Festival Boats 2019

Solitude III is a John C. Harris-penned “PocketShip” sailboat. Per the designer, this stitch and glue boat, “is a small cruising sailboat of refined model, meant to sail well on all points, provide dry camping accommodations for two adults, and tow behind a four-cylinder car.” This gaff-rigged sloop weighs in at about 1100lbs (with ballast) in her typical daysailing configuration. …

In the preface of William Gardens first book “Yacht Designs” there is a copy of a letter he received from a couple who were then in New Zealand. They had sailed from California to the Marquesas Islands then on through the South Pacific to Tahiti. Finally, arriving in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand they were working to replenish their …

Lavengro built in 1929 as the Helen in Biloxi is one of the last surviving Biloxi Shrimpers. Nationalized during WWII for the Navy. Then several owners on the east coast and ending up in Hawaiiin the 1970’s, traveled to Alaska for new masts and worked as a daysail boat in Lahaina till donated to the Northwest Schooner Society about 2002. …

She looks a bit like a Wharram. Indeed, the designer of her hulls (a Mr. Beaubien whom I’ve never met) had built a 47′ Wharram in California in the late 1970s and sailed it for 3 years on the Pacific before selling and determining that he could do better. He did better. He designed very elegant chined hulls that greet …

Sam Devlin designed the Song Wren in 2011, but this first example was completed and launched in 2019. I made a few minor alterations in the design, most notably using hollow birdsmouth construction for the Sitka spruce mast and integrating the mast tabernacle into the cabin front for both strength and aesthetic reasons. The cabin interior is outfitted as nicely …

Freedom is Alden design number 676 and Herreshoff build 1431. She was designed in 1937 and launched on June 15, 1938. Freedom is the last pre-wwII ocean racing yacht built by the HMC.

Dr. Petra has navigated the Yaquina river as well as part of the Columbia River and completed last years Salish 100 from Olympia to Port Townsend, WA. Completed in 2017, she took 2 yrs 10 months to build and is constructed of straight-grained Doug fir and Doug fir plywood. Fastenings are silicone bronze and some stainless steel. She has also …

Daisy is a “Teak Lady,” fractional-rig sloop, one of ten built in 1939 at the Ah King shipyard in Hong Kong. The Chinese shipwrights lived in the yard, sleeping on pallets near the boats and sending most of their salaries home to their families, keeping a little for themselves to purchase opium. Without access to power tools, they shaped the …

Ama Natura is a 36’ custom gaff ketch motorsailer built by the NW School of Wooden Boatbuilding, launched at Point Hudson in 2008 and used each year since for marine decarbonization demonstration, clean water, wildlife protection advocacy, and exploration. Under the expert design guidance and deep knowledge of the NWSWB’S Carl Chamberlain, AMA Natura (“She Loves Nature”) was collaboratively designed …

The Gull was recently purchased buy its new owners after nearly 60 years of life and only a few owners the last being over 30 years the new owners have big plans for a full restoration over the next year in hopes to keep the gull going another 60 years.