Festival Boats

Long time explorer of the Salish Sea. Built by our grandfather in 14 months and launched in 1961. Hull #39

The Mycia is a hand-made, wooden, gaff-rigged, American sailing-fishing schooner. Built entirely by hand in the Pacific Northwest, the Mycia was designed and lofted in Port Townsend, Washington, by Jim Franken and Robert Prothero at the Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building in 1981.

The boat was rowed at UCI in southern California. It had been sitting for a couple decades collecting dust and deteriorating. I brought it up to Port Townsend a few years ago and had Steve do a complete restoration. The pick up just went under a restoration as well. I have our WA registered horse brand on the side of …

On display for the third time at WBF, Lotus is a unique Pacific Northwest trimaran meticulously built to plans by Aussie Coilin Haigh in Vancouver BC, in balsa with epoxy/glass skin, and launched in 1994. Like many boats of the era, honeycomb panels being sold at a bargain price from Boeing Surplus found their way into the interior. Thus she …

Commissioned by the Wooden Boat Foundation, Bear was built in partnership with Gray Wolf Ranch and the NW School of Wooden Boatbuilding. Greg Foster designed her from the lines of Pacific Crest Outward Bound’s Elizabeth Bonaventure. She’s been used for a wide variety of on-the-water programs including Sea Scouts, Adventures at Sea and Puget Sound Explorers. She’s made a wonderful …

Dodo was built in Henderson Bay and launched in Potlatch, WA in 1934 as a working steam tugboat.

The boat this build is replicating was rebuilt at the dolphin club with the aid of some boat school graduates in San Francisco around 2016. It’s the ultra-light method of construction of that era, build before screws were used in US boat building.

Dorjun was designed and built by Fred C. Beebe at Greenport in Long Island in 1905, originally as a surfboat for the U. S. Lifesaving Services in Coos Bay, Oregon. Following her service, she was purchased by Amos Burg, a remarkable adventurer and photographer. Burg had Dorjun refitted in 1933 for a daring expedition to Cape Horn, where he and …

Free Willy was born out of the love for the outdoors. Chris Muhs, Daniel Hynes, Derek Sergison, and Alex Steiberger set out to build the boat of their dreams during the dark days of COVID. After sharing and paddling a McKenzie Driftboat for many years the group was ready to take the next steps and build a dream boat from …

Hannah’s kayak was my very first strip built kayak, completed at the start of the pandemic. It includes woods primarily reclaimed for my daughter’s middle and high school gymnasiums, that of VG Fir and Hemlock. It also has VG Redwood for the deck that was gifted to me by the former manager of Copeland Lumber. That redwood had great sentimental …