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FOUNDER’S REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 NEWS FROM SOUTH LAKE UNION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 NEWS FROM CAMA BEACH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 UPCOMING EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 MARITIME SKILLS WORKSHOPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 THE COLLECTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 CWB FEED & CARING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Shavings 1
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Shavings is published bimonthly by The Center for Wooden Boats, 1010 Valley Street, Seattle, WA 98109 phone 206.382.2628 fax 206.382.2699 To learn more about CWB, please visit our Web site at www.cwb.org
Our Mission
To provide a community center where maritime history comes alive and our small craft heritage is preserved and passed along to future generations.
CWB Staff
Betsy Davis Executive Director Dick Wagner Founding Director Jake Beattie Waterfront Programs Director Nita Chambers Business Relataions & Facility Rental Manager Patrick Gould Boat Sales Manager & Instructor Lauren Kuehne Volunteer Coordinator & Office Manager Jean Scarboro Bookkeeper and Membership Edel O’Connor Boatwright & Workshop Coordinator Katie Kelso Visitor Services Manager & Registrar Heron Scott Lead Boatwright Doug Weeks Steamboat Program Greg Reed Livery Manager, Dockmaster & Youth Sailing Tom Baltzell Youth Field Trip Coordinator
Board of Trustees Alex Bennett Caren Crandell David Dolson Brandt Faatz Ken Greff Gary Hammons David Kennedy Andrea Kinnaman Stephen Kinnaman
Mindy Koblenzer Lori O’Tool Pike Powers Barbara Sacerdote Chuck Shigley Denise Snow Eric Sorensen Bill Van Vlack Joe Spengler, Intern
Design and production of Shavings by CWB volunteer Heidi Hackler of Dolphin Design, www.dolphindesignstudio.com. Printed by Olympus Press, www.olypress.com. 2 Shavings
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Small boats have been around forever but only began to be documented as unique specimens of our material culture in the mid 20th Century. Howard Chapelle, a boat designer whose father was a boat builder in Chesapeake Bay, trundled all over the Atlantic Coast. He measured old cast-off and often rotting historical boats on the beaches and shop yards from NewFoundland to Virginia. He picked up a few more measurements of historic boat types from colleagues in Florida and the Gulf Coast. Through his emergency research he drew the lines and wrote the narrative that became American Small Sailing Craft. It has become the seminal handbook for members of this Good Little Boat Clan. The book was a revelation of long-forgotten watercraft including the brilliant designs of the Whitehall, Barnegat Bay sneakbox, Kingston Lobster Boat and Friendship Sloop. Chapelle’s unveiling of those lost treasures was akin to Carter’s discoveries in Cheops tomb. Chapelle did a great job, but he missed the West Coast except for the San Francisco felucca and Columbia River/Alaskan gillnetter. The boats of the Northwest were as unique, diverse and brilliantly designed as the east coast
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boats. CWB has been hunting them down. We have published monographs on the Poulsbo Boats. Davis Boats Coast Salish Canoes and Blanchard boats. We have documented the Acme Skiff, Lake Oswego Boat, Shoalwater Bay Dinghy and several Cama Beach boats. There is still an opportunity to do Vol II of American Small Sailing Craft spotlighting the legendary small craft of the Northwest. This thought ran through my mind when I opened a 9x12 envelope dropped off at our front desk from Art Losvar to me. It was full of 8x10 photos and captions of the Mukilteo boats of the late 19th Century to mid 20th Century. Mukilteo is on Possession Sound, about 25 miles north of Seattle and 3 miles from the South end of Whidbey Island. Paul Losvar, born in 1848 was an immigrant from Norway. His shop built rowing boats and eventually rowing/outboard boats. He became so well known he didn’t put an address on his card. It just said “Mulkilteo Boat House”. He built the boats for sale and for rent, from 12’ rowing to 28’ outboard boats. Eventually Paul Losvar’s son George and his grandson Art joined the operation. The rowing boats were lapstrakes. The outboards, which also rowed well, were carvel. Both had high flaring bows to keep you dry and tumblehome sterns because it just looked right. Keep those photos, drawings and anecdotal notes coming in of the skiffs, dingys, tenders and launches that were the metaphors of the Columbia River, Puget Sound, the Inside Passage and the Bering Sea. Volume II is waiting to be born.
