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Festina Lente

In Festival Boats 2018

This is a striking example of taking a classic boat design and applying custom features to keep the weight quite manageable yet balancing the variety of complementing woods to produce a very efficient and beautiful boat. While a relatively new construction, this boat can be seen frequently being rowed in the Port Townsend Bay, home of the owner/builder. This is …

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Seven Bells

In Festival Boats 2018, Festival Boats 2019, Festival Boats 2021

This Stephens Brothers boat was built in Stockton, CA, one of eight or nine boats using the same blueprints. Purchased by the United States War Shipping Administration in 1942, the boat served as an anti-submarine net tender in San Francisco Bay during WW2. The boat was fully restored in 1947 and then again in 1998 after purchase by its current …

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Epic

In Festival Boats 2018

Epic is the latest is a constant refining of the perfect youth Voyaging boat. Stable, easy to row, fast under sail or oars, beachable, with water-tight integrity. It was designed by Ed Louchard with input from the CBP captains. It is a true community boat.

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Carpenter II

In Festival Boats 2018

Built in Maine in 2007, she has plied Maine’s coastal waters and primarily Penobscot Bay, until she was brought here last June, where she resides in Port Hadlock. She was a mainstay vessel at the annual TSCA Small Reach Regatta in the Eggemoggin Reach area of Maine. With a small canvas area for her ketch rig, an 18 ft. length …

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Willets Brothers canoe

In Festival Boats 2018

1956 Willets Brothers canoe purchased brand new by my father. All original, never restored, almost every original accessory with some never used still in Willets hand made bags.. Stunning boat that gathers crowds.

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Seafarer

In Festival Boats 2018

The Seafarer was built in 1926 for a Seattle businessman at Lake Washington Shipyard. This yard was known for building many commercial boats in those days, and so Seafarer was constructed heavy and strong to stand the test of time. Her hull is Alaskan cedar, with the transom, house and decks all being teak. Bronze cleats, stanchions and anchor winch …

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Gikumi

In Festival Boats 2018, Festival Boats 2021, Festival Boats 2022

The Gikumi has just celebrated its 67th year of commercial service on the British Columbia coast. It was built in Vancouver British Columbia and had lived continuously in Telegraph Cove from September 1954 until February 2017. It was the town’s cargo boat, towed logs to their sawmill, and hauled lumber and other building materials all over the BC coast. It …

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Grace

In Festival Boats 2018

Purchased from George and Wilma Calkins Oct. 2008, in Nordland, WA. Grace was built at Winchester Bay Marina, Inc. Oregon. Mr. Calkins traded a 19 foot Bartender for this 22 footer. He then added a hoist to pull up Crab Pots. During our ownership we offered for use to the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. Grace has received orders for Patrol …

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Katie & Ginny

In Festival Boats 2018, Festival Boats 2022

Gillmer’s “Blue Moon” resembles traditional British pilot cutters that worked the English channel in all weather. Dad loved the design immediately and built a “footie” model, finished 1952, before the first actual Blue Moon was built! Kids finally fledged, in 1988 he commissioned John Swain to bring his dream alive. Built on the Chesapeake, sailed on Lake Ontario for a …