Duffy

Edwin Monk Sr. penned an evolving series of Bridgedeck cruisers from the late 1930s through the early ’70s becoming the quintessential mid-20th-century northwest cruisers. While mostly similar in layout and appearance, each one was individually designed for a specific customer and a specific use.
A local Seattle Physician commissioned Ed Monk to design a cruiser for his family of four to cruise the Salish Sea and the inside passage. Monk designed a robust hull based on one of his pre-war designs while Lorne Garden designed a streamlined mid-century-modern superstructure and accommodations. Duffy was built by Dick Adams, a longtime builder of commercial fishing boats, under the north span of the University Bridge in Seattle and was launched in 1950.
Two generations of the original owners’ children were raised on Duffy until it finally changed hands to another family of four in 1992. We took on Duffy in 2017 and have since similarly explored our region’s waterways, with two children and a dog in tow. From 2020 until late last year we undertook our “graduate level boatbuilder’s course”, performing Duffy’s first substantial structural restoration and refit in seven decades. Duffy is now ready for another several generations of Salish cruising adventures.