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 a 24′ motor launch that is our MVP – used for races as a mark boat, for capsize drills as a safety boat, for classes as …
Dreamer
This is the Graduate 25, design #712, from the Build-a-Boat Plans catalog from Sydney, Australia. It was built near Portland, Oregon at Heydon Island on the Columbia River in 1987 by Garry Weber. The hull is of Cold Molded Construction with the first/inside layer of 3/8″”Alaskan Yellow cedar and 3) 1/8″” diagonal layers of Red Meranti, the deck and house …
Compadre
Compadre is a 43-foot bridge-deck cruiser built in 1929. She is one of three yachts built to this basic design by Stevens Brothers in Stockton, California. Her hull is Port Orford cedar on white oak frames, and her house is solid teak. She was originally powered by twin 6-cylinder Lathrop Mystic gasoline engines and was recently repowered with twin 80hp …
Ceridwen
Ceridwen was lofted in the fall of 1982 at Magner and Sons Boatworks by John and Kevin Magner and Matt McCleary. Matt continued on with the building project along with his wife Stephanie. Ceridwen has a lead keel and steam bent oak frames. Ceridwen was launched in 1994 in Port Angeles, Washington and made her maiden voyage in 1996 to …
Waterstrider
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
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 …
Martha
Built in 1907 for San Francisco Yacht Club Commodore J. R. Hanify, and named after his wife, Martha Fitzmaurice Hanify, Martha is a B.B. Crowninshield design built at W. F. Stone Boat Yard in San Fransisco. Originally gaff rigged and now staysail rigged, she is 68’ on deck; 84’ sparred, 16’ beam, 8’ draft. Her planking is fir and silver …
Suva
The schooner Suva has been owned by the Coupeville Maritime Heritage Foundation (CMHF) since the first part of May 2015. The CMHF is her sixth owner. She is manned totally by volunteers; captains and crew, maintenance workers, and dockside hosts. Suva was built in 1925 for Frank Pratt, a Massachusetts lawyer who moved to Whidbey Island in 1908. Pratt commissioned …
Glorybe
GLORYBE has survived a century of adventures. Her first was reported in Pacific Motor Boat in 1917. “Pounding on the beach several hours in the January storm in which several Tacoma boats were damaged or destroyed, “Glory B” suffered seriously. Six planks were pounded through, the skeg was torn off, the rudder and propeller twisted, and the companion door was …
Olo
Olo is a copy of a Keith Steele drift boat modified with a sealed compartment and a self-bailing rowing station. She is used as a training boat for Grand Canyon Youth (a non-profit river company working mainly out of the four corners area of Arizona and Utah).