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I found this dory in a friend’s barn, full of refuse, dead insects and rodents, bird skeletons, dilapidated, rotten and smashed in. It was love at first sight. Over several years of part time work, using John Gardener’s Dory Book as reference, I deconstructed the boat and completely replaced everything but the ten original planks. This wholly unrealistic project spanned …

My grandfather Rex Bartlett commissioned Ed Monk Sr. to design her and was built on Seattle’s Lake Union by the Edison Technical School. Jim Chambers who ran the school along with Earl Wakefield and Vic Franck worked on building her. I grew up on the boat and later helped “Gramps” maintain her taking ownership in 1985. “Holiday” has not required …

Hiyu is a 10’6” version of Harry Bryan’s Fiddlehead design, referred to as a “decked canoe.” Okoume plywood was used throughout the construction with the exception of the bottom planking. The vessel is designed to be paddled like a kayak. I developed the pedal drive utilizing a 10” primary pulley and two idler pulleys to redirect the v-belt to the …

MODEL 16 OFFERS MORE IN CLASS THAN ANYONE COULD ANTICIPATE Model 16 is a twin-cockpit beauty that would be a joy to own. In 1929 that model was redesigned with a much faster bottom, widened out somewhat, making her an even faster, safer hull in all types of weather conditions. Built of all mahogany with the exception of keels and …

Heather was built in Aukland NZ from native Kauri wood. In the 1960s she completed a solo crewed circumnavigation starting in Cape Town, South Africa. She was sailed to Hawaii, then sold and sailed to Port Townsend. The interior and cabin house were rebuilt by the Wooden Boat School. The current owners put heather on the hard for rot repairs …

Havhesten (“Seahorse”) was built in Langesund Norway. Her construction began before WWII but was halted soon after it started. Construction was finished just after the end of the war. She is known in her native waters of Langesund on the southeast coast of Norway as a Langesung Sailing Sjekte (skiff). Her type of keelboat evolved on the local fjord over …

Grail was designed by Port Townsend designer Jim Ferris and built by NW Wooden Boat School graduate Jim Ferris. Jim and his partner Kiwi milled the lumber to build Grail in their effort to use the best materials in her construction. In her life she has been as far as the Galapagos Islands though most of her cruising has been …

Glorybe was built in 1914 in a boatyard on Vashon Island owned by Charlie Taylor and Lewis Lee Grandy, the latter having started as an apprentice to Taylor. The yard was primarily turning out sailboats at the time, but also turned out a new style of power boat which was a precursor to the Lake Union Dreamboat and the Blanchard …

I purchased Glencannon in 2007 after she had lain in a warehouse for almost 30 years. Her hull was built in 1974 by a yard in Newport Oregon that built Bartenders under license. She was roughly finished out by subsequent owners and was used for sport fishing out of Garibaldi Oregon for about 10 years before she was put away …