By Rob Wilkinson My brother John and I grew up on Mercer Island Washington, a paradise in the 1950s with gravel roads, cottages on Lake Washington and forests to play in. Our house was big by local standards but a tear down today. It featured a huge boat house with a shiny aluminum roof that pilots told us they used …
Whitupau
Whitupau is a dugout Oceanic Proa. The main hull is dug out of a western red cedar log, while the ama is dug out of a driftwood log. Typical of Micronesian proas, the hull is longitudinally symmetrical but asymmetrical transversely – with more camber on the windward side than on the leeward side. (Proas keep the ama to windward.) The …
Air Snipe
The Air Snipe (ex SC-1068) was laid down Dec 10th of 1942 as PC-1068 in Camden NJ by Mathis Yacht Building Company (later became John Trumpy & Sons); she was completed March 26th, 1943 and then reclassified and commissioned into the USN on April 13th, 1943 as SC-1068. All told a series of small shipyards built 438 examples of this …
Stephanie E.
Stephanie E., was built by the well-known boat builder, Dan Jones in Sausalito, Calif. in 1980, She is built to the lines and plans found in John Gardner’s Book: Building Classic Small Craft, Vol. 1. She has a lapstrake hull planked in Port Orford Cedar, and copper riveted. Black Locust keel and ribs. Dan Jones sold the boat to his …
Second Chance
Second Chance was a home built from a Chris Craft Kit in 1955. Through her long life she fell into disrepair and was at some point abandoned in a Long Beach Marina. She was saved by a couple that saw her potential. She was stored until 2011 when she then went through a complete year long restoration . She went …
Silvana
Silvana is a wood cold molded cutter sailboat of 30 feet designed by Lyle Hess and built in Canada by Ernest Mellstrom in 1997. Cold molded wood hull and Deck Classic teak decks Sitka spruce Mast Bronze hardware
Gray Wolf
2023 Race To Alaska winner, Gray Wolf is a cold molded cedar boat with a free standing rig, and water ballast. She was built for ocean racing in Camden, ME by Lyman Morse. Owned by the Goussevs for 10 years, she frequents the Seattle racing circuit.
Bear
Commissioned by the Wooden Boat Foundation, Bear was built in partnership with Gray Wolf Ranch and the NW School of Wooden Boatbuilding. Greg Foster designed her from the lines of Pacific Crest Outward Bound’s Elizabeth Bonaventure. She’s been used for a wide variety of on-the-water programs including Sea Scouts, Adventures at Sea and Puget Sound Explorers. She’s made a wonderful …
Dorjun
Dorjun was designed and built by Fred C. Beebe at Greenport in Long Island in 1905, originally as a surfboat for the U. S. Lifesaving Services in Coos Bay, Oregon. Following her service, she was purchased by Amos Burg, a remarkable adventurer and photographer. Burg had Dorjun refitted in 1933 for a daring expedition to Cape Horn, where he and …
Misty B
After watching Tally Ho and Arabella coming together on Youtube I decided that I ought to build a boat too. After looking at many plans I came across Glen L Witt’s little Squirt. I loved the design as it had that timeless Chris Craft wooden boat look and it would actually fit in my shop while being built. After reading …