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The Stickleback is a double-paddle canoe designed by Iain Oughtred. The design is intended for glued-lap construction, but we were interested in a more traditional look, so we chose cedar planking on bent frames, similar to lapstrake canoes built in the late 19th century. We wanted the Stickleback to be as light as possible for a traditional build, so we …

Steveston Lifeboat – Profile of a service boat – Whether it’s a fishing net clogging a propeller or a gale driving a boat on shore, fishermen’s lives and livelihoods are being saved by a dedicated group of volunteers in Steveston, (a part of Richmond, British Columbia, Canada). Steveston Lifeboat was made for service. Her 52 food long wood hull was …

Stella is a 17 ft. Whitehall rowing skiff handcrafted from western red cedar and sitka spruce using Gougeon clear finish, composite technology by Joe Titlow. The boat was first launched in 2015. Stella hails from Titlow Beach, Washington. The original design is by Glen Witt. The hull weight is very light at 150 lbs., and the boat is set up …

Spike Africa was built by Bob Sloan in California 40 years ago this year. Bob and his friend Spike Africa (the person) sailed with many of the schooners that were around in the 50’s and 60’s. Including Sterling Haydens famous trip to the South Seas with his children. Bob built this schooner to work. And that she did. Hauling freight, …

Spainnear Uisce, took about 2000 hours for the owner to build over several seasons. Designed by the late Renn Tolman of Homer, Alaska, she was intended as a stable fishing boat and easily built with modest skills and common shop tools. While the basic hull design is well defined by the Renn Tolman, the cabin and layout are as unique …

Soy Sauce is a half-scale replica of a World War II Target Raft from Fort Worden with a imaginative modifications for propulsion such as her now well-known “brace and boat” and recognizable red sail with a hole through it. She also has a custom bailing bucket that gets LOTS of use. Last year Willy and Tug added a continuously firing …

Southern Cross is an 11′ 11″ highly modified SCAMP. She has just arrived here in Port Townsend in time for the Wooden Boat Festival from the cold windy shore of the Strait of Magellan. She and her best friend, sailor Howard Rice have just concluded a voyage south down the Strait of Magellan and deep into Tierra del Fuego reaching …

Refit 1996. Some time in the Nineties. Sofia had several planks replaced. These planks were harvested from the blast area around Mt. St. Helens. Because the wood had sat there for a many years before harvesting, the timber became infested with Insects. When the insect layden planks were installed the insects saw this “all you can eat and tasty old …

I bought this Dudley Dix Cape Henry 21 in 2015 sight unseen! I sailed her that summer, rebuilt and refit her in 2016. Homemade windows leaked badly, rot in the companionway and the cockpit bench seating, no ground tackle, no bildge pump and she was rigged wrong!! She is now rebuilt and refit to Dudley’s specs. She is like new …

Sir Isaac was built in 1984 for short handed ocean sailing. We completed a 10 year restoration last year and are preparing her again for some extended sailing trips.