❖ LAUNCHINGS ❖ Old and New ❖

March 1978
300 pounds of a hand-carved canoe 
heading for a voyage with Clallam High School 
students and parent-packers.
Original photo by Noelle Brown from the archives of the
Saltwater People Historical Society©

Students from Clallam High School outdoor education program and parents carried the 32-ft hand-carved canoe toward the water for her maiden voyage. The teacher was Bill Riedel, assisted by woodcarver Mark Bowlby.
      The project began in March 1974 and in 1978 they realized their dream to paddle across the international border to Vancouver Island, B.C. 

And new for summer of 2019:

Murrelet
inspired by an Aage Nielsen design
standing by for launch day.
Port Townsend, WA.
June 2019.

Murrelet
19-feet
Launching on this first day of summer,
twenty June 2019.
Owner/builder: Bertram Levy,
a long-time skipper of the 24-ft Lyle Hess ABLE,
that together have enjoyed circumnavigations
of Vancouver Island, B.C.
Location: Port Townsend, WA.
Photo courtesy of Jason Hines.

MURRELET
And she is off with her new Schattauer Sails
Port Townsend, WA.