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If you have been accepted and do not see your boat below, please check back, as new boats are added all the time. We strive to have all accepted boats listed below by August 1
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AdventuressHome Port: Port Townsend, WAYear Built: 1913LOA: 131Beam: 21Owner: Schooner Adventuress Sound ExperienceDesigner: B.B. CrowninshieldDesign: One-offType: Schooner
Sound Experience sails the historic schooner Adventuress to educate, inspire, and empower an inclusive community that works to improve our marine environment and celebrates our maritime heritage. Since her launch in E. Boothbay, Maine, in 1913, the B.B. Crowninshield-designed schooner has traveled the Strait of Magellan and the Bering Sea on an arctic expedition for naturalist Roy Chapman Andrews; served as a Bar Pilot vessel off of San Francisco; patrolled the west coast during World War II; and trained young sailors in seamanship skills in Seattle with Youth Adventure. Adventuress has sailed on the waters of Puget Sound for almost three decades under the stewardship of nonprofit Sound Experience, offering hands-on environmental education and leadership development to thousands of young people annually and partnering with youth-serving organizations to reach at-risk kids. Sound Experience offers programs for all ages and backgrounds and takes pride in providing many levels of training opportunities for volunteer and paid crew. Adventuress is a National Historic Landmark officially recognized as “Puget Sound’s Environmental Tall Ship.”
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BISHHome Port: Seattle, WAYear Built: 2022LOA: 34'8"Beam: 9'2"Owner: Karl BischoffDesigner: Murray PetersonDesign: SusanType: Schooner
BISH is a Murray Peterson Susan schooner. Port Orford Cedar on steam-bent white oak frames. Teak decks on laminated doug fir deck beams. Hand crank SABB lifeboat engine. All standing rigging is galvey 7×7, parcel and served. Built by Karl Bischoff in Georgetown, Seattle. It’s taken 12 years so far. For each task, I had to do research and take classes… NWSWB for stream bending, surveying, planking… Brion Toss’ loft for splicing/parcel/serving. BISH was my dad’s nickname. He was an armchair adventurer… always studying the Canadien Voyageurs, Wolves, Tugboat Captains of Oakland California, etc. He also loved to start organizations like the American Whitewater Association, American Canoe Association, Square-dance Callers of America, and American Spelunking Association (cave exploring). After living aboard my 37′ cutter for 8 years, I started my first build, a 15′ Whitehall named Leslie Jean (named for my lovely wife). So now there is BISH. I think I’ll name the dinghy Helen (my mom). It’s all in the family. Check out the whole build process at bischoffboatworks.com.
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Blue PeterHome Port: Seattle, WAYear Built: 1928LOA: 96'Beam: 18' 6"Owner: Chuck and Linda BarboDesigner: Ted GearyDesign: One-offType: Power
In 1928, the Motor Yacht Blue Peter was built for the Seattle architect John Graham Sr. at Lake Union Dry Dock, and drawn by the famous local naval architect, Ted Geary. Four 96 foot fan-tails were built in the Seattle area during the same time, and there are several local “Cousins” active in Local waters today. The yacht has gone through several major refitting’s over the 95 years of her service, with the latest work done by Port Townsend’s own, Haven Boat works. She is constantly maintained by a small crew, and is works our local waters from Olympia northward. Normally in private service, Blue Peter has recently begun offering charters for up to eight overnight guests and up to 12 guests for daytrips. Wedding parties, dinner and wine-tasting, as well as local cruising is available with limited schedules.
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Camas MoonHome Port: Victoria, B.C.Year Built: 2022LOA: 24'Beam: 6'6"Owner: Alex ZimmermanDesigner: Tad RobertsDesign: CoPogy 18Type: Yawl
Camas Moon is the first boat built to Tad Roberts’ new CoPogy 18 design. She is 18’ LOD, 24’ LOA, 6’6” beam, and 9” draft. She is rigged as a gaff yawl, with an off-center pivoting centerboard, and has a 6 HP outboard motor in a well. Designed as a trailerable mini-motorsailer for one or two people, she will be equally at home motoring all day in the calms or sailing when the wind serves. Construction is stitch-and-glue around structural ply bulkheads, hull and deck is marine ply, with Douglas Fir for most other elements, including the spars. Extensive watertight storage compartments make the boat unsinkable. Construction began not long after the start of the pandemic and was completed in June 2022.
