Published bi-monthly by The Center for Wooden Boats Seattle. WA
Volume XX Number 4 December. 1999 ISSN 0734-0680 1992. CWB
LETTER FROM THE FOUNDING DIRECTOR Above all else. The Center for Wooden Boats offers knowledge of our heritage through direct experience. This year our hands-on programs reached new dimensions in achievement. Our youth programs' most spectacular event was the Pacific Challenge. This was a gathering of 17 teams of teenagers from throughout the Northwest for friendly competition in traditional maritime skills. Paddle-, oar- and sail-powered boats of English, Spanish, Inuit, Hawaiian and American heritage and their crews gathered at CWB in May. It was a weekend of physical challenge. problem solving, teamwork and, especially. fun. K r i s t a Brown of the vessel Elizabeth Bonaventure from Anacortes wrote: "I wanna thank you guys for putting on the best show. It was great! I had the time of my life. It was my first year, and I had so much fun I'm gonna stick with rowing forever. . . . I thank you from the bottom of my heart."
lawn is another example of CWB's activities leaving a wake behind. When Haida native Robert Peele is working on the canoe, about threefourths of his time is public contact In addition to the "how-to" aspects, Robert has dealt with issues of culture, environment. Northwest history and spirituality in his gentle, thoughtful manner. The canoe project has broad impact on our community. Many return weekly to see the progress. School groups from pre-schoolers on up come regularly. Through this project. Robert has taken on another canoe carving project. Working with the students of Kilo Junior High, a 16' cedar canoe is being built. Recently, the whole school came to CWB to study Robert's 36' canoe, talk to students working on Inuit kayaks, attend a talk and demonstration on "Cedar Culture" by Steve Philipp. renowned expert on native maritime skills, and paddle our umiak. Talk about kids in a candy store!
CWB's logo is the salmon gillnetter. Our living example, more than 100 years old, needed major restoration. Through public and private grants this project was done, but not in our backyard. We partnered with the Port of Seattle and Odyssey Museum to re-build the gillnetter on the central waterfront, alongside Odyssey. A whole new audience was able to see a traditional fishing vessel on the operating table this summer. We at CWB must reach out to our community; one of the ways is to take the museum to the people. Our heritage skills workshops have been part of CWB's core since the beginning. The most successful this year was the nine-day baidarka class, taught by Corey Freedman. Evaluations from this workshop gave the course and instructor straight As - and often A+ for cither or both categories. We had planned only
Sarah U'ilani Marcell wrote: "I helped paddle the Hawaiian outrigger canoes. I just wanted to drop you a line to tell you that I love your organization and I really love all the work you do." There were many other events that outdid our expectations, including the "Cast O f f " program. This gives free rides on weekends in various historic craft not suitable for livery. Our 21' steam launch Puffin was the star attraction in previous years but Puffin needed a new boiler this year. Several friends of CWB and steamboats, recognizing the importance of keeping Puffin available for the "Cast O f f " program, stepped up and contributed to the campaign. Enough was raised for the boiler, repairs to the trailer and a new cloth boat cover. That was a triumph in itself but, better yet. our 35' New Haven Sharpie, Puffin's replacement, gave rides to hundreds of visitors. Our phones this summer were jingling on Saturday and Sunday mornings with callers asking if the Sharpie was sailing. This replica 1880's oystering vessel gave visitors an experience in sailing a unique 19th century watercraft that they will long remember. This is the sort of experience only a hands-on museum can offer. The 36' Haida canoe carving project on our
The kids from Pacific Crest School crewed CWB's gig Dan in the 8th Annual Pacific just one of the many outstanding youth programs CWB hosted in 1999.
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one baidarka workshop this year but word-ofmouth endorsements and a New York Times article brought so much response, we scheduled five more and they all filled up. Boatbuilding classes always stir up exceptional enthusiasm in the students In the baidarka case, that enthusiasm bubbled over, due to Corey's teaching techniques, which include teamwork, paddling breaks and students" choice of music to work by. The pay-off for everyone was the site Corey chose: our open-air Pavilion, which C W B visitors pass through coming and going. Corey look the boatbuilding program out of the box. And then there's Pirate, a 39' knockabout sloop. Pirate is an " R " class, designed by Seattle's Ted Geary and built by Lake Union Dry Dock in 1926. C W B member and former Trustee Scott Rohrer discovered Pirate in Southern California. organized a syndicate to buy, restore and maintain Pirate and donate her to CWB. Pirate has been sailing every Saturday and Sunday since she arrived in mid-July, giving the stakeholders and anyone else on the dock the
thrill of handling a pedigreed historic racing yacht. The whole operation, from purchase to donation, was an example of opportunism, faith (a leap of) and commitment. This was not a typical CWB event, but it certainly was typical of the atypical activities at CWB this past year. C W B is a museum of programs because we feel direct experience is the best way to learn.
