Festival Boats – Continued from Page 35
Maggie B. 1961
Designed by famed naval architect William Garden, Maggie B attended the first Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival in 1977. She has been a beloved member of our family since 1975, when she retired from working as a log patrol boat out of Port Orchard. She’s a regular tugboat race participant. We’re looking forward to returning to Port Townsend in 2012. Stanwood, Wash.
Manali 1998
She’s the personal vision of builder & original owner John Abernathy. Constructed from wood from his family wood lot, John is almost solely responsible for her construction, including casting her keel in an earthen mold on the family farm. She’s proven herself over a passage down the West Coast, through the Panama Canal & back to Canada via the Caribbean. Dawson Creek, B.C.
Marionette 1964
This Kettenberg 50 is one of the few originally built with a spade rudder. Restoration began about 10 years ago & is largely completed. She was in Redondo Beach until spring of 2009, when she was sailed to Port Ludlow, where she will be moored for a number of years while we explore the Pacific NW. Culver City, Calif.
Martha 1907
Built in 1907 for J. R. Hanify, Commodore of the San Francisco Yacht Club, Martha is a B.B. Crowninshield design. Martha recently celebrated her centennial with a complete below-the-waterline restoration. Owned & operated by the Schooner Martha Foundation since 1996, she takes both youths & adults on sail training adventures. Martha is not only the oldest working sailboat in the state of Washington, but is also the oldest living flagship of the San Francisco Yacht Club. Port Townsend, Wash.
Martha J 1995
She’s a Pulsifer Hampton previously owned by the Foley family, who donated her to WBF as a support vessel for programs & regattas. She was built by Richard Pulsifer in Maine. Martha J is frequently seen setting marks for races or serving as a chase boat for on-the-water events. Port Townsend, Wash.
Matty 1991
A Walter Simmons Matinicus Double Ender based on the workboats of Matinicus Island, an early example of modern glued-lapstrake construction. After 20 years of faithful service, she is still in fine shape. She is a family boat; she began construction around the time of my wife’s birth. She is currently undergoing some modifications that include a modern foiled rudder, foiled centerboard & a new balanced lug yawl rig. Bellingham, Wash.
Merry Wherry 2010
A fun choice for recreational rowing, this stable & userfriendly kit boat has a 20-year heritage of continual refinement. At 35 pounds, she’s easy for one person to cartop, easy to transport to the water & quick to respond to every stroke. Sliding seat rowing rigs & carbon fiber oars are also available, as well as plans for lightweight wooden oars. This can be your first boat & your last boat; she’s built to last, easy to maintain & a joy to row. Anacortes, Wash.
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Merry Wherry Two 2010
Northern Spy 1929
Since 1988, Wayland Marine has offered kits to build stable & user-friendly rowing shells for one or two rowers. The Merry Wherry Two, with its fine entry. soft bilge, constant flare & wide outwales, is a proven, oceantested design. Anacortes, Wash.
She was built by Grandy on Lake Union in 1929. Currently powered by single 100hp 6-cylinder Isuzu diesel, she cruises at 8 knots. She’s had many recent upgrades. Her lugsail dinghy launches with boom off cradle on trunk cabin. Carlisle, Pa.
Millicent 1958
Launched in Edmonds, she was christened the Foggy Dew. Several owners, name changes & about 50 years later, she was found by her current owner at a small boat yard in Deer Harbor on Orcas Island. Matt has begun the ongoing project of rebuilding, restoring, fixing & modifying Millicent to be a more comfortable & beautiful home. For Sale He has been living aboard since 2009, which has greatly increased the project speed & energy. Eastsound, Wash.
Miracle 1928
We purchased her 1993 with the intent to rebuild to her former glory. She’d been on the hard since 1984 & weather had taken its toll. Over the last 18 years as a backyard project, we replaced frames, floor timbers, engine stringers, planks, decks, cabin, house, interior, all systems & repowered. Since re-launching July 2011, we’ve logged 350-plus miles cruising the South Sound; we will head north later this year. Gig Harbor, Wash.
Mona-C 1994
A member of the Lost Coast Traditional Small Craft Association in Fort Bragg, she’s used on the north coast of California & San Francisco Bay. In 2007, she went on the San Francisco Maritime National Park gunkholing cruise up the Sacramento River with the schooner Alma. Rio Nido, Calif.