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ChloeHome Port: Port Townsend, WAYear Built: 1960LOA: 26'Beam: 7'3"Owner: Brandt FaatzDesigner: Jac Iversen and Tord SundénDesign: Nordic FolkboatType: Sloop
Chloe was launched in 1960. Details are sketchy until the late 1970’s when she was purchased by Greg Smith in Rowayton, CT. A survey identified her as having been built in Norway, but her builder is unknown. Because the original mahogany planking had deteriorated, Smith had the hull re-planked with bronze-fastened Alaskan Yellow Cedar by a shipwright called Pieter Den Hartog of Hamilton Woodworking. Greg sailed Chloe on Long Island Sound until 1985 when he moved to Seattle.
In the early 1990s, Chloe’s deck and sheer plank were damaged by a storm in Port Hadlock. A second restoration was undertaken by Greg’s brother, Charlie Smith, former captain of Neil Young’s 100′ Baltic Schooner, Ragland. The deck and house were replaced, and a self-baling cockpit was installed.
After many family adventures in the Salish Sea, Greg donated Chloe to The Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle in 2018. Brandt Faatz, then Executive Director at CWB, purchased Chloe. She was in fine condition but needed cosmetic work. After a haul-out to refresh bottom and topsides paint, Brandt stripped and refinished the mast in December 2019 using Awlwood. The house and comings were refinished as a spring 2020 lockdown project. Chloe sailed Seattle’s Lake Union through the summer of 2020 and relocated to Port Townsend in November. She now resides in Port Townsend’s Boat Haven.
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Electric PhilosophyHome Port: Olympia, WAYear Built: 2021LOA: 41'7"Beam: 15'5"Owner: Edward & Eileen PauleyDesigner: Sam Devlin/Ed PauleyDesign: Solar CatamaranType: Power
Electric Philosophy is a solar electric catamaran designed for comfortable, extended self-sufficient cruising by a couple and one or 2 guests. The concept for Electric Philosophy grew out of the owners’ use of solar electric power on their Airstream travel trailer, and visits to the Wooden Boat Festival where the idea of independent solar-powered propulsion on a boat was presented as a possibility.
Electric Philosophy is a custom design and built by Devlin Designing Boatbuilders, in collaboration with the owner, Ed Pauley, who designed and built the solar electric propulsion system. The construction is traditional Devlin stitch and glue wood/epoxy while the catamaran boat form was driven by the requirements for a large solar array and large battery banks. After a year and a half of construction, it was launched in July 2021 and began extended coastal cruising in the Pacific Northwest. As of June 2022, it has traveled over 1500 nm in Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands. Future plans include British Columbia and the Inside Passage to Alaska. Typical travel speed in calm conditions is 5-6 kts, max is 8.5 kts. It is designed for continuous use without shore charging because all power needs are supplied by solar charging the large battery banks. Without any solar input (due to weather or darkness), it is capable of 2-3 days of travel on battery capacity alone.
The need for a large unobscured roof for solar panels (9500W array) drove the catamaran size and shape and placement of the radar pylon. The hulls are dedicated to the four independent Lithium Iron Phosphate battery banks (two 24V banks for house needs, two 48V banks for propulsion) and twin electric motors. The hulls also provide ample room for large fresh water and holding tanks. Propulsion is provided by 20kW motors in each hull. All living accommodations are on deck level, with a queen master berth, convertible queen dinette, electric galley, and separate head and shower. The solar roof provides covered walkways and cockpit area.
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FAMEHome Port: Port Townsend, WAYear Built: 1910LOA: 40'6"Beam: 8'1"Owner: Todd FeinrothDesigner: Rice BrothersDesign: One-offType: Schooner
Schooner FAME was the personal boat of the designer, BB Crowninshield. She was built in 1910 by the Rice Brothers yard in Maine. FAME was completely restored by Dennis Conner in 2010 in time for her centennial birthday. FAME’s homeport is Port Townsend.
