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WOODY

In Festival Boats 2022

Sam Devlin’s Surf Scoter design is readily recognized in the Northwest and they have migrated far beyond their home habitat. In a world of plastic boats they are distinctive and lovely and truly a species apart. While the original design was conceived two decades ago, with many boats subsequently built, this late-model Surf Scoter 23 enjoys many evolutionary advantages, including …

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Deception

In Festival Boats 2022

This boat is an original example with no major rebuild other than a power change in 1985. She is a single screw powered by a lugger 668 with a range of nearly 1500 miles.

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Bruno

In Festival Boats 2022

1963 Egg Harbor Express Cruiser was designed by Ted Haggas and built in Egg Harbor, NJ., modeled after the famous Maine lobster boats to be fast and extremely seaworthy. I purchased Bruno from Inger McGinnis’s estate 3 years ago who had been 2nd owner since delivered new in San Diego. It is only one of 3 known to not have …

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Roopa

In Festival Boats 2022

This little wooden boat’s story is one of devotion, dedication, family, companionship, artistry, tragedy and triumph. Her story begins over a century ago, as Sewall Southard Sr. infused his passion for sailing and everything nautical, a gift from his father, down to his son Clarke. All are the descendants of the famous Southard shipbuilders whose work is still showcased in …

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Harpoon

In Festival Boats 2022

A Ted Coates designed and built cedar plank lapstrake, outboard, utility runabout powered by a 1940 Johnson, 22 HP outboard. Outboard and boat restored by Denny Johnson.

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Alca i

In Festival Boats 2022, Festival Boats 2023

Named after the extinct penguin-like flightless bird named Alca impennis (commonly known as the “Great Auk”), the hull of Alca i is strip plank on frame heavy construction with keel, frame and floors of epoxy-laminated and glassed white oak with bronze, Monel and stainless steel fasteners. Each piece of the two-inch thick oak strip hull planking was epoxy-sealed prior to …

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New Penny

In Festival Boats 2022

Built to the Devlin Marsh Wren design “New Penny” was a many year long building project, started at Woodenboat School in Brooklin, Maine and then carrying on a the Devlin Yard in Olympia. She is a daysailer very much like a larger H-12.5 and capable of handling two couples for a sail without getting in each others way. She is …

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Freebird

In Festival Boats 2022, Festival Boats 2023

I always want to build a cedar strip boat. I even bought special routers bit, 26 years ago, to fabricate the cedar strips. Life got in the way, so no boat. Fast forward to 2021, retired, and time on my hands, time to build a boat. Since my wife is not the boating type, I won’t with a kayak. I …

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Tempus Puget

In Festival Boats 2022

“Tempus Puget” is a gaff rigged sloop with a collapsible mast. It is a “Weekender” design from the Stevenson Project’s design. She was built in 1999 by a father and son in Portland Oregon. She somehow found her way to Bend Oregon, where her owner sold her to go live full time on a ship in Florida. She is now …