Mozy 1954
She’s a one-off design by Ed Monk Sr. Her hull is doubleplanked mahogany. She’s powered by a single Detroit diesel with dry stack & air actuated shift & throttle. University Place, Wash.
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Mr. Mallard 1983
Purchased in derelict condition from Sam Devlin in 2004, with the intent to restore her to her former charm. Years of NW drizzle covered in leaves had taken their toll in the form of rotten side decks & cabin sides. Over the next 6 years, as a backburner project; she received new side decks cabin sides, cabintop seats, coamings bowsprit, coal/wood stove & almost all new trim. This year Mr. Mallard will have new sails & updated cockpit storage. Beaverton, Ore.
My Way 2011
She’s my version of a William Hand design, with a hull similar to Harry Bryan’s Handy Billy but all dimensions changed, to which I added a raised deck, raised focs’le & a wheelhouse similar to West Coast fish boats of the 1930s. Vancouver, B.C. My 15’ runabout is a big success because it is very light & nimble. She can be used for fishing, water skiing or just cruising. She requires proper care & storage. Today, there are very few of her design left. Sequim, Wash.
Nil Desperandum 2011
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I began building this Devlin Winter Wren II in October 2008, & completed her in 2011 after 3,000 hours of labor. Hull is Okoume marine plywood sheathed in fiberglass/epoxy; spars are Sitka spruce, & all other structure & trim pieces are white oak, Khaya mahogany & vertical-grain fir. I made two significant modifications to Devlin’s plan: I sacrificed 12 cf of potential storage in the bilge & cockpit sides for flotation (air compartments & foam) & invited more daylight into the cabin with four portlights instead of two. The aft lights are homemade Wiley ports, which open for ventilation. Her name translates as “Nothing to Worry About.” I looked at the name every day during construction as a reassuring morale-builder. It was not true. Langley, Wash.
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Norwester 1932
At the height of the Great Depression, Charles Gilbert commissioned Frank Munroe to design a vessel capable of running in “any seas in any weather.” Norwester has had more than 75 years on the water, including passage through the Panama Canal in 1937. In 1941, she was commandeered by the Navy to run patrols off California. After WWII, she was bought by Bo Roos, manager for a number of Hollywood notables including John Wayne. “Duke” was reintroduced to life at sea through Norwester. In 1955, they entered into a partnership. During this time, a large day room & wheelhouse were added & headroom was increased to 6’6” (to accommodate Mr. Wayne’s 6’4” height & allow him to keep his hat on!). Norwester later moved to the NW on her own bottom under the flag of Orange Coast College. She has plied the waters of Puget Sound, the San Juan Islands & the Inside Passage as part of the College’s Marine Studies Program. LaConner, Wash.
Nutmeg 1937
IOD #19 was built in Fredrikstad, Norway, 1937 as part of the first International One Design fleet. Cornelius Shields commissioned Bjarne Aas to design & build a class boat for interclub racing on Long Island Sound. His goal was to create a tightly controlled one design boat with the sailing characteristics of the 6 meters but more affordable. More than 150 IODs were launched; most are still raced in 12 fleets ranging from North America through Europe. Deer Harbor, Wash.
Odyssey 1938
Renowned naval architect Olin Stephens built this sleek 90-foot racing yawl with a mast reaching 105 feet tall for a Vanderbilt granddaughter. After stints as a winning racer a U.S. Navy testing ship during WWII & a research vessel out of Woods Hole, Mass., the Odyssey now serves as a Sea Scout sailing ship. Tacoma, Wash.
OozeGooze 2012
Successfully completed the 2012 Texas 200 in June on her maiden voyage. Rosedale, B.C.
Orion 1934
Originally named Edlu, she’s Sparkman & Stephens design #35. Built in 1934 by Nevins, she won the Bermuda race the same year. She spent WWII searching out German U-boats along the eastern seaboard. After the war, she cruised through the canal (the Panamanian flag is still onboard), eventually finding a berth in California. After another racing career in Sausalito & passenger service in San Diego, she’s now homeported in Seattle, providing students of all ages a chance to explore the marine environment & improve their traditional seamanship skills. Seattle, Wash.