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IsabellaHome Port: Anacortes, WAYear Built: 1955LOA: 25'3"Beam: 7'3"Owner: Peter WellsDesigner: Mac Iverson & Told SundenDesign: Nordic FolkboatType: Sloop
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 in the Baltic
Sea. The Baltic and the Salish Seas have similar sailing conditions so the design works well hereThe lapstrake hull is of yellow pine riveted to steam bent oak frames. Mast and boom are
spruce. Her deck is the original design of canvas and felt over wood. Most of her hardware is
the original bronze.She has been in the Salish Sea area for at least two decades where previous owners have
maintained her to a high standard. The present owner had the lapstrake hull planks hardened
two years ago and she is as watertight as when she first sailed in the Baltic Sea 66 years ago.
Standing and running rigging have been upgraded to keep her safe and seaworthy. Local
marine craftspeople including the Port Townsend Shipwrights, Brion Toss Yacht Riggers, and
Northwest Rigging have been invaluable in helping preserve her for decades of future sailing. -
IsobarHome Port: Seattle, WAYear Built: 1962LOA: 45'Beam: 13'Owner: Jessica HickeyDesigner: Don & Les HarlanderDesign: Custom design ala S&SType: Sloop
Built in 1962 at the renowned Cheoy Lee Shipyard in Hong Kong to race the TransPac, Isobar is a 45’ LOA full-keel sloop with a 12’ maximum beam and a 28,000 lb. displacement. Her original design was a monocoque wineglass hull of strip-planked Philippine mahogany, spacious teak decks and a counter stern. She sports a low aspect mainsail rig (48’ deck-stepped mast with a 22’ spar) built for the largely downwind run of the TransPac. While she is a custom design, her lines take inspiration from the big Sparkman & Stevens designs of the — most noticeably the 52’ yawl Dorade. Construction materials are Mahogany hull; Teak decks and interiors; Holly & teak soles; Oak structural framing (retrofit); Bird’s eye maple / ebony chart table. You do have to love varnishing, gentle washing and being one with the wood.
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JD CrowHome Port: Bainbridge Island, WAYear Built: 1986LOA: 45'Beam: 11'Owner: Nate RooksDesigner: William AtkinDesign: IngridType: Cutter
Ron Bowen built J.D. Crow in the spirit of British Columbia’s long tradition of beautiful and seaworthy homebuilt sailboats, with Allen Farrell as premier guru. Ron was a fisherman, logger, and do-it-all based out of Victoria with a dream of building a plank-on-frame Ingrid (he’d previously built a fiberglass Eric Jr.). He was also a bluegrass banjo player and fan of J.D. Crowe.
Ron moved to Cortes Island in 1980, drawn to its blend of community, seclusion, and materials. He built a boat shed which has since housed several more builds and is now a home! With a bevy of “sport-logged” old-growth timber from years fishing the waters of BC and Haida Gwaii, he set to building his dream boat.
With consultation from legends like Tad Roberts and Dale Nordland, Ron created a completely unique Ingrid. Tad designed an extra-large cutter rig to satisfy Ron’s need for (relative) speed (Ron helped found the Shark Spit Full Moon Regatta). The split-cabin design was shaped by the natural bend in 14-foot yellow cedar carlins, and the distinctive pilothouse was made by hand, eye, and batten – no drawings.
Launched in 1986, the Crow was the family boat – Ron now had a wife and two daughters – for 34 years. Not ones to underdo it, Ron & family’s first cruise was to Alaska – leaving with the to-be-installed head on deck and finishing the electrical wiring in Ketchikan!
Fast forward to 2020, a gnarly year for us all. As I found my footing amidst a tumultuous world, I started looking to achieve MY dream: living and breathing clearly aboard a boat and feeding my addiction to being on the water.
I figured it would take several years to find the right “forever” boat – but then the Crow flew into my life. I’d been dreaming of a tiller-steered pilothouse cutter, ideally double-ended and made out of wood. A salty mariner friend knew my predilections and was a Cortesian while the Crow was being built. He’d heard she was for sale and stopped by Ron’s (in his 1947 salmon troller TOMTE) to check her out the following week. Neither of us could contain our excitement as we realized I was for this boat, and this boat was for me.
In October 2020, battling a pandemic-closed border and impending storm season, I imported the Crow to Washington State to live on, learn from, and explore with.
