Built in Frederikshavn, Denmark in 1903 by Nielson & Son and worked as a North Sea fishing boat for several decades. Served in both world wars, 1st under Danish flag and commandeered by Germany in 2nd. After WW2 was registered in Danish Navy. Sailed to BC in 1978 by Peter Watson, then worked as a fish packer for 20 years …
Point Adams
This boat, USCG Motor lifeboat #36391 was built in the Coast Guard yard at Curtis Bay Md.in 1934. Upon completion it went by rail to Point Adams Life Boat Station at the mouth of the Columbia River where it served for 21 years. It was sold out of service in 1955 whereupon it went through a series of owners who …
PocketShip
“PocketShip” is a small, build-it-yourself cruising sailboat available as a kit, meant to sail well on all points, provide dry camping accommodations for two adults, and tow behind a four-cylinder car. More than 60 are sailing or under construction on six continents. Designer John C. Harris wanted a fast-sailing pocket cruiser with a dry and commodious interior. It had to …
Pleiades
Pleiades is a traditionally rigged gaff, Pinky Schooner. Designed by Howard I Chapelle as a replica of an 1830’s era Eastport Pinky Schooner. Pinky’s were used during colonial times and up to the 1850s as mackerel fishing boats. Mackerel feed going upwind so the Pinkys had to go to windward better than the Chebacco boats they replaced. Pleiades has spent …
Pirate
When Pirate won the R-Class National Championship at Larchmont, NY, she was the first West Coast designed, & built, racer to compete on the Eastern Seaboard and, representing California Y.C. & skippered by the great Matthew Walsh, beat designs from N. G. Herreshoff, L. F. Herreshoff, John Alden and Starling Burgess. She is also a two-time winner of the Sand …
PickPocket
Bill Garden published this design in his 1977 book Yacht Designs. She traces her roots to George F. Holmes who is described as the father of the canoe yawl and to Albert Strange who played a key role in developing the type. In fact, Mr. Garden named his design after one of Holmes’ boats. John MacGregor famously described his travels …
Petrel
Petrel was build as a commercial offshore fishing boat in 1928 by the Columbia Boat Company. She fished the Pacific Northwest Waters for almost 80 years until she returned to Coos Bay, Oregon and was completely rebuilt by Scott Robinson wih work completed in 2002. Scott is a cabinet maker and the beautiful mahogany cabinetry on Petrel is exceptional. She …
Penguin
Penguin is a 19′ Bartender which is a unique double-ended planing boat, designed by George Calkins. It is one of the last hulls he built and was advertised in the back of Woodenboat Magazine issue #109. She is marine plywood on mahogany frame construction. In 2005, she was restored with the small doghouse and raised windshield and self-bailing cockpit. She …
Pax
Built in Scandinavia in 1936. Shipped by freighter to the west coast of North America on or around 1961. Disappeared after a tragic fire in Sausalito mid-1980s. For sale in Victoria, British Columbia in August, 2007. That’s all the wooden boat experts in the Pacific northwest knew when Kaci Cronkhite, director of the Wooden Boat Festival, got an email about …