Schooner FAME was the personal boat of the designer, BB Crowninshield. She was built in 1910 by the Rice Brothers yard in Maine. FAME was completely restored by Dennis Conner in 2010 in time for her centennial birthday. FAME’s homeport is Port Townsend.
Alca i
Alca i was inspired by Colin Archer and designed by George Buehler (from Whidbey Island). She was constructed in 2003 to subarctic exploration vessel standards with 2″ thick oak plank on frame construction and then encapsulated with two to four layers of fiberglass/epoxy resin for the purpose of conducting research in the Northwest Atlantic on behalf of the Smithsonian Institution. …
Runaway
From the comments of our surveyor, “this boat has good bones”! Well, that’s what we loved about her 10 years ago when we bought her, and really, it was about all we could love about her, as she needed A LOT of deferred maintenance work at that time! MV Runaway is a 1963 Sea Skiff Runabout, designed with the purpose …
Admiral Jack
Admiral Jack is the newest addition to Northwest Maritime’s fleet! A comfortable tour boat in the summer and a state-of-the-art floating classroom during the school year.
La Vie en Rose
La Vie en Rose is the product of a 3-year collaboration between the previous owner and designer Paul Gartside. She was built in Sidney, B.C., by Jespersen Boat Builders. Her hull is cold molded of Western Red Cedar and Douglas Fir, sheathed with fiberglass and epoxy. The split rig provides easy sail handling in a wide variety of conditions. Her …
JD Crow
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 …
Flygburen
All it took was standing in her cockpit. Her mast was not stepped and she was supported by the static steel of boat stands rather than the undulating sea, but I could still sense the elegant movement and speed, Even perched there above the green lawn, her lines and proportions seemed to resonate the English translation of her Swedish name; …
Lorraine
The seaworthy Nordic Folkboat Lorraine has truly been a gift to steward–from January of 1979 to the present. As a sailmaker of nearly 50 years, I have had the privilege of sailing on many hundreds of boats and know that Nordic Folkboats are among a handful of perfect sailing vessels. Sailing Lorraine is an effortless and absolute joy. She answers …
Clatawa
Clatawa is a nine-foot flat-bottomed skiff from the design boards of Edwin Monk, who wished to give people with basic woodworking skills and a few sheets of plywood the means to build a simple rowboat to go fishing in. I found a set of these circa 1940s plans and built the skiff with quarter-inch Okoume. I took several liberties with …
Lacey
The hull was started by the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in 2013 and after sitting for several years progress was resumed in 2019. The school then finished the planking and deck. In November of 2020, the current owner hauled her to Port Townsend to finish construction. She was launched in October 2021.