68’ Staysail Schooner S/V “Martha”, Washington’s oldest operational schooner, has significantly contributed to the preservation of maritime culture on the Pacific Coast for more than 119 years. Martha holds a
The Skansie purse seiner Veteran, launched in 1927, is a beautifully restored sample of one of the most recognized and significant vessel designs to have originated from Gig Harbor. One
Willow was designed for us by Phil Bolger and built by Carl Brownstein, Rights O’ Man Boat Works, Shelton, Washington. She is a shallow draft (2 feet) leeboard cat-yawl launched
Michael Norman built her at Mud Bay on Lopez Island. She was basic transportation for Decatur Island owners until federal agents seized her for rum running; they used her as
Pax (Latin for Peace) is a spidsgatter (Danish for “double ender”) built in Kalundborg, Denmark in 1936. The spidsgatter was a racing class begun in the mid-1920s as sail clubs
William Garden designed the “Captain Blackburn” after reading about Howard Blackburn, a New England sailor who lost his fingers to frost bite. Despite his disability, Blackburn commissioned a small cutter
