Clatawa

In Festival Boats on June 27, 2022
Clatawa is a nine-foot flat-bottomed skiff from the design boards of Edwin Monk, who wished to give people with basic woodworking skills and a few sheets of plywood the means
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La Vida e Bella

In Festival Boats on June 24, 2022
“La Vita e Bella” is a glued lap, epoxy saturated ply, 13.5 ft Melonseed Skiff. She was built by John Barto, himself; who redrew Chamberlain’s historic lines drawings, to make
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Grebe

In Festival Boats on June 24, 2022
In 2019, I built Grebe, Selway Fisher’s “Drake 13 Sharpie” design. The hull is built tack-and-tape style from 6mm okoume plywood. The transom and daggerboard case is 9 mm. Spars
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Lacey

In Festival Boats on June 24, 2022
The hull was started by the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in 2013 and after sitting for several years progress was resumed in 2019. The school then finished the planking
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Symfoni

For Sale

In Festival Boats on June 24, 2022
“Symfoni” is new, so her history is just beginning. Some decades ago, as a kid, I admired the loveliness of the hauled-out royal yacht of Norway in East Boothbay, Maine,
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South Paw

For Sale

In Festival Boats on June 24, 2022
Built by previous owner Frank Klister at the Port Townsend wooden boat center in 1997. I know it has been displayed at the festival before. I recently discovered it tarped
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Merva

In Festival Boats on June 24, 2022
Mervaโ€™s history begins with a remarkable journey by sledge, drawn by a team of horses, from Mr. Morrissโ€™ yard to the waterโ€™s edge for launching. Afterward, she cruised the waters
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Teal

In Festival Boats on June 24, 2022
TEAL is a venerable part of PNW and Alaska history; built near Coos Bay, OR for the U.S. Government; TEAL spent nearly40 as a coastal patrol vessel in service to
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Nymph of Lorne

For Sale

In Festival Boats on June 24, 2022
Nymph was built by McGruer & Co. in Scotland in 1963. She spent her first 15 years sailing in Scotland, then sailed to BC via the Atlantic, the Canal, and
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Koru

In Festival Boats on June 24, 2022
This boat is constructed using Dudley Dix’s radius chine technique. She is made from fiberglass sheathed 9mm okoume plywood with Alaskan yellow cedar stringers. A custom sugar scoop adds an
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