The 2024 Harbor Master’s Picks

Harbor Master Daniel Evans has meticulously reviewed each boat application to ensure this year’s harbor is filled with stunning wooden boats. The variety of incredible boats arriving at this year’s Festival is truly remarkable. Here are a few standout selections from his curated list! Presenting the 2024 Harbor Master’s Picks:

Adventuress & Alca I
Two gorgeous schooners. Adventuress is essentially a new boat after Haven Boatworks finished five years of restoration. Built in 1913, she originally ventured into the Bering Sea for research and is now Washington’s Environmental Tallship. Like her, the three-masted schooner Alca I was built for sub-arctic exploration for the Smithsonian and now is privately owned. She is incredibly heavily built and beautifully restored. Check her out!

Air Snipe
It’s a freaking subchaser! She chased submarines! At 110 feet, she was built in 1942 and served in the South Pacific during the war as an Air Class Cutter (hence the name).

Blue Peter
Dutifully restored by our own local Haven Boatworks. She is an amazing example of Ted Geary design, built in Seattle’s Lake Union Drydocks. At 96 feet, this fantail yacht was a commodore’s yacht and now is privately owned and offers charters.

JoAhna K
58 feet of absolute William-Garden-designed powerboat perfection. She is an Inside Passage veteran and is a beloved northwest boat. I shall use the term “Bristol” to describe her condition! She is simply beguiling to behold!

Sir Isaac
A 49-foot locally owned cold-molded schooner actually designed for short-handed sailing. And, the owners may be the nicest folks at the Festival! Sir Isaac was built in 1984 for offshore sailing and sailed to Hawaii, Australia, Japan, and back. When she races… she wins!

Spidsgatters!
Helma and Pax. How do you explain the beauty of a smell? The call of the wind? The electricity of a touch? These Danish boats slam all the intoxicating beauty humans are drawn to into 32 feet or less. See them and become beguiled!

Marionette
One of only 22 of the 50-foot Kettenbergs ever built. She is MASSIVE but lightweight and was built specifically to race in the Transpac.

Jean Alden
At 16 feet, Jean Alden is a classic example of a perfect homebuilt vessel. A catboat, built “by eye,” she was a riff off of Bolger’s “bobcat” and is stitch and glue construction. A real beauty used by the whole family.

All Electric
Yes, many just use oars, but these people have ditched petroleum for all electric innovations! Electric Philosophy, Koru, Tu-tutsh, Katie M, Hideaway, Bright Star, Saga, The Clean Bay, Poulsbo Boat, Tre, Little Bean, Morning Star.