Festival Boats

The Parker Dinghy is a pulling boat designed on Deer Island, NB ca.1945. This type of boat was used in the inshore Herring fishery in that area.

A 12′ lapstrake construction row, sailing and motor dingy. Easy to row, tracks perfectly, a great boat for a picnic in a nice spot on a lake. Designed and built by Samuel Conner, a founder of the Wooden Boat Festival.

When I found this boat is was lying in a heap on a pile of debris in a barn. It was a total wreck, with broken and missing parts, filled with trash, discarded garden chemical containers, and a grim assortment of dead insects, rodents birds etc. I bought the dory for $1.00. I then proceeded to clean and scrub and …

Sound Experience sails the historic schooner Adventuress to educate, inspire, and empower an inclusive community that works to improve our marine environment and celebrates our maritime heritage. Since her launch in E. Boothbay, Maine, in 1913, the B.B. Crowninshield-designed schooner has traveled the Strait of Magellan and the Bering Sea on an arctic expedition for naturalist Roy Chapman Andrews; served …

“Neenah” was named for the Winnebago Indian word for Water. She was constructed in December, 1959 by just two workers at the Thompson Brothers Boat Works in Peshtigo, Wisconsin. A custom order in 1958, she was shipped overland to her first (and only other owner) in 1960 in Portland, Oregon where she spent eight summers as a water skiing and …

Olo is a copy of a Keith Steele drift boat modified with a sealed compartment and a self-bailing rowing station. She is used as a training boat for Grand Canyon Youth (a non-profit river company working mainly out of the four corners area of Arizona and Utah).

John Welsford SCAMP, 11′-11″ Balanced Lug, Cuddy Cabin, Water Ballasted Off-Center Centerboard Mini-Microcruiser. Plywood kit built by owner at Northwest Maritime Center 2012-2013 Propelled by 100 sq-ft Lugsail and oars Team Noddy’s Noggins 2016 R2AK-Stage-1 crossing averaged 4.2 knots on a 10′-7″ waterline. Team Noddy’s Noggins also crossed Strait for R2AK in 2015 and 2017

Ripple is a locally-built cutter with 3 trips to Alaska under her keel. She was built by the Northwest School for Wooden Boat Building, the first of 3 Atkins Gary Thomas designs built by the school. Ripple is cedar-planked on oak frames, Re-powered by the owner with a two-cylinder Beta 14. in 2018, she has 3 trips to Alaska and …

Lazy Jack is a Chesapeake Bay style power skiff. Karl Stambaugh based the Redwing 18 design on Howard Chapelle’s Camp Skiff design from the 1940s, stretched half a foot and adapted to plywood construction. She is powered by a high-thrust 9.9 hp. outboard and cruises comfortably at a little over 5 knots, burning hardly any gas. She’s a good, relaxing …

The small gaff rigged topsail sloop “Katie” was built to recreate the sailing experience and look of a sailing vessel typically to the turn of the century. From handmade brass port holes to the mast fittings, rigging, belaying pins, and many other small finish details many hours of enjoyable work were expended to recreate the look of a traditional sailing …