Home built in 1937 by a Boeing engineer, this vessel is red cedar over white oak for the hull with the cabin of teak. The decks are canvas. A Yanmar diesel is the 3rd engine. I am the 5th owner (23 years).
Gooselodge II
Gooselodge II is a Devlin Surf Runner 25 design, built in 2003 with The Stitch and Glue Method of construction. She has a 160hp diesel sterndrive engine and runs at a top speed of 26knots and an economical cruise speed of 18 knots burning about 4 gallons of fuel per hour. She runs quiet and smoothly thru the water and …
Skye
SKYE is a Lyle Hess 32, built by William and Elaine Eppick over a period of eight years and launched at Port Townsend in 1989. SKYE has a strip-planked Port Orford cedar hull, steam-bent white oak frames, Douglas fir mast and galvanized standing rigging, parceled and served. Interior woods are walnut, mahogany and maple. SKYE spent many years sailing in …
Cito
Cito along with her sisters (Da Capo, Pia, Eio, & Skoal’s), all of the same 38M2 Danish Spidsgatter class, were shipped together from Copenhagen to Vancouver B.C. in the early 1950s. There they stayed and raced together for many years, slowly dispersing to other areas in coastal B.C. and eventually to Washington state. Skoal is still sailing in B.C. off …
Havhesten
Havhesten (“Seahorse”) was built in Langesund Norway. Her construction began before WWII but was halted soon after it started. Her construction was completed just after the end of the war. She is known in her native waters of Langesund on the southeast coast of Norway as a Langesund Sailing Sjekte (Skiff). Her type of keelboat evolved on the local fjord …
Red
Red is a multichine plywood ballasted-daggerboard sloop that I designed and built for cruising in damp and wet Northwestern and Alaskan waters. The look is inspired by an eclectic assortment: a 1930’s Gordon Monroe motor sailer, Lake Union Dreamboats and early local gill netters with their tiny dog houses. To be honest the boat was really designed around the doghouse. …
Saravan
Saravan was built in 1938 as a harbour tug, did wartime service in Victoria harbour during WWII. The Saravan tug boat was built in 1938 for Harry Van Froome and named for his wife, Sara. The wooden tug boat worked in local waters for fifty years. During wartime, the Saravan patrolled the waters to protect the naval base at Esquimalt, …
Min Dejlige Pika
Caledonia Yawl 19′ 10″ long with a 6’4″ beam designed by Iain Oughtred. After sailing in his uncle’s homebuilt trimaran, Daren Lindley had a life long dream to build a boat. 50 years later, Daren and his son in law, Nick Luchterhand bought the plans and started bulding. After planking the hull we could not imagine painting her. Iain Oughtred …
Sawaya
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, …
Ceridwen
Ceridwen was lofted in the Fall of 1982 at Magner & Sons Boatworks in Carlsborg, WA. Matt McCleary with the help of John and his son Kevin, started building the Atkins’ “Little Maid of Kent” Schooner. Poured 2500lbs of lead for Keel, Balua Keel Timbers, Oregon Oak floor timber’s and steam-bent oak frames, Port Orford Cedar planking, old-growth Douglas Fir …