Emerald Marine Carpentry

Emerald Marine is building a Bartender boat. These boats were first used in the US Coast Guard since they are durable, safe, and economical. They are also used in industries like the Alaska Oil Industry and the Australian Surf Patrol. This boat is going to be part of the display at the 32nd Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend, Washington, to honor and commemorate George Calkins with a Lifetime Achievement award. You can read more about Bartender boats and George Calkins here.
http://www.bartenderboats.com/history.html
Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival
http://www.woodenboat.org/festival

Built in British Columbia, Double J is a well-cared for local classic. She was in the shop for hull paint, caulking, and to form a five-year maintenance plan. We are proud to have this vessel at Emerald Marine.

For beauty and comfort, we are overlaying teak decks on the stern and side decks of Swede Dreams. The process begins by sanding the decks and then fabricating fiberglass “splashes” which serve as a pattern and basis for the new deck-panels. These “splashes” are then trimmed and marked to show the shape of the deck and hatches back at the shop. Good quality teak is then milled for decking, cut, and then glued to the splashes. The seams are payed with silicon-based compound and sanded. Individual panels are taken to the boat and glued to the deck with epoxy while vacuum bagged for clamping.

This 19′ Mackinaw boat was donated to the Anacortes Marine Center by Scott Kimmitt. She was built to plans published by Wooden Boat magazine in 1984. She will be used for community rowing and sailing.

This is a vessel built by Northern Marine in Anacortes. We built some cherrywood furniture to match the existing interior. The name of the boat is “Swede Dreams”.

Irandar was home-built on Whidbey Island in the 1960s. Her yellow-cedar planking was compromised by electrolysis around some of her through-hull fittings. She also had a run of twelve broken frames at the turn of the bilge on the port side, aft.

The 18′x18″x8/4 teak boards were cut, splined, and glued back on themselves to make enough width for the curve. Then they were cut out on a shaper using full patterns. The nibs were cut with routers and splines. The top was shaped with an elliptical bit and plane. The rails were installed with sikaflex and lag bolts.

Currently, the Anacortes Community Maritime Center is restoring a 16′ skiff as part of its boat building and repair program. The skiff was built in Laconner, smooth-planked, and in the European style. She was donated to the center and will be used to take people out on the water.

The skiff has a new transom and port-side sheerstrake, but the entire backbone and at least twelve frames and four planks have rotted due to neglect. Currently, the class is completing a thorough survey of the vessel and deciding on the best course of repair.

The peapod is getting planked. The skiff’s back bone is roughed out, the joints are fitted, and the rabbet has begun to be carved. We are using locust, angelique, and fir.

This is a 101 year old boat, built in Dockton in 1906 by Martinolich to serve their Quartermaster Harbor boatyard, Tacoma and Gig Harbor as a passenger ferry. She is on of a type ubiquitous to the Puget Sound area during that time. She’s the suv of her day. Later in life she was sheathed in ironbark and bitts set in place of the after end of her cabin. She towed log rafts and was married to a pile driving barge. She patrolled Puget Sound for the Navy in WWII. Much later she was kept on Lake Union as the yacht “Tikaboo”. She has been in storage since 1982 awaiting a refitting which is to include steam propulsion.

Hyack has been shored up and put in storage while various maritime organizations are contacted in hopes that someone might take over her restoration.