Howard Faxon
The Port Townsend boatyard
The boatyard in Port Townsend has a tradition of building, maintaining, repairing, and restoring wooden boats. I’m in the boatyard frequently. For me it is very similar to walking around an open air art museum. This series of pictures called ‘Boats Out of Water’ documents the boats that come in and out of the boatyard constantly.
The Paspatoo
Today in the boatyard I photographed the Paspatoo, whose home port is Port Angeles, Washington. The Paspatoo is a 65 foot yacht built in 1942 in Seattle, Washington. When they start looking this nice they are usually headed back to the water soon. I picked this photo from the group of pictures I took because of the way the building elements in the background line up with the boat. The skirt at the waterline gives a simulation of how Paspatoo looks in the water if the viewer was at water level. It’s a real beauty, the boat I mean.
You can read about the Paspatoo here:
There is a great article about the Blanchard Boat Company where the Paspatoo was built here:
More ‘Boats Out of Water’ can be found below:
The ‘Merrie Ellen’ and the 300 ton lift.
“Northern Sage” from Valdez, Alaska
I would love to live on a boat like that. 😀 Lovely.
I love boats and this is no exception nice photo
if only there was some way to keep barnacles off the sides…
Salt water seems to eat things alive anyway so they need new paint or epoxy or whatever. I should ask somebody. It smells real strong – the stuff they put on under the waterline. I like that they have to pull them out once in a while.
it gives you something to take snaps of
I found out that boats go into Lake Washington regularly and the barnacles drop off in the fresh water. (like once a year or so)
I have seen photos of boats in the finishing stages. Now I wonder how the boat would be brought to the water.
They will bring to the water using this very marine lift. I made a movie of it earlier – you can see it here –> https://virily.com/entertainment/boats-out-of-water-the-300-ton-marine-lift-in-action/
The link in the article doesn’t work but I am unable to edit anything here. Check out the lift in action.
What a great job someone has done to this one. Beautiful!
It is looking spiffy. I think I could live on a boat like that and not miss the land much.
I like finding out what I can about the histories. If you have the name and the home port there usually is some info especially for the older ones. (Fishing and crab boats – not so much)