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JASON
Year Built:
1963
JASON was commissioned by Jay Gould III and his actress wife Lina Romay and launched in July of 1963 for Southern California and Mexico family cruising. The second owner moved JASON to Puget Sound, where the third owner crabbed and fished extensively.
CHIME
Builder Name:
Williams Family / Blackpaw Boats
CHIME (it’s a little dinghy) is a Chesapeake Light Craft Passagemaker Dinghy. The kit was a family gift, and building help came from all of our children and kids, and Captain Hook (our dog, who endured many hours on the garage floor watching epoxy dry).
Esc.Key
Builder Name:
Denman Marine
Esc.Key is a new solar electric river boat recently launched by Denman Marine.
The initial design brief was for a river launch that was similar in concept to the early 20th century Noosa River putt putt boats which had a hard top to keep the harsh Queensland sun at bay.
Peterborough 16' circa 1915 Canoe
Builder Name:
Peterborough Canoes
After two decades of intermittent work, Wesley Wenhardt, Executive Director of the Foss Waterway Seaport got to try his famous “J” stroke on his casually restored piece of canoeing history. Wes hopes to be seen paddling the byways of the Foss Waterway in Tacoma later this summer.