Looking at static exhibits can be a fine introduction to the creativity, technical skills and social implications of historic objects. Written information and talks may give deeper insights. But hands-on history is the most challenging and long-lasting education experience. Visitors to CWB are the engine that puts C W B resources to work, stimulating thoughts and senses. C W B is the engine's vital spark. - Dick Wagner
SAILING INTO THE FUTURE
ANNUAL MEETING
The last place one would expect to find sailors on a sunny, breezy Sunday afternoon is indoors. but that is just where a dedicated group of friends and staff of C W B could be found on October 24. Nearly 30 people gathered at the home of C W B Trustee Betsy Davis for a Strategic Planning Retreat. Participants included CWB Founding Director Dick Wagner. Executive Director Bob Perkins, longtime members, volunteers and friends of CWB. past and present staff and the C W B Board of Trustees.
Our year-end membership meeting on October 29 was held in the venerable Naval Reserve Armory, just west of CWB. The meeting rolled along smoothly as soon as we figured out how long it took for the venerable Navy-issue mercury vapor ceiling lamps to produce light.
Facilitators Jean Leed and Brad Wakeman from Business Volunteers of the Arts kept us on course and on time. There was much discussion and sharing of ideas as we reviewed survey responses and developed draft goals. Guest speakers Chuck Fowler of Northwest Nautix. and Don Harris of the Seattle Parks and Recreation Department brought us up to speed on regional maritime heritage projects and the development of the Naval Reserve Center respectively. The Strategic Planning Committee met October 26 to review the preliminary goals drafted at the retreat, collect additional data and finalize the next steps. Betsy Davis joined the committee as the C W B Board Executive Committee representative. Betsy has taken on the task of overseeing the organization of all the pieces into a workable strategic plan. A skeletal draft of the plan was presented to the Board for comment at the November 9 meeting. Dick Wagner agreed to head up the effort to refine our vision and mission statements. At the December 5 meeting of the Strategic Planning Committee, Dick presented revised mission and vision statements for committee comment, thanking Judie Romeo and staff member Casey Gellermann for their input. The revisions will be passed onto the Board for approval consideration at the December board meeting. Bob Perkins described a plan for drafting final goals and developing implementation strategies which includes integration of the Cama Beach site on Camano Island. There was much discussion surrounding this exciting process. The process is scheduled to begin before the New Year and should be completed during the first quarter of 2000. Look for updates on the process in the coming months. - Deb Cibene
Comments on the state of the Center were offered by Board President Bill Van Vlack. Treasurer Len Marklund, C W B Executive Director Bob P e r k i n s and F o u n d i n g D i r e c t o r Dick Wagner. Questions and suggestions were vigorously offered by the members. If there's anything C W B can always count on, it's involvement of members. C W B is a historic museum as process, not product. Our members and their active involvement exemplify our goal of direct involvement in history. The attending members also actively involved themselves with the fantastic cookies, made by Judie Romeo. After the business part of the meeting was completed. Paul Dorpat, r e n o w n e d historian of Seattle's built environment, gave us a hilarious and thought-provoking slide talk on the development of our waterfronts. He began with a public participation event, showing a series of slides of heritage boats and asking the audience to identity who, what and when. The slides that followed showed downtown and Lake Union waterfronts vastly different from today's urban setting. Normally, the results of the Board of Trustees election would have been revealed at the Annual Meeting. Because of mail delivery problems, it was announced at the meeting that a new ballot would be mailed to members with the results publicized in December. Interestingly, the second mailing produced the highest "voter turnout" in C W B ' s history. Elected to the two vacant membership-nominated seats on the Board were Debra Cibene and Trip Zabriskie. Re-elected to the Board were Caren Crandell. Steve Excell. Ken Greff and Bill Van Vlack. A By-laws change allowing for the temporary appointment of a member to fill a vacant membership-nominated Board position was ratified. - Dick Wagner
