First Try

In Festival Boats on July 17, 2023
I have been an avid kayaker for years but have always paddled around in plastic kayaks around Puget Sound and in many of our fresh water lakes in the Shelton,
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Gray Wolf

In Festival Boats on July 17, 2023
2023 Race To Alaska winner, Gray Wolf is a cold molded cedar boat with a free standing rig, and water ballast. She was built for ocean racing in Camden, ME
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Laura M

For Sale

In Festival Boats on July 17, 2023
Sailing tender
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Tu-tutsh

In Festival Boats on July 17, 2023
Long time explorer of the Salish Sea. Built by our grandfather in 14 months and launched in 1961. Hull #39
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Mycia

For Sale

In Festival Boats on July 17, 2023
The Mycia is a hand-made, wooden, gaff-rigged, American sailing-fishing schooner. Built entirely by hand in the Pacific Northwest, the Mycia was designed and lofted in Port Townsend, Washington, by Jim
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Buster K

In Festival Boats on July 17, 2023
The boat was rowed at UCI in southern California. It had been sitting for a couple decades collecting dust and deteriorating. I brought it up to Port Townsend a few
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Lotus

For Sale

In Festival Boats on July 17, 2023
On display for the third time at WBF, Lotus is a unique Pacific Northwest trimaran meticulously built to plans by Aussie Coilin Haigh in Vancouver BC, in balsa with epoxy/glass
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Bear

In Festival Boats on July 14, 2023
Commissioned by the Wooden Boat Foundation, Bear was built in partnership with Gray Wolf Ranch and the NW School of Wooden Boatbuilding. Greg Foster designed her from the lines of
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Dodo

In Festival Boats on July 14, 2023
Dodo was built in Henderson Bay and launched in Potlatch, WA in 1934 as a working steam tugboat.
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Doris B

In Festival Boats on July 14, 2023
The boat this build is replicating was rebuilt at the dolphin club with the aid of some boat school graduates in San Francisco around 2016. It’s the ultra-light method of
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