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

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

In Festival Boats on July 3, 2025
Trine, named “Best Sailboat 30′ and above” 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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Eagle

In Festival Boats on July 3, 2025
This boat has been refurbished bow to stern over a decade. Most of the work I did myself on weekends at a private dock in Newport Beach California where I
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Sid Skiff

In Festival Boats on July 3, 2025
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Rhythm

In Festival Boats on July 3, 2025
This boat came to life during the early days of the traditional wooden boat revival. Shew & Burnham set up shop in South Bristol, Maine in the late 1960’s and
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Lorraine

In Festival Boats on July 3, 2025
The Nordic Folkboat was the outcome of a design contest of the Swedish Yacht Club and became an international class boat in 1942. This boat was an apprenticeship project for
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