Electric Philosophy

In Festival Boats on July 5, 2022
Electric Philosophy is a solar electric catamaran designed for comfortable, extended self-sufficient cruising by a couple and one or 2 guests. The concept for Electric Philosophy grew out of the
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Runaround Sue

In Festival Boats on July 1, 2022
I call this my COVID boat since it was constructed in 2020 and the first half of 2021 while I was hiding in my shop. The sawn frames are constructed
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Hoku Hele

In Festival Boats on June 30, 2022
This boat was built in Florida and then trucked to the customer In San Diego. The boat was sold and moved to Everett WA sometime in the late ’60s. The
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Bright Star

In Festival Boats on June 30, 2022
Bright Star is a Tolman Jumbo 24, from a design by Renn Tolman of Homer, Alaska. As are all the Tolman boats, she is a plywood stitch-and-glue wooden boat. The
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Galileo

In Festival Boats on June 30, 2022
My goal was to build an electrically-propelled power boat with a comfortable cabin that could be easily towed behind a modest car. It also had to be relatively simple to
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Moon Lady

In Festival Boats on June 30, 2022
Moon Lady was constructed in 2019 by instructor Jody Boyle and his students at the NWSWB in Port Hadlock. She was built pretty much as designed by John Gardner except
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Rage

In Festival Boats on June 30, 2022
Rage was built at Schooner Creek Boat Works in Portland under a very compressed timetable in order to qualify for a Transpacific Race. Rage has a storied racing career including
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Isswat

In Festival Boats on June 30, 2022
Isswat was built in Whisky Cove on Pennock Island in 1948. She has worked hard over the years as a commercial fishing boat, log tug, and party barge. There are
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Stormbird

In Festival Boats on June 30, 2022
For the last 75 years the Stormbird has been cruising Puget Sound and for a brief time Canadian Gulf Islands. I believe that my wife Cathy and I are the
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Magic Carpet

In Festival Boats on June 30, 2022
From “wooden boat magazine” September 1989. Magic Carpet was designed and built to be a competitive Ultra Light Displacement Boat (ULDB), structurally strong enough to win any contest with the
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