GetAbout

In Festival Boats on May 23, 2024
Sailing is our main boating passion, but we thought it would be fun to have a fast run-about to explore the Columbia River and surrounding areas. After building a couple
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Guppy

In Festival Boats on May 23, 2024
The Guppy is an okoume plywood and Philippine mahogany sailboat, rowboat, powerboat, built to be equally at home on lakes or waters of the Puget Sound. It is constructed a
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Zephyrus

In Festival Boats on May 23, 2024
Designed by Ed Monk Sr., MV Zephyrus was built in 1954 in Nanaimo, British Columbia. Carvel planked, yellow cedar on white oak frames below the waterline, red cedar above. When
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Be Happy

In Festival Boats on May 23, 2024
BE HAPPY is a 21 foot Tolman Widebody Skiff built for fishing and overnight cruising. Built from marine plywood and encapsulated in epoxy and fiberglass she took a little more
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Little Bean

In Festival Boats on May 23, 2024
The 400 plus pound box of wood arrived in November 2021 just in time for a long-term Covid project. My wife had just had rotator cuff surgery and our outdoor
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Freyja

In Festival Boats on May 23, 2024
Originally built by Leiter Hokkett in 1938 in Ballard, WA, Freyja is one of two Viking Class sloops designed by Charles D. Mower. Originally designed for coastal New England, there
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BISH

In Festival Boats on May 14, 2024
BISH is a Murray Peterson Susan schooner. Port Orford Cedar on steam-bent white oak frames. Teak decks on laminated doug fir deck beams. Hand crank SABB lifeboat engine. All standing
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Camas Moon

In Festival Boats on May 13, 2024
Camas Moon is the first boat built to Tad Robertsโ€™ new CoPogy 18 design. She is 18โ€™ LOD, 24โ€™ LOA, 6โ€™6โ€ beam, and 9โ€ draft. She is rigged as a
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Golden Rule

In Festival Boats on April 17, 2024
The Golden Rule was the very first of the environmental and peace vessels to go to sea. In 1958, a crew of anti-nuclear weapons activists set sail aboard her in
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Sunshine Special

For Sale

In Festival Boats on April 17, 2024
Back in 1972, the boat was brought to Seattle from the Great Lakes and the Sunshine Special got her name and her first yellow stripe and she has had the
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