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News from South Lake Union CWB Shares Stage at Press Conference
CWB Founder Dick Wagner thanks Vulcan for their support of South Lake Union Park while city council members and Mayor Nichols look on.
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Mayor Nichols addresses the crowd at the press conference with the sail of one of CWB’s El Toro’s flapping in the background.
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Ready or not, South Lake Union is changing fast. The bad news is that urban environments get gold stars and economic advantages if they retain their special character. Vienna would not be a tourist destination if a shopping mall was placed in its center. The streets and buildings of Old Jerusalem and its surrounding walls and gateways are over 2000 years old. The newest building in the Piazza San Marco of Venice was built in 1492. Amsterdam is defined by its canals and waterside buildings. Urban centers change at their own peril. South Lake Union wasn’t born a thousand years ago, nor was any urban center of North America except the Aztec and Mayan cities of Mexico – SLU was born late as a provincial gathering of modest cottages and shops and faded early as a manufacturing and warehouse center. It was never in the running for the urban beautiful award, although it has contributed measurably to Seattle’s economy through its many business enterprises. SLU has always been bustling, at least. The good news is that the makeover of SLU is giving it the elements of a real little city within a city. Its parks are being rehabilitated. A new park at the waterside with throbbing maritime heritage educational programs is
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happening and there is a commercial and housing renaissance that makes it a place to live, work, play, shop and stop. The recent changes are the flagship store of REI, the corporate headquarters of Shurgard Storage and Tommy Bahama, Bio tech research operations of Merck and the University of Washington, educational resources of Spruce Street School, Morningside Academy and Cornish College of the Arts, restaurants, pubs, a full spectrum of housing, human scale ambience and ecologically sound developments. A lot more potential facilities are on the drawing board including a streetcar line between SLU and downtown, a 2-way Mercer Street and two lane Valley Avenue, a water taxi connection to North Lake Union and Lake Washington, preservation and rehabilitation of historic buildings, mixed residential and commercial zoning, low rent housing, a retirement center and a Whole Foods grocery. SLU was not an urban center before, but its on its way to becoming one now. The bulldozer can be a city’s friend if it is used to help create an active, balanced and attractive new environment. If maritime heritage is included, all the better
Vulcan’s Ada Healey, Seattle Parks Foundation’s Carol Lewis, and Mayor Greg Nichols all join Spruce Street students in pond boat sailing at South Lake Union Park. CWB’s maritime programs are a vital ingredient in the development of the new park.
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The pace of planning Cama Beach State Park has kept right up with the movement of glaciers. It’s been 14 years since I submitted a report to State Parks Commission that Cama Beach Resort could become a living museum. But let’s not quibble about time. It’s a credo of life that everything you want takes longer than imaginable. After all, as my parents often reminded me when I suggested they were overanalyzing my request to borrow the car, “Rome wasn’t built in a day.” And it took hundreds of years to build the Gothic Cathedrals which still don’t have heating and air conditioning. Actually, the gestation period of the park is not unique in government projects. What is unique is the planning process, in which the former owners, State Parks and CWB collaborated to create the design. On Saturday, April 2, this year, CWB held a meeting on Camano Island about plans for our boats in the park. The attendees were CWB
volunteers from the Camano Island area, the Seattle area, staff and Board members. It was a typical CWB planning event: freely given opinions from everyone. The former owners of Cama Beach are two sisters – the sisters and their husbands contributed four visions of the Park which they whisked around in their minds and hearts to become one blended resolve. The State Department of Parks are seven Commissioners, one Director, a cabinet of officers and division of administrators who plan from the top down, as do all good government agencies. The April meeting, managed by Executive Director Betsy Davis and volunteers, Sharon Paul and Suzy Brunzell, asked our thoughts on the potential on water programs which we may offer at Cama Beach based on varied resources. It was CWB’s congenital style of planning. That’s how we began: gathering on our houseboat around the kitchen table or on the deck, airing out all ideas.
