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Tomte was built in 1946 in Alert Bay BC as a logging camp tender for work in Seymour Inlet. She later worked as a fish boat working up and down the Pacific Northwest Coast.

Cito along with her sisters (Da Capo, Pia, Eio, & Skoal’s), all of the same 38M2 Danish Spidsgatter class, were shipped together from Copenhagen to Vancouver B.C. in the early 1950s. There they stayed and raced together for many years, slowly dispersing to other areas in coastal B.C. and eventually to Washington state. Skoal is still sailing in B.C. off …

Havhesten (“Seahorse”) was built in Langesund Norway. Her construction began before WWII but was halted soon after it started. Her construction was completed just after the end of the war. She is known in her native waters of Langesund on the southeast coast of Norway as a Langesund Sailing Sjekte (Skiff). Her type of keelboat evolved on the local fjord …

I choose Sam Devlin’s Onyx design as a maximum trailer able sailboat. I have a triple axil trailer for the Susan Joanne with the idea that we could trailer her north to the inside passage or south to Southern California. I haul the boat for the winter, and store her inside. Also, I intended to build this boat. I did …

Pacifica (ex Eroica) was built for Avard Fuller of the Fuller Brush Co. She is one of the first boats to be built with an extruded aluminum mast.she has sailed up and down both the East and West coasts of America. Pacific has raced in most of the major racing events in the USA, New England, New Port toBermuda, Southern …

“FLYING EAGLE”, as named originally by lobsterman Floyd Pinkham of Gouldsboro, ME, when her keel was laid, was launched by Vinal Beal on the Moosabec Reach of Beals Island Maine in 1963. Vinal designed and built all such lobster boats during winter when not lobstering, by means of a half-model (no plans). These stunning vessels with their low freeboard and …

Penguin is a 19′ Bartender which is a unique double-ended planing boat designed by George Calkins. She is one of the last hulls he built and advertised in the back of Woodenboat Magazine issue #109. She is marine plywood on mahogany frame construction. In 2005, she was restored and added the small doghouse, raised windshield and self-bailing cockpit. She is …

Using only the lines drawing from the Dori book we measured and created a sheet of offsets to loft her. Thanks to the Newport Marine science center loft and bandsaw, I was able to fully loft her and then create her sawn frames in 1983. Thanks to Dick Tucker in Langlois Oregon I was able to order perfect Port Orford …

Joshua’s hull and deck were built by Bill Elliott of Bay Ship and Yacht with a hands-on assist by owner Bill Harpster. Line drawings for Joshua were taken from R.D. Culler’s Spray, as drawn by Victor Slocum, son of Joshua Slocum in 1928. After Joshua was launched in 1980, owner Bill Harpster hand-built the houses, booms and masts, and rigging. …

Built in Oregon in the ’90s of Fir and Black Locust with no bedding compounds or antifungal agents, she had a leaky deck that let in rainwater carrying fungal spores leading to her demise. Thinking I might rebuild her in a year, I brought her to the South Park Yard. Tearing into her stem and replacing the structural members, I …