CAMA BEACH: A PROTOTYPE PARTNERSHIP When the new Cama Beach State Park on pleted a Cama Beach Business Plan, the third itCamano Island opens, reviving a nature and rec- eration since 1992. The Committee now is planreational experience enjoyed by Northwesternning CWB activities on Camano Island before ers from the '30s until the late '80s, it will have a new element: the programs and activities of The Center for Wooden Boats. Shavings periodically reports on how things at Cama Beach are moving along. We began planning for a future campus at Cama Reach in 1991. It has been a long but rewarding process. As it moved along, the planning became more inclusive of all the qualities of C a m a Beach and more detailed and consistent with the vision of a park dedicated to preserving its natural and cultural resources. Underline cultural. Much time has been spent trying to balance the historical integrity of the original Cama Beach Resort with the present functional and economic realities of a State Park. It might appear that the planning process is a long spiral down a black hole, but consider that we are participating in creating a model for future state parks. This will be the first state park with a vision statement created before planning, with a Master Plan created before construction, with an Anchor Tenant (CWB) and with an Advisory Board - the Family (descendants of the Cama Beach founders). C W B and the Cama Beach Institute - to the State. This park is a prototype public/private partnership. C W B ' s Cama Beach Committee has com-
LETTERS Dear Mr. Wagner, I am researching the history and tradition of Forest Service boat building and boat use in Alaska. The Forest Service used workboats, called "ranger boats." in the management of the roadless forested islands and coastal mainland of the Tongass and Chugach National Forests. For 1916-1955 the Forest Service operated its own boatyard. Gravina Marine Station, near Ketchikan, where boats were maintained and Ranger 7 - Ranger 10 were built. (For more information on the ranger boats and the Gravina Marine Station, there is an article on the Internet at: www.fs.fed.us/r10/tongassforest_facts/resources/heritage/rangerboats/html I would like to ask your members and staff if they know of either (a) the current location or
buildings, restoration of s o m e C a m a Beach boats, restoration of the historic marine railway, building traditional boats specifically for Cama Beach programs and community building of sailboats for youth training. Once the Park is open, in addition to our general hands-on programs. C W B will offer activities unique to Cama Beach. Those being planned include an apprentice program, study and monitoring of the ecology of Saratoga Passage in our boats and special annual events such as show-and-tell Camano Island m a r i t i m e heritage, a fishing derby in traditional (wood, humanpowered) boats, an iron man two-day row around Camano Island and a human-powered tour of the Stillaguamish River (potential guides for the Stilly tour please contact Dick at CWB). On October 17. the Cama Beach Committee hosted a barbecue for Islanders to introduce our programs to the community. Bill and Mary Harpster sailed on in to the event. Their boat, appropriately, is Joshua, a replica of Spray, the vessel that Joshua Slocum singlehanded around the world. Slocum and Spray showed a new way of cruising. just as C W B shows a new genre of historic museums.
the Park opens, which now is projected as the summer of 2001. The pre-opening activities include organization of committees, workshops, interior rehabilitation of the C W B - o p e r a t e d
(b) the demise of the following ranger boats (date built in parenthesis): Ranger 1 (1913). Ranger 2 (1920), Ranger 4 (1918). Ranger 5 (?), Ranger 6 (1923). Ranger 8 (1928). Ranger 9 (1930), Taku, Langille, Maybeso, Weepose, Marmot and Hiawatha. I would also appreciate suggestions of people or references that may help me fill in the missing information. You can reach me at (907)228-6201 (work). (907) 225-1430 (home). PO Box 6412, Ketchikan, AK 99901, or e-mail: pjmac@ ptialaska.net Sincerely, Paul Mcintosh Dear Mr. Wagner, Many thanks for your letter with the information on the Center and advice on finding a directory of producers of our favorite craft. I truly envy your association with the Center. 3
Forty Islanders showed up. Funny, that's the same number of wooden boat nuts who came for the first C W B planning meeting in 1976. It took us seven years to get our South Lake Union site. Seems like good planning doesn't happen in a flash. - Dick Wagner
I grew up on Lake Washington (Yarrow Point and Medina) in the 1950s and have fond (?) memories of hours with sandpaper and marine varnish. At age 8 I bought a 10' clinker-built dink for $10 and my father, who was a naval architect/engineer, designed a rig for it. We got our spars and sails at the St. Vincent de Paul on Lake Union. When finished, the damn thing would only sail downwind, but I didn't mind rowing home. Since then, it's been many boats in many parts of the world but all have been of those bland "modern materials." Part of my mid-life crisis seems to be an abiding desire to gel back to roots - such as those high-maintenance darlings of my childhood. I will enjoy your newsletters and will drop by next time I'm in Seattle. Rick Sherman Washington. D.C.
