Eagle Harbor Yacht Club member, Uly Cheng, is owner of this gorgeous and very colorful craft.  Uly commissioned the NW Wooden Boat School in Port Townsend to build his cutter, which is based on a traditional Norwegian fishing boat design.  Completed just a year ago, she is true to traditional construction materials and techniques.  Woods include larch, ironwood,

purple heart and fir.

Fixtures are mostly cast bronze with just a very few modern conveniences.

A rainbow of color and superbly crafted detail!

Portholes and cleats are of bronze.

Those old Norwegians didn't have self-tailing winches... this boat take the best from the traditional and blends in just enough modern amenities.

Notice the arched bronze traveler

over the tiller. 

No need to lash the tiller -

just set the fork.

No turnbuckles here!

Deadeyes to adjust the standing rigging and bronze belaying pins for the running rigging.  Notice the massive cast bronze fitting on the bowsprit for the bobstays and....

what is that on the forestay? 

Roller furling?  Well, how would you like to hank on the jib while balancing on the bowsprit?

Cabin interior view. 

Note the notched ribs to accommodate the lap strake planking.

Proud owner aboard.

Solid wood, lap strake construction,

canoe stern and external rudder post-- quite a contrast to the modern vessel in the background!

Uly Cheng moved from Foochow, in China, to the USA in 1956, and onto Bainbridge Island in 1993.  All together he has owned around twenty boats, both large and small, most being sailboats.