Guide to 39th Festival Boats Adventure 2005
Adventure is a Commodore Trunion class sailing pram designed by William Garden. Port Townsend, Wash.
Adventuress 1913
Adventuress is a 102-year-old National Historic Landmark schooner operated by nonprofit Sound Experience, with a mission to educate, inspire and empower an inclusive community to make a difference for the future of our marine environment. Port Townsend, Wash.
Allegra 1951
Built as a yacht by the respected Benson Bros. yards in Vancouver, B.C., she has sailed through the Panama Canal. I presently use her as my home, art gallery and studio, traveling to SE Alaska every summer. Bellingham, Wash.
Alyssa 1993
Custom-designed 45-footer designed by Nathan Smith and constructed and launched on Bainbridge Island. She has always been a NW boat. We recently spent a year in Port Townsend for a major renovation. Bremerton, Wash.
Ama Natura 2009
Ama Natura is a prototype “Petroleum Free” motorsailer designed by Capt. Peter Wilcox with Carl Chamberlain and built at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding (NWSWB). She’s a gaff-ketch with a 48hp diesel using B100 biodiesel and all bio-based lubricants. It’s possible that the Inside Passage’s record Yahtzee score (609) was set on Ama in 2010. Portland, Ore.
Anna D 1968
Built by Joe Richter in Moss Landing, Calif., she’s a William Garden designed offshore salmon troller. Her restoration and yacht conversion was begun in 2009. Tacoma, Wash.
Annie Too 1956
She was built for the ’57 Transpac by Bill Lapworth and Willis Boyd. In 1962 she was bought by the Rixford family and came in 4th in the ’63 Transpac. She won Class B in the 1968 San Diego/ Acapulco Race. Since 1994, she’s been sailing Port Townsend Bay. Port Hadlock, Wash.
Arctic Tern 2014
A 19’4” stretched version of Iain Oughtred’s Arctic Tern. She’s is a gunter-rigged double-ended centerboard daysailer. Allyn, Wash.
Argonaut II 1922
Argonaut II is a 73’ canoe stern designed by Edson Schock. Originally built as a corporate yacht, she was also used as a missionary boat. In 1967 she became a pleasure yacht. Seattle, Wash.
Ariel of Victoria 1980
She’s always been a family boat and a liveaboard. Built in Fred Peterson’s yard in Nanaimo, 1972-80, with ongoing restoration since 2009. We’ve sailed through two logbooks, including a trip to Desolation Sound in 2014 and winning the 2014 Sloop Tavern “Race Your House” race. Seattle, Wash.
Arrow 1974
Arrow was inspired and built from John Gardner’s national Fisherman (1960s) St. Pierre Dory Lines & Offsets, and from builder Karl Sebastian’s involvement with North Pacific halibut dories around Kodiak, Alaska. Port Townsend, Wash.
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Art Boat 2014
Cedar strip kayak designed by Joe Greenley of Redfish Kayak. Built by Joe Wuts with sculpted “Fallen Limbs” deck. Best in FOR SALE Show, 1st place Artisan and Mayors Award at Kenmore Art Show 2015. Kirkland, Wash.
At Last 1948
Aura 1948
Aura is the 5th of 9 Blanchard 33s designed by William Garden and built by Blanchard Boat Co. in Seattle in the late 1940s. Owned and maintained by Norman C. Blanchard until 1977, she does day-sail charters from Deer Harbor on Orcas Island. Deer Harbor, Wash.
Bear 2002
Bear was built for WBF programs use in partnership with Grey Wolf Ranch and NWSWB. Greg Foster designed her after Outward Bound’s Elizabeth Bonaventure. She’s used for a wide variety of programs, including Sea Scouts, Adventures at Sea and Puget Sound Explorers. She’s made a wonderful companion ship to the Townshend. Port Townsend, Wash.
BeBop 1963
Bebop is a converted salmon gillnetter. She was built in Steveston, B.C., and fished the Queen Charlotte Islands and Alaska for 30 years. Converted in 2002 in Port Townsend, she still keeps her elegant fishing boat lines. Seattle, Wash.
Beckon 2014
She’s the first completed build of a North Sea 29, one of the medium displacement cruisers designed by Mark Smaalders of Orcas Island. Owner/builder Richard Beck is a custom cabinetmaker near Flathead Lake, Mont. Bigfork, Mont.
Bettina 1957
FOR SALE
Blackbeard II 1978
Bill Garden design built in Victoria, B.C., by Pat Sullivan. She’s strip planked cedar on oak frames with a teak deck. Acquired by her present owners in 1985, she’s a great open water cruiser. Port Hadlock, Wash.
Blackfish 2014
This 13’ Paul Gartside designed launch was built in Victoria, B.C., over a 2-year period. The cold molded cedar and oak hull combined with vintage Stuart Turner classic engine evoke memories of simpler times. Victoria, B.C., Canada
Bolero 1952
Bolero is a 34’ Chris Craft DCFB delivered new to Portland, Ore. The boat cruised the Columbia and Willamette rivers for 2 decades before being trucked to Seattle. Seattle, Wash.
Bright Star 2006
Pete Thomsen completed this beautiful example of one of Nat Herreshoff’s favorite designs in 2013. Cold molded FOR SALE with West system epoxy in old growth Douglas fir and Honduras mahogany, and bronze fastened. Ridgefield, Wash.
Caine 1975
Chris Craft 17’ Deluxe runabout, restored from in my garage over the course of 10 years. Relaunched summer of 2013. Bremerton, Wash.
