The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is a vocational school located in Port Hadlock, WA. Their mission is to teach and preserve the art of traditional and contemporary wooden boatbuilding and maritime crafts. The school builds both commissioned and speculative boats to US Coast Guard standards while teaching adult students the traditional wood and wood… Continue reading A Davis Boat and Atkin Flipper at Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in Port Hadlock, WA: A Traditional Small Craft Delight Outside Westrem Shop, Featuring a 12-Foot Double-Ended Boat on Grass and a New Dinghy on Ramp (IMG_4856)
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IMG_0383CE1 – Port Townsend WA – aboard MV BLUE STAR – 2015 Palooza Crooza – Port Townsend Bay – SCAMP-284 SV PT PUFFIN
This proprietor hails from Belluvue WA, and had just finished his SCAMP at the beginning of July, 2015. The Palooza Crooza is an outgrowth of the Pocket Yacht Palooza. It commences the working day soon after the one-day Pocket Yacht Palooza, which is normally the 3rd Saturday in July at the Northwest Maritime Centre in… Continue reading IMG_0383CE1 – Port Townsend WA – aboard MV BLUE STAR – 2015 Palooza Crooza – Port Townsend Bay – SCAMP-284 SV PT PUFFIN
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
Port Hadlock WA – Boat School – FELICITY ANN in her bow shelter
FELICITY Ann is a smaller sloop, just 19 feet long on the waterline, built in 1939 by the Mashford Brothers Shipyard in Cremyll, England. She was planked in larch around oak frames, and is just one of 4 boats created to the “4 Ton” course, all of which, it is believed, continue being in existance.… Continue reading Port Hadlock WA – Boat School – FELICITY ANN in her bow shelter
Then & Now: Oak Bay Village 1973 & 2018 (photo no.3)
Oak Bay Avenue at Hampshire, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada As with my former two “then and nows”, 45 many years elapsed among my snowy and sunny photo in early 1973 and dry, cloudy photo in early 2018. At initially look the scenes are similar, but a nearer research reveals some improvements. This condominium/retail creating is… Continue reading Then & Now: Oak Bay Village 1973 & 2018 (photo no.3)