After her launch in 1960, details of Chloe’s history are sketchy until her purchase by Greg Smith of Rowayton, CT in the 1970s. After her planking was damaged in a
Hull materials, framing, house construction details:Island Runner is a 42’ Lake Union Dry Dock built Dreamboat, designed by Otis Cutting. Documents show the hull was originally vertical grain fir planking
Designed by Ken Bassett, built by owner Pete Harrington over a 4 year time span and launched in 2014, Miss Mile-a-Minute is planked in mahogany and maple. The construction is
Solitude III is a John C. Harris-penned “PocketShip” sailboat. Per the designer, this stitch and glue boat, “is a small cruising sailboat of refined model, meant to sail well on
The Whitehall pulling boat was my first love affair. With a boat, that is. Searching for the perfect first woodworking project I found the Whitehall in John Gardner’s Building Classic
I chose to build a catboat for three reasons. First, I wanted a sailboat with a cabin that would go on a trailer. Slip prices are prohibitive where I live
The Grand Banks 36, a classic trawler design, was initially built with a wooden hull until 1973, when the company transitioned to fiberglass construction, while maintaining the traditional look. The
Ron Bowen built J.D. Crow in the spirit of British Columbia’s long tradition of beautiful and seaworthy homebuilt sailboats, with Allen Farrell as premier guru. Ron was a fisherman, logger,
There is very little historic documentation about these boats, but we know there were many variations within the general type. I wanted to build this in-part to discover why this
The Blue Peter was conceived, designed, commissioned, and built by Seattle Hands, at Lake Union Drydock. Through her 97 years of services the Blue Peter has done everything from serving
