The boat hull is built with a hybrid stitch and glue construction, while the upper cab is built in a more traditional manner. The majority of the vessel is marine plywood skinned with fiberglass cloth. Exterior grade ply and glass were used on a few parts of the interior cab. I built the initial hull upside down on my driveway …
Orca
The Gartside Workboat “Orca” is a Paul Gartside designed motor boat, constructed of cedar planking bronze fastened over oak frames. A heavy workboat of traditional construction, the Gartside is ideal as a yard launch or small towboat. Built with carvel plank-on-frame cedar over oak with a locust backbone, this functional 18’ boat, powered by a 20 HP Beta Diesel, gave …
Birddog
The Birddog is a traditional Prospector design, very stable with larger loads due to the wide beam and taller side walls. She is 16 feet and is constructed with Birdseye Maple, Walnut, Black Walnut, Cherry, and Padouk with Mahogany, Ebony, and Red Cedar strips. My passion for bird hunting inspired me to build a handmade canoe that would blend with …
Time out
Stitch and Glue construction using epoxy and fiberglass to encapsulate the plywood and give strength.
Velella
Built in San Diego by the original owner who had been gathering parts as a teenager for several years prior to building. He sailed her for 12 years including to French Polynesia and Hawaii. In 2000 Wendy and Garth started a 34,000-mile Pacific trip and sailed non-stop from Japan back to the PNW seven years later to complete the trip. …
Windsong
Windsong the Yawl was our home for a couple years in Olympia. In 1955 Her design was published in Yachting Magazine as a Cruising Yawl. Through the years of being her caretaker, she has had many modifications and improvements. She came to us with an awkward step-up dinette on the port side. Which was promptly removed while she sat at …
Chloe
Chloe was launched in 1960. Details are sketchy until the late 1970’s when she was purchased by Greg Smith in Rowayton, CT. A survey identified her as having been built in Norway, but her builder is unknown. Because the original mahogany planking had deteriorated, Smith had the hull re-planked with bronze-fastened Alaskan Yellow Cedar by a shipwright called Pieter Den …
Carmelita
Commissioned in Tacoma, Washington in 1935 by Norton Clapp, Carmelita was built as a private yacht. Harold Lee of San Francisco designed her to Mr. Clapp’s specifications, and her construction at the Mojean & Erickson yard took nearly a year. She was outfitted with Cooper-Bessemer diesel and was featured in their advertisements in 1935. For sixty years, his family members …
Rhinegold
Rhinegold is a rare example of an almost unaltered and intact powerboat built at a time when “gas-powered launches” were a rarity. She was a social hit for her owner, Maxwell Theolopolis Davies III, son of a wealthy English family who sent him to the logging outpost of Vancouver with his own cook and valet! Originally powered by a 25HP …
Alan Gwinner
My boat, yet unnamed, is a Pete Culler designed wherry, a traditional riveted white cedar lapstrake hull. Built by Geoff Burke, Chocorua Boat Works, NH, 2012.