Which Boat is That?

Built in Nanaimo of native lumber, her hull is yellow cedar on oak, and her deck originally red cedar. She emigrated to the US in 2009 and was extensively restored. She usually wins the Sloop Tavern Yacht Club’s Race Your House race, and sails extensively in the Salish Sea.

Thane is a modified replica of "Spray", made famous when Joshua Slocum first solo-circumnavigated the world 1895-1898. The Spray class is noted for it's ability to self-steer, highly useful when single-handed.

Thane's hull was found in a field in 1972, and she was extensively rebuilt over the next five years.

Morning Star is a custom designed Scandinavian style double ended ketch. She cruised extensively out of San Diego to Mexico, Central America, and as far as the Galapagos and New Zealand, before returning to the Pacific NW via Hawaii.

Named after an orangutan from a Kipling short story, Bimi raced extensively in San Francisco Bay, where her shallow draft allowed her to cruise the inland deltas. She once saluted the mayor of San Francisco with cannon fire, causing him and his bodyguards to frantically dive for cover. She moved to the Pacific NW in 1984 and was adapted to the wetter climate. The refitters enjoyed an old bottle of scotch discovered under the floor boards.

Designed by Phillip Rhodes, Moonbeam is a beautiful example his early work. Moonbeam began sailing from Los Angeles to Puget Sound in the late 1930's. She has sailed to Alaska and extensively through the Gulf Islands of BC.

Her planking is Honduran mahogany over white oak frames and her cabin top is cold molded yellow cedar.

Unda is a double-ended cruising ketch custom designed in 1938, and launched in 1949 in Nakskov, Denmark. She is oak framed, larch planked and copper-riveted. Spruce spars, cabin sides and cockpit combing are “book-matched” teak planks, with interior featuring African mahogany.

She was purchased in 2004 for $1.00 and extensively refitted. After the refit she won her division in a SF Bay Regatta, and has sailed to Mexico twice.

A modified Herreshoff H28 ketch, originally christened Marjory Jane and sailed on Lake Michigan. Brought to the Pacific NW where a bowsprit  A spar entending forward from the bow, typically used to anchor a forestay. was added, and renamed Captain Pierce, but ended up sadly as a half-sunk derelict in Lake Union.

Extensively restored, with aid from the son of the original builder, and just resumed sailing in 2018.

The design is an evolution of dugout canoes and was a popular oyster boat in Long Island Sound. The rig consist of two solid, unstayed spars, and, unlike most sailboats, the boom is not at the absolute bottom of the sails ("sprit-boom")

Originally named Transit, she has sailed as far north as Desolation Sound, and spent many years at the Seattle Center for Wooden Boats as a public sail vessel.