Chesapeake Light Craft Skerry, stitch and glue double-ender with sprit rig. From Port Townsend to Ross lake, Lake Crescent and the San Juan Islands, Waterstrider has been a fun family for 18 years.
Marionette
Marionette is #6 of 22 K-50s built in San Diego. She was commissioned in 1964. Kettenburg Boatworks was famous for building lightweight and very fast wooden racing sailboats and the K-50s are of that model. She is light for her size, weighing just 28,000 lbs. She has a 13.5′ beam, 7′ draft, and carries a sail area of 1,000 square …
Duffy & Dinky
Duffy was built to a design penned by Edwin Monk Sr. in 1947 by Frank Adams under the north span of Seattle’s University Bridge. She was launched in 1950. The original owners raised their family onboard while cruising the length of the Salish Sea, making Ketchican twice. Duffy remained under their stewardship for 42 years, moored at the Seattle Yacht …
Seven Bells
This Stephens Brothers boat was built in Stockton, CA, one of eight or nine boats using the same blueprints. Purchased by the United States War Shipping Administration in 1942, the boat served as an anti-submarine net tender in San Francisco Bay during WW2. The boat was fully restored in 1947 and then again in 1998 after purchase by its current …
Martha
Built in 1907 for San Francisco Yacht Club Commodore J. R. Hanify, and named after his wife, Martha Fitzmaurice Hanify, Martha is a B.B. Crowninshield design built at W. F. Stone Boat Yard in San Fransisco. Originally gaff rigged and now staysail rigged, she is 68’ on deck; 84’ sparred, 16’ beam, 8’ draft. Her planking is fir and silver …
Gikumi
The Gikumi has just celebrated its 67th year of commercial service on the British Columbia coast. It was built in Vancouver British Columbia and had lived continuously in Telegraph Cove from September 1954 until February 2017. It was the town’s cargo boat, towed logs to their sawmill, and hauled lumber and other building materials all over the BC coast. It …
Suva
The schooner Suva has been owned by the Coupeville Maritime Heritage Foundation (CMHF) since the first part of May 2015. The CMHF is her sixth owner. She is manned totally by volunteers; captains and crew, maintenance workers, and dockside hosts. Suva was built in 1925 for Frank Pratt, a Massachusetts lawyer who moved to Whidbey Island in 1908. Pratt commissioned …
Glorybe
GLORYBE has survived a century of adventures. Her first was reported in Pacific Motor Boat in 1917. “Pounding on the beach several hours in the January storm in which several Tacoma boats were damaged or destroyed, “Glory B” suffered seriously. Six planks were pounded through, the skeg was torn off, the rudder and propeller twisted, and the companion door was …
Olo
Olo is a copy of a Keith Steele drift boat modified with a sealed compartment and a self-bailing rowing station. She is used as a training boat for Grand Canyon Youth (a non-profit river company working mainly out of the four corners area of Arizona and Utah).
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 …