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The latest kayak is “Coming Up Roses,” which is another Guillemot 17’ boat modified to celebrate the beauty of multiple roses and the natural colors of the different wood species. The artwork and inlay design is based on some floral paintings and actual roses photographed from my garden. Twenty-eight different kinds of wood and abalone shell are featured in this …

Custom-built strip kayak for my wife Nancy. The boat is based on the Guillemot 17’ designed by Nick Schade but modified to accommodate the art and inlay work. The wife only request for the inlays were a Blue Heron and a Columbia River Sturgeon. Boat features 20 different woods and Abalone shell.

Built at the Matsumoto Shipyard in Vancouver, B.C. Claudia M. was originally christened “Seamus”. In 2002, an extensive refit was completed including full interior remodel and repower by a previous owner.

This boat was built and mostly used around Seattle and kept in Lake Union. It has somewhat of a history of changing hands for a song to people who truly cared for her and thusly has been well maintained. She has a small cabin top with two berths and the original wood-burning cook stove. She has lots of bright mahogany …

Built during the depression by Merton Christianson to transport he and his wife from Kelso, Wa down the Columbia and up the coast to Alaska to find work. They failed to find employment there and returned South to settle in West Sound, Orcas Island where we are told Merton built houses. We have been custodians of Sea Cloud since 2000.

Ron Bowen built J.D. Crow in the spirit of British Columbia’s long tradition of beautiful and seaworthy homebuilt sailboats, with Allen Farrell as premier guru. Ron was a fisherman, logger, and do-it-all based out of Victoria with a dream of building a plank-on-frame Ingrid (he’d previously built a fiberglass Eric Jr.). He was also a bluegrass banjo player and fan …

This boat was designed by Renn Tolman who had over 20 years of designing and building skiffs for the commercial fisherman in Homer, Alaska. Tolman skiffs are dory-style skiffs with semi-vee bottoms made of plywood/epoxy/fiberglass (sometimes called stitch-and-glue or composite construction). Renn had built over sixty since 1986 for sport and commercial use, and many others have been built by …

Raven 77 made her way to Port Townsend a few years ago. Although most all Raven’s hale from New England, this boat was built in San Francisco. Cold molded construction (or hot-molded, there is some debate), and then glassed, she has always been well protected from the elements allowing for her survival. Monte lovingly cared for her from 1963 until …

The Robb White sport boat is a blend of a freighter canoe and a skiff. Designed over Rob’s 50+year career with many revisions. This versatile 16’ boat weighs is at only 125lbs and can be easily paddled, rowed, or outboard powered with up to. 9.9hp. North Star was built as a design proof of concept for Sage marines SageSport 160, …

Wonderlust is an old race cruiser. She prowled lake Washington with monster 427 gas engines for decades, competing in races when she wasn’t taking her multiple owners around the sound. 60 years after her birth, she’s been refitted with smaller, but powerful, 383 stroker engines.