HOW I GOT CENTERED by Tom Robb The Pacific Ocean called out to me. I missed the canyons, the mountains, and the endless skies of the West In 1984 my wife, Anita, and I piled the kids in the 12-year-old Dodge van (our Conestoga wagon) and headed west for a Grand Tour We wanted to see the country and try to give the kids a sense of what a huge magnificent land we've inherited and of the desperation. the enormity of the pioneers' efforts to settle the West. When we got to Seattle, I happened to spot The Center for Wooden Boats near our motel We stopped by and someone put our boys and me to work pumping rainwater out of the livery boats. The area, the Center, the boats somehow struck a Chord deep in my proletarian unconscious. It was love at first sight. I'd been reading WoodenBoat magazine off and on. The fantastic perfection of the boats in the magazine seemed as unapproachable as an airbrushed Playboy centerfold. Seductive but unreal.
"Do you want to make a new one?" So I did. The Center gang trusts us and in turn we try to make a workmanlike job of it. It's not a perfect seat by any means, but it has lasted. I even sawit on a postcard. Talk about positive feedback. The second year was consumed with making seemingly thousands of toy boat hulls for the kids. Tedious, but the goal was worth it. The year after that I made new floors for the old Woods Hole catboat restoration and repaired the starboard rubrail on one of the sailboats. This year we cleaned up after the garage/junk sale, cast and machined the lead in the new centerboard for the same Woods Hole boat and rearranged the dock floats for the WOOD Regatta The work is varied, endless and never boring (except for the toy boat hulls.)
cedar and pine tar. paint and varnish. I get to help restore well-used (and not-so-well-used) boats back to health and usefulness. I get to learn and help maintain the pool of old skills that keeps a working waterfront culture alive. I get to warm my hands by the scrap wood fire in the shop stove on cold rainy days. I get to chew the fat with the old guys over the ubiquitous cup of coffee (this is Seattle after all). I get to join God in the act of creation by simply messing about varnishing a transom, making a new seat, replacing a shattered rubrail or helping someone discover the grace and lithe strength of a long skinny rowboat. I get to talk with and learn from people who care about boats and the sea as much as I do. They even let us play with the boats. In the process. I'm restored to health and usefulness. And let's not kid ourselves, it's also plain old fun.
In spite of the plastic marina-queens next door and the creeping gentrification of the waterfront. Dick Wagner and his crew of worthies have Lake Union still retains a working world feel, an created better than they could have hoped, better air of practical honest dignity. On any given day than any of us could have imagined. In spite of you may find wintering-over Alaskan trawlers, Compared to back home the Center was a all the politics, the massive entropy, the underRussian factory ships, drydocks, funkycounter-culture houseboats, coastal whole new world. In Ohio boats are mostly alufunding. the competing goals and crosssteamers, purposes sea planes, sea kayaks, a sick and dying once proud 19th minum fishing skiffs, lubberly geezers' pontoon (or is it because of them?), this place thrives and century lumber schooner and retired tugs, all pre- helps us heal as we rebuild the boats and craft boats, canoes or plastic yachts. Warp Drive powsided over by the found-sculpture of the Gas our souls. ered bass boats and a smattering of roto-molded Works Park to the north and on the south by the kayaks, They serve a mass market's wants but salty jewel of the Center. There is much for the lack character. Kandy-Apple Tangerine metalflake paint suits them. Our only wooden boats eye to feast upon. Tom Robb. who "commutes" to CWB from are pampered old Chris Craft runabouts, the ocCuyahoga Falls, Ohio, dropped in in casional old wood and canvas canoe rotting in November for a week of volunteer chores in has become The Center some elderly neighbor's back yard or beached the Boatshop. - photo by Judie Romeo fix for me. I get to mainline the heady smell of and forlorn 1950's era Popular Mechanics cruisers - the boatyard equivalents of street people. Past forward. In 1994 my daughter finished grad school and got a job in the Seattle area Visiting became not only possible, but obligatory! Now, for a week or two each year I get to volunteer at the Center. They actually let me work on the boats. Not a big deal you say? For professionals it'd be a busman's holiday for sure. My for-money job is what we used to call Telephone Man. These days I sit in a cubicle and stare at four computer monitors and talk on the phone trying to get someone else to Fix failed circuits. The abstraction - the unreality - the sense of isolation, of death by boredom, of wishing my life away. eight hours at a time, gets me down. That first year I was set to work pumping out the boats again. I sat down on the stern seat of one of the Peapods to get the water to pool aft where I could pump out most of it. The seat collapsed under me. "Oh s#@%!" I thought. "I've vandalized a museum piece!" I 'fessed up to Dierk, the shop manager. Unfazed. he said. 4