Today our means of planning is the same except we have an ever-widening constituency contributing their diverse viewpoints. The Cama Beach planning process added even more to our experiences in collaboration. Now we have the know-how to work with both the landed gentry and the departmentally organized to create a special environment of recreation and education that meets or exceeds everyone’s dreams. Actually, there are itinerant silent partners in the park scheme. It’s spring time and the Gray Whales are back again around Cama Beach. They forage on the beaches for ghost shrimp. They gulp mouthfuls of sand and pebbles and filter the water and solids back through their baleen plates. In the fall, the Orca Whales arrive, chasing the herring. The Gray Whales and Orcas didn’t participate in the planning, but their spirit was with us. . This may be a case study in future land use planning handbooks.
Upcoming Events at Camano Island There are regular volunteer meetings at Cama Beach on the last Saturday of each month. If you would like information about our activities at Cama Beach State Park, or if you’d like to volutneer at one of these events, please contact ???????????????????? at ????????????????.
May 8 7th Annual Mother’s Day Sail. Besides the opportunities for rides in varied classic boats there will be toy boatbuilding and other kid crafts, guided beach walks and guided bird walks. At Camano Island State Park, 1 mile south of Cama Beach State Park. Free parking and everything else.
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Volunteer Summit, organized by Camano Island State Parks staff. This is a gathering for information sharing of the many volunteer groups that are contributing their skills and services to Cama Beach State Park. The theme is “Looking to the Future.”
Stanwood/Camano Fair. A glorious roundup of all the potential prize winning pigs, goats, sheep, horses, flowers, vegetables, pets and educational organizations. CWB has won the “Best of Show – Education Exhibit” for several years.
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3rd Friday Speaker: Chuck Fowler and Tad Lahmon will give a slide talk on their ancestor’s experience in square rig sailing in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. Free.
Sailing regatta for physically disabled sailors. Organized by Footloose.
September 16-18
3rd Friday Speaker: Knick and Lyn Pyles will give a slide-talk on traditional boatbuilding in Chile. Free.
Wooden Canoe Heritage Association meet. Many types of canoes will be on display. Free rides, instruction in free style (like water ballet) paddling, talks and demonstrations will be given. Free.
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CWB’s 29th Annual Wooden Boat Festival combined with the 17th Annual Speedboat Show of the Antique and Classic Boat Society, at CWB and South Lake Union Park.
Norm Blanchard Regatta. This is our wooden one-design racing event. It is named after Master Boatwright Norm Blanchard, who will likely attend. The Saturday dinner speaker will be round-world single-handed sailor Nancy Earley.
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August 5 1st Friday Speaker: In conjunction with the Thunderbird Regatta and Rendezvous we’ll have a speaker illustrating what makes these boats special. Free.
August 6-7 Thunderbird Regatta and Rendezvous. This is a gathering of the 26’ sloop class designed by the prestige Seattle naval architect Ben Seaborn. Seaborn was a classmate of L. Francis Herreshoff at MIT. Friday evening speaker open to the public free of charge.
