Katie Ford

For Sale

In Festival Boats on July 30, 2024
“Katie Ford”, a one-of-a-kind pilothouse cutter designed and built by Heine Dole in Astoria, Oregon in 1946 and named after his grandmother, has long graced the waters of the Pacific
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Scallywag

In Festival Boats on July 29, 2024
Boat Name: Scallywag, ex. Perspicacious Sail: USA 114, ex. GBR 97 Year Built: 1979 Designer: Gary Mull Builder: Carl Eichenlaub Owner: Adam Henley History: Perspicacious was commissioned by Gayle Post
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Lisa Marie

In Festival Boats on July 29, 2024
This boat is constructed, in part, from cedar recovered from trees killed during the Holiday farm fire, McKenzie valley, Oregon. The construction has elements of building an airplane wing, or
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Mrs Bucket

In Festival Boats on July 29, 2024
A sailing dory who thinks she’s a yacht, MRS. BUCKET (pronounced Boo-Kay) was named after a British sitcom character of the same name. A Drascombe Lugger, her design was inspired
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Freebird

In Festival Boats on July 29, 2024
A classic Murray Peterson Gaff Coastal Schooner III. FREEBIRD formerly THE FOURTH OF JULY. A fine example of historic maritime trades. Custom Port Townsend Foundry bronze fittings. Carol Hassie sails-Rigging
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Electric Philosophy

In Festival Boats on July 9, 2024
Electric Philosophy is a solar electric catamaran designed for comfortable, extended self-sufficient cruising by a couple and one or 2 guests. Since its launch in 2021, it has traveled nearly
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Tu-tutsh

In Festival Boats on June 26, 2024
Grandfather, Howard Langley Slauson was born in Seattle in 1901 and grew up south of Seward park on Lake Washington. After a stint in the navy, he returned to Seattle
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La Mouette

In Festival Boats on June 26, 2024
La Mouette is a 23 foot LOD Canoe Yawl built to the 1896 Eel design of George Holmes, and built in Port Townsend in 1985 by Ray Speck and Kit
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Pert

In Festival Boats on June 26, 2024
William Garden designed the “Captain Blackburn” after reading about Howard Blackburn, a New England sailor who lost his fingers to frost bite. Despite his disability, Blackburn commissioned a small cutter
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Marion Jean

In Festival Boats on June 26, 2024
This is the constructed frame on a building JIG of a 20.5’ Bartender. The frames, stem, and stern post are meranti while the frame gussets, chine log and sheer clamp
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