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 …
Stella
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/
Mona-C
It’s an East Coast codfish dory. It’s used on San Francisco Bay and the Lost Coast in California. It’s also used up the coast from California to Washington.
Trine
Trine is one of the few remaining 40kvm2 Spissgatter racer-cruisers built between 1938–47 in Sarpborg, Norway. These were not “one-designs” but built to a “restriction measurement rule”. This meant designers could vary their plans so long as the lines remained within the maximum and minimum measurements. Each carried the “W” registration number. Einar Iverson, a wealthy paper magnate, commissioned a …
Ariel of Victoria
Ariel of Victoria’s keel was laid in Fred Peterson’s boatyard on Vancouver Island near Nanaimo in 1972. Carvel planked in Alaskan yellow cedar over oak frames with a western red cedar deck, she was launched in 1980 after “seven years of madness” by Ronald Hunt and Peterson. Doug and Jane Bond bought her in Victoria and raised two sons aboard, …
Nymph of Lorne
Nymph was built by McGruer & Co. in Scotland in 1963. She spent her first 15 years sailing in Scotland, then sailed to BC via the Atlantic, the Canal, and Hawaii. A recent book provides details about her construction, McGruer & Co. and her 4 sisterships. She was build #606 at the McGruer family boatyard. McGruer & Co. used full-length …
Providence
Built in Denmark in 1903 as an Anchor Seiner, Providence worked in the North Sea for several decades—serving in both World Wars and commandeered by Germany in WWII. After repatriation to Denmark, she served in the Danish Navy and eventually returned to domestic registry. Bought and sailed to Victoria in 1979 by Peter Watson and put back to work as …
Patamar
Home built in 1937 by a Boeing engineer, this vessel is red cedar over white oak for the hull with the cabin of teak. The decks are canvas. A Yanmar diesel is the 3rd engine. I am the 5th owner (23 years).
Cito
Cito along with her sisters (Da Capo, Pia, Eio, & Skoal’s), all of the same 38M2 Danish Spidsgatter class, were shipped together from Copenhagen to Vancouver B.C. in the early 1950s. There they stayed and raced together for many years, slowly dispersing to other areas in coastal B.C. and eventually to Washington state. Skoal is still sailing in B.C. off …
Ceridwen
Ceridwen was lofted in the Fall of 1982 at Magner & Sons Boatworks in Carlsborg, WA. Matt McCleary with the help of John and his son Kevin, started building the Atkins’ “Little Maid of Kent” Schooner. Poured 2500lbs of lead for Keel, Balua Keel Timbers, Oregon Oak floor timber’s and steam-bent oak frames, Port Orford Cedar planking, old-growth Douglas Fir …