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Lita Alv 2012
Iain Oughtred has skillfully captured the essence of the Os-Elvar using marine plywood for the planking and laminations for the new frames. His design improves on the beauty of the traditional Os-Elvar by introducing a more pronounced sheer line and the taller “horns” at the stem and stern. He called his design “Elf” (Alv in Norwegian) and there’s something impish about this boat, stating “Hey, I’m mischievous and proud of it”. Bellingham, Wash.
Lorraine 1959
Lorraine is a Nordic Folkboat built in Denmark in 1959. She was imported for racing in San Francisco then trucked to the Northwest for cruising. I bought Lorraine (named for my mother) in 1979. Many of Port Townsend’s finest marine trades people have (and continue to) contributed their skills to maintenance and retrofits of Lorraine. A joy to sail, she answers her helm in light or heavy wind--a wonderful Salish Sea day sailor or cruiser! Port Townsend, Wash.
Lucky Star 1937
Designed by Edson Schock. Built in Wlmington, Calif., of mahogany planking on oak frames. Teak interior and exterior. Poulsbo, Wash.
Macaw 1956
Macaw is a Presto-type gaff-rigged centerboard ketch. Designed by Sam Crocker and built by Sturgis Crocker in Manchester, Mass., she was originally designed for shoal draft cruising in the Bahamas. She has a very large cockpit, flush decks, a large cabin for her size, with a large companionway hatch and lots of fuel and water tankage. Draft is just 2’6” with the centerboard up. Columbus, Ohio
Maggie B. 1961
Tugboat Maggie B, designed by William Garden, was built at Lake Union in 1961. She worked as a log patrol boat and in the Snohomish River pulling logs to the Weyerhauser mill in Everett. Now retired, she is a regular at the tugboat races in Olympia and Seattle. Stanwood, Wash.
Merry Wherry 2010
This stable, user-friendly kit boat has long proven herself to be excellent for recreation, exercise, or competition. At 35 pounds, she’s easy for one person to cartop and transport and quick to respond to every stroke. Carbon fiber oars or lightweight wooden oars built from plans complete the sliding seat rowing rig. This wherry’s a joy to row. Anacortes, Wash.
Merry Wherry Two 2010
Morning Star 1948
Morning Star Is a Scandinavian style double ended ketch, custom designed and built by Olaf Tellefsen. She is planked with 1 3/8” Port Orford cedar over steam bent white oak frames on 12” centers, is 51’ overall, 45’ on deck, and has a 40’ waterline. Draft is 6’10” and she carries 1200 square feet of sail. Morning Star is a magnificent ocean voyaging vessel. Sonoma, Calif.
Nil Desperandum 2011
Nil Desperandum is a Devlin Winter Wren design, with a stitch-and-glue composite hull, daggerboard, and classic gaff rig. Built by owner Larry Cheek and launched in 2011. Langley, Wash.
Odyssey (Sea Scout Ship) 1938
Designed by Sparkman & Stevens and built by Henry Nevins Yard in New York, her yawl rig boasts more than 3000 square feet of sail area. She has been owned and operated as a training vessel by the Tacoma Sea Scouts for more than 30 years. Tacoma, Wash.
Orenda 1979
This was the favorite boat of the infamous builder of wood/ epoxy yachts, designed and built by Vic Carpenter. As Marlin Bree described her “The wheel was handcrafted of alternating strips of mahogany and spruce. I grasped it; the boat felt alive, almost ready to fly away. Belowdecks was a woodworker’s dream. Everything was bright-finished. Bunks seemed to grow out of the cabin sides. Overhead handrails were sculpted into the cabin top. In the stern was a magnificent navigator’s saloon, in varnished wood and full of natural light. The chart table was big enough to open up a chart. As I got ready to leave, I couldn’t help but slip behind the wheel again and imagine what it was like to drive 1,200 square feet of sail piled on that golden mast.” Nanaimo, BC
Orion 1934
Launched as Edlu, Olin Stephen’s design #35 was built for offshore racing. Orion won the 1934 Newport to Bermuda race and many others in the 30’s and 40’s. During WWII, she served in the Coastal Picket Patrol, sailing the Eastern Seaboard in search of U-Boats. After a trip through the Panama Canal and a circuit of the South Pacific, Orion has found her way to the Pacific Northwest via Southern California. Here she serves as the sailing classroom for the Deep Green WIlderness Program, promoting environmental stewardship through education and voyaging. Seattle, Wash.
Otter 2011
Designed by Ian Oughtred from the Isle of Skye, Otter is a Ness Yawl. She has been finding her feet and testing her builder in the local waters of Puget Sound. Seattle, Wash.
Miss Lakewood 1940
Mona-C 1994
Built by S.A.L.T.S. as a working exhibit for Expo 86 in Vancouver, BC, she’s sailed over 100,000 deep-sea miles. Her offshore training voyages have taken her to Australia and Europe, to remote communities on Easter and Pitcairn Islands, and to many other unusual and far-flung ports of call. When not offshore, she provides sail training programs along the coast of British Columbia. Victoria, B.C.