TWO MORE TREASURES In our on-going quest to see just how far we can stretch our luck at attracting terrific workers. the C W B staff has grown by two additional highly-qualified people. Andrea Denton has joined us as part-time Administrative Assistant. Andrea has volunteered with us for a couple of years and it was exciting to be able to ask her to play at our house more often. Her background is in law. business management and journalism. She will primarily be assisting Dick Wagner and Bob Perkins and working with Casey Gellerman to provide services to our members. Nancy Ries will be our new Youth Program Manager. Since our youth program is one of the most exciting pieces of our development, it was important for us to find the right leader and we did! Nancy comes to us by way of the schooner Adventuress, sloop Clearwater and several years of planning and executing educational programs. She sports a captains license and tons of enthusiasm to boot. Come down and meet the new kids! And remember, after you shake hands, the next polite thing to say is: "How can I help?" - Bob Perkins
EQUINOX This started out to he a poem but somewhere along the line it turned into a prose reflection, says Tom Robb. Yesterday summer's heat sparkled and danced on the waves of the south wind. Last night the cold wet Alaskan winds of autumn bullied their way down the Sound. The Boatshop, ghostly in the mist, seemed a living Japanese woodcut. I hunched my shoulders against slating icy rain and hurried down the gangplank to the dock. Flights of Canada Geese, returning from their Arctic Summer, turned up wind on final approach. Gliding, more graceful than ballerinas, dark wings deeply arching d o w n w a r d , feet reaching for the water, chattering excitedly among themselves they water-skied softly onto the lake. A Gathering of the Clans. Light shone from the shop windows, smoke blew sideways from the stovepipe. The wind slammed the door behind me as I stomped my feet on the rope mat. and hung my slicker on one of the pegs on the wall. The old man had a fire going in the woodstove and a pot of coffee steaming on top. He struck a wooden kitchen match and held it over
his pipe. The flame drew down into the bowl with each puff. He looked intently at the match flame for a moment, tossed the match into the stove and said, "Nice day." I smiled, nodded, and said. "They say it might rain." I shivered and turned to warm my back by the heat of the fire. Sipping my first cup of coffee of the morning. I considered anew the quiet peace of this place. Outside a foghorn moaned in the distance. Gulls screeched and cried. Arctic winds wailed. Cold autumn rain beat on the windows. Earth yawned and readied herself for her winter's sleep. The old man leaned toward the warmth of the fire. Between slow puffs on the pipe he began retelling his story about being dismasted in a winter gale rounding Cape Horn sixty days out of Shanghai. - Tom Robb 1999 Not all volunteers are prose poets but all CWB volunteers do get to have a glorious good time messing about in boats. If you'd like to be one of the crew, just call Mindy Koblenzer at CWB. (206) 382-2628, and she'll get you started.
CLASSIFIEDS 18' One-Design Mercury sloop (with cuddy), set of nylon working sails, portable heavy-duty cradle, sail and cockpit cover, stainless steel outboard motor bracket, plus extra gear. Bargain at $1,185. (206) 878-7745. 17' Thompson Sea Lancer. Lapstrake mahogany utility runabout. 1962. Unrestored. Original canvas, trailer and 75hp Evinrude. Runs great. $3,200. (425)688-1102. Monk-designed Cruiser (34' x 10'6" x 3'4"). plank-on-frame, built by Kuntz Bros, in 1947: 6 0 h p F o r d - L e h m a n diesel w / k e e l c o o l e r . Dickinson oil stove, roomy and comfortable w/ many extras. Vessel has been under cover for four years with a large remodeling project underway. Owner now has other priorities and would like new and caring owners to carry project to completion. Asking $15,000. Located in Juneau. Alaska Boat & Marine, 888-530-BOAT; e-mail: alaskaboatandmarine@gci.net 1933 U.S. Navy Liberty Launch (50' x 12 9"' x 5"), converted to a cruiser at the end of WWII. Commodious, airy live-aboard. 90hp Perkins diesel, cruises at 7 knots, consumes 2.5 gph. Diesel stove, whaler type dinghy w/OB. oak frames, creosote-impregnated fir planking, ironbark guards. Asking $50,000. Located in Juneau. Alaska Boat & Marine. 888-53()-BOAT: e-mail: alaskaboatandmarine@gci.net 25'convertible lapstrake built by Cruisers in 1966 (the last year these boats were built of
wood). Excellent condition. Re-powered with a 350 GM and Mercruiser outdrive. Includes survival suits. 9.9hp Yamaha kicker, full canvas aft cover and side curtains. Asking $12,500. Located in Juneau. Alaska Boat & Marine, 888-530BOAT: e-mail: alaskaboatandmarine@gci.net Classified Ads are available, free of charge. only to C W B members. Please contact Judie at CWB if you would like an ad to appear in Shavings or Sawdust.
