Camelot was designed by Ed Monk Sr and built by Taylor Boat Company, Seattle. she is a sedan-style cruiser built on a semi-displacement hull constructed from quality boat lumber. Her carvel planked cedar hull is bronze fastened on bent oak frames. Hull material is red and yellow 1 1/8’ cedar. Keel is Douglas fir. Framing is white oak 2” x …
Patamar
PATAMAR is a home built boat by a Boeing engineer and launched in 1937. Lightly built of cedar over oak with a teak cabin and original canvas decking. Unique color is Pirate II from Marshal Paint co. I am the 5 th owner and have cruised with her for 27 years. PATAMAR means “foot messenger of the sea” and has …
Tjeld
Traditional lapstrake Norwegian double ender. 4 oars, dipping lug rig, yellow cedar on white oak. Design from 16th century. Built by volunteers on Fidalgo Island.
JoAhna K
William Garden Heavy Timber Motor Yacht, built in 1952 by Fellows and Stewart, San Pedro CA. Designed for Oscar winning camera designer George Mitchel to carry his family to the Galapagos, she carries 3,200 gal fuel and 800 gal water, her range over 4,000 miles. She never made the long trip. Fast forward to the 1970’s when Bob White, a …
Fig
This boat is still under construction and due to launch in the summer of 2024. I wanted a small, low powered boat to cruise all of Puget Sound. After looking high and low for an appropriate design I settled on Ninigret. However, as designed this boat has minimal cruising accommodation. So, without increasing the weight significantly I added volume to …
Ricochet
Ricochet is a Kettenburg PCC (Pacific Cruising Class) fractional-rigged sloop. She was built in 1956 by Kettenburg Boat Works of San Diego (hull #21 of 24), to a 1946 design by George Kettenburg Jr. The PCC is a one-design ocean racing yacht, with full creature comforts for family cruising – suitable for the Transpac and Victoria to Maui races. She …
POPLAR III
While stationed in Ocean Falls for the BC Police and RCMP she patrolled the coastal waters from Cape Caution to Campania Sound, and while stationed in Prince Rupert for the BC Forest Service she covered the region from Stewart to Hartley Bay. Today, the current owners have made several cruises from Cape Flattery to Prince William Sound. Poplar III was …
Henrietta
Henrietta is planked tight with Port Orford cedar on oak frames. It’s unclear if the house has always been forward, or if she actually was a bow picker originally. I don’t know anything more about her until she showed up in Friday Harbor around 2001. Around 2006 she underwent a major refit at Philbrooks in BC, where some house modifications …
Saint Francis V
Designed and built for the Saint Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco. No expense was spared to create the perfect boat for Tom Blackaller to win the first international six meter World Cup in 1973 in Seattle. US-100 competed in the 1979 Worlds, in Seattle again, and the 1983 Worlds at Newport, California, with Gary Philbrick at the helm. With …
Connection
In 1979 Uncle David started building a boat to sail around the world on. By launch in 1984 he’d married Aunt Julia and become a father. He named the boat Connection to signify the phases of his life that it tied together. 12 years later it connected to Aunt Kristin and Uncle Iain, who rambled the north coast of Canada …