Mrs Bucket

In Festival Boats on July 29, 2024
A sailing dory who thinks sheโ€™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 โ€œCaptain Blackburnโ€ 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 20.5โ€™ Bartender. The frames, stem, and stern post are meranti while the frame gussets, chine log and sheer clamp
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Penguin

In Festival Boats on June 26, 2024
Penguin is a 19โ€ฒ Bartender which is a unique double-ended planing boat designed by George Calkins. She is one of the last hulls he built and advertised in the back
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Trine

For Sale

In Festival Boats on June 26, 2024
Trine is one of the few remaining 40kvm2 Spissgatter racer-cruisers built between 1938โ€“47 in Sarpborg, Norway. These were not “one-designs” but built to a “restriction measurement rule”. This meant designers
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Otter

In Festival Boats on June 26, 2024
I like rowing Otter, but I love the way it sails. It’s quick and adjustable to conditions. It has trekked all over the Salish Sea in a variety of conditions
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