Design Contest #6 - Winners click here to read or make an observation about this  article

FIRST PLACE
Sideboat

By David Becker - Eugene, Oregon
(click the "+" on the left for judges comments)

TIED FOR SECOND...
Skookum

By Gregg Onewein - Seattle, Washington

... AND
Puget Sound Budget Cruiser

By Justin Pipkorn - Thousand Oaks, California

HONORABLE MENTION
(in no particular order)

Brendan's Chariot

By Milton "Skip" Johnson - Houston, Texas
O-Solo-Mio
By Billy Jackson - Olympia, Washington
Phoebe
By David Shelley - Poulsbo, Washington
Port Madison Proa
By Doug Taylor - Bainbridge Island, Washington
Dawn Treader
By Jamie Hargrave - Orleans, Ontario
Dodo
By Flavio Faloci - Genova – Italy

About the Judges

Paul Butler

After a hitch in the Marines, Paul Butler (www.butlerprojects.com/) served a 2 year apprenticeship building plank-on-frame wood yachts, then 2 years in the Peace Corps establishing a vocational boatbuilding school on a small island north of Borneo. Back in the states he designed and built small custom ply/epoxy boats, and published over 200 how-to and DIY magazine articles and three boating books. Contributing editor to original SBJ. Building plans are available for his most popular designs from: butlerprojects.com

Marlin Bree

Marlin Bree (www.marlinbree.com) is a boating journalist, boatbuilder, and author of boating books including Broken Seas, Wake of the Green Storm, Boat Log & Record, and In the Teeth of the Northeaster. He co-authored the best-seller, Alone Against the Atlantic. Bree is the recipient of Boating Writers International 2004 Grand Prize for his boating adventures in his 20-foot sloop Persistence in Lake Superior's "Green Storm." He writes for Small Craft Advisor and contributes the Trailer-Sailor Forum.

Raymond H. Richards:

At age 8, in 1939—learned to row Dad’s “drift boat,” Oregon’s McKenzie River. Eleven—designed and built first boat (not an unqualified success). Twelve —built 6-foot catboat from published plans and first sailed. Began cruising Puget Sound and beyond, 1949. After playing soldier in Korea, started career as part time draftsman while finishing college, large firm, Seattle, 1954. Designed in all materials and with all types of power, including gas turbine and jet—to 25,000 LT and more than 100 mph. Private practice since 1970, and still use a pencil—but no longer a slide rule and an adding machine for calculations. “Wood and sail are the most challenging and most satisfying.”