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Northwest Seaport offers Diesel class aboard Arthur
The Diesel engine Theory and Valve repair class starts June 4, lasts five Saturdays 9-5 the last class we will run the engine and attend the wooden boat show. Engine theory, valve engineering and engine history lectures will be in the mornings and engine repair the rest of the day. lunches, wooden boat show tickets and project end party will be included in tuition. the class costs $100 each student and class size is limited to 8. Cash or Check to North West Seaport Questions call or write Adrian Lipp OLD TACOMA MARINE (206) 898-7012 318 N. 36th Seattle WA 9810-8632 USA www.oldtacomamarine.com oldtacomamarine@yahoo.com
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Maritime Skills Programs SailNOW! Session 1: April 9 - May 14 Session 2: May 14 - June 18* Session 3: June 18 - July 23* Cost: $270 members / $300 nonmembers
Sail The Museum Pieces Instructor: CWB Staff Date: May 21 & June 18 (third Saturday of every month, May – September) Time: 2 PM to 4 PM, Saturdays Cost: $25 per session for members / $30 for nonmembers
Docking Intensive Instructor: CWB Staff Session 1: April 10 Session 2: May 15 Time: All sessions meet 4 PM to 6 PM, Sunday Cost: $30 members and nonmembers / $15 SailNOW! Graduates
Family Boat Building Instructor: CWB Staff and Volunteers Session 2: 10 AM to 6 PM, Thursday thru Sunday June 2 – June 5 at the Edmonds Waterfront Festival (www.edmondswaterfrontfestival.com) Cost: $1100 members / $1325 nonmembers
Building A Carvel Planked Sailing Boat Instructor: Rich Kolin Date: May 2 – 6 & 9 – 13 Time: 9:30 AM to 5 PM, Mondays thru Fridays Location: At The Marysville Boatshop Cost: $900 members / $1100 nonmembers
Women’s Woodworking: An Introduction To The Basics
Instructor: Hannah Browne Date: May 4, 11, 18 & 25 Time: 6 PM to 9 PM, Wednesdays Cost: $200 members / $240 nonmembers
Conceptual Navigation
Date: May 7 Time: 2 PM to 5 PM, Saturday Cost: $55 members / $65 nonmembers
Aleut Ikyak (Baidarka)
Instructor: Corey Freedman (www.skinboats.com) Session 1: May 7 – 15 Session 2: June 11 – 19 Time: All sessions meet 9 AM to 5 PM, Saturday thru Sunday (9 day workshop) Cost: $1100 members / $1300 nonmembers
Sharpening, As You Like It! Instructor: Jan Zoltowski Date: May 7 & 14 Time: 10 AM to 2 PM, Saturdays Cost: $85 members / $100 nonmembers
Boat Photography Instructor: Phil Webber Date: May 7 Time: 9 AM to 6 PM, Saturday Cost: $80 members / $95 nonmembers
Canoe Canvasing Instructor: Eric Harman Date: May 14 Time: 10 AM to 6 PM, Saturday Cost: $85 members / $100 nonmembers
Knots 3: Ocean Plat Mat Instructor: Dennis Armstrong Date: May 14 Time: 10:30 AM to 1:30 PM, Saturday Cost: $40 members / $50 nonmembers
Building A Sail Rig For A Carvel Planked Sailing Boat
Instructor: Rich Kolin Date: May 21 – 23 Time: 9:30 AM to 5 PM, Saturday thru Monday Location: At The Marysville Boatshop Cost: $275 members / $330 nonmembers
Half Model Workshop Instructor: Rich Kolin Date: June 4 & 5 Time: 9:30 AM to 5 PM, Saturday & Sunday Cost: $175 members / $210 nonmembers
Basic Power Boating: Safe Powerboat Handling
Instructor: Patrick Gould Date: June 10, 11 &12 Time: 6 PM to 8 PM Friday, 10 AM to 6 PM Saturday & Sunday Cost: $205 members / $225 nonmembers
Introduction To Steam Power Instructor: Doug Weeks Date: June 11 Time: 12 PM to 4 PM, Saturday Cost: $40 members / $50 nonmembers
Knots 4: Hitchings (Coverings) Instructor: Dennis Armstrong Date: June 11 Time: 10:30 AM to 2:30 PM, Saturday Cost: $50 members / $60 nonmembers
Half Day Sailing Camps Morning Session: 10 AM to 1 PM Afternoon Session: 2 PM to 5 PM Cost: $150 Beginning Sailing / $140 Intermediate/Advanced Sailing Ages: Beginning - separate sessions for 9-11 and 12+; Intermediate & Advanced - ages 9+.
Beginning Sailing June 27 – July 1 (morning or afternoon) July 11 – 15 (morning or afternoon) July 18 – 22 (morning only) July 25 – 29 (morning or afternoon) August 1 – 5 (morning or afternoon) August 8 – 12 (morning only) August 15 – 19 (morning or afternoon) August 22 – 26 (morning or afternoon) August 29 – September 2 (morning only)
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Instructor: Seaton Gras Date: May 7 Time: 11 AM to 1 PM, Saturday Cost: $45 members / $55 nonmembers
Historic Navigation: Building A Quadrant Instructor: Seaton Gras
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This is a listing of programs scheduled in the next few months. We are constantly adding new programs. Please check our website at www.cwb.org for the latest listings and information, or call us at 206.382.2628 to request a printed copy. NOTE: For courses costing more than $500 we ask you to deposit one half of your total costs and pay the remainder by day of course start at the latest. For all other programs, pre-payment in full reserves your place. Programs may be cancelled or postponed due to low enrollment.
