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Ladyhawk

In Festival Boats 2021, Festival Boats 2022

North Sea fish boat/sailboat built in Esbjerg, Denmark, in 1934. Fished Dogger Bank for 40 years until her retirement in 1977. She was bought and converted to a comfortable sailing ketch. She is oak on oak. Her engine is a 100 HP, 2-cycle, 2-cylinder, semi-diesel Grenaa engine.

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Helma

In Festival Boats 2021, Festival Boats 2022, Festival Boats 2023

Helma was built in Kalundborg, Denmark in 1938, Helma sailed the waters off Kalundborg and Copenhagen until she was shipped to San Diego in 1960. Her name had been changed to Bout in 1950 by her second owner. In 1966, she was sailed singlehanded to Hawaii by her owner, Robert Sisler. We believe she is still the only spidsgatter to …

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Veteran

In Festival Boats 2022, Uncategorized

BACKGROUND: The Skansie purse seiner Veteran, launched in 1926, is a beautifully restored sample of one of the most recognized and significant vessel designs to have originated from Gig Harbor. One of over 100 purse seiners constructed during the 1920s and 1930s at the Skansie Ship Building Company, Veteran and her sister ships were widely recognized as the state-of-the-art purse …

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Ghost Fly

In Festival Boats 2021, Festival Boats 2022

The Ghost fly is a Mckenzie River drift boat, built by Keith Steele in 1982. She is made of 16-foot lengths of knot-free old growth Douglas fir plywood with Port Orford Cedar ribs. Keith Steele was one of the premier production builders of drift boats in the 60s through 90s. The Ghost Fly was a working boat on the trout …

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Haven

In Festival Boats 2021, Festival Boats 2022, Festival Boats 2023

Haven was inspired by lapstrake runabouts of the 1950s and 1960s by builders like Lyman and Thompson. I was unable to find existing plans for a boat of this type and size, and asked Paul Gartside to draw up the plan. It was subsequently published in Watercraft magazine and Paul’s book “Plans and Dreams Volume 2”. She was a pleasure …

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Windsong

In Festival Boats 2021, Festival Boats 2022

The boat is glued lapstrake plywood hull with oak interior and brass hardware with trailer. The idea came from three articles in Wooden Boat Magazine by Ross Lillistone of Australia. After studying the plans for three months, I started construction in 2018 and completed it in 2020. I was trained as a journeyman carpenter with no shipwright experience, however, I …

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Natasha Darling!

In Festival Boats 2021, Festival Boats 2022

This is a strip version of a tandem Annapolis Wherry built from plans by Chesapeake Light Craft. 18 months of build time. Probably 1200-1500 hours. Not proud of that, but the boat works great. I would call it a very sweet and composed ride. My wife, who is new to rowing, loves it. I built my own rigs rather than …

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Blue Peter

In Festival Boats 2021, Festival Boats 2022, Festival Boats 2024

In 1928, the Motor Yacht Blue Peter was built for the Seattle architect John Graham Sr. at Lake Union Dry Dock, and drawn by the famous local naval architect, Ted Geary. Four 96 foot fan-tails were built in the Seattle area during the same time, and there are several local “Cousins” active in Local waters today. The yacht has gone …

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Bad Rabbit

In Festival Boats 2021, Festival Boats 2022, Festival Boats 2023

Bad Rabbit was initially a Chesapeake Light Craft Kit pandemic project but since the builder’s husband is over 6’5″ this tandem hull became his boat. In the winter of 2023, the drop-in rowing rig was replaced with an integral rowing rig (sliding seat) to help accommodate the height of the rower (adapted Angus Row Boats plan). The rowing wing is …

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SputterBug

In Festival Boats 2019, Festival Boats 2021, Festival Boats 2022

Dedicated to the art of boat building that honors the great craftsmen of the early mahogany boats, the Sputterbug Runabout was created in 2019 as a project to build a smaller runabout on a modern planing hull design. Having a love for wooden boats, I wanted to recreate classic mahogany runabout boat aesthetics, applying modern building techniques. To do so, …