The Wheeler Shipyard Corporation was founded in 1910 by Howard E. Wheeler Sr. in Brooklyn, New York. The rest, as they say, is history. Wheeler thrived by building beautiful, highly-regarded yachts with inherent value. As their reputation grew so did their line of quality yachts, the largest design stretching to 85 feet. By 1921 Wheeler Shipyard needed more room, so …
Susan Joanne
I choose Sam Devlin’s Onyx design as a maximum trailer able sailboat. I have a triple axil trailer for the Susan Joanne with the idea that we could trailer her north to the inside passage or south to Southern California. I haul the boat for the winter, and store her inside. Also, I intended to build this boat. I did …
Ellida
The Ellida is a Double ended, cutter rig that is a work of art and a thing of beauty. She glides through the water either under sail or powered by her 30 horse powered Westerbeke diesel engine.
Osprey
Osprey is a sharpie built in Port Townsend by Bill and Glen Eppick. Her design is that of a New Haven sharpie which was used in the East Coast oyster fisheries around the middle of the 19th century. Osprey is the 4th complete boat built by Bill Eppick of Skye Boat Works. Osprey was meant to be the perfect shoal …
Mack the Boat
In October 2017, we found this boat outside Portland, where it was almost turned into a yard planter according to the previous owner. Although without papers, Mack (as we christened the restored boat) was believed by the previous owner to be a kit boat sold by the Chris-Craft company in 1950/51 as a low cost option for returning WW II …
Pacifica
Pacifica (ex Eroica) was built for Avard Fuller of the Fuller Brush Co. She is one of the first boats to be built with an extruded aluminum mast.she has sailed up and down both the East and West coasts of America. Pacific has raced in most of the major racing events in the USA, New England, New Port toBermuda, Southern …
Fire-Drake
Fire-Drake was designed and built to cruise the Salish Sea and traverse the Inside Passage, using only wind and muscle power in alignment with the classic sail and oar ethic. She incorporates lessons from decades of kayaking, and refinements from cruising with a previous sail and oar boat. Her combination of beam, hull form and sheer provide balance between the …
Velella
VELELLA was launched in San Diego in 1979. She was built by her original owner, Michael Butler, as a strong and capable blue water cruiser. Butler had worked for C&B Marine in Santa Cruz, California building a larger Tom Wylie designed sistership named WILD SPIRIT. Her hull was built using cedar strip planking with two diagonal veneers on the exterior …
Miss Rebecca
Miss Rebecca is hull #1 of Arch Davis’s Jack Tar design. She’s built of plywood/epoxy using chine log construction. The jigs and fixtures I made to build her have been shared among builders from Washington to New York, and Great Britain to the Philippines. Her plans first appeared in National Fisherman magazine in 1992. I built her as a fishing …
Mojo
The PT Skiff was designed by Bieker Boats in Seattle to be a lightweight, easily driven center console skiff for use in bigger inland waters like Puget Sound and the Columbia River. She incorporates a fine entry, extremely efficient hull shape, and lightweight for a very efficient package. The boat is exceptionally competent for its size in challenging conditions. The …