Category Archive

Ama Natura is a 36’ custom gaff ketch motorsailer built by the NW School of Wooden Boatbuilding, launched at Point Hudson in 2008 and used each year since for marine decarbonization demonstration, clean water, wildlife protection advocacy, and exploration. Under the expert design guidance and deep knowledge of the NWSWB’S Carl Chamberlain, AMA Natura (“She Loves Nature”) was collaboratively designed …

Macaw is a Presto-type gaff-rigged centerboard ketch. Designed by Sam Crocker and built by his son S. Sturgis Crocker at Crocker Boat Yard in Manchester, MA in 1956. She was originally designed for cruising in the Bahamas. She has a very large cockpit, flush decks, a large cabin for her size with a large companionway hatch and lots of fuel …

I completed “My Boat” April 2011. My Boat was named by one of my granddaughters when she was two. We were camping on a local lake when a storm came up suddenly. She said, “Pappaw, a storm is coming. Save My Boat.” After hours of searching the internet, I was unable to find plans for a drift boat that could …

For the first 20 years of her life she was very successfully raced on the coast of Ireland, mostly sailing out of the Royal Cork Yacht Club, where she is well remembered on the silverware. After that she was used as a family cruising boat until being laid up for the Second World War from which she didn’t really recover. …

Thelonis was custom built in 1953 for a Portland Oregon dentist who wanted a ‘traditional-style’ boat, so Ed Monk, Sr modified one of his 1920’s plans. Built by Admiral Marine Works (Earle Wakefield) on Lake Union in Seattle. In addition to operating Admiral Marine, Earle Wakefield was concurrently head instructor at the Edison Technical boat-building school. Although Thelonius looks very …

A classic pilot-house cruiser, this 1929 Stephens Brothers boat was built in Stockton, CA, one of eight or nine boats using the same blueprints. Seven Bells has won the top restoration awards at classic wooden boat shows across the Pacific Northwest, from Victoria to Seattle. The boat was originally a private yacht, then served as an anti-submarine net tender in …

She’s a “Pulsifer Hampton” previously owned by the Foley family, who donated her to WBF as a support vessel for programs and regattas. She was built by Richard Pulsifer in Maine. Martha J is frequently seen setting marks for races or serving as a chase boat for on-the-water events.

I found this dory in a friend’s barn, full of refuse, dead insects and rodents, bird skeletons, dilapidated, rotten and smashed in. It was love at first sight. Over several years of part time work, using John Gardener’s Dory Book as reference, I deconstructed the boat and completely replaced everything but the ten original planks. This wholly unrealistic project spanned …

Chesapeake Light Craft Skerry, stitch and glue double-ender with sprit rig. From Port Townsend to Ross lake, Lake Crescent and the San Juan Islands, Waterstrider has been a fun family for 18 years.

Marionette is #6 of 22 K-50s built in San Diego. She was commissioned in 1964. Kettenburg Boatworks was famous for building lightweight and very fast wooden racing sailboats and the K-50s are of that model. She is light for her size, weighing just 28,000 lbs. She has a 13.5′ beam, 7′ draft, and carries a sail area of 1,000 square …