BOATS FOR SALE BY CWB 31' 1964 Richardson. Twin 220hp Ford 302 gas engines. Propane stove, oven & heat. Legal head & holding tank: fresh water system. 30 amp shore power, battery charger. 3 bilge pumps. Canvas enclosed cockpit. $ 12,000/negotiable 26' Gulfweed ketch. Volvo diesel, potential live-aboard. Needs some work but will go anywhere when y o u ' r e done. $5.000/negotiable Lightning 19'. Recently in our livery. Ready to sail with just a bit of work. In water at CWB. $ 1,000/OBO 14' Catspaw Dinghy. Needs work. $100/ OBO 14' Hobie Cat, full rig on Shoreline custom galvanized trailer. $600/OBO All boats subject to prior sale, To see any of these, stop by The Center for Wooden Boats or call Bob Perkins, (206) 382-2628.
Our Annual Fundraising Auction Saturday, February 19, 5 pm - 10 pm Bell Harbor International Conference Center Tickets: $55 (parking, dinner, Auction) Auction plus Special Preview Party: $75 A m o n g our Auction items: A 12' Catboat and trailer, Puget Sound Aerial Sight Seeing Tour, Ride along with the Husky Crew Coaches, Harbor Patrol Ride Along, Island Getaway at the Inn at Langley, Fly to the San Juan Islands on Kenmore Air, Weekend Cruise on the elegant Schooner Martha, Pocock training shell, Haulouts for almost any size boat, 16' Chesapeake sea kayak, Fully-restored Greenwood wood-and-canvas canoe, and Much More: Marine Gear, Getaways, Museums, Artwork, Restaurants, Sail and Power Cruises, Adventure Travel and B&Bs It's a great selection, but we still need more donations. If your business wishes to donate goods or services to the Auction, please contact Casey Gellermann, (206) 382-2628
BE A DONOR, BE A BIDDER BE THERE! Invitations go out in early January. Donations are needed now. Call CWB, (206) 382-2628, for donor forms and ticket information 6
CALENDAR OF EVENTS Every 3rd Friday CWB THIRD FRIDAY SPEAKER SERIES 7 p.m. CWB Boathouse Each month CWB finds a speaker of wit and experience to talk about his or her special knowledge. It is also an opportunity for CWB members to meet one another and the staff. Admission is free. Refreshments served (donations to cover costs are appreciated). December 26 (Sunday) FROSTBITE POTLATCH This is one of our four annual membership gatherings, but open to guests of members too. The purpose is to show off our collections, give a rundown on our plans and have some recreational sailing. Registration for the Beetle Cat Team Championships begins at noon and the racing at 1 p.m. I here will be four teams of four skippers participating in relay races and two rounds of racing. The entry fee is $5 per person. Teams will have costume themes, with an award for most original costume. We'll wind up the day with another of our famous potluck suppers, music and dancing. December 29 (Wednesday) AVAST. ALL KIDS! 11 a.m. - 4 p.m Fee: $4 for the first child, S3 for each additional kid Now that all the holiday presents have been tried out and tossed aside, set sail for a day of fun at The Center for Wooden Boats. Kids can build a toy boat (and take it home), learn how to fold paper boats, find out how to tie knots or even make a sailor's bracelet, listen to sea stories and sea music or learn about lots of other maritime skills. Grown-ups can help their child work or just enjoy looking at cwb's historic boats. Refreshments will be available too. January 21, 2000 (Friday) THIRD FRIDAY SPEAKER 7 p.m. CWB Boathouse Frank Schattauer will give a slide talk on "'Restoring Tioga" the classic 60' yawl designed by K. Aage Nielsen and built by Baglietto in 1956. Frank and his brother. Axel, run Seattle's renowned Schattauer Sail Loft, founded by their father, Franz. Tioga has been part of their family since the early '70s. Frank will discuss the history of Tioga, the reason for the restoration (an electro-chemical reaction) and the procedure of rebuilding. January 22 (Saturday) RADIO CONTROLLED MODEL BOATS 10 a.m. - 4 p.m CWB Boathouse The Northwest Radio Controlled Modelers Association will display their boats and provide on-the-water demonstrations of how amazingly realistic their miniature craft are.