The summer of 2022, my mom, brother, and I spent 8 weeks exploring BC on what we call “The Reverse Curve of Time” – because this time the kids took mom north! The Crow showed off her many talents – cruising in comfort, ripping across the Strait of Georgia at 8 knots, and bringing together a community of diverse, wild, loving sailors. We spent several weeks with Ron and his family, all basking in shared dreams and continued love for this incredible boat.
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Jean AldenHome Port: Redwood City, CAYear Built: 1997-2000LOA: 17'Beam: 7'Owner: Mike HigginsDesigner: Mike HigginsDesign: One-offType: Catboat
Jean Alden uses the traditional catboat configuration to achieve the objectives of a weatherly pocket cruiser that maximize my available shop space while still fitting on a trailer. Mostly I built “by eye” with little attempt to follow a plan other than to steal some hull sections from Phil Bolger’s twelve foot Bobcat. My shop is large enough for a fourteen foot hull, so I scaled up Bolger’s design by two feet. I also wanted a traditional tumble home bow and a small cabin. This required changes to the forward hull sections and a different deck layout. Construction is basic stitch-and-glue using mostly 9mm Okoume plywood. The deck and coach top are straight grained Douglas Fir laminated over 6mm plywood. The cabin sides and coaming are ¾ inch tongue and grove staves capped by an Iroko rail. All three spars are hollow, assembled using birds-mouth joints, and stuffed with aluminum foil to reflect Radar. The sail plan is adapted from the Breck Marshall – a Crosby catboat in the Mystic Seaport collection. I made the original sail one Christmas vacation using a conference room at my job for a sail loft. For luck I put 150 pounds of lead in the bilge. The three-year project ended with her launching in 2000. The result is a sweet sailing pocket cruiser that has brought our family much joy and satisfaction.
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KoruHome Port: Bainbridge Island, WAYear Built: 2022LOA: 24'8"Beam: 8'1"Owner: Casey WilkinsonDesigner: Dudley DixDesign: Didi 23Type: Sloop
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 extra 20 inches to the LOA. The keel and rudder can be lifted so the boat can fit on a normal boat trailer. Her auxiliary power is provided by an e-propulsion 1.0 Pod drive electric motor. At the time of application, she has not been launched yet and still needs to be rigged and fitted out for sailing.
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LaceyHome Port: Port Townsend, WAYear Built: 2020LOA: 28'8"Owner: Demian DetweilerDesigner: H.C. HansonDesign: Forest Service Scalers BoatForest Service Scalers BoatType: Power
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 and deck. In November of 2020, the current owner hauled her to Port Townsend to finish construction. She was launched in October 2021.
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Maggie JaneFor SaleHome Port: Quartermaster Harbor Vashon, WAYear Built: Late 1960'sLOA: 34'Beam: 8'6"Owner: Michael MurrayDesigner: Nathanial HerreshoffDesign: modified H28Type: Ketch
History: Maggie Jane is a Herreshoff H28 modified (29’ with added doghouse and bowsprit). She was home built and originally sailed in Lake Michigan in the late sixties. Hull construction is mahogany strip planking, edge glued and fastened. A slow, on and off, 10 year restoration was recently completed by the current owner and included reconstruction of the cabin, interior, deck, cockpit and rig.
She was home built by the Egger family in Grand Haven Michigan in the late sixties, originally christened the Margory Jane, and sailed/cruised all over Lake Michigan. She was sold in the late seventies and brought out to the NW where the bowsprit was added and the name changed to the Captain Pierce. Very little is known of her ownership and whereabouts during this time but she, presumably, went through a succession of owners, some good and some, perhaps, not so good ending up in 2008 as an abandoned half sunk derelict at a Lake Union marina.
When I found the listing on Craigslist a young man had recently acquired her from the marina and had stabilized her but was quickly running out of time and resources to complete the project. A quick trip to a cash machine complete the foolish emotional transaction. Fresh rain water had taken a serious toll on her rig, decking, cockpit and cabin and interior but the hull appeared reasonably sound. She was towed to Vashon Island where a ‘temporary’ shelter was constructed over her and repairs conducted while primarily in the water. While restoring her at my home would have made more sense, I feared that, if I brought her home, she would never see the water again. I have too many friends with unfinished boat projects at home.
