A Boeing engineer built this btidgedeck cruiser in a barn in Wallingford, WA. It has cruised the Salish Sea extensively. It has a been maintained and never restored. I am the 5th owner.
Pacifica
Pacifica was built for Avard Fuller of Fuller Brush fame. She was one of the first yachts to be designed and built with an extruded aluminum mast. Pacifica has sailed across the Atlantic to the Mediterranean in 1962. She was sailed around to the west coast via the Panama Canal in 1965. She has since sailed 4 times to Hawaii, …
Pacific Swift
Built by S.A.L.T.S. Sail and Life Training Society, as a working exhibit at Expo 86 in Vancouver, British Columbia, the Pacific Swift has sailed over 100,000 deep-sea miles on training voyages for young trainees. Her offshore travels have taken her to Australia and Europe, to remote communities on Easter and Pitcairn Islands, and to many other unusual and far-flung ports …
Pacific Pioneer
The Pacific Pioneer launched in 1951 as the P&T Pioneer in service to the mill at Port Gamble. Today the Pioneer is being converted into a comfortable tug to enjoy local waters. Renovations are being done in keeping with the boat’s history.
Pacific Grace
The Grace is built of Nimpkish Valley Douglas fir. The 8” square deck-support beams are yellow cedar. The caprails and sole (flooring below deck) is hard-wearing purple heart from South America. Some statistics: 80,000 board feet make up the hull; the old-growth deck timbers have up to 45 grains per inch; the internal ballast consists of 42 tonnes of lead …
Pacific
Pacific was built to longline for halibut in the North Pacific. She has also trolled for salmon and tuna. The halibut fishermen of B.C. regarded her as on of the best of her type.
Opus
Some boats are race boats. Some boats are cruising boats. Opus, a modified Wee Seal, designed by Iain Oughtred, is a boat that just seems to make people smile wherever she shows up, according to Seattle owners Lee Bjorklund and Larry Goerss. They acquired Opus from a Bellingham, WA Craigslist ad spotted in 2009. With Scandinavian-influenced longer ends, and great …
Olo
Olo is a copy of a 1960’s Keith Steele drift boat which had been modified to be self bailing and used with Martin Litton on commercial trips through the Grand Canyon. She was too small to be commercially viable and ended up rotting in a field where she was found and rebuilt by Flagstaff Arizona boat builder Brad Dimock. Working …