Miss Lakewood is a tried and true sedan cruiser designed by Edwin Monk Sr., the prolific designer from Seattle. She is powered by a Volvo Diesel V Drive. Her inviting mahogany interior is original and great for cruising or socializing. Miss Lakewood is moored in covered moorage in Seattle, a member of the Queen City Yacht Club, the Classic Yacht Association, and the Antique and Classic Boat Association. Seattle, Wash.
A member of the Lost Coast Traditional Small Craft Association in Fort Bragg, California, she’s used in the San Francisco Bay area, Delta Coast, Fort Bragg and West Coast. In 2007 she went on the San Francisco Maritime National Park gunkholing cruise up the Sacramento River with the Schooner Alma. Rio Nido, Calif.
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A classic double-ender (Spidsgatter) designed and built in Denmark. Built for comfort and speed, these buxom boats feature wide beam, deep keel, great volume below decks with extra tall masts. Pax was designed by MSJ Hansen and built by Karl Thomsen in Kalundborg, Denmark. She was exported to California in 1961, and restored in British Columbia in the 1980s. Former Wooden Boat Festival Director Kaci Cronkhite brought her to Port Townsend in 2007, and has been tracking down her history worldwide ever since, as recorded in her book Finding Pax. Port Townsend, Wash.
Peter Kagan 1977
She was purchased new and trailered to Southern California by a retired Naval Officer. I found the boat in 1985 after searching several years for a Beetle Cat located anywhere on the West coast. I’ve replaced the cockpit coaming, canvas and rub rails several times over the years, with a new centerboard last year. She’s frequently found sailing on Lake Union in Seattle. Kenmore, Wash.
Pia 1938
Designed by Danish marine architect Aage Utzon, Pia was built in Denmark in 1938, but was not commissioned until just after the end of WW2. She was imported into Victoria, BC in the early 1960s along with five other 38 square meter Klasse Spidsgatters, including Port Townsend vessels Eio, Da Capo and Doxy. Alerted by Da Capo owner Scott Swantner, I
Pacific Swift 1986
Patamar 1937
She’s a bridge deck cruiser designed by Jake Farrell and built in Seattle by Carr and Stone. She sleeps 2: eats 4, and drinks 6+. We’re longtime members of the Classic Yacht Association, the Wooden Boat Foundation, Seattle’s Center for Wooden Boats, and the Seattle Yacht Club. Seattle, Wash.
found Pia at anchor near-derelict in 1991 in Cortez Island, BC. An intensive two year repair began, including new deck covering, cabin top, eyebrows, rails, cockpit, rudder and tiller, aft end of cabin, companionway, both forward and companionway hatches, skylight and the entire interior including engine beds. The hull, floors, framing and deck beams were in excellent shape and entirely original. Pia’s construction, while typical in Denmark, is unusual in America. She has single sawn frames on station, taken from naturally shaped grown timbers with two steam bent frames between. Her frames stop well short of the keel and are bolted to massive grown floor timbers, shaped from the crotches of trees, whose ends, rather than being cut flat, reflecting the crotches they are taken from, are shaped to follow the frames well up the sides of the hull. The planking is tight joined, like a barrel. She isn’t caulked. Instead, a strand of cotton was twisted and laid on the plank edge before the next plank was installed. Frames, backbone and beams are all oak. Hull, deck, cabin top and spars are Danish pitch pine. Aside from the powerful construction, these are no doubt the main reason for the Klasse Spidsgatters’ noted longevity. All but two of the original 26 38 square-meter Klasse Spidsgatters ever built are still accounted for and sailing. Olympia, Wash.
Plaisir 2009
She’s a Haven 12 ½ built by the Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building and used just three summers in Montana. Her hull is western red cedar hull, white oak ribs, vertical grain fir spars, lead keel, stainless steel center board, mahogany FOR SALE transom and seats, bronze fittings, with trailer, sail covers, mooring cover, trailering cover. Missoula, Mont.
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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 paddles, rowing shells with sculls.
Oyster 1956
Reminiscent of “the love child of a T-bird and a Stone Horse,” she’s Quadrant Sloop #9, designed by Lawrence Hartge and FOR SALE built at the Hartge Yard on Chesapeake Bay. Her hard-chined, plank-on-frame construction is unusual, with transverse planking on the bottom and longitudinal planking above the waterline, similar to Chesapeake Oyster boats. Her accommodation is enormous for a 26’ boat, with a raised deck and 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. Port Townsend, Wash.
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 and wide outwales, is a proven ocean-tested design providing a dry and comfortable ride even in less than ideal conditions. A decked version exists for the experienced adventurer. Anacortes, Wash.
Pax 1936
POWER VESSELS Propelled by motor with gasoline, diesel or electric engines. Sailing vessels: rigs vary Sloop – A single-masted sailing boat with a single headsail. [Dutch sloep, from Middle Dutch slūpen, to glide.] FOR SALE
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 square-rigged 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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