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The CC 35 is one of a series of cruising trimarans designed by John Marples (Searunner Designs) in partnership with Jim Brown, and is a successor to Jim’s older Searunner designs of sheet plywood. Constant Camber is a cold molding technique in which the strips are laid up on a mold of constant curvature to form panels which are then …

Refit 1996 Some time in the Nineties. Sofia had several planks replaced. These planks were harvested from the blast area around Mt. St. Helens. Because the wood had sat there for a many years before harvesting, the timber became infested with Insects. When the insect layden planks were installed the insects saw this “all you can eat and tasty old …

The Marian II has been lovingly maintained in covered, fresh water moorage since 1928. She was owned for 50 years by Herb and Virginia Cleaver, the founding members of the Classic Yacht Association. Between the late 1990s and early 2000s she was restored by Tim Ryan of CSR Marine in Seattle. He re-powered her with a Diesel engine. Since 2014 …

Our boat is a 28′ 6″ Great Alaskan. We built this boat for comfortable cruising as well as fishing the waters of the NW. Its built with wood, fiberglass and epoxy.

Tullamore was built in 1997 at the NW School of Wooden BoatBuilding. She is an Atkins Gary Thomas, a gaff-headed auxiliary sloop designed for single-handed sailing, though there is ample room for two. Mahogany planking above the waterline, red cedar planking below the waterline on oak frames and bronze fastened. Easily driven in light airs, reasonable windward performance, and flies …

Four Seas is a John Welsford designed Penguin, 21 feet on deck, 8 foot beam with a gaff sloop rig. Her intended purpose is to be a trailer sailer and spend her time on the trailer when not in use. Her home sailing grounds are Northern Idaho – Lake Couer d’ Alene, Lake Pend Oreille, Snake River, Priest Lake, as …

Stella is a 17′ Whitehall rowing skiff handcrafted from western red cedar and Sitka spruce using Gougeon clear finish, composite technology by Joe Titlow in 2015. More details can be found at SmallBoatsMonthly.com/article/Whitehall-17/

This boat was self-built, by brothers Peter and Eric Hazell in Sisters, OR in 2016-2017. The 12′ catboat is a replica of a 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, single-crewed racer (Snowbird), standardized in design by Naval Architect, Edson B. Schock.Our boat’s traditional construction is Western Red Cedar planked on sawn and steam-bent White Oak frames with mahogany stem, keel and transom. …

A Grand Banks 32 sedan, built in 1969, Bella la Vita has proven to be nearly perfect for the cruising couple. Dependable, economical, if not a little slow, she has carried her current owners throughout Puget Sound, the San Juans, and into Canada.

The Jet 14 sailboat is a 14-ft LOA One-Design racing dinghy that traces its origins back to the early 1950s, when several skippers were complaining about the state of one-design racing. The boats of the era were either too big or too small, too tricky or too slow, most were far too expensive and of the remaining classes many were …