Festival Boats

Boat is one of six that were built for grandchildren. Started construction of the six in 2012, with the last one still to be rigged with mast and sails. Structural modifications (ribs) were made to original design to better support fore and aft decks, metal skid plates added to skid runners and keel, and access hatch added to fore deck. …

Artenders are known throughout the PNW and other regions of the world with rough waters for their able sea keeping abilities. I spent 8 years converting Glencannon from a rough and ready fish boat to a sweet and able little pocket cruiser. She just as happy on the rough river bars of the Oregon Coast as cruising on the Canadian …

Duke was built in 1947 by the Adolph Cummings Boat Company on Ruston Way in Tacoma, Washington. Built to troll fish, she had two sister ships, Solveig, and Ample II. She trolled in Alaska until the mid-1950s when she moved to Eureka, California, working troll, crab, and longline. While there, she made a brief appearance in the film “Jennifer 8” …

Pacific was built to longline for halibut in the North Pacific. She has also trolled for salmon and tuna. The halibut fishermen of B.C. regarded her as one of the best of her type.

We discovered Sea Dream at the Chula Vista marina in Southern California in 1992, after years of walking docks – searching for a couple’s boat to explore these beautiful Northwest waters. Sea Dream was suffering from severe neglect, but she had good bones – oak framing, mahogany planking, bronze screws and copper rivets. Hugh Angleman known as the Grande Old …

Laurie T is Bill Garden’s 1955 design #280. Launched in 1960, she was built in Pete Teller’s Seattle back yard and named for his wife. Still nearly original, with Chrysler Crown and Neptune 1-A stove, she cruises the PNW extensively and lands many a seafood dinner in her cockpit. Construction is yellow cedar over oak, on a massive fir keel. …

Blossom was built in 1938 in Tacoma, WA by the Anderson yard. Several similar sloops of Ed. Monk’s designs were being constructed in the late 30’s and early 40’s including S/V Sea Witch. She is heavily constructed of yellow cedar planks on white oak frames with a Douglas fir backbone and iron ballast. Much of her history before 2000 is …

The ‘fable’ was built in Port Townsend for me – a 5′ woman who wants to solo sail throughout the San Juans. Built here in Point Hudson by Tipton, Toss, Acorn, Jack, myself, and many other cool thinkers. A cat-boat gaff rigged shallow draft wonder.

The Core Sound 17 mk3 represents the evolution of a design that has proven its seaworthiness and performance time and again in the Everglades Challenge and other race events around the country. We built Deluge because it’s readily trailerable with a small family car, reasonably quick to launch, fun to sail, and a very capable, seaworthy craft on the water. …

FOTO, the official Photo Boat of Small Craft Advisor magazine (published in Port Townsend), was restored by owner Marty Loken. The boat was built to a Weston Farmer design in 2006 by Marty’s friend Bob Petersen of Ocean Park, WA, the retired harbormaster at Ilwaco. Raised-deck outboard cruisers like FOTO were first designed by Weston Farmer in 1928; he continued …