Festival Boats

As a new owner of this fine “little ship”, it is a real pleasure to have Puffin a part of the wooden boat show once again. Bill Garden designed this cutter to sail the seas and Puffin has lived up to his vision. Puffin has an active pedigree of sailing voyages as she has sailed to the Society Islands on …

Designed in the late 1940’s with plans and building instructions published in Rudder magazine, the H-28 was a boat that could be built by GI’s returning from WWII, and thousands were built Limfjord was built by Bent Jesperson, we’ll known Canadian boat builder from Sidney, B.C., of strip planked mahogany and kept as the family boat for 25 years. His …

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 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 …

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., 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 …

The Hvalsoe 18 measures 18′6″ by 5′4″, Her rig is an easy to reef lug yawl. Design displacement is 750lbs. Designer Eric Hvalsoe says his goal for the design was “to create a boat that was comfortable to inhabit—in the oar-and-sail sense of inhabit—for long days on the water.” Launched in 2015, “Haverchuck” has since explored much (but not nearly …

This Sam Devlin design was custom built by Tom Larkin of Seattle and has proven herself worthy on at least one previous trip up the Inside Passage towards Southeast Alaska. As the Devlin Boat Company states, the Godzilla 25 is “a working boat that would happily carry you away to distant ports.” This custom Godzilla 25 design has spent many …

Ray Speck built this boat in a, surplus military prefab barracks boat shop that he and Kit Africa shared, perched upon an old, deteriorating WWII Sausalito slipways pier. It’s a rare enlarged version of his ‘stock’ SYD skiffs, well-known through Ray’s years as a Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding instructor, and absolutely typical of Ray’s early production work–an approach to …

Bright finished yellow cedar cold molded hull sloop. Large sail plan