary illness, but I was able to recover
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Gyrfalcon

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In Festival Boats on July 3, 2025
The Gyrfalcon is an 88-foot fantail, originally designed in the late 1910s by Lee and Brinton, and then redesigned and updated by H.C. Hanson in the late 1930s. Built in
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Burns Cove

In Festival Boats on July 3, 2025
Sam Devlin designed this 1989 early version Surf Scoter “Prince of Tides” as a boat that could take two boaters as far as their imaginations went. It has a 60
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Clatawa

In Festival Boats on July 3, 2025
Clatawa is a nine-foot flat-bottomed skiff from the design boards of Edwin Monk, who wished to give people with basic woodworking skills and a few sheets of plywood the means
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Nymph Of Lorne

In Festival Boats on July 3, 2025
Nymph was built by McGruer & Co. in Scotland in 1963. She spent her first 15 years sailing in Scotland, then sailed to BC via the Atlantic, the Canal, and

Trine

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In Festival Boats on July 3, 2025
Trine, named โ€œBest Sailboat 30โ€ฒ and aboveโ€ at the 2015 & 2012 Vancouver Wooden Boat Festivals, is one of the few remaining 40kvm2 Spissgatter (40 square meter double -ender). Twenty
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