Thelonis was custom built in 1953 for a Portland Oregon dentist who wanted a ‘traditional-style’ boat, so Ed Monk, Sr modified one of his 1920’s plans. Built by Admiral Marine Works (Earle Wakefield) on Lake Union in Seattle. In addition to operating Admiral Marine, Earle Wakefield was concurrently head instructor at the Edison Technical boat-building school. Although Thelonius looks very …

Theia introduced us to some special Port Townsend friends and craftspeople who took part in her rebirth. We are grateful to Gary and Nancy Fredrick, the Tucker family, Randy Charrier, Bill Stabile, Inger Rankins and her NWSWBB canvas class, and PT Rigging. Port Hadlock, WA.

Built in 1923 as the headquarters launch for the BC Ministry of Forests. The BC Forester served for over 50 years before her retirement. She carried up to 10 rangers, a captain and cook up the inside passage for months at a time.

Thane is a modified Spray and was built on Finger One at Fishermans Wharf in Victoria using mostly recycled materials. She has been a working girl her entire life.

Built from a kit by Port Townsend Watercraft, this stitch and glue design is modern in appearance, very fuel efficient, functional and attractive. I was attracted to the project after attending this festival several years ago. I hadn’t thought I was actively planning on building a boat, but I had always been intrigued with the stitch and glue process. When …

This is one of the first examples of a stretched 19′ Bartender and an inboard powered one rather than an outboard in a well. I think this led to a newer design, the 20.5. Swizzlestick is powered with a 120 hp Mercruiser. Performance is exiting.

The Swallow is a custom designed and built Pocket Cruiser sailboat. She was built using unique custom quality imported and local woods and with high quality craftsmanship. Her hull is strip planked red cedar covered with epoxy resin fiberglass cloth, with bronze fastenings and lead ballast. Beams and framing are made of laminated mahogany, and decking is made of red …

The schooner Suva is owned by the Coupeville Maritime Heritage Foundation (CMHF) and has been since the first part of May 2015. The CMHF is her sixth owner. She is manned totally by volunteers: crew, captains, docents and maintenance. Suva was built by shipbuilder Quan Lee in Hong Kong in 1925 for Frank Pratt, a Massachusetts lawyer who moved to …

Susan Joanne is a Devlin Onyx 28′ sailboat design. She has a wood epoxy matrix hull, utilizing the stitch and glue technique of constriction. She is a maximum trailer-able sailboat, so she could be towed to other ports. I started to build this boat in 2000. I completed the first layer of the hull on the molds, before my job …

Sunbow is a Constant Camber 35 mid-cockpit design capable of coastal and ocean cruising. The design is a successor to design partner Jim Brown’s Searunner series, which were built from sheet plywood. She is cold molded in sections laid up on a single mold with identically spiled strips. The panels are then butt spliced together and covered inside and out …

Gillmer’s “Blue Moon” resembles traditional British pilot cutters that worked the English channel in all weather. Dad loved the design immediately and built a “footie” model, finished 1952, before the first actual Blue Moon was built! Kids finally fledged, in 1988 he commissioned John Swain to bring his dream alive. Built on the Chesapeake, sailed on Lake Ontario for a …

I decided to build Melissa after visiting the 2012 wooden boat festival in Port Townsend. The inspiration was a lovely lapstrake version of Marc Barto’s melonseed skiff with a shiny black hull and bright deck. When it came time to source materials I was fortunate to find some very affordable genuine mahogany as an alternative to more commonly used western …

New 18 ft launch built in traditional lapstrake construction. Iroko frames marine plywood Alaska yellow cedar. This launch is powered by a 30 hp outboard achieving 25mph with two aboard. It is a great fishing platform or just day cruising around the Puget Sound. There is plenty of storage forward and aft an even room for a cooler under the …

This McKenzie Style Drift Boat has been run on over 100 Wild and Scenic Rivers, a dozen National Parks, and thousands of river miles. It is featured in the presentation by Greg Hatten on the Adventure Stage and after the Festival it is joining a group of wood boat enthusiasts from the U.S. and going (via container) to Hobart Tasmania …

