Circe

In Festival Boats on May 8, 2025
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Wonderland

In Festival Boats on May 8, 2025
We owned and sailed Wonderland for several years before we discovered and met her builder. Sam Connor, who built two Woodmarine 24s, supplied us with photos of her launching. Weโ€™ve
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NOMAD

In Festival Boats on May 8, 2025
NOMAD was launched in 1964 in Coos Bay, Oregon. She has had a succession of shipwright owners taking very good care of her, including a new stem, forefoot, and transom
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Patty B

In Festival Boats on May 8, 2025
There was a time when plywood boats lookedโ€”well, plywoody. But since the 1980s Sam Devlin has been designing watercraft of increasingly sophisticated beauty, inspired by classic forms and carrying sumptuous
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TUMBLEHOME

In Festival Boats on May 8, 2025
TUMBLEHOME is thoroughly my boat…I designed her, built her, sail her, and maintain her. Because wood is such a lovely material to work and live with, she has a cedar
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Windsong

In Festival Boats on May 8, 2025
Ralph Winslow was a prolific, exacting designer and this design made subtle changes to a type he’d been drawing for more than thirty years. We have owned Windsong twice durning
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Draiodoir

In Festival Boats on May 8, 2025
She was built up in Ballard shipyard in 1935. Her original design was a sloop, but in 1970s she was re rigged by adding the bowsprit and boomkin that is
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Que Sera

In Festival Boats on May 8, 2025
Hull number 11 of a limited production run of 19 K43 Sloops built by Kettenburg Marine, San Diego in the mid-1960s. To our knowledge, she is one of three K43s
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INTEGRITY

In Festival Boats on May 8, 2025
mv Integrity’s hull is constructed utilizing the proven-and-strong ‘stitch-and-glue’ method. Lovely practical, strong, aesthetic, and purposed wooden craftsmanship throughout. Twin-engines, sporting the economical and proven Yanmar 3YM30 Diesel. Recent upgrades
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FAME

For Sale

In Festival Boats on May 8, 2025
Schooner FAME was the personal boat of the designer, BB Crowninshield. She was built in 1910 by the Rice Brothers yard in Maine. FAME was completely restored by Dennis Conner
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