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his year’s Washington State Legislature session was a nail-biter, going into two special sessions with uncertain outcomes, but the final Capital Budget that Governor Jay Inslee signed on June 30 included a $990,000 grant to The Center for Wooden Boats to help support construction of the new Wagner Education Center in Lake Union Park. Funding comes via the state’s Heritage Capital Grant Fund which is administered by the Washington State Historical Society. Applications are accepted from across the state and are peer-ranked by leaders in the field. CWB’s proposal ranked seventh out of a list of 24 funded projects, and even more applied. Huge credit goes to Washington’s legislators for funding this vital program. CWB worked closely with other heritage organizations to meet with lawmakers from across the state. It was heartening to see a common sense of purpose across geographic and party boundaries. Hats off to all who supported this initiative.
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eighbors contributed over $23,000 to CWB’s Campaign at the August 9 South Lake Union Block Party. Contributions came from Vulcan Inc., Tom Douglas Restaurants and Seattle Met magazine, which collected money at food booths and the beer garden and donated 100% of the proceeds to CWB’s The final design for The Center for Capital Campaign. “Vulcan is very excited to Wooden Boats’ new Wagner Education have selected The Center for Center was unveiled August 9 at the Lake Wooden Boats as this year’s Union Block Party and on the front page non-profit beneficiary of of Seattle’s Daily Journal of Commerce. -photo: Brandi Link, 4Culture proceeds from the South Lake Union Block Party,” said Ada M. Healey, vice president, Vulcan Real Estate. “The Center for Wooden Boats has a long history in the neighborhood and it’s great to see them expanding so that even more people can connect with the region’s maritime history and culture.” Comments posted to the CWB website after the event included, “What an awesome addition to Seattle!” , “Way to go CWB!” and “The Center for Wooden Boats is the heart of Seattle - so excited for this to be a reality!” Other local businesses also are stepping forward to host events for CWB such as Sixgill Bar and Grill in Fremont, which hosted the “Brews for Boats” night, and 5Focus whose Happy Hour event included food, drinks and a chance to get a massage. Watch e-news and www.cwb.org for announcements of more fun events. FALL 2013
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CWB’s new Education Center is being named for Dick and Colleen Wagner, who founded The Center for Wooden Boats. -Architectural illustration by Stephanie Bower
CWB FOUNDERS’ “DREAM COME TRUE”
ver four decades ago Dick and Colleen Wagner started renting traditional small boats from the back deck of their houseboat on Lake Union. Since then they’ve built a community of support for what has become The Center for Wooden Boats. In recognition of their vision, dedication and inspiration CWB’s Board of Trustees decided to name the new building the Wagner Education Center. I’m honored,” Wagner said. “But what I’m really excited about is how this new facility will make it possible for even more people to come down to Lake Union Park and pick up a hammer or chisel or plane and find the joy when they make a boat with their own hands. We need the space for more people of all ages to learn by doing. The new Education Center is a dream come true.” LEADERSHIP GIFTS * SPEARHEAD CAMPAIGN Norcliffe Foundation ($1,000,000) Tom Alberg & Judi Beck Tom Bayley Alex Bennett
Fred and Mike Hayes Joshua Green Foundation David and MaryAnne Keyser Lake Union Dry Dock
Ros Bond
Dan and Karin Leach
Kay Bullitt
Oakmead Foundation
Betsy Davis
Seattle Parks Foundation
Jim Duncan
Charles Shigley
John Goodfellow Foss Maritime Company
Langdon and Anne Simons U. S. Bank Foundation *Gifts of $50,000 and above
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CWB STAFF Betsy Davis, Executive Director Dick Wagner, Founding Director Eldon Tam, Deputy Director Shane Bishop, CWB Cama Beach Operations Manager Lucy Blue, Youth Education Coordinator Connie Czepiel, Accounting Manager. Oliver Davis, Sailing Instructor Stefan D-W, Registrar Steve Greaves, Boat Donations/Sales Manager Joe Green, Lead Boatwright Jake Hawkins, Cama Beach Youth/Livery Programs Lead & Boatwright Diana Hennick, Visitor Services Manager Kyle Hunter, Fleet Operations Manager Christian Holtz, Sailing Instructor Ryan Kuja, Sