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 …
Maggie Jane
Maggie Jane is a modified, strip planked H28 ketch design, extensively rebuilt and sailed out of Quartermaster Harbor on Vashon Island. Her dimensions are LOD 29.5’, LOA 34’, Beam 8.75’, Draft 3.67’ with a displacement estimated at 10,000 lbs. She is ketch rigged and modifications from the original design include the extended hull from 28′ to 29.5′, extended cabin with …
Nevermore
Nevermore began her journey as a dream some 50 years ago of then young Ralph Eastland, of Quadra Island, BC. Seeking to build a ship in which to raise his family, Ralph walked into the forests of Vancouver Island and felled the trees that were to become the timbers of his dream boat, Over the next 7 years, from 1975-1981, …
ANJA
ANJA is based on a gaff rigged Bristol pilot cutter designed by Roger Long in 1976. Launched in 2014 on Saltspring Island, BC. Hull built by David Betts and the cabin, rig and interior built by Arnt Arntzen in 2020. ANJA is the cover girl on Wooden Boat Magazine Jan/Feb 2023 with a fabulous article by Larry Cheek and photos …
Lotus
Originally named Mango, this trailerable Farrier RF9AXT trimaran was launched in 1994 by Australian Colin Haigh, a Vancouver-based machinist. He meticulously crafted her to plan in strip plank Durakore, a balsa/mahogany hybrid material. It is covered in fiberglass and carbon fabrics laid in epoxy, and painted with aircraft LPU. These material choices make her lighter by 200 pounds, prettier, better …
Grace O’Malley
John Vardiman, a country doctor, over ten years, built, with friends in Beaumont Texas the Malabar II, John Alden designed Schooner Bradna Rose. Michael Durland and Dick Schuettge. with Shipwrights from PortTownsend, rebuilt the Gaff rigged Schooner as a Staysail Schooner, named Grace O’ Malley.
Badger
Badger (YAG-319) was one of ten wooden YAG-300 (Yard Auxiliary, General) vessels built for the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) between 1953 and 1955. Built for use as auxiliary craft, Badger primarily served as an at-sea training platform for junior naval officers, boatswains, reserve personnel and Sea Cadets at Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt.
Vixen
Vixen has sailed two-and-a-half times around the world. She spent most of the 1990s being restored in Port Townsend and then began a second circumnavigation with the current owners which lasted 11 years and included three Atlantic crossings.