Kathryn Lee was the result of 20 years of planning and 6 months building. She is the only boat worthy of the name of my first love who got away. Classic and traditional in lines and plank-on-frame construction, she has white oak keel and frames, parana pine planking, mahogany seats and trim, teak blocks, and bronze hardware. I designed her …

The schooner Suva has been owned by the Coupeville Maritime Heritage Foundation (CMHF) since the first part of May 2015. The CMHF is her sixth owner. She is manned totally by volunteers; captains and crew, maintenance workers, and dockside hosts. Suva was built in 1925 for Frank Pratt, a Massachusetts lawyer who moved to Whidbey Island in 1908. Pratt commissioned …

GLORYBE has survived a century of adventures. Her first was reported in Pacific Motor Boat in 1917. “Pounding on the beach several hours in the January storm in which several Tacoma boats were damaged or destroyed, “Glory B” suffered seriously. Six planks were pounded through, the skeg was torn off, the rudder and propeller twisted, and the companion door was …

26′ lapstrake open boat. Cat Ketch, unstayed masts, spritsails and topsail. Planked with Douglas fir over locust frames. Provided the image for the 1999 Wooden Boat Festival poster. Entered and completed the 2017 R2AK. Came home on her own keel. Twice voted best open boat in the Victoria Classic Boat Show.

Descant is a custom built glass over ply pilot house. She has a classic look, with the benefits of modern construction techniques and a high performance outboard. Her hull offers a fast and fuel efficient ride. She can travel from Kingston to Friday Harbor in a few hours, using less than 14 gallons of fuel. Likely, she is one of …

Flygburen is a Tumlare designed by Knud Reimers in the early 1930s. One of Reimers first and most notable designs, the Tumlaren established Reimers as a designer of gorgeous boats combining beauty, grace and function. Flygburen was built by Andy McConkey with the assistance of his father Richard in their yard in Kirkland, WA. They finished the boat in 1994, …

Designed and built by Russell Brown, the PT Eleven is a highly developed 11ft nesting dinghy ideal for cruising boats since she can be stored in a small space! The PT 11 rows very well and has a simple and lightweight, high performance sailing option. The 2 hull halves can be assembled in 15 seconds, in the water or out. …

We are honored to have inherited Eio from longtime owners, James and Deborah Klose, last winter. We are excited to carry forward the love they have put into caring for this beautiful boat over the years. We plan to keep her in the Port Townsend area.

Mystic is a beautiful, finally crafted 16’9″ row/sail Whitehall. Built to plans from Mystic Seaport Museum. Built at the American Boathouse Workshop in Camden , Me. White oak frames, cedar planks & spruce spars cut from trees on builder’s property.

Purpose built sliding seat lightweight open water rowboat for 70/48 – 2019. I designed and built it between December 2018 and April 2019. All the woodwork was done in the freezing cold of Dec/Jan under a covered roof structure at home. Joe Greenly of Redfish Kayaks allowed me to use his heated workshop to do all the glass/epoxy work Feb/Mar/Apr …

Runs on sunshine! If you throw her batteries overboard (not recommended) she will cruise at 5 knots in the summer sun, and 2-3 knots on a cloudy day. 40 miles in the batteries. Full brochure available at www.solarsal.solar Enjoy the Journey:Our boats are quiet. No shouting over engine noise to have a conversation. The ride is calm, comfortable and pleasant. …

The new ‘cordless’ Swe’Pea! Swe’Pea began as a hot-molded Jet 14 sailing dinghy that was transformed into a stately 13 ft miniature runabout with a 5 hp gas outboard. One summer, the state registration came with a CO warning sticker that alerted us to the proximity of the gas motor to our then-young daughter. We set about to convert her …

Built in 1969 the “Silver Ann” was one of the last wooden gillnetters to be fabricated in Steveston on the banks of the Fraser River. It was built at the Richmond Boat Builders building located now at Britannia Shipyards National Historic Site. This wooden gillnetter was commissioned by George Osaka and named the “Silver Anne” to commemorate his silver wedding …

Enjoy easy smooth lakes and river paddles on this beautiful woodstrip canoe with hand caned seats.

Juna was Ben Seaborn’s 1st design. She was built by Blanchard boats in Seattle.

