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Schooner Creek Boat Works of Portland keeps tradition alive with a new generation of catamarans.
By
PETER
MARSH
66 NORTHWEST YACHTING || DECEMBER 2019
Schooner Creek Boat Works has been a fixture in the Portland sailing scene since 1977, when Steve Rander opened the doors of a small shop beside the Columbia River’s South Channel next to the I-5 freeway. A lot of water has flowed under the I-5 bridge while Schooner Creek built a reputation with a series of wood-composite race
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boats 40’ to 75’ long that raced all over the Pacific. Today the yard is housed in a large airy building on Hayden Island with a repair yard and long-term storage covering six acres. They’ve come a long way from the early wooden boat days, but in terms of new construction, you could say they returned to their roots in the last few years. In the