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Spring is here and we’re moving into our busy season, which means boats are coming in for repairs as fast as we’re pushing them out for service. Thanks to all the volunteers who have helped out with these projects and who continue to show up even when it’s raining. Here are the things we’ve been working on. • El Toro’s, we’re getting in to the last of them and the whole fleet should be done soon. • New paddles are being constructed for the Umiaks. • Major repair on the deckhouse of the Longboat Discovery got her annual paint job plus a coast guard inspection. Thanks to all who helped row her back from Seaview Boatyard.
CWB’s Collection Committee Which boats are the priority for CWB to keep in their collection? What are our goals for preserving and maintaining our fleet? Which boat design do we pick for our next new construction project? What process should we use for making these decisions?
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CWB Boatshop volunteer Will Moon shapes a paddle for the Umiak.
In 2001, CWB’s Board of Trustees adopted a comprehensive Boat Collection Policy which describes the following: • The Boat Collection – Purpose; criteria for inclusion • The Collection Committee • Accessions • Deaccessions • Management of the Collection • Incoming Loans • Outgoing Loans • Ethical Considerations The Collection Committee has 10 voting members, although the meetings are open to anyone to attend and participate in the discussions. In January 2005 the membership of the committee changed as old terms ended and new terms began. The new voting members represent a great cross-section of CWB. Boatwrights and Workshop Instructors Eric Hvalsoe and Rich Kolin, and Sailing Instruc-
Please contact CWB Lead Boatwright Heron Scott is you are interested in participating in any of these upcoming projects. • Constructing a new skeg for BJK Lucky Seven. • Hauling Rowboats and performing annual maintenance tasks • Hauling powerboats this summer • Starting back up on the Herreshoff 121/2’s restorations this fall • Hauling Betsy D at seaview
tor volunteer Kemp Jones were nominated for 2-year terms; local maritime historian Paul Marlow accepted a permanent position and Board Members Stephen Kinnaman and David Kennedy continue in their positions. Staff Member Jake Beattie joins other staff members Dick, Betsy and Heron on the Committee. Thank you to outgoing Committee members Scott Rohrer, Dan Firor and Nick Carey for their time and commitment to a high level of stewardship for boats in the CWB Collection! Trustee David Kennedy chairs this committee which meets the fourth Tuesday of every month. Anyone is welcome to attend. If you have questions regarding the collection or collection policy, or would like to attend the meetings, please contact David at dsk@r-
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As the clouds roll back following consecutive spring storms, sunshine spreads itself out across the flanks of Seattle with increasing intensity. A bit more blue wedges itself between towering cumulous monsters, and the bug inside sinks its in teeth again. “Want. To be. Near the water,” aches a heart familiar with the bite of boating’s persistent urge. “But you don’t have a way to access it,” responds the conscious, forever logical. “And even if you did, you surely don’t know how to sail.” The pining of our soul becomes maddening at times. The Center for Wooden Boats understands this conflict and this yearning. We’d like to think we even feed it. But we stifle it, too, helping it to curl up benevolently in your chest. By compensating volunteers with boat use hours, we get members of the community on the water in return for their labors of love.
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CWB could use donations of quality used & new nautical items for our Maritime Treasure sale over 4th of July weekend. We cannot accept books or magazines, but other boatey stuff in good condition would be welcome, especially tools! Spring cleaning, anyone? Please call Tina Renteria at 206.440.3223 or Lauren Kuehne at 206.382.2628 to organize donation of any items.