Otonabee 2009
Nifty Five 1955
Oyster 1956
Under construction for 8 years, she’s a strip canoe built of cedar with small amounts of black walnut, cherry, maple & alder. There are no metal fasteners. Structural stability comes from the 6 oz. fiberglass cloth covering the interior & exterior surfaces. Uniquely, the cedar strips are not one continuous piece of wood from stem to stem, which I was told could not be done. A finish carpenter for 45 years, I’ve always dreamed of building a canoe. Battle Ground, Wash.
Otter 2011
A Ness Yawl designed by Ian Oughtred from the Isle of Skye, she’s rigged as a lug yawl & built in the glue-lap style. I’m really looking forward to going to the Festival in a boat I built, one of my goals for the last 20 years. Seattle, Wash.
She’s Quadrant Sloop hull #9, designed by Lawrence Hartge & built at the Hartge Yard on Chesapeake Bay. Her hard-chined plank-on-frame construction is unusual, with For Sale transverse planking on the bottom & longitudinal planking above the chine, similar to Chesapeake Oyster boats. Her accommodation is enormous for a 26’ boat, with a raised deck & small pilothouse giving standing headroom in the galley. As far as we know, she’s the only Quadrant Sloop to make her way to the West Coast. Her funky charm is best described as “the love child of a T-Bird & a Stone Horse.” Port Townsend, Wash.
Pacific Grace 2001
The Pacific Grace is a replica of an original Canadian Grand Banks fishing schooner, the Robertson II. She was built by the Sail & Life Training Society in their heritage shipyard in Victoria, B.C., & was launched in 1999. SALTS is a charitable sail-training organization that has been taking young people to sea off British Columbia & on longer international voyages since 1974. Photo by www.larochelleimages.ca. Victoria, B.C.
Patamar 1937
Built by a UW graduate & Boeing engineer, the son of a Wallingford (Seattle) farming family in a barn on Ashworth Street in 1937. The plans were from Jake Farrell, a Seattle designer/builder of rumrunners. Her hull is red cedar over white oak frames with a teak cabin. The green deck canvas is original. Original power was a Studebaker & is now a GMC 292. The boat is unrestored & maintained in a boathouse near the Ballard locks. I am her 5th owner. Seattle, Wash.
Pax 1936
Designed by MSJ Hansen, the “perfectionist” among Spidsgatter designers, & likely built by Karl Thomsen in Kalundborg, Denmark, Pax has an international history. She sailed in occupied Denmark before being shipped to California, then headed north for a decade in British Columbia. Kaci Cronkhite brought her to Port Townsend in 2007. Thanks to excellent work by Port Townsend marine trades craftspeople, she’s sailing again. Port Townsend, Wash.
Pelagic Sealing Skiff 2005
This lapstrake boat, built by chief instructor Tim Lee & NWSWBB students, is a replica of a roundbottomed boat developed by famed NW boat builder & outdoorsman Frank Fredette in the early years of the 20th century. Exceptionally seaworthy, the original was used for hunting seals in the Arctic. The boat is planked with western red cedar over white oak frames, & was recently donated back to the school in Port Hadlock for repair & restoration, which will begin in 2013.
Pia 1938
Designed by Aage Utzon, Pia was built in Denmark in 1938 but was not commissioned until the end of WWII. She was imported to Victoria in the 1960s along with 5 other Spidsgatters, including Eio, Da Capo & Doxy. I found her near derelict & began an intensive 2-year repair. Pia’s construction, while typical in Denmark, is unusual in America. She has single sawn grown frames on station, with 2 steam bent frames between. Her frames stop short of the keel & are bolted to massive grown floor timbers. Planking is tight joined like a barrel. All but 2 of the original 26 38 square-meter Klasse Spidsgatters are still accounted for & sailing. Pia is afloat again following a 20-month restoration after she was badly storm damaged en route to the 2010 Festival. Welcome back! Olympia, Wash.
Pick Pocket 1981
Pick Pocket is a William Garden-designed Eel canoe yawl. We purchased her in 2001 from builder Schooner Creek Boatworks. She was in perfect condition, & we have strived to maintain her that way ever since. Although small, an Eel is a proper yacht in every regard. Homeported on the Columbia River in Portland, she has been trailered all over. Tigard, Ore.
Pleiades (Schooner) 1990
Pleiades is a 59’ Pinky Schooner designed by Howard Chapelle. She is currently in charter service with Olympia Schooner Co. Olympia, Wash.
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