Update ~ 7/13/2011
It is official! We will be in the
35th Annual Wooden Boat Festival
in Port Townsend, Washington
September 9 - 11, 2011
The documentary film by Carol Stabile
"Schooner or Later"
about the building of our boat will be featured at the Festival
Friday, 9/9/11 at 1:30 PM in the AV Room and
on Saturday 9/10/11 at 11:30 AM in the Marina Room.
Roy will be giving a speech after both movies.
We hope to see you there.
Click here for tickets and more information
or contact us.
Update ~ 6/18/2011
The show was a great success and lots of fun. We now have a new page on this site.
To see photos from the 1st Annual Bainbridge Island Wooden Boat Festival
go to our shows page.
Update ~ 5/14/2011
The first annual Bainbridge Island Wooden Boat Festival will be June 4th and 5th.
We are in the show and hope to see you there.
For more information visit: www.BIWBF.com
and also: The Chandlery Marine at Winslow Wharf website.
Or contact us.
Update ~ 3/20/11
Happy Vernal Equinox and full "Supermoon"!
We are looking forward to the sailing season
and maybe some shows. Will keep you posted.
Update ~ 8/14/10
On July 17th we took a group of friends out for the
20th anniversary of the scattering of their father's ashes into Puget Sound.
It was a great sail and a memorial event.
Here are a few pictures from that outing...
~ 
Update ~ 6/18/10
Location: The Center for Wooden Boats, 1010 Valley St, Seattle, WA
Notes: 3rd Friday Speaker Series: A Thirty Year Project
Link: www.cwb.org
for having Roy as their guest speaker!
photo by Karl Bischoff ~ phinneybischoff/designhouse
Gordon Simms and Roy docking at CWB
photo by Karl Bischoff ~ phinneybischoff/designhouse
Update ~ 6/5/10
We now have Page 2 of the history slide show up,
and there are new images on the interior pictures page.
Enjoy!
The maiden voyage was magnificent and we've made the news.
To see photos taken on board that day click here.
Update ~ 6/4/09
The Bainbridge Review has printed a great story written by Tad Sooter.
The video clip they ran on Bainbridge Island TV
and a slide show are featured on their website:
Bainbridge Review Story
Below is the video:
Update ~ 5/31/09
We would like to thank King 5 News Photographer Richard DePartee
for the excellent coverage, and Bob Schoonmaker
of the Bainbridge Island Chandlery for contacting the media.
You can click here to read the story.
Below is the King 5 video: Labor of love...
CNN has also picked up the story.
Summer Solstice, 2007 ~ Port Townsend,WA.
Roy and Dee Jackson welcome you to the launch of the
Dolores M. Jackson.
A Murray Peterson Schooner
www.doloresmjackson.com
Success! She is in the water in Eagle Harbor, Bainbridge Island.
More pictures are posted. See the launch pictures page.If you have pictures, PLEASE, send them to the webmaster: Shari.
Again, thanks and love to all the wonderful family and friends who were there.
It was the event of a lifetime!
************Shari
Update ~ 3/15/09
The rest of the mast stepping pictures are up.
There are too many... Visit the mast stepping page to see them.
Update ~ 1/22/09
Read Roy's story "Tahiti, The Hard Way". Click here: story page
Update ~ 10/20/08
Dennis Palmer, a friend and pro-sailer, has put a lovely piece on his blog - "sailingnorthwest.blogspot.com" about the Dolores M. Jackson;
click here for his great article and more recent photos.
Update ~ 7/3/08
The slide shows have been changed so you control the pictures. Take a look...
Update ~ 6/20/08
The masts have now been stepped. All is well and she is back at her dock on Bainbridge. Pictures are up on the mast stepping page.
Update ~ 8/08/07
An article has hit the front page of the Bainbridge Review.
Read it here: Magnificent Obsession