Restoration: The work was extensive including tearing out and replacing a third of the deck, the cabin sides, the entire cockpit, and cabin interior. The masts were reconditioned, new standing rigging installed, and the rudder and bow sprit rebuilt and the boat rewired. Hull work was fortunately limited to only sistering several frames and replacing some planking and transom framing. Early in the project I was contacted by a David Egger in the Midwest. David was the son of the original builder and had located me through correspondence with 48 North. David’s parents were now deceased and, at the urging of their daughter, he and his wife had set out to find the boat and what might have happened to her.
For 10 long years David and his family and friends living in the Midwest, patiently followed my restoration process through occasional emails and photos. This long distance reconnection culminated in the Egger family joining us in the summer of 2016 as our guests on Vashon Island for an inaugural sail on the newly rechristened Maggie Jane (the name gives some homage to David’s mother Margory Jane who the boat was originally named after).
We had an emotional sail on Quartermaster Harbor that day where two families, previously unknown to each other and living thousands of miles apart, came together to celebrate the rebirth of the boat after 50 years. The work was not complete however and life kept getting in the way. Maggie was kept under wraps in the marina for two more years and finally “finished”, at least to her current state, in the summer of 2018 and sailed up to the festival, her first time out of harbor. She now sails actively on Quartermaster Harbor on Vashon Island with occasional overnights. Future work includes new canvas, sails and the possible installation of an inboard diesel.
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MarianitaHome Port: Eagle Harbor, Bainbridge Island, WAYear Built: 2015LOA: 27'Beam: 6'8"Owner: Stephen BorgstromDesigner: Iain OughtredDesign: Eun MaraType: Yawl
Marianita was built over the course of 3 years in my small boat shop (it used to be a 2 car garage). She is moored in Eagle Harbor on Bainbridge Island and is a great little single-handed boat for those summer days when the chore list is done and nobody is around to act as crew. Down below there is a small galley space to port with navigation/library to starboard. Pivoting bilgeboards are built into the faces of the v-berths, this avoids having a centerboard trunk taking up space in the middle of the cabin.
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Misty BHome Port: Port Angeles, WAYear Built: 2023LOA: 10'8"Owner: Bill BainsDesigner: Glen L. WittDesign: SquirtType: Power
After watching Tally Ho and Arabella coming together on Youtube I decided that I ought to build a boat too. After looking at many plans I came across Glen L Witt’s little Squirt. I loved the design as it had that timeless Chris Craft wooden boat look and it would actually fit in my shop while being built. After reading a few books and magazines on how to build a plywood boat, I got to work. Being retired, I am never in a hurry, so I took my time and finally after two and a half years the little Squirt is finally starting look like a boat. My aim is to get it completed by this year’s Wooden Boat Festival.. As of this writing I have four more coats of varnish to apply, hardware and motor to install and upholstery to complete.
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MurreletHome Port: Port Townsend, WAYear Built: 2019LOA: 19'Beam: 6'6"Owner: Bertram LevyDesigner: Aage NielsenDesign: SpitzgatterType: Sloop
Murrelet was conceived as a downsizing project after nearly 40 years with my owner-built Lyle Hess Cutter Able. The plans were unavailable from the Nielsen estate but the lines were published in a Wooden Boat article by Maynard Bray. Originally at 18.3 feet, the lines were redrawn and stretched to 19 feet by Peter Christiansen of Shaw island.
She was built without plans in Port Townsend in my backyard shop. She is constructed with Honduras Mahogany purchased in 1984 and locust from a local Port Townsend tree. She is tight seam construction and copper riveted. Being engineless, the rig was increased to accommodate the light winds in the Northwest.
Her sailing qualities were a giant surprised. She was found to stand up to the increased sail area maintaining extraordinary stability while continually charging in all types of winds. She is powered with a 10-foot yulo and actively sailed year-round.
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MV SavonaHome Port: Bremerton, WAYear Built: 1942LOA: 39'10"Beam: 10'6"Owner: Chris and Emily RussellDesigner: Edwin Monk Sr.Design: Bridgedeck CruiserType: Power
Savona is a 1942 39′ Ed Monk Sr. designed, Forder built for Russell Rathbone in Kenmore on Lake Washington, Seattle. She spent time at the Bremerton Yacht Club while owned by Dr. Kenneth Jackson from 1946-1952. She is back at BYC currently.
