Sandavore

In Festival Boats on July 12, 2021
Sandavore’s keel was laid in 1962 during the fishing trawler heydays. Pacific Northwest shipyards could not churn these boats out fast enough for an industry hungry to fish. As “Barbara
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PickPocket

In Festival Boats on July 12, 2021
Bill Garden published this design in his 1977 book Yacht Designs. She traces her roots to George F. Holmes who is described as the father of the canoe yawl and
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Thistle Dew

In Festival Boats on July 12, 2021
Thistle Dew was the first boat that I built alone. Built from scratch, with plans from WoodenBoat magazine, I so conscientiously tried to fit each piece that I would often
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Fannie

For Sale

In Festival Boats on July 12, 2021
We chose to build this slightly smaller variant of a Piscataqua River Wherry designed by Bud McIntosh as we believe it would give us a nearly ideal fixed-seat recreational rowboat
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Emily

For Sale

In Festival Boats on July 12, 2021
This canoe is based on a design of a canoe built by the E.M. White Company of Old Town, ME in 1920. It was built by Stewart River Boatworks of
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Pelicano

In Festival Boats on July 9, 2021
Built to a Sam Devlin design called the Pelicano. Meant to be a commuter boat for my spouseโ€”but no one commutes to work anymore! Build time was about 28 months.
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Isabella

In Festival Boats on July 9, 2021
Isabella was built in Denmark and is a solid example of the Nordic Folkboat design class. The Folkboat design evolved from a competition to create a sailboat suitable for use
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Planet X

In Festival Boats on July 9, 2021
When I was 13 years old, I built my first boat, a 10-foot plywood skiff. Other boats followed until college, parenthood, and a career in the aerospace industry set a
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Red Bomber

In Festival Boats on July 9, 2021
Red Bomber is a double-cockpit runabout with a mahogany planked plywood hull, ring shank bronze fastened on sawn frames. Complete with Croslet-Aerojet pre-packaged 21-hp OHC 4-cylinder engine and belt-driven Vee-drive
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2020 WFH

In Festival Boats on July 7, 2021
2020 WFH is a stitch and glue composite offshore skiff tailored to offshore/island fishing and camping in southern California. No work hours were harmed in the creation of this boat.
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