The Golden Rule was the very first of the environmental and peace vessels to go to sea. In 1958, a crew of anti-nuclear weapons activists set sail aboard her in an attempt to interpose themselves and the boat between the U.S. Government and its atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. At that time …
Ananda
Ananda is a 32’ Tri cabin cruiser built by Peter Hansen in Everett, Wa and launched in 1932. Ananda was built and designed by Peter Hansen for his personal use and was originally named the Margaret H (One account states she was named for his wife and another his grand daughter). Upon completion in his yard, Ananda was rolled on …
Sunshine Special
Back in 1972, the boat was brought to Seattle from the Great Lakes and the Sunshine Special got her name and her first yellow stripe and she has had the yellow stripe ever since. She’s a recognizable fixture in the San Juan and Gulf Islands. 18 years ago on our maiden cruise with the boat, we ran into 2 different …
Black Dogs
A Northwest built version of a William Atkins “Rescue Minor” Article by James Thomas from Small Craft Advisor Magazine For some years I’d heard stories about a boat an acquaintance of mine, Mark Nelson, a skilled carpenter and machinist had built to allow his wife Lark and he to take day trips on the Rivers and Lakes in Oregon. Knowing …
Discovery
Jim McCurdy had Bill Garden Design Discovery for his 40th Birthday. She was built to Yacht standards by the Vic Franck yard on Lake Union in Seattle in 1963. She is strongly built of 1 3/8″ Yellow Cedar Planking on 2 1/8′ x 2 1/8″ steamed white oak frames on 12″ centers. She still has her original 100 HP Perkins …
Flying Eagle
A workboat with beauty of purpose, was designed and built by local Maine lobstermen for their specific geographic conditions. These rare wooden watercraft are known by historians as the best working form ever constructed and most beautiful and fastest lobster boats of their time. This is due in part to their skeg construction. Although a visual and spiritual inspiration to …
Little Packet
Christopher Jenkes commissioned a smaller version of Lester Stone’s personal yacht, when he saw the drawings he said, “That’s a nice little packet, and the name stuck. In addition the the commissioned Little Packet, the Stone yard built a sistership launched in 1967. We are the third owners of the boat. Dick Wren bought her in 1971 and was very …
Argonaut II
For more than a century, Argonaut II sailed the waters of the Pacific Northwest and most famously served the remote native tribes and rural communities of British Columbia. Originally built as a corporate yacht for the Powell River Company in Vancouver, BC in 1922, the United Methodist Church purchased the boat in 1934 to serve as a Mission Boat until …
Luna
LUNA, a Bolger-designed Chebacco, was constructed by Jerome McIlvanie of Yakima, Washington between 1996 and 2001. The boat is 19’ 6” long and has a beam of 7’ 9”. After being sailed just once – from the launch ramp to the marina at the 2001 Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival – she was sold and stored under a tarp in …
Scherzo
Scherzo is a home-built, 14′ power dory. Her hull is from a design by the late Jeff Spira of Huntington Beach, California. Her interior was designed by the builder around an old wooden ship’s wheel discovered in an antique shop on Long Island, NY. Hull construction is plywood sheathed in fiberglass set in epoxy. Her console is painted plywood; other …