February 18, 2000 (Friday) THIRD FRIDAY SPEAKER 7 p.m CWB Boathouse Seattle shipwright and marine surveyor Lee Ehrheart will speak on "Eighteenth Century Vessels: Keels to Topmasts." Lee has spent considerable time surveying and sailing on HM Bark Endeavor, the replica of the vessel Captain Cook took on his first Pacific voyage. Lee will give us an inside view on the structure, rigging and sailing procedures of this anachronistic vessel. February 19, 2000 (Saturday) TRADEWINDS 2 0 0 0 - FILL OUR SAILS 5:30 p.m -10 p.m Bell Harbor International Conference Center (Seattle waterfront) It's back to Bell Harbor for another spectacular CWB Fundraising Auction, which promises to outdo even the outstanding 1909 Auction. The Auction Procurement Committee is already hard at work lining up an amazing array of items for bid. All sorts of things are needed: nautical and non-nautical goods, services of every kind, vacation getaways, hands-on experiences, sports equipment, theater and sports event tickets or unique or hard-to-find items. Particularly sought are unique items that will provoke spirited bidding. And we're also recruiting volunteers for the myriad jobs it takes to make the Auction a success. If you have an item to donate or would like to sign on as a member of the Auction crew, call Casey Gellermann at CWB: (206) 382-2628. March 17, 2000 (Friday) THIRD FRIDAY SPEAKER 7 p.m. CWB Boathouse Scott Rohrer. renowned racing captain, will give a slide talk on the great yacht designer, Ted Geary, and the exuberant yacht racing scene in the early 1900s. Scott's tales will include a near war between Seattle and Vancouver (B.C.) over the Alexander Cup and Sir Thomas Lipton offering a way to calm the waters. April 21, 2000 (Friday) THIRD FRIDAY SPEAKER 7 p.m. CWB Boathouse For 100 years Seattle's houseboats have been an integral part of our community. Jeri Callahan, a houseboater who runs lours of the Lake Union houseboats, will present a slide talk. This will be an historic overview and a playful romp through the social aspects of Seattle's unique floating communities. May 19, 2000 (Friday) THIRD FRIDAY SPEAKER 7 p.m CWB Boathouse This session is about the natural history of the Northwest along its shorelines. Our speakers traditionally talk about our cultural history but there is no wall between small craft cruising our Northwest waters and the experience of the rich and 7
diverse environment of our tidelands. Dr. Susan Zwinger has a doctorate in interdisciplinary arts in education. She has published four books on natural history and several essays, articles and poems. She will focus on her latest book: The Last Wild Edge. One Woman's Journey from the Arctic Circle to the Olympic Peninsula. July 1-4, 2000 (Saturday-Tuesday) 24TH ANNUAL LAKE UNION WOODEN BOAT FESTIVAL 10a . m .- 6 p.m. each day Four, count 'em, four glorious days to enjoy our annual homage to the beauty, endurance and vitality of wooden boats. All your favorite boats from dainty dinghies to stupendous schooners —and activities-toy boats, boat rides, skills demonstrations. historic and modern day exhibits, the Quick & Daring Boatbuilding Contest and more - will be there. And we'll have a few surprises too. So mark your calendar now
MARINE SKILLS WORKSHOPS All year 'round (daily classes in the summer!) LEARN TO "SAIL NOW!" 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. or 1:30 p . m . - 3:30 p . m . Saturday & Sunday Fee: $200 per person (includes a one-year CWB membership) Instructors: Volunteers Students will learn to sail classic boats in one session of classroom work and as many sessions of hands-on instruction as necessary (within a four-month period) in our small boats, no more than three students per instructor. Students will graduate when able to sail a variety of keel, centerboard. sloop and catboats by instinct, by themselves. You may begin any Saturday, space permitting. Please call for reservations. For those who are free only on weekdays, or prefers oneon-one instruction, we continue to offer individual lessons ($20/hour for members, $30/hour for non-members) on weekdays by appointment. February 19&20 and 26&27 (Saturdays & Sundays) SAIL MAKING WORKSHOP 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. CWB Boathouse Fee: $225 (members)/$250 (non-members) Instructor: Ellen Falconer, Sound Sails Participants will build a mainsail for CWB's Concordia sloop. During the two-weekends class, the instructor will guide the class through all the steps of constructing a sail, including both machine and hand work. Limited to 6. March 4-5 (Saturday & Sunday) LOFTING WORKSHOP 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. CWB Boathouse Fee: $115(members)/$125 (non-members) Instructor: Eric Hvalsoe Students will loft a classic boat from a table
