Festival Boats

In 2022, we bought this abandoned 50-year-old boat as a foreclosure from Pleasant Harbor Marina on the Hood Canal. As our first project as a married couple, we hauled Pallin’ Around out for two months in Port Townsend to restore her to a classic working boat. Nowadays, we cruise her up and down the Hood Canal with guests desiring a …

Dragons Fly was built in Bellingham WA, by Brown and Elder. A Bob Finch one off, 4 layer cold molded mahogany, over 2″ stringers. She has long chord fin keel, skeg hung rudder. She carries 170 gallon diesel in her keel, 200 gallons water of water in 3 separate tanks, and 2 propane tanks for cooking. 61’8″ mast, double spreaders …

Lux is Latin for ‘Light’. Lux began her career in the early 1980’s as the ‘Spirit of C-Troop’ – a training vessel for a troop of Sea Scouts in Vancouver, BC. Lux is one of seven sixerns built by the Whaler Bay Boatyard on Galiano Island. The Sea Scouts sold the boat to an anachronistic Viking society, who used her …

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 by H.C. Hanson, Seattle Custom built for Herbert William Davis, Jr, Seattle Built by Franck & McCrary, Seattle Current owners- Kathy Weber & Bill Shain Renewed by Haven Boatworks, Port Townsend The renewal of Comrade retains the spirit of the past and prepares her for her next century of cruising. She recently completed a multi-year revitalization. The August 2022 …

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 …

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 …

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 …