A Northwest built version of a William Atkins “Rescue Minor” Article by James Thomas from Small Craft Advisor Magazine For some years I’d heard stories about a boat an acquaintance

Jim McCurdy had Bill Garden Design Discovery for his 40th Birthday. She was built to Yacht standards by the Vic Franck yard on Lake Union in Seattle in 1963. She

Christopher Jenkes commissioned a smaller version of Lester Stone’s personal yacht, when he saw the drawings he said, “That’s a nice little packet, and the name stuck. In addition the

For more than a century, Argonaut II sailed the waters of the Pacific Northwest and most famously served the remote native tribes and rural communities of British Columbia. Originally built

LUNA, a Bolger-designed Chebacco, was constructed by Jerome McIlvanie of Yakima, Washington between 1996 and 2001. The boat is 19’ 6” long and has a beam of 7’ 9”. After

Scherzo is a home-built, 14′ power dory. Her hull is from a design by the late Jeff Spira of Huntington Beach, California. Her interior was designed by the builder around

Idyl is a Haiku sharpie designed by Iain Oughtred in 2007. The design was inspired by Munroe’s Egret, but adapted for camp cruising. He added two feet in length and

Abishag was built by Edmund Lincoln Devreaux in Vallejo California and launched in 1970. Lincoln was a retired shipwright from Bear Island, US Navy Yard. She is a modeled from

Laid up in 1970, launched in 2005, two brothers working at the Nanoose Shipyards in Nanaimo (Vancouver Island) built Blue Starr with Bill Garden’s blessing. Garden, who lived on Toad’s

Buʔqʷ, pronounced approximately like ‘poke’ but with a ‘b,’ which is Lushootseed for duck (as in the bird), is a 16 foot replica ship’s small boat from the 19th Century.