Sparrow was built by Port Townsend local Kees Prins, who adapted her design from one chosen by the owner (see WB magazine issue 163). The sails were sewn by the owner at NW sails in Port Hadlock, and finishing details were a joint project. The design published in WB was baed on a Gulf of Mexico surf dory documented by …

The boat hull is built with a hybrid stitch and glue construction, while the upper cab is built in a more traditional manner. The majority of the vessel is marine plywood skinned with fiberglass cloth. Exterior grade ply and glass were used on a few parts of the interior cab. I built the initial hull upside down on my driveway …

The Birddog is a traditional Prospector design, very stable with larger loads due to the wide beam and taller side walls. She is 16 feet and is constructed with Birdseye Maple, Walnut, Black Walnut, Cherry, and Padouk with Mahogany, Ebony, and Red Cedar strips. My passion for bird hunting inspired me to build a handmade canoe that would blend with …

Stitch and Glue construction using epoxy and fiberglass to encapsulate the plywood and give strength.

Built in San Diego by the original owner who had been gathering parts as a teenager for several years prior to building. He sailed her for 12 years including to French Polynesia and Hawaii. In 2000 Wendy and Garth started a 34,000-mile Pacific trip and sailed non-stop from Japan back to the PNW seven years later to complete the trip. …

Windsong the Yawl was our home for a couple years in Olympia. In 1955 Her design was published in Yachting Magazine as a Cruising Yawl. Through the years of being her caretaker, she has had many modifications and improvements. She came to us with an awkward step-up dinette on the port side. Which was promptly removed while she sat at …

Chloe was launched in 1960. Details are sketchy until the late 1970’s when she was purchased by Greg Smith in Rowayton, CT. A survey identified her as having been built in Norway, but her builder is unknown. Because the original mahogany planking had deteriorated, Smith had the hull re-planked with bronze-fastened Alaskan Yellow Cedar by a shipwright called Pieter Den …

Commissioned in Tacoma, Washington in 1935 by Norton Clapp, Carmelita was built as a private yacht. Harold Lee of San Francisco designed her to Mr. Clapp’s specifications, and her construction at the Mojean & Erickson yard took nearly a year. She was outfitted with Cooper-Bessemer diesel and was featured in their advertisements in 1935. For sixty years, his family members …

Rhinegold is a rare example of an almost unaltered and intact powerboat built at a time when “gas-powered launches” were a rarity. She was a social hit for her owner, Maxwell Theolopolis Davies III, son of a wealthy English family who sent him to the logging outpost of Vancouver with his own cook and valet! Originally powered by a 25HP …

My boat, yet unnamed, is a Pete Culler designed wherry, a traditional riveted white cedar lapstrake hull. Built by Geoff Burke, Chocorua Boat Works, NH, 2012.

Mackinaw Boats on the Great Lakes were the pickup trucks and fishing boats before roads and rail circled the lakes. They were known for being seaworthy and adaptable. This boat was built to lines recorded during the WPA in the 1930s and is said to have been a typical type in the late 1800s. In this strip-composite replica, efforts were …

Admiral Jack the newest addition to Northwest Maritime Center’s fleet, Admiral Jack! A comfortable tour boat in the summer and state-of-the-art floating classroom during the school year.

Our 2 longboats, Townshend and Bear, are 26′ open wooden boats. They are historic replicas from Captain George Vancouver’s exploration of the region in 1792 that were built at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding.

La Vie en Rose is the product of a 3-year collaboration between the previous owner and designer Paul Gartside. She was built in Sidney, B.C., by Jespersen Boat Builders. Her hull is cold molded of Western Red Cedar and Douglas Fir, sheathed with fiberglass and epoxy. The split rig provides easy sail handling in a wide variety of conditions. Her …

“According to the Folkboat International Association, there are 4,000 Nordic Folkboats on the water today. About 3,000 of them are direct descendants of the wooden Nordic Folkboats first built in 1942. New Nordic Folkboats are built almost exclusively of fiberglass, using a design introduced in 1977 that mimics the performance of wooden Nordic Folkboats, so they can race in the …

