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The Aleutian Tern was designed in 1963 by the legendary Northwest designer William Garden, for Seattle builder Warren Teller. Teller built her in the yard at his home in Seattle over the next 3 years, launching her in 1966. She is very heavily built on lines paralleling those of the halibut schooners of the Northwest. With a wheelhouse aft, a …

Isabella was built in Denmark and is a solid example of the Nordic Folkboat design class. The Folkboat design evolved from a competition to create a sailboat suitable for use in the Baltic Sea. The Baltic and the Salish Seas have similar sailing conditions so the design works well here The lapstrake hull is of yellow pine riveted to steam …

RIPTIDE was built in 1927 by the Schertzer Brothers Boat and Machine Company, then located on the north end of Lake Union near the foot of Stone Way in Seattle. She is planked in port orford cedar, copper riveted to white oak frames over an apitong backbone. Although there is no records extent confirming her designers, tantalizing hints in her …

Emma Rose is relatively new to us. After 20 years of sailing the Salish Sea and Canadian North Coast it was time to for a powered cruiser to make the journey all the way to Alaska in a little more warmth and comfort. This mahogany-planked Grand Banks 32 ably fit the bill. With all new electronics, plumbing, heat, navigation, ground …

The sailing vessel Tusitala, Samoan for story-teller, does indeed have a story to tell. She is a gaff-rigged cutter, 30.5 feet, commissioned by Robert and Marge Saxton, of Round Pond, Maine; designed by John Atkins in 1979; and launched in 1981 at Bath, Maine. In 1986, the Saxtons, in their mid-sixties, began a circumnavigation, which they concluded in their seventies. …

Starlight and I embarked on a Pacific voyage starting in 1979 that lasted five years. Many wonderful miles and people were encountered. She was designed by Edwin Monk Sr. in 1938 for Hervey Garett Smith who wrote the book Marline Spike Sailor. He never built the vessel to my knowledge but when Cecil Lange’s son arrived from New Zealand, Cecil …

Savona is a 1942 39′ Ed Monk Sr. designed, Forder built for Russell Rathbone in Kenmore on Lake Washington, Seattle. She spent time at the Bremerton Yacht Club while owned by Dr. Kenneth Jackson from 1946-1952. She is back at BYC currently.

“Halcyon” was purpose designed as a working salmon troller by Naval Architect Bill Garden and built for a member of the Prothero family. She fished the Northwest coast from Alaska to Oregon for over 20 years. In 1984 master shipwright Sam Fry acquired her and spent 10 years converting her into a comfortable and seaworthy cruising troller. The original interior, …

Varya is mahogany planked over oak frames with a fractionally rigged Sitka Spruce mast and synthetic standing rigging. She was designed to be a racer/cruiser and as a result she is both fast and comfortable. The original owner, a member of the Chicago Yacht Club, wanted a west coast boat and so Varya was built by the well known Kettenburg …

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 …