This boat is constructed, in part, from cedar recovered from trees killed during the Holiday farm fire, McKenzie valley, Oregon. The construction has elements of building an airplane wing, or assembling a folboat or kayak. Six 14′ longitudinal cedar chines and the the keel are 3/4″ by 1″ western red cedar; the gunwales and inwales are the same thickness but …
Mrs Bucket
A sailing dory who thinks she’s a yacht, MRS. BUCKET (pronounced Boo-Kay) was named after a British sitcom character of the same name. A Drascombe Lugger, her design was inspired by the great English Fishing Cobles and drawn by John Watkinson in 1968. She was built in Port Townsend in the 1980’s and was formerly named MANDY. MRS. BUCKET can, …
Freebird
A classic Murray Peterson Gaff Coastal Schooner III. FREEBIRD formerly THE FOURTH OF JULY. A fine example of historic maritime trades. Custom Port Townsend Foundry bronze fittings. Carol Hassie sails-Rigging by Brian Toss galvanized steel parceled and served.
Electric Philosophy
Electric Philosophy is a solar electric catamaran designed for comfortable, extended self-sufficient cruising by a couple and one or 2 guests. Since its launch in 2021, it has traveled nearly 9000nm through the Salish Sea and twice up the Inside Passage to Alaska and back, including Glacier Bay and Sitka, powered solely by the solar roof without the use of …
Tu-tutsh
Grandfather, Howard Langley Slauson was born in Seattle in 1901 and grew up south of Seward park on Lake Washington. After a stint in the navy, he returned to Seattle and built houses for a living. He heard about the Thunderbird and bought a set of plans for about two dollars at the Seattle lumberyard in 1960. At the time …
La Mouette
La Mouette is a 23 foot LOD Canoe Yawl built to the 1896 Eel design of George Holmes, and built in Port Townsend in 1985 by Ray Speck and Kit Africa.
Pert
William Garden designed the “Captain Blackburn” after reading about Howard Blackburn, a New England sailor who lost his fingers to frost bite. Despite his disability, Blackburn commissioned a small cutter he could single hand and in 1899 sailed her across the Atlantic to England. Pert was build over a period of 13 years by the Fish Brothers. During that the …
Marion Jean
This is the constructed frame on a building JIG of a 20.5’ Bartender. The frames, stem, and stern post are meranti while the frame gussets, chine log and sheer clamp are okuome plywood. It is on display to demonstrate the building process of Bartender or any plywood on frame construction type boat.
Penguin
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 …
Trine
Trine is one of the few remaining 40kvm2 Spissgatter racer-cruisers built between 1938–47 in Sarpborg, Norway. These were not “one-designs” but built to a “restriction measurement rule”. This meant designers could vary their plans so long as the lines remained within the maximum and minimum measurements. Each carried the “W” registration number. Einar Iverson, a wealthy paper magnate, commissioned a …