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New Boat 4 Sled

Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival (PTWBF) always a treat. This year there was a collection of SSS and other shorthanded notables encountered, including previous winners of 6 SHTP's: Dan and Linda Newland, Stan and Sally Honey, Norton Smith, Synthia Petroka, Milly Biller, Ants Uiga, Kris North, and myself. At least one of these is considering sailing the 2027 SHTP.
 
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Other SSS'ers at PTWBF were Greg Ashby who recently made a notable return trip under sail from the 2025 SHTP on his Merit 25 AKUMU. Another SSSer doing good work at PTWBF was SHTP vet Lee Johnson of MORNING STAR who was doing the dirty work of inspecting bilges and bilge pumps of entries into the Festival. Thanks to Lee and his team there were no oil sheens into the confined waters of Point Hudson to spoil the festive atmosphere. Yay for them!
 
Apologies to Greg Ashby whose AKUMU I misidentified above and is not a Merit 25, but a B-25 (Bailey). I would be curious if Greg could share with us specifics: AKUMU is a daggerboard/lifting keel design? Is the lifting blade weighted (most likely) and can it be retracted downwind? Or primarily for trailering.
 
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Hi Skip
Sorry I missed you at the Wooden Boat Festival. Saw several of the people you mentioned earlier.

Leif Beiley designed and built her in 1994
Number 44 of fifty.
2000# displacement with 800 in the daggerboard keel.
I have a winch apparatus to lift it up to put the boat on the trailer.
It takes up a lot of space in the cabin when it is up.
Is secured with eight bolts and a gasket when down.

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A momentous day. WILDFLOWER was launched 50 years ago today, Halloween, 1975, at Svendsen's Boat Yard in Alameda. She was my home and consort for 33 years.

Today, we welcome JUNIPER into our extended SSS family. And wish her all the best on her new life and explorations.

For the record, JUNIPER is a 27', converted, 1974, Canadian workboat. Solid fiberglas hull, drawing 1'8" and powered by a 50 hp outboard. Her "Down East" lines are hard to miss, sensible rather than flash.
JUNIPER will be homeported in Sidney, BC during the winter. And Port Madison, Bainbridge Island, WA the rest of the year.Juniper1.jpgJuniper7.jpgJuniper9.jpgJuniper3.jpgJuniper6.jpgJuniper11.jpgJuniper10.jpgFLEUR 001.jpg
 
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Congratulations, Skip! Beautiful vessel, and looks like an excellent choice for exploring the Salish Sea. Can't wait to meet her when you bring her down to PM.
 
Wait. What? Will Juniper be your new Wildflower? Will she be your pied a terre up in the Pacific Northwest? She is beaooootiful. And a fiberglass hull. Perfect! Lovely interior woodwork and a two burner stove and a heater! I love her. The Voice of Reason and I spent a weekend on Bainbridge Island but I think Juniper is probably in Port Madison, is that right? That is where John Wilkerson keeps his boat when he is not somewhere else.

If she is yours, congratulations. If she is part yours, congratulations. Will you be having a Juniper warming party?
 
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