Sula

In Festival Boats on May 28, 2026
Sula was designed by John Brandlmayr, a naval architect in Vancouver BC, who offered frame kits consisting of pre-fabricated components for frames, stem, transom, and keelson. She has a hard-chine
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Zostera

In Festival Boats on May 28, 2026
Zostera was built in 1927 as the Willmar II at Bidwell Boat Works in Vancouver, B.C for troll fishing off the coast. She carried up to 5000 pounds of iced
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Dodo

In Festival Boats on May 28, 2026
Dodo was built in Henderson Bay and launched in Potlatch, WA in 1934 as a working steam tugboat. Designed by Harold R. Lanning, Sr., Dodo is typical of small Puget
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Dorjun

In Festival Boats on May 28, 2026
Dorjun was designed and built by Fred C. Beebe at Greenport in Long Island in 1905, originally as a surfboat for the U. S. Lifesaving Services in Coos Bay, Oregon.
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Buʔqʷ

In Festival Boats on May 28, 2026
Buʔqʷ, pronounced approximately like ‘poke’ but with a ‘b,’ which is Lushootseed for duck (as in the bird), is a 16 foot replica ship’s boat that could have been carried
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SCOUT

For Sale

In Festival Boats on May 28, 2026
I designed and drafted SCOUT’S plans in 2007-2008. In 2009 Helen and I approached Sam Devlin to build our boat and his crew crafted a beautiful boat. We were completely
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Glorybe

In Festival Boats on May 28, 2026
GLORYBE has survived a century of adventures. Her first was reported in Pacific Motorboat in 1917. “Pounding on the beach several hours in the January storm in which several Tacoma
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Grace O’Malley

In Festival Boats on May 28, 2026
Grace O’Malley was built in Beaumont Texas by Dr. John Vardiman over a 20 year period. She has white oak frames planked with Atlantic cedar above waterline and Honduran mahogany
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Schooner Lavengro

In Festival Boats on May 28, 2026
Built in 1926 and originally named “Helen,” Schooner Lavengro is a 2/3rds scale yacht built on the lines of the Biloxi shrimp and oyster schooners of the early 1900s. During
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Nicola B

In Festival Boats on May 28, 2026
The Nicola B was built in 1975 as a seiner in Vancouver, BC by the Wahl family for the BC salmon fishery, she was converted to a pleasure boat in
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