The Schooner Zodiac

09/05/2026

The Wooden Boat Festival is next weekend in beautiful Port Townsend!!
This is big boat festival that brings folks from all around to see and learn all things wooden vessels, the weekend will be a highlight of your year!

Zodiac will be docked on the maritime center dock and will be sailing all weekend, including the big race Saturday afternoon! Come see the festival and if ya feel like it, come sailing on one of the dozens of ships providing charters!

09/04/2026

In preparation for receiving the future masts, we needed to upgrade our heavy duty dolly situation. We had estimates of each tree weighing 25k lbs to 18k lbs and we needed a way to support & move ends that were being lifted.
So we went and purchased casters advertised to handle 2,600lb each and fabricated a 3/8” steel plate- welded on a strong back to the bottle and we created this monster! Theoretically able to handle 15,600lbs.
She worked great but unlikely to be needed outside of moving big trees

08/31/2026

08/30/2026

It’s good to be pals with a forester, especially when you’re keeping an old wood tall ship alive- we recently met Matt but he treated us as if we were old friends and found us all the big lumber we needed.

Any tall ships that need big Douglas Fir, give us a holler- we got a guy

08/29/2026

Zodiac’s future masts were just delivered to our shop this morning as raw Douglas Fir tree (110’ long and a 3.5’ trunk)

We heard from our forester friend, Matt, about some fir trees that fit the requirements for possible new masts. Two days later, I was in the woods of Arlington, WA looking at these beauties and that’s how we found our sticks!

The plan is to build a structure over them, shape the new masts with our crew and allow them to cure (shrink) for a couple years before we install them as the mighty Zodiac’s new main & fore masts!

To the keyboard experts/shipwrights of the internet - Yes, it’s optimal to harvest your trees in winter, that was not an option this go around (can’t be picky with very little options)

08/28/2026

Photos from last night’s Ales and Sails with Kulshan Brewery from Mille Nordgren & Buck Kilby

08/27/2026

08/24/2026

Ladies & Gentlemen - our last w**e & food pairing sail is this Wednesday, this is the datenight idea that you will be talking about for years to come (or bring a friend!)

W**e on the Water this Wednesday (5:45-9pm) still has a few tickets available, book your spot on our website and have a wonderful evening with good food, good w**e & great people on Bellingham Bay!

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08/24/2026

It was a great day for a family gathering after the couple’s wedding! Wind & weather came to make it a near perfect sailing afternoon for the new family members to get to know each other more

08/21/2026

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