Bettina is a one-off 41’ Laurent Giles sloop, built in 1957 in Hong Kong at the Wing On Shing shipyard, teak-planked over ipol frames. Port Townsend, Wash.
Buzzards Bay 25 2013
Bright Star is a Tolman Alaskan skiff, Jumbo 24, stitchand-glue boat. Ray built the boat on our back porch, and we customized her for fishing and cruising. Powered by a Cummins diesel inboardoutboard, she cruises at 18 knots with good fuel economy. Lake Oswego, Ore.
Caine is an original Beetle Cat, constructed in Massachusetts. She was brought back from the dead by volunteers at the Wooden Boat Foundation and cared for by the late Doug Rathbun, longtime Festival Harbormaster, before moving south to Portland. Portland, Ore.
Carlyn 1996
Designed and built by the Scarano brothers in Albany, N.Y., in 1996, Carlyn is owned and operated by Four Winds Westward Ho Camp on Orcas Island. Deer Harbor, Wash.
Center Console Skiff 2015
She’s a 15’ stitch and glue skiff built by NW Small Craft. This is a modified design of the Bateau Outboard Skiff 15 and features FOR SALE hard reverse chines created by overlapping the side and bottom panels. These reverse chines provide a much cleaner look than the traditional strips of wood, are much wider, and contribute to a drier ride and overall better performance and handling. Duvall, Wash.
Ceridwen 1994
John Magner and his son Kevin lofted Ceridwen in fall 1982, and owners Matt and Stephanie McCleary pitched in to pour the lead keel, steam-bend the oak frames and attach the cabin sides. In addition to helping with the original construction, the owners planked 95 percent of the boat and installed the tanks, plumbing and electrical systems. She made her maiden voyage in 1996 from Port Angeles to Port Hadlock. Port Hadlock, Wash.
Chesuki 1986
This fast little sloop beats up on those modern racers due to lapstrake construction, just like dimples on a golf ball! I built her as a young man ages ago (’80s) and haven’t missed a Festival since! She’s low and sleek with a gunter rig. Renton, Wash.
Circe 1931
Ben Seaborn’s first design at age 16. She was a scratch racing boat when first launched, winning the Transpac and Swiftsure races. Now she’s used for Naval Sea Cadet seamanship training. Black Lake Village, Calif.
Cloud Nine 1973
North Sea 38 Pilothouse Trawler, designed and owned originally by naval architect Blaine Seeley and built in FOR SALE Japan; her design was a predecessor to Pacific Trawler design. Poulsbo, Wash.
Commencement 1926
Classic Puget Sound fishing vessel built by Skansie Shipbuilding & Transportation Co. of Gig Harbor, Wash. Rehabilitated in 1995 by Vlahovich Boat Corp. to provide heritage education and tourism charter service. St. Michaels, Md.
Compadre 1929
Compadre is a 43’ Stephens bridge deck cruiser. Her hull is Port Orford cedar on oak frames, and her house is teak. She is powered by twin Chrysler Crown gas engines. Bainbridge Island, Wash.
Contessa 1977
Contessa was designed by George Stadel Jr., a 38’ variation of his popular 36’ schooner. Built in East Boothbay, Maine, by Sonny Hodgdon, she moored in Long Island Sound and FOR SALE Buzzards Bay until I brought her to Everett in 2005. A major interior renovation was accomplished after a 2012 galley fire. Lake Stevens, Wash.
Corsair II 1926
Custom designed bridge deck by naval architect Leigh Coolidge, one of only 3 yachts built at Martinac shipyard Tacoma. Carefully maintained over the years and still in tip-top shape. Seattle, Wash.
Czarinna 1991
Czarinna is a 30’ by 8’6” fantail cruiser built by Sam Devlin. Her twin 18hp Yanmar diesels give 7 knots speed and a half gph. In 2007 she was trucked east to cruise U.S. northeast waters. She returned to Olympia in 2014. Olympia, Wash.
Dirigo II 1939
One of a kind, traditional and restored 74’, gaff-rigged tops’l Alden schooner, built at the Goudy & Stevens yard in East Boothbay, Maine. She’s had 2 circumnavigations and many racing victories. Currently offered for charter throughout the San Juan Islands. Friday Harbor, Wash.
FOR SALE
Dockhouse Queen NEW
16’ mini-tug custom designed and built, featured as the Reader Built Boat in Small Boats Monthly. She features an electric 72V inboard. Cathlamet, Wash.
Dorjun 1905
Dorjun was built over a century ago for the U.S. Lifesaving Service. Her design and hull shape are similar to the lifeboats used in Shackleton’s epic voyage. After being retired from the Coast Guard in 1937, she sailed the Straits of Magellan on a 1937 trip documented in National Geographic. Port Townsend, Wash.
Dragonheart 2011
Dragonheart is a Kit Africa & Jim Franken design oceanic dory. Built by students and community members with the Community Boat Project at NWSWB. Wayne Chimenti is the inspiration and facilitator of this project. Nordland, Wash.
Driftwood (houseboat) 2014
A home-built trailerable wooden houseboat, featuring twin propane outboard engines, a “Lil Cod” woodstove, composting head, LED lighting, solar panels, a gangplank up front and a rain catchment system. Salem, Ore.
Egret 2000
A Penobscot 14, designed by Arch Davis, her design was featured in 3 issues of WoodenBoat magazine in 1997. Clackamas, Ore.
El Mistico 1927
FOR SALE
MV El Mistico was one of the first midsize yachts where the pilot could control the engine and transmission from the helm. She’s moored in a boathouse in Shelton, Wash., and cruises the Salish Sea four months a year. Shelton, Wash.
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