Raiders

2005 Entry List

September 14, 2005 Thanks to all for coming and for helping make it such a great Raid. Hope to see you next year!

  1. #9 Katy Mae

    Katy Mae in Raid 05
    • Type: 20' Drascombe Peter Boat
    • Owner/Skipper: Lynn Watson
    • Builder:
    • Crew: Kees Prins
    • From: Port Townsend, Washington, USA
    • Date entered: June 2005

    • Comments: Katy Mae is an extensively modified canoe yawl type.

  2. #8 Wing Ding

    Wingding in Raid 05. Photo credit Avri
    • Type: 23' Bolger Light Schooner
    • Skipper/Crew: Dan Pence, Aaron Starr, and Sam Johnson
    • From: Oregon,USA
    • Date entered: June 2005

    • Comments: This boat will be fast in some breeze with flat water; they also claim to carry three sweeps and know how to use them.

  3. #7 Full Gallop

    Fullgallop in Raid 05. Photo credit Avri
    • Type: 20' Bolger Chebacco
    • Owner: Chuck Gottfried
    • Skipper/Crew: Chuck Gottfried, Sarah Lynn Brooks
    • From: Oregon, USA
    • Date entered: June 2005

    • Comments: A second Bolger Chebacco yawl. There appears to be a strong rivalry forming in the Chebacco one-design class; it will be interesting to see how these boats do against the smaller and lighter competition.

  4. #6 Bear

    Bear in Raid 05. Photo credit Dale
    • Type: 26' traditional longboat
    • Owner: PTWB Foundation
    • Skipper/Crew: 3 adults/5 Sea Scouts
    • From: Washington, USA
    • Date entered: June 2006

    • Comments: Bear is owned by the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Foundation and will be racing with a crew of 5 Port Townsend Sea Scouts organized by Kim Aldrich. How fast they might be is unknown, but I think they'll give Ratty and Wayward Lass some competition.

  5. #5 Merry Sea

    Merry Sea in Raid 05.
    • Type: 23' wherry
    • Owner/Builder: Ron Mueller
    • Skipper/Crew: Ron Mueller, Dale McKinnon
    • From: Washington, USA
    • Date entered: May 2005

    • Comments: Ron has sent a picture of his newest design...undoubtedly scary fast! That's okay; while they will be a deadly contender inside, the open water of Juan De Fuca will present them with a considerable challenge. Crew Dale McKinnon is a formidable distance rower; visit this link http://www.fairhaven.com/events/dale2004/ to read about her rowing in Alaska.

  6. #4 Roar

    • Type: 17' Whitehall
    • Owner: Tuck Leitzinger
    • Builder: Silva Bay Shipyard School
    • Skipper/Crew: Tuck Leitzinger
    • From: Washington, USA
    • Date entered: May 2005

    • Comments: We are really pleased with this entry as she was built by the first class at the Silva Bay Shipyard School and launched in the spring of 1999. She is a traditional plank-on-frames lapstreak Whitehall from lines by John Gardner. Tuck will be racing alone but is training all summer, which sounds potent!

  7. #3 Tigerlily

    Tiger Lily, Raid 05. Photo credit Tad Roberts
    • Type: 16' Swampscott dory
    • Owner: Gary Powell
    • Skipper/Crew: Gary Powell
    • From: Washington, USA
    • Date entered: May 2005

    • Comments: Tiger Lily is a production fiberglass Swampscott. Gary and his daughter are experienced in these waters and sailing a light boat with a big rig: Look out! Their Web site URI is http://www.geocities.com/garylambda/SwampscottDory.html

  8. #2 Wayward Lass

    Wayward Lass in Raid 05. Photo credit Rusty
    • Type: 20' Bolger Chebacco
    • Owner/Builder: Jamie Orr
    • Skipper/Crew: Jamie Orr
    • From: Victoria, BC
    • Date entered: January 2005

    • Comments: The Lass is a Bolger Chebacco built of plywood by Jamie. Apparently she knows the way to Port Townsend, having been over and back from Victoria numerous times in the past few years. Jamie has been a keen Raid supporter from the beginning, and tells me he is in serious training with the oars!

  9. #1 Ratty

    Built and sailed by Barefoot Wooden Boats, Ratty was first place in Raid 2005. Photo credit Tad Roberts
    • Type: 6 m/20' cat ketch
    • Owner: Tad Roberts
    • Builder: Barefoot Wooden Boats
    • Skipper/Crew: Richard Lyons and Quill Goldman
    • From: Gabriola Island, BC
    • Date entered: January 2005

    • Comments: Ratty is my own design, featured in WoodenBoat #175, and built on Gabriola in 2001 of sheathed plywood. She is an interpretation of the Drascombe type, with modernized form and a standing lug rig. She's slightly heavy to be a serious racer, but knows the way as she traveled to Port Townsend under Richard and Quill's guidance for the festival in 2004.

05 Raid's End

  • Bear in Raid 05. Photo credit Dale.

    Bear at the finish, Raid 05.

The 2005 Shipyard Raid ended in Port Townsend after a week of hard racing in challenging conditions by a fleet of nine small boats in 11 legs over a 89 mile course. Results were surprisingly close for a very disparate fleet; the 20' open sailing/rowing cruiser Ratty won first overall with a string of middle of the pack finishes capped by first to finish on the longest and most trying leg across the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Second place goes to Merry Sea, a radically light 24' plywood Wherry from Wayland Marine. Third place (with a solid first in Team Spirit) goes to Bear, the 26' Wooden Boat Foundation longboat crewed by Sea Scouts and leaders from Port Townsend. And in fourth place was the smallest boat, a 15' Swampscott Dory sailed and rowed by lone crewman Gary Powell.

    • Waiting for the fog to lift, Leg 11, Raid 05. Photo credit Rusty

      Waiting for the fog to lift, Leg 11, Raid 05.

    • PortTownsend Raid 05. Photo credit Avri

      PortTownsend Raid 05. Photo credit Avri.

    • Mothership Graildancer, Port Townsend Raid 05. Photo credit Avri

      Mothership Grail Dancer, Port Townsend Raid 05.