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Egret 1974
She’s a 50’ Stephens from the famous Stockton yard & is fully traditional, except her galley in the aft salon & a walk-through shower between the two aft heads. Honduran mahogany was used to match the factory FOR SALE decor. She was built for southern California & Mexican waters, which explains her painted & stainless exterior. She cruises comfortably at 12 knots, has stabilizers for offshore cruising, & uses 8.5 gal/hr on both engines at cruise. Seattle, Wash.
Eider 1981
Designed & built by Sam Devlin, she’s rigged as an unstayed spritsail cutter with 150 sq. ft. of sail area. She is hard chined with a vee bottom & a full keel with poured concrete & steel internal ballast. Her cabin has sitting headroom, a solid fuel cabin stove & berths for two. In 2010, we gave her a “sliding pilothouse” hatch & legs for beaching. Both draw a warm smile & questions wherever she drops her hook. She now can be helmed from inside next to the stove, extending our NW cruising season. She’s powered by a 5hp Mariner outboard & carries a sculling oar for a nearly silent sneak out of the anchorage. Easy trailering has allowed us to cruise further afield: Catalina Island, Queen Charlotte Strait & the Broughton Islands. We’re dreaming of Baja next, or of shipping her by container to visit the Brest Festival & cruise the Canal du Midi! Port Townsend, Wash.
El Mistico 1927
Designed by Thearle & Nordstrom, she was the leading edge of technology in her day. Originally equipped with a Fairbanks-Morse four cylinder two-cycle diesel, she was the first installation that included a control by which the engine could be fully operated by the man at the wheel with no crewman stationed below decks to monitor & operate machinery. She has cruised Northern Puget Sound up into Alaska & south to the San Francisco Bay & Sacramento Delta. Shelton, Wash. Photo by Thomas Brayton
Eleanor Margaret 2012
An Ian Oughtred-designed Whilly Boat, she was built by brothers Dick & Bob Mitsch between March & June 2012. She’s named after the builder’s grandmothers, Eleanor Mitsch & Margaret Calhoun. Scio, Ore.
Elizabeth Anne 1961
Thompson Bros. Offshore Cabin Cruiser Model 1200. I have owned her for 20 years. Upon purchase in 1990, I took her apart to repair the results of weather & resultant rot. She was originally set up for outboard power, but someone had installed a WestBend Sharkomatic, which I repowered with a 1973 Datsun 1600 pickup engine in 1991. We did a major refit in 2009 & this year are spending as much time as possible on the water. Langley, Wash.
Ellie 2011
She’s a John Welsford-designed Navigator yawl built by Joel Bergen in Mukilteo Wash. With no formal boatbuilding training, Joel began solo construction in October 2009 & finished her 20 months later. Her hull is glued-lapstrake with meranti plywood over permanent bulkheads & stringers. Both masts are hollow bird’s mouth fir. Seats provide permanent flotation & are decked with reclaimed oiled mahogany. She sports a high-peaked gaff rigged main, a roller furled jib & sprit-boomed mizzen, all rigged for easy access from the cockpit. Her anchor well & watertight foredeck locker make her an ideal camp cruiser or daysailer. Mukilteo, Wash.
Ellie K 2004
Ellie K’s original Kokanee 38 design had a canoe stern; Sam Devlin & I collaborated to square off the transom, add a swim step & aft cabin. Participating in the design & building process was a highlight of my life; witnessing Sam at his art & craft is magical. At each design juncture, Sam would quickly sketch 3 options, discuss & then produce a 3D CAD design of our choice. Sam listened to my ideas, discussed the options & built the boat of my dreams. I have had Ellie K north all but one summer since her 2005 launch & have logged 10,000 miles. Ellie K ghosts through the water with little wake & burns an economical 1.6 gph cruising at 8 knots. Olympia, Wash.
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Elmore 1890
Elmore was used to carry passengers & freight between Astoria & Tillamook until a road was built between the two cities. She then served as a ferry to Alaska during the Yukon Gold Rush. Returning to Port Townsend in 1902, she was converted to a tugboat. In 1922, she burned to the waterline & was rebuilt as a combo tug/fish carrier. She continued on as a tugboat until 1982, when she was stripped & sold as a hull to Dave Updike of Seattle. Floyd Waite restored her and, in 1990, she was bought by the Meeks who have cruised her to Alaska & the San Juans ever since. Port Hadlock, Wash.
Endurance 1972
After 8 years in construction, she can be viewed on the Internet under Atkin boats plans, a design called Island Princess. She cruised the Pacific side of Mexico for a year in 1980. She rode out Hurricane Agatha & is now moored in La Connor, Wash. Built out of first growth, rare woods; cabin sole is golden teak & white holly salvaged from the Indiana WWI heavy cruiser. Kalispell, Mont.
Fable 1978
She’s a take-off from a Chapelle design originally designed as a Cat Ketch spritzel rig. Her beam was determined with Baila’s design criteria of living aboard, being able to solo sail & have enough room for 3 Dreadnaught guitars to play (at the same time). Fable’s rig was later redesigned by Carl Chamberlain as a gaff-rig sloop with a tabernacle mast. With no centerboard & shallow draft, she can go almost anywhere at any tide, though not too fast. Port Townsend, Wash.
