John Welsford SCAMP, 11′-11″ Balanced Lug, Cuddy Cabin, Water Ballasted Off-Center Centerboard Mini-Microcruiser. Plywood kit built by owner at Northwest Maritime Center 2012-2013 Propelled by 100 sq-ft Lugsail and oars Team Noddy’s Noggins 2016 R2AK-Stage-1 crossing averaged 4.2 knots on a 10′-7″ waterline. Team Noddy’s Noggins also crossed Strait for R2AK in 2015 and 2017
Ripple
Ripple is a locally-built cutter with 3 trips to Alaska under her keel. She was built by the Northwest School for Wooden Boat Building, the first of 3 Atkins Gary Thomas designs built by the school. Ripple is cedar-planked on oak frames, Re-powered by the owner with a two-cylinder Beta 14. in 2018, she has 3 trips to Alaska and …
Lazy Jack
Lazy Jack is a Chesapeake Bay style power skiff. Karl Stambaugh based the Redwing 18 design on Howard Chapelle’s Camp Skiff design from the 1940s, stretched half a foot and adapted to plywood construction. She is powered by a high-thrust 9.9 hp. outboard and cruises comfortably at a little over 5 knots, burning hardly any gas. She’s a good, relaxing …
Katie
The small gaff rigged topsail sloop “Katie” was built to recreate the sailing experience and look of a sailing vessel typically to the turn of the century. From handmade brass port holes to the mast fittings, rigging, belaying pins, and many other small finish details many hours of enjoyable work were expended to recreate the look of a traditional sailing …
Bright Star
Bright Star is a Tolman Jumbo 24, from a design by Renn Tolman of Homer, Alaska. As are all the Tolman boats, she is a plywood stitch-and-glue wooden boat. The Tolman Alaskan Skiffs began as 18′ open boats, built for fishing in Alaskan waters. The basic design has evolved. Most now are cabin boats 22′-24′ long, with a few built …
Nimbus
She has had a topsides rebuild in 2007, a new rig of local sitka in 2015, and I purchased her in 2017. In march of that year I hauled her for investigation of a small leak at the garboard and found a heavily fastened garboard, and rotted planking behind a fiberglass engine well. We then embarked on full bottom replacement …
Arroyo
Built in 1938 by Blanchard Boat Company in Seattle for Markus Mayer Jr as “We’re Here”. Launched with sistership Tola. Past owners include Dr. Carl Jensen, AC Woodley, David Skinner and Dr. Robert Smith. Over the years the name was changed from We’re Here to Oscar IV, Avolonte, Kate, and currently Arroyo. The yacht was extensively raced in NW waters …
Eager Beaver
Simmons Sea Skiff, 22 footer. Powered by 90 hp Suzuki outboard. Built to plans, but, with my tweaking, Eager Beaver is at 23 feet. I included a cuddy cabin with horizontal 6 feet 6 inch interior, but low ceiling. Added three-sided ‘hardtop’ to protect occupants in helm area. Curved handrail on top is unique – a ‘one of a kind’, …
Admiral’s Barge
This boat has been in the family for decades. She sailed the waters of Lake Washington for decades, later ownership passing on and spending decades in dry storage. In 2014 she was hauled out of storage and given a new lease on life with a complete hull repaint, fiberglass restoration, and replacement hardware. Some strategic upgrades such as a British …
Holiday
Holiday has been family-owned since launched in July 1946. My Grandfather Rex Bartlett commissioned Ed Monk Sr. to design her and she was built on Seattle’s Lake Union by the Edison Technical School. Jim Chambers, who ran the school along with Earl Wakefield and Vic Franck, also worked on building her. I grew up on the boat and later helped …