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Jade Lady has been sailing Northwest waters for the past 25 years. Previous and current owners have undertaken vital upgrades to ensure her next decade high afloat and ready for more adventures! High-quality woods used by the Taiwanese builder include a strong, triple-planked hull, beautiful and well-designed Mahogany interior, and meticulously restored Douglas fir masts. The reliable and efficient Perkins …

Row Bird got her name partly because sailboats look like strange, wonderful birds to me and this one rows. And she’s partly named after my mom, Roberta, who was physically disabled. Since she couldn’t get out and do a lot of things, I like to think that her spirit is with me on my adventures. She’s an Iain Oughtred designed …

Sound Experience sails the historic schooner Adventuress to educate, inspire, and empower an inclusive community that works to improve our marine environment and celebrates our maritime heritage. Since her launch in E. Boothbay, Maine, in 1913, the B.B. Crowninshield-designed schooner has traveled the Strait of Magellan and the Bering Sea on an arctic expedition for naturalist Roy Chapman Andrews; served …

Que Será is hull number 11 of a limited production run of 19 K43 Sloops built by Kettenburg Marine, San Diego in the mid-1960s. To our knowledge, she is one of three K43s built with teak decks, house and cockpit. She was extensively raced by her original owners in Southern California winning the Wrigley Cup shortly after her launch. We …

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.

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. …

Jay Smith of Aspøya Boats in Anacortes, Washington, led the Friday Guild. a small group of aspiring boatbuilders, in the construction of this 20’ gjetbåt færing. The gjetbåt is a traditional boat from the Nordmøre region in western Norway. The group worked every Friday for two years building the boat named TJELD, which means “oystercatcher” in Norwegian. Most recently, this …