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Jim McCurdy had Bill Garden Design Discovery for his 40th Birthday. She was built to Yacht standards by the Vic Franck yard on Lake Union in Seattle in 1963. She is strongly built of 1 3/8″ Yellow Cedar Planking on 2 1/8′ x 2 1/8″ steamed white oak frames on 12″ centers. She still has her original 100 HP Perkins …

This SNS was built in Texas for the Texas 200, but health problems stopped the builder from entering the race. The second owner planned to sail it in the Texas 200, but his sailing partner backed out and life became busy. The boat sat outside for a couple of years, and when I bought it the centerboard no longer functioned. …

Chencharu is one of two Harrison Butler boats built in 1950 in Malaysia. I bought her in Australia in 1977. I circumnavigated Australia and then eventually sailed most of the Pacific, ending up on Hat Island. I recently built a new mast as the original split. I am. Currently on my way back from Hawaii. This is my second time …

Elinor is my second attempt at strip-built kayaks and is designed by Nick Schade of Guillemot Kayaks. Elinor is also the name of my second-born daughter who had a significant influence in the development of the inlayed designs for the deck art. All based on her favorite artist Eyvind Earle.

Community Boat Project has sought for over a decade to create the ultimate non-motorized educational vessel. Schooner-rigged, rowing 8 oars and capable of the multi-day unsupported sailing expedition, Epic is an ultimate teaching platform for all ages.

Tern has sailed to Mexico, Alaska, Hawaii, and Polynesia. A real deep water-capable, well-made balanced boat. Comfortable 2 berths, midget pot belly, and Swedish Swing Gimbled cooking stove, sink, air-tight compartments, white oak heavy beams, 4000 lbs, 50 yr old well care for exact replication of Trekka without the yaul rigging.

Ariadne is a Jolly boat designed by Greg Foster and built by the owner, Jack Stewart. Throughout her life, she has carried Jack, his wife, his three sons, and three generations of family dogs on many voyages throughout the Salish Sea. Her first long voyage was in May of 1992 when she followed Peter Puget’s route through the southern sound …

The Hvalsoe 16 is a comfortable and stable rowing boat. Bandwagon began life with a spritsail rig, since converted to a balanced lug yawl. The rig and many details have evolved over multiple seasons of exploring and camp cruising, from southern Puget Sound to the Broughten archipelago in British Columbia.

Nevermore began her life in the imagination of her builder, Ralph Eastland. With an axe in hand and an imagination in his heart, Ralph went into the forests of British Columbia and felled the trees that he would then craft into the timbers of this magnificent schooner. Meticulously constructed of exemplar Pacific NW woods, Nevermore has a red cedar hull, …

Houat was built at Evergreen State College based on the Zimmer Design from Wooden Boat Magazine. At some point, it ended up at a Maritime Museum in Anacortes, then given to the Community Boat Project locally. It was restored during the winter of 2019/20. It has since had a new centerboard trunk built as well as new rigging and sails. …