See the boats volunteer Bud is most likely to be seen in.

Volunteer Bud Ricketts.

Lake Oswego Boat

This 60-year-old boat was found in Lake Oswego, Oregon. Built by a Finnish boatbuilder in Portland as a stock boat, it was made using a half mold which a customer brought to the builder. It became a popular boat at Skunk Lake, Oregon (which later became known as Lake Oswego). It may be a copy of the Rangely boat, a sporting boat developed on the Rangely Lakes of Maine about 100 years ago. The unique features (i.e. a flat-bottom plank in place of a keel and a two-part stem with inner and outer pieces) make the boat relatively fast to build.

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Sid Skiff

This boat type was named after Sid Foster, the long-time Harbormaster of Sausalito, California. He had an old sailing skiff that boatbuilder Ray Speck admired. Speck took the lines off Sid’s boat, which was about 12½’, and built a series of similar designs up to 16’ in length. Our skiff is 14½’ and has Port Orford cedar planking, white oak frames and copper fastenings. It has a dipping lug rig (the yard carrying the sail projects forward of the mast; to come about, the yard is lowered slightly, the forward end is dipped round the mast and the yard is re-hoisted on the other tack).

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Cape Ann Dory Q'Ona

The Cape Ann Dory is a fine boat to either sail or row. The 19 foot Q’Ona has room for two or three people. Be sure to note the “thole pins,” vertical wooden pegs used as an oarlock for rowing. Due to its “V” shaped hull, the Q’Ona has a tendency to heel sharply at first. This is especially noticeable when entering or exiting the boat. But this same hull shape offers amazing stability as it heels over to the side and the boat “stiffens up,” allowing great amounts of weight to be applied to its rails. This design allowed fisherman to lean the boat easily onto its side, allowing them to pull in their heavy catches into the craft. A characteristic of all dories is that they are flat bottomed boats, with their sides and bottom planked lengthwise with no keel structure other than the bottom planking. The Cape Ann Dory is a variant of the traditional beach dory, or the Swampscott Dory, both of which are descendants of the Bank Dory. Dories such as the Q’Ona are still raced as the “Town Class” across North America. Our Cape Ann Dory was donated to CWB in 2003.

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