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PlutoHome Port: Bellingham, WAYear Built: 1953LOA: 34' 10"Beam: 9' 6"Owner: Fletcher BrockDesigner: Laurent GilesDesign: One-offType: Channel Cutter
Custom design to cruise the waters and estuaries around England, originally with swing keel and careening planks. Extensively rebuilt by me and my wife with 1.5″ extra draft and full keel.
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Que SeráHome Port: Port Townsend, WAYear Built: 1964LOA: 43'Beam: 11'Owner: David and Connie WheelerDesigner: KettenburgDesign: Kettenburg 43Type: Sloop
Que Será is hull number 11 of a limited production run of 19 K43 Sloops built by Kettenburg Marine, San Diego in the mid-1960s. To our knowledge, she is one of three K43s built with teak decks, house and cockpit. She was extensively raced by her original owners in Southern California winning the Wrigley Cup shortly after her launch.
We purchased Que Será in 1985 and lived aboard for 10 years cruising the West Coast of Mexico, the Society Islands, Hawaii, and the Pacific Northwest. Que Será has been moored at the Port Townsend Boat Haven since 2001, when we moved to Coupeville, Whidbey Island, Washington.
Over the years work by local craftsmen includes restoration of the transom and mast by Taku Marine, canvas by PT Canvas and Northwest Canvas, rigging by PT Rigging and Toss Rigging, and woodwork by Mark Miller. Owner work includes the design and construction of the aft deck and cockpit, replacement of all plumbing and electrical systems, and interior and exterior finishes taken down to bare wood and renewed.
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Seven BellsYear Built: 1929Owner: Andrew HimesDesigner: Stephens BrothersDesign: Bridgedeck cruiserType: Power
A classic pilot-house cruiser, this 1929 Stephens Brothers boat was built in Stockton, CA, one of eight or nine boats using the same blueprints. Seven Bells has won the top restoration awards at classic wooden boat shows across the Pacific Northwest, from Victoria to Seattle. The boat was originally a private yacht, then served as an anti-submarine net tender in San Francisco Bay during World War 2, known by its Navy ID of YP121. The hull is of Port Orford Cedar, the house is teak, and the soles are fir. It has been reclaimed and fully restored twice‚ in 1947 and then in 1999, with many gallons of varnish and paint, much new wood, leather, and fittings. New Yanmar diesels were added in 2013. Seven Bells now is moored at the north end of Lake Union in Seattle.
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SuvaHome Port: Coupville, WAYear Built: 1925LOA: 68'Beam: 14'Owner: Whidbey Island Maritime Heritage FoundationDesigner: Ted GearyDesign: One-offType: Schooner
The schooner Suva has been owned by the Coupeville Maritime Heritage Foundation (CMHF) since the first part of May 2015. The CMHF is her sixth owner. She is manned totally by volunteers; captains and crew, maintenance workers, and dockside hosts.
Suva was built in 1925 for Frank Pratt, a Massachusetts lawyer who moved to Whidbey Island in 1908. Pratt commissioned Ted Geary, a prominent naval architect in Seattle, to design a vessel for Puget Sound waters that could be used to entertain corporate and private clients and friends. Suva was built in 1925 almost entirely of old growth Burmese teak by shipbuilder Quan Lee in Hong Kong. After being built, she was then shipped to British Columbia where her spars were stepped. She was originally designed as a gaff-rigged schooner. Suva’s spars are Sitka Spruce.
In 1960, Suva had a major refit and was re-rigged to a staysail schooner. The original Lawson-Scott gas engine was replaced by a 140-horsepower diesel Detroit 453. An on-deck aft helm was added, as were life lines. The wood burning galley and salon stoves were replaced with diesel units.
From 1925 to 1940, Suva was anchored in Penn Cove, where Pratt sailed the schooner before gifting it to friend Dietrich Schmidt (for one dollar) and later his son Allen Schmidt, who combined owned the boat for 40 years. Suva then went to Bill Brandt of Olympia for about 25 years before returning to the North Sound to Port Townsend owner Scott Flickinger. Lloyd Baldwin, from whom CMHF purchased her, bought the boat in 2009. Suva has always been kept in Puget Sound waters.
