Her designer, Ferdinand Bach (1888-1967) Detroit Michigan, reportedly designed a handful of boats. He apparently designed cars but never drove one, couldn’t swim yet regularly paddled a canoe to work.
PAX is the only 45 sq meter Danish Spidsgatter sailing in North America. Pax (Latin for Peace) is a spidsgatter (Danish for “double ender”) built in Kalundborg, Denmark in 1936.
Ellie’s hull is built in glued-lapstrake construction with meranti plywood over permanent bulkheads and stringers. Her spars are Douglas Fir. Both masts are built hollow using the bird’s mouth method.
TOP HAT traces her heritage to the vee bottom boats designed by William. Hand in the early 1900s. Her lines, construction and propulsion have be updated, but the essential virtues
A heavy workboat of traditional construction, ideal as a yard launch or small towboat. The horseshoe stern adds an element of interest that will appeal to the builder looking for
New Moon is a Devlin Black Crown 29′ built in the style of a Northwest fishing hull of the 1920s with a sedan topside that provides an interior steering station
12′ long of Cedar on Oak, built in 1975 at the Concordia yard in Mass. and restored in 20o4 in Portland Oregon. Annual upkeep and repairs since, CAINE is returning
The lady Jane was originally built to race in lighting fleet 132, on Lake Washington. The boat slowly fell into neglect before ending up stored in a barn in Silverdale
Lee modified the design and added ballast, a centerboard ,decks and flotation making Kari-San a safe boat to sail in the Puget Sound waters, even in strong winds. I am
