Festival Boats

Tullamore was built in 1997 at the NW School of Wooden BoatBuilding. She is an Atkins Gary Thomas, a gaff-headed auxiliary sloop designed for single-handed sailing, though there is ample room for two. Mahogany planking above the waterline, red cedar planking below the waterline on oak frames and bronze fastened. Easily driven in light airs, reasonable windward performance, and flies …

Four Seas is a John Welsford designed Penguin, 21 feet on deck, 8 foot beam with a gaff sloop rig. Her intended purpose is to be a trailer sailer and spend her time on the trailer when not in use. Her home sailing grounds are Northern Idaho – Lake Couer d’ Alene, Lake Pend Oreille, Snake River, Priest Lake, as …

Stella is a 17′ Whitehall rowing skiff handcrafted from western red cedar and Sitka spruce using Gougeon clear finish, composite technology by Joe Titlow in 2015. More details can be found at SmallBoatsMonthly.com/article/Whitehall-17/

This boat was self-built, by brothers Peter and Eric Hazell in Sisters, OR in 2016-2017. The 12′ catboat is a replica of a 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, single-crewed racer (Snowbird), standardized in design by Naval Architect, Edson B. Schock.Our boat’s traditional construction is Western Red Cedar planked on sawn and steam-bent White Oak frames with mahogany stem, keel and transom. …

A Grand Banks 32 sedan, built in 1969, Bella la Vita has proven to be nearly perfect for the cruising couple. Dependable, economical, if not a little slow, she has carried her current owners throughout Puget Sound, the San Juans, and into Canada.

The Jet 14 sailboat is a 14-ft LOA One-Design racing dinghy that traces its origins back to the early 1950s, when several skippers were complaining about the state of one-design racing. The boats of the era were either too big or too small, too tricky or too slow, most were far too expensive and of the remaining classes many were …

Hull Number 11 of a limited production run of 19 K43 Sloops built by Kettenburg Marine, San Diego in the mid-1960s. To our knowledge, she is one of three K43s built with teak decks, house and cockpit. She was extensively raced by her original owners in Southern California winning the Wrigley Cup shortly after her launch. We purchased her in …

The Chesapeake Light Craft Expedition Wherry is a computer cut kit make of okoume plywood – a boring presentation. To enhance the overall appearance, the deck is overlaid with western red cedar strip (including all knots and inclusions). The rest of top sides and hull is painted grey. Bottom is graphite infused epoxy. Coaming and rub rail are stained and …

Nil Desperandum is seven years old now, and with each passing year I appreciate Sam Devlin’s design eye more and more. While it looks thoroughly traditional—perhaps late 19th or early 20th century—the plywood/fiberglass composite hull is thoroughly modern. Devlin’s skilled way with architectural line and proportion are beautifully illustrated here; at least to my eye it does not look simply …

It’s an East Coast codfish dory. It’s used on San Francisco Bay and the Lost Coast in California. It’s also used up the coast from California to Washington.