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SCAMP was Lester Stone’s personal boat, launched 1967 onto San Francisco bay. We bought her from the builder, cruise her extensively, including a keel-off total hull reconstruction. Original deck/interior equipment maintained with full functionality

Sawaya is hull #3 of the Pacific Pelican class, started in the 1980’s in the San Francisco Bay Area. The father-son team of Jim & Ed Barlow designed this 15 foot lugger based on the popular 12 foot San Francisco Pelican with the blessings of the original Pelicaneer, Captain Short. Constructed of marine grade Douglas fir plywood, clear Douglas fir, …

Built for Harry Van Froome, named after his wife Sara hence the name Saravan.

The original design of this skiff by Joel White was for a carvel-planked boat with stem profile similar to that of Joel White’s larger lobster boats. The skiff has a sweet sheer line and generous tumblehome aft. A slightly concave (“hogged”) bottom allows the boat to plane at very slow speeds. The boat design was adapted by Tom Hill for …

This boats inception began fifteen years ago, when I came upon some boatbuilding books which had belonged to my deceased father John. Having a background in furniture design and woodworking helped make this a logical next step in my creative work. I had purchased some plans online, and liked the lines of that boat, however it was a sixteen footer. …

1906 Truscott built in St. Joseph, Michigan used as a hotel limo. Found in desperate need of repair in 1977 and underwent major restoration in northern Michigan. At this time was retrofitted into steam as was more representative of the era.

Ripple is the first of three William Atkins ‘Gary Thomas’ cutters built in the 1990s at the Northwest School for Wooden Boatbuilding. She is cedar planking on oak frames with spars of spruce. Her suit of sails includes a main, Jib, stays’l, tops’l, yankee, and a drifter, and her auxiliary is a one-cylinder Yanmar diesel. Her longest cruise was 88 …

The 11 ft PT Spear dinghy is the sister design to the PT Eleven nesting dinghy. The hull shape and sailing rig and foils are the same but the SPEAR has a different interior geometry. This is a generous sized and hardy plywood/epoxy dinghy that weighs only 90 lbs and is a pleasure to row and sail. The design takes …

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. She has taken her owners to Mexico, the South Pacific, Hawaii and safely home to Port Townsend. To our knowledge, she is one of three K43s built with teak decks, house and cockpit. She was extensively …

After an exhaustible search the Hudsons found Querencia, then named Nancy L, in Sausalito in 2002. She had not sailed in over twenty-two years and had never left the marina. She had no engine, or sails and was missing a mast. Many rigging parts were gone. But the teak hull, bronze centerboard and bronze floors were still in tact and …