of offsets. This workshop will enable students to read plans and understand the arcane mysteries of bevels, rabbet lines, deductions and construction drawings. Eric Hvalsoe. an experienced boatbuilder/designer, has led lofting and boatbuilding workshops for more than 10 years. This class is recommended as a prerequisite for our boatbuilding workshops. Limited to 6. March 11-19) (Saturday-Sunday) LAPSTRAKE WORKSHOP 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. CWB Boatshop Fee: $600(members)/$650 (non-members) Instructor: Eric Hvalsoe Eric, our globetrotting boatbuilding instructor. teaches not only at CWB but also at the WoodenBoat magazine school and. for the past three years, in the Netherlands. He's designed several classic small craft. The boat will be a classic design for our livery - maybe a Lake Oswego boat or a yacht tender or maybe a surprise. The choice will be up to Eric, who will welcome input from students as they enroll. Limited to 7. March 25, 1999 (Saturday) SEATTLE BOATSHOPS TOUR Fee: $25 (members)/$30 (non-members) 9 a.m. - 5 p.m Seattle Waterfront Leader: Founding Director Dick Wagner Dick. Seattle's expert on local boatshops, will take a small group on a tour of some of the greatest historic shops around Seattle's waterfronts. Participants will visit shops that are absolutely unavailable to the public. Our fearless founder will use all his charms as a Seattle icon to gain entrance to these shops, see the work in progress and. hopefully, get some of the great shipwrights
to answer questions. Limited to 8. April 8-16 (Saturday-Sunday) IKYAK (Aleutian-Inuit kayak) WORKSHOP 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. CWB Pavilion Fee: S900 (members)/$950 (non-members) Instructor: Corey Freedman The ikyak, most popularly known as a baidarka, is a different and more complicated construction than the Greenland Inuit type. Each student will build his or her own boat. Corey Freedman, owner/operator of Spirit Line Kayaks in Anacortes, is well recognized for both his expertise in native kayak construction and his teaching ability. Limited to 4. April 29 (Saturday BRIGHTWORK SEMINAR 10 a.m. - 3 p.m CWB Boathouse Fee: $25 (members/$30 (non-members) Instructor: Rebecca Wittman When it comes to making your brightwork gleam, there's no one more knowledgeable or better able to teach you all the basics and the professional's tricks than Rebecca Wittman. Her book. Brightwork: The Art of Finishing Wood. is regarded as the definitive work on the subject. This seminar will afford you the chance to learn all the latest and best in the world of wood coatings. Limited to 40. May 6-7 (Saturday & Sunday) LOFTING WORKSHOP 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. CWB Boathouse Fee: $115(members)/$125 (non-members) Instructor: Rich Kolin In preparation for the upcoming Boatbuilding Workshop, students will loft a classic Salmon Wherry from a table of offsets. I his workshop will enable students to read plans and understand the arcane mysteries of bevels, rabbet lines, deductions and construction drawings. Rich Kolin
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is a boatbuilder, designer and author with nearly three decades of experience in passing on the skills of his craft to others. Limited to 6. May 13-21 (Saturday-Sunday) SALMON WHERRY WORKSHOP 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. CWB Boatshop Fee: $600 (members)/$650 (non-members) Instructor: Rich Kolin Under the guidance of Rich Kolin. a highly experienced boatbuilder, designer and author of boatbuilding books, students will build and launch a classic Salmon Wherry. The Salmon Wherry, similar in appearance to a Swampscott dory, has been in use in Maine for about 100 years. Limited to 6. May 20 (Sunday) STRIP PLANKED KAYAK SEMINAR 9 a.m. - 4 p.m CWB Boathouse Fee: $30/$35 Instructor: Prof. Paul Ford Strip planking is a hybrid technology. Thin, Âź" strips of wood are edge-glued to form the hull shape. Then the planks arc encased in fiberglass for strength and waterproofing. The result is a strong, rigid, light "sandwich" construction. This is the only class at CWB that discusses extensive use of fiberglass. The instructor is experienced in strip building and effectively provides - in a seminar session - the students with the technical information needed to enable them to build their own kayaks using the strip planked method. Limited to 20. NOTE: A $I00 non-refundable deposit is required to register for all boatbuilding workshops; the balance is due no later than two weeks prior to the workshop. For all other workshops, prepayment in full reserves your place. Classes with fewer than four students will be canceled or postponed.