Ricochet

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In Festival Boats on June 21, 2024
Ricochet is a Kettenburg PCC (Pacific Cruising Class) fractional-rigged sloop. She was built in 1956 by Kettenburg Boat Works of San Diego (hull #21 of 24), to a 1946 design
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POPLAR III

In Festival Boats on June 21, 2024
While stationed in Ocean Falls for the BC Police and RCMP she patrolled the coastal waters from Cape Caution to Campania Sound, and while stationed in Prince Rupert for the
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Henrietta

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In Festival Boats on June 21, 2024
Henrietta is planked tight with Port Orford cedar on oak frames. It’s unclear if the house has always been forward, or if she actually was a bow picker originally. I
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Saint Francis V

In Festival Boats on June 21, 2024
Designed and built for the Saint Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco. No expense was spared to create the perfect boat for Tom Blackaller to win the first international six
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Connection

In Festival Boats on June 21, 2024
In 1979 Uncle David started building a boat to sail around the world on. By launch in 1984 he’d married Aunt Julia and become a father. He named the boat
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Maggie Jane

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In Festival Boats on June 20, 2024
Maggie Jane is a modified, strip planked H28 ketch design, extensively rebuilt and sailed out of Quartermaster Harbor on Vashon Island. Her dimensions are LOD 29.5’, LOA 34’, Beam 8.75’,
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Nevermore

In Festival Boats on June 18, 2024
Nevermore began her journey as a dream some 50 years ago of then young Ralph Eastland, of Quadra Island, BC. Seeking to build a ship in which to raise his
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ANJA

In Festival Boats on June 7, 2024
ANJA is based on a gaff rigged Bristol pilot cutter designed by Roger Long in 1976. Launched in 2014 on Saltspring Island, BC. Hull built by David Betts and the
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Lotus

In Festival Boats on June 7, 2024
Originally named Mango, this trailerable Farrier RF9AXT trimaran was launched in 1994 by Australian Colin Haigh, a Vancouver-based machinist. He meticulously crafted her to plan in strip plank Durakore, a
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Grace O’Malley

In Festival Boats on June 7, 2024
John Vardiman, a country doctor, over ten years, built, with friends in Beaumont Texas the Malabar II, John Alden designed Schooner Bradna Rose. Michael Durland and Dick Schuettge. with Shipwrights
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