Festival Boats

Vito Dumas started her life as “Irupe” in the Rio de la Plata area of Argentina. She made her way to San Diego in 1975 after a voyage up to the Caribbean and Panama Canal by Pepe and Julio Ozan. I purchased then named Vito Dumas in early 1976 with a partner. We spent a winter in San Diego doing …

Jean Alden uses the traditional catboat configuration to achieve the objectives of a weatherly pocket cruiser that maximize my available shop space while still fitting on a trailer. Mostly I built “by eye” with little attempt to follow a plan other than to steal some hull sections from Phil Bolger’s twelve foot Bobcat. My shop is large enough for a …

Lorraine is a Nordic Folkboat built in Denmark in 1959. She was imported for racing in San Francisco Bay then trucked to the Northwest for cruising. I bought Lorraine (named after my mother) in 1979. Since then, Lorraine has taken me and my family to many of the Salish Sea’s most beautiful cruising grounds. Port Townsend’s finest marine tradespeople are …

Windsong was built by a school teacher in Grapeview, WA. She has mostly cruised between Olympia and Desolation Sound. Her longest voyage was to SE Alaska up the inside and 14 days from Icy Straits to Straits of Juan De Fuca, on the outside. We have owned the boat twice, first time in Oly in the 80’s, and now in …

The design is Rascal by Ken Bassett. She was built by the owner and completed in 2014. Cold molded, batten seam construction, planked in mahogany and maple. The bottom incorporates a 12″ wide speed pad allowing for tremendous acceleration and top speed with moderate power. The vintage Mercury outboard powering her uses a 1980 140HP powerhead with a short shaft …

Built on Bainbridge Island in the 1980’s, TUMBLEHOME has a sheathed epoxy-cedar strip planked hull. A curvaceous teak wheelhouse allows inside or outside steering. The hull form fairs to a canoe stern, with long overhangs, and a notably round tumblehome mid-section. The interior is Alaskan yellow cedar and Honduras mahogany. A lead fin keel balances the sloop rig with a …

The CC 35 is one of a series of cruising trimarans designed by John Marples (Searunner Designs) in partnership with Jim Brown, and is a successor to Jim’s older Searunner designs of sheet plywood. Constant Camber is a cold molding technique in which the strips are laid up on a mold of constant curvature to form panels which are then …

Refit 1996 Some time in the Nineties. Sofia had several planks replaced. These planks were harvested from the blast area around Mt. St. Helens. Because the wood had sat there for a many years before harvesting, the timber became infested with Insects. When the insect layden planks were installed the insects saw this “all you can eat and tasty old …

The Marian II has been lovingly maintained in covered, fresh water moorage since 1928. She was owned for 50 years by Herb and Virginia Cleaver, the founding members of the Classic Yacht Association. Between the late 1990s and early 2000s she was restored by Tim Ryan of CSR Marine in Seattle. He re-powered her with a Diesel engine. Since 2014 …

Our boat is a 28′ 6″ Great Alaskan. We built this boat for comfortable cruising as well as fishing the waters of the NW. Its built with wood, fiberglass and epoxy.