“Patience” is a custom-built Expedition Wherry from Chesapeake Light Craft. Made from plans she has custom riggers that use Pocock Racing Shell components to give her a smooth and solid transmission of power during the rowing stroke. She was inspired by the Viking boats at The Dolphin Club in San Francisco. She was made over the course of a year …

Saved from a barn in Nehalem Oregon for 15 years and then from another barn in Hood River Oregon… My wife Heather and I talked Alan Thomle of Thomle Boatworks in Stanwood Wash. into the exterior refinish. Of course, there are always a few surprises that Alan navigated through perfectly. I have always loved Nantucket Green, red bottoms, and a …

Ariel of Victoria was built on Vancouver Island in the 1970s at Fred Peterson’s yard near Nanaimo of Alaskan yellow cedar on oak frames. The original decks were Western Red Cedar 2x4s and she still has a marinized Perkins reclaimed from a refrigerated rail car. Since 2009, we have partially replanted, reframed and refastened. Replaced the deck, both cabins, electrical, …

My brother-in-law started building this boat in the 1990s. I personally think to get out of the house. He sailed it once and then moved away from the Columbia River. It sat for 13 years when I began getting interested in sailing. So he gave the boat to me. I had the cabin cover redone last year with mahogany veneer. …

The “Wildlife of the Columbia” kayak, another Guillemot 17’ boat, represents another level of complexity of inlay work on the deck. Inspired by some of my favorite birds often spotted flying around the shores of the mighty Columbia River near Richland, Wa. The aft portion of the deck represents the section of river in my backyard. Thirty different kinds of …

Second Chance was a home built from a Chris Craft Kit in 1955. Through her long life she fell into disrepair and was at some point abandoned in a Long Beach Marina. She was saved by a couple that saw her potential. She was stored until 2011 when she then went through a complete year long restoration . She went …

Canadian Forces Auxiliary Vessel (CFAV) Badger (YAG-319) was one of ten wooden YAG-300 (Yard Auxiliary, General) vessels built for the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) between 1953 and 1955. Built for use as auxiliary craft, Badger primarily served as an at-sea training platform for junior naval officers, boatswains, reserve personnel and Sea Cadets at Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Esquimalt. n 1954 …

Pert was built over many years by the Fish Brothers, initially in Yakima, finished on Marrowstone Island and launched in 2007. She was sailed for five Summers, put away during the Winter, and then laid up for eight years in the builders large shop. We purchased her in 2020 during the height of Covid, and have been enjoying her immensely. …

Emma is a 17’ 6” LOA gaff rigged sloop, built in 1983’ – Fir/yellow cedar an oak frames, mahogany thwarts, stern seat, centerboard trunk, rub rails, shear strake, and transom. Yellow cedar deck, oak combing. VG spruce floorboards.

PJohn Welsford SCAMP, 11′-11″ balanced lug, cuddy cabin, water ballasted, off-center centerboard mini-microcruiser. Plywood kit built by son and father (Patrick and Malcolm) along with John Welsford, Howard Rice, Scott Jones and the other SCAMP Campers at Northwest Maritime Center 2013, SCAMP Camp III. Completed 2021, in Seahurst WA. Propelled by 100 sq-ft Lugsail and oars.

Silvana is a wood cold molded cutter sailboat of 30 feet designed by Lyle Hess and built in Canada by Ernest Mellstrom in 1997

A merry wherry that is a Wayland Marine’s design and initial stitch and glue project that took 3 months to finish in 2012. In 2022 a bow and stern air tank were added to increase bouncy if swamped. In 2023 the boat was stiffened with adding thickness to the ribs and a fix rowing wing was built with a new …

The original builder was a lifelong captain at sea, beginning with racing sailboats off the west coast of Sweden, then a career in the Swedish navy until after WWII, and on for the next ~30 years running sail-powered cargo and research vessels (among other things), before landing in and retiring to California in the 1970s. He moved to Oyster Bay …

The Grand Slam has her own charm that has outlived her captain’s captures. She has been to Alaska but not all the way to Ketchikan. Some dreams are realized later in life. She catches crab and fish, but not the mother load. She has provided good fun to children and mothers alike. She makes her captain proud. She’s a real …