IMG_8920 – Port Hadlock WA – Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding – Traditional Small Craft – 14-foot Davis Boat

www.nwboatschool.org John Davis, a Tsimshian Indigenous dwelling on Metlakatla Island in Southeast Alaska, designed these rugged inshore fishing boats soon after returning from functioning in Seattle as a carpenter assisting to rebuild the town right after a disasterous fire in the 1880’s. Davis is reknowned for his two varieties of boats – square-sterned, demonstrated listed… Continue reading IMG_8920 – Port Hadlock WA – Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding – Traditional Small Craft – 14-foot Davis Boat