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The middle of march we saw the last of a old faithful servant. The Ford Pickup Truck used by the Center for almost a dozen years finally gave up the ghost. The extent of the damage to the engine and the high mileage doomed it to the scrap yard. Donated to us by US West telephone in December 1993, over 70,000 miles were added to the odometer, towing boat trailers, carrying lumber, and running the errands by staff and volunteers.
Farewell to ole’ F-150, may your reincarnation be as useful as your life with us. OK, so, what to do? Yes, CWB must look for another rig and the best place to start is among the members of CWB. Vehicle owners, the CWB needs a good running 1/2 to 3/4 ton pickup truck. Full sized and with towing capacity to match; Automatic Transmission and power steering and brakes and a wheelbase in a standard length. We have a lumber rack and tow hitch and volunteers (count me in) to make minor mechanical repairs and service. A donation is allowed as we are a 501c organization. This is an appeal from folks you know. I won’t be shy --- money gifts also help, for tires, tools, supplies and a nice CWB logo sign painted on the side of the door. These take the green stuff to make happen. Keep Rolling On, Yours in the Mechanical Arts,
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March 19th saw the passing of a CWB holiday, the Equinoxial Ides of St. Patrick, to usher in the spring season. And, who are we kidding, it’s a great excuse to throw a sailboat race! This year, it was also a great opportunity to recognize our many amazing volunteers, and with the help of sponsors Outback Steakhouse, Touchstone Bakery, and Costco Wholesale we were able to host at least one appreciation event the whole year in which volunteers didn’t have to potluck, and special recognition gifts for volunteers were provided by Starbucks Coffee and Taco del Mar. In addition to the volunteers specially recognized below, CWB is fortunate to be the recipient of more than 25,000 hours of precious and hard-earned donated hours each year. It was also a pleasure to recognize CWB’s Volunteer of the Year for 2004, Paula Weir. Our Volunteer of the Year is nominated by fellow volunteers and staff each year “In recognition of the highest qualities of volunteerism: Dedication, enthusiasm, leadership and commitment to the goals of The Center for Wooden Boats.” In Paula’s own words, she started volunteering here about five years ago because “after I retired from the working world, I was looking for something worthwhile to fill some of my time and since I was a “boatie”, CWB filled the bill quite nicely! I stay because of the great people (and the cool environment.)” The ‘something’ that Paula has filled her time with includes an enormous range of projects at CWB including maintaining our
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300 – 500 Hours in 2004 Martin Feldman • Alex Bennett Steve Pepple • Jeff Scott • Jim Feltrup
200 – 300 Hours in 2004 Caption about Paula
website, sewing sail covers, auction leadership, business plan work, and impeccably covering the front desk for a regular shift each week. Nominations for Paula included phrases like: “… continues to amaze me with her list of skills and contributions…” “she’s reliable, warm, sharp, humble, motivated and resourceful…” “She’s amazing…what would we do without her?...if there is any good argument in favor of human cloning, it is Paula.” CWB also has far more than one star in its sky, and we are blessed with people like those named below who are so generous with their waking hours and keep the boats working, get folks out on the water, and keep the CWB beacon shining for the present, and lit for the future.
March/April Shavings Contributors: Jake Beattie • Lauren Kuehne • Scott Rohrer Greg Reed • Heron Scott Dick Wagner
Paula Weir • Laurie Leak Suzy Brunzell • Daniel Firor • John Vargo • Bob Hayward • John Dean
100 – 200 Hours in 2004 Bob Forman • Catherine Hall Dan Padgett • Tina Renteria Tish Korbly • Max Denise Steve Kinnaman • John McCartney Trip Zabriskie • Brandt Faatz Dave Kremers • Lori O’Tool Rich Sheets • David Griso • Bryan Rust Adam Dunn
CWB Wish List Thank you for your recent donations! 4 Adobe InDesign and Acrobat 4 Digital Camera However we still need : q Wooden Boat Magazine Issues # 1-12 q Sheets of plywood for the festival q 1/8 inch pegboard q Portable or clip on microphone q A generator? (check in with edel or jake about this) q Laminating machine q Used nautical items for festival treasure sale q A Truck! q Small boombox
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Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival 2005 With The Antique and Classic Runabout Society
Save the Dates: July 2, 3, 4
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