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TERNFor SaleHome Port: Orcas Island, WAYear Built: 1975LOA: 22'6"Beam: 5'6"Owner: Michael BriedDesigner: Loren GilesDesign: Sister Ship of TREKKAType: Sloop
Tern has sailed to Mexico, Alaska, Hawaii, and Polynesia. A real deep water-capable, well-made balanced boat. Comfortable 2 berths, midget pot belly, and Swedish Swing Gimbled cooking stove, sink, air-tight compartments, white oak heavy beams, 4000 lbs, 50 yr old well care for exact replication of Trekka without the yaul rigging.
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Vito DumasHome Port: Port Townsend, WAYear Built: 1933LOA: 41'Beam: 10'4"Owner: Alex & Elena SpearDesigner: Manuel CamposDesign: One-offType: Cutter
Vito Dumas started her life as “Irupe” in the Rio de la Plata area of Argentina. She made her way to San Diego in 1975 after a voyage up to the Caribbean and Panama Canal by Pepe and Julio Ozan. I purchased then named Vito Dumas in early 1976 with a partner. We spent a winter in San Diego doing some significant work to the cockpit and decks before beginning a cruise that included California’s Channel Islands, Baja California, Marquesas, Tuamotus, Societies, Hawaii, Alaska, British Columbia, Haida Gwai, and finally Port Townsend by the end of 1979. The intervening years have included many more trips northward to Vancouver Is, Haida Gwai, and locally in the San Juan’s.
Vito’s original construction was of superior woods and of professional quality. But time and use have a way of catching up so that it becomes necessary to refresh and restore the worn areas. I have overseen and done several hull projects which included some replanking above and below the water which entailed removal of the original wrought-iron nails and older repairs that were not of the same standard as the original. Bent frames in the midsection have been replaced with laminated locust and copper riveted in place as done throughout before. Bronze floors were added to the sawn floors to give the hull more resistance to mast loads.
Vito is a great testament to the longevity of a carvel planked vessel given the proper care. As she nears the age of ninety, she seems to be a lively and capable as ever in her life.
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Yankee DimeHome Port: Sequim Bay WAYear Built: 1970LOA: 25'Beam: 8'Owner: David Strong and Robert LaughlinDesigner: H Manley CrosbyDesign: Wianno SeniorType: Sloop
Designed in 1913 as a class racer by Manley Crosby (The Crosby families began designing and building boats in 1744 on Cape Cod and continue today with the 8th generation EM Crosby Boatworks) the Wianno Senior has navigated Cape Cods shallow waters every Summer Season by generations of dedicated families. Most notably the Kennedy Klan.
Since 1913 173 wooden hull Wianno Seniors have been built. In the 1980’s due to the high cost to build out of wood, a fiberglass version was researched. Through a lot of effort to make the fiberglass version match to the wooden boats the mold was completed and hull # 176 was built. The most recent hull is #228. Up until 2008 the wooden hull and the fiberglass hull competed equally. Now the fiberglass hull, die to many factors, haas been the most competitive.
What makes # 150, Yankee Dime, special is she won the prestigious Scudder Cup (a six race series) I 2007. The last wood boat to win the Scudder Cup.
On Cape Cod the boats are a treasured family heirloom. Although #94, JFK’s boat now longed sails the shallow waters, the Kennedys continue to sail.
Yankee Dime came to the Sound by the love of boats by Nic Marshall (father of Pete Marshall of Marshall’s Cove Marine Paint). Nic did get to sail her but passed away leaving Yankee Dime to become neglected. Even though I had a Herreshoff catboat under repair I fell in love with her. Love as they say is blind and I only saw the peeling varnish.
This began a two year journey to preserve Yankee Dime Yankee Dime for the next 50
years. She has had her canvass deck replaced with Dynel by Riley McMath in the wood shop of the Northwest Maritime Boatshop. The Port Townsend Shipwrights Co-op tackled the split keel and rotted deadwood, replaced garboard plus one plank needed to access keel repair and corked bottom. Then they replaced all deteriorated mahogany removed to replace canvass deck.