Flygburen 1993
Flygburen was built in Kirkland, Wash., by Richard & Andy McConkey from 1985 to 1993. Knud Reimers designed the Tumlaren in 1936. Originally a carvel design, Flygburen was built “cold molded” from 4 layers of western red cedar veneers over a fir backbone. The Tumlaren is a 22 sq. meter design & a member of the Skerry cruiser family of narrow, easily driven light displacement sailboats common to Sweden’s Skerry Islands. Winthrop, Wash.
Gemini 2010
Gemini is the first new Yankee One Design to be built in 47 years. Constructed in 2009-2010 by NWSWBB, Gemini has the lead keel, hardware & spirit of the 1949 Yankee Venture. The Yankee racing class was born of a design competition whose judges (Herreshoff, Burgess & Paine) had all created American entries for the 1937 America’s Cup. Yankees are fast, graceful & wet. Venture spent her last 14 years sailing from the Center for Wooden Boats, in Seattle. Gemini is her twin. Seattle, Wash.
Gunvor 2009
John Welsford designed Pathfinder gaff rigged yawl. I selected this design for use on Klamath Lake in southern Oregon. It was chosen for its family accommodations, shallow draft & easily reduced sail area. Klamath Falls, Ore.
Halcyon 1948
Designed by William Garden, she was a burned-out shell when Friday Harbor shipwright Sam Fry began a complete restoration that would ultimately take 12 years. Over the former fish hold, a new aft deckhouse holds a modern FOR SALE galley; the wheelhouse looks original but has been totally rebuilt. Halcyon was one of several troller conversions featured in WoodenBoat #169. Friday Harbor, Wash.
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Grand Finale 1970
Designed by Ed Monk Sr., she was built for the Seventh Day Adventist Church to deliver bibles & medicine FOR SALE to Prince of Wales Island in Alaska. She’s recently completed 5 years of complete restoration & updating. Her single diesel Volvo engine uses an exceptional 5 gph cruising at 9-10 knots. She is featured on the cover of the widely read Ed Monk’s Classics, highlighting Monk’s most important vessels. Olympia, Wash.
Grandy Dinghy unknown
The Grandy Boatbuilding Co., located on Seattle’s Lake Union from 1928 to the early 1960s, built hundreds of these little 9-foot dinghies. This boat was rescued by sailmaker Sean Rankins from a beachfront fire after it was damaged by vandals. Sean donated the dinghy to NW School of Wooden Boatbuilding for repair & restoration. The dinghy’s upper planking, frames, stem, keel & transom have all been replaced. The dinghy is shown as a small example of the extent of repairs possible to a wooden boat, as taught at the School, which is capable of building & repairing boats up to 75 feet.
Havhesten 1945
Havhesten (“Seahorse”) was built in Langesund, Norway. Her construction began before WWII, but was halted soon after it started & finished just after the war. In her native waters of Langesund on Norway’s southeast coast, she’s known as a Langesund Sailing Sjekte (Skiff). Her type of keelboat evolved on the local fjord over many years. Each boat shop built their own boat to agreed measurements to race against each other. Her construction is oak sawn frames with Norwegian red pitchpine lapstrake planks. All fasteners are copper rivets & bronze screws. We bought her in Norway in 1990 & brought her back with us when we moved back. She was restored in Port Townsend. Port Townsend, Wash.
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Wooden Boats 101 All the boats at the Festival have wood hulls (the buoyant main body of the boat). Some are traditionally built plank-on-frame, some are modern plywood construction, and a few are built using ancient technology or the newest experimental composites. Some are displayed on land, but all are designed for water. See boats like this year around in Port Townsend! HUMAN-POWERED VESSELS Primarily built for rowing propulsion – longboats with oars, kayaks with
Goose Lodge III 2004
A Devlin Surf Runner 25 featured in Wooden Boat Magazine. Goose Lodge III is built with the stitch & glue method in Olympia with a top speed of 30 knots using a 155hp Volvo Diesel Sterndrive engine. Olympia, Wash.
Halcyon Days 1986
Built in Lake Oswego, Ore., we purchased her in Olympia in 2001. After 6 years exploring South Sound & the San Juan & Gulf islands, we hauled her out for renovation & upgrades at the Shipwright’s Coop in Port Townsend. After some replanking, mast repairs, upgrades & paint, she was primed & perfect for our 3,436 nautical miles up & FOR SALE down the Inside Passage to Alaska summer of 2007. This 4-month adventure was the culmination of years of dreaming planning & work! Halcyon Days performed flawlessly & is ready for her next adventure. Lacey, Wash.
paddles, rowing shells with sculls. POWER VESSELS Propelled by motor with gasoline, diesel or electric engines. Sailing vessels: rigs vary Sloop – A singlemasted sailing boat with a single headsail. SALE [Dutch FOR sloep, from Middle Dutch slūpen, to glide.]
Cutter – A single-masted sailing boat with multiple headsails made possible by bowsprit and inner forestays. [English origin, from boats used to cut off smugglers between England and France in the 1800s.] Ketch – A two-masted sailing boat with the steering rudder and station behind both masts. [Middle English cache, from cacchen, to catch.] Schooner – A sailing boat with multiple sails and two to seven masts. Schooners can lie closer to the wind than squarerigged sailing ships, use a smaller crew and are very fast. Yawl – A twomasted sailing boat, with larger mast forward and the aft mast (called the mizzen mast) behind the steering rudder and station. [Dutch jol, possibly from Low German jolle.] Multihull – Two or more hulls. Also called catamaran, trimaran and outrigger.
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