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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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