Festival Boats

Emily Ruth is a Somes Sound 12-1/2’. Designed by John Brooks, the SS is derived from the well known Herreshoff and Haven 12-1/2’s. Unlike those boats, she is glued lapstrake construction using occume plywood. The transom, coaming, rails, and other trim are sapele. Secondary and tertiary woods are black locust and Douglas fir, both logged from damaged trees on Bainbridge …

Trine is one of the few remaining 40kvm2 Spissgatter racer-cruisers built between 1938–47 in Sarpborg, Norway. These were not “one-designs” but built to a “restriction measurement rule”. This meant designers could vary their plans so long as the lines remained within the maximum and minimum measurements. Each carried the “W” registration number. Einar Iverson, a wealthy paper magnate, commissioned a …

Original hull designed and built by Pat Spurlock to serve as a plug, out of which came the mold for the Elliott Bay Steamlaunch. Dan Pence radically altered the low sleek hull dispite Mr Spurlocks objections. It was built up and over to become a fake 1920’s raised deck cruiser. Powered by an ancient electric forklift motor of 2 kw …

Integrity is a 35′ twin-diesel ‘Fantail’ Cruising Yacht, designed and built by Sam Devlin. She has a well-thought-out combination of aesthetic traditional lines, modern construction methods, and advanced—yet practical for the cruiser—technology throughout.

La Boheme is one in a series of William Atkin designed double-enders. This one is the Eric. Modeled after Norwegian rescue boats at the turn of the century, the Eric is said to be “the best boat for the worst weather”. La Boheme’s keel was laid in 1926. She was completed and launched in 1938 out of Victoria, BC and …

Wynken is a sweet clinker built 12 ft. wooden row boat with a beam of 4′ 8″. She was built by Ken Douglas Boatworks in Burnaby BC, Canada in about 2001. She carries a hull number of 20-167. Ken Douglas was a shipwright and teacher. When he retired he started Ken Douglas Boatworks and built an estimated 230 small clinker …

Theia introduced us to some special Port Townsend friends and craftspeople who took part in her rebirth. We are grateful to Gary and Nancy Fredrick, the Tucker family, Randy Charrier, Bill Stabile, Inger Rankins and her NWSWBB canvas class, and PT Rigging. Port Hadlock, WA.

Raven is an example of a Swampscott Dory, built to Ian Oughted’s Stickleback Dory design (part-decked sailing version). Swampscott dories were originally designed for launching through the surf and fishing off the Coast of Massachusetts. Her hull is made of meranti plywood, using the glued lapstrake construction technique. The inner stem, frames, and other structural members are white oak, and …

Odyssey is the rowing version of an 18′-6″ traditional lapstrake Marblehead Gunning Dory as described in the drawings of John Gardner’s, “The Dory Book.”

Ariel of Victoria’s keel was laid in Fred Peterson’s boatyard on Vancouver Island near Nanaimo in 1972. Carvel planked in Alaskan yellow cedar over oak frames with a western red cedar deck, she was launched in 1980 after “seven years of madness” by Ronald Hunt and Peterson. Doug and Jane Bond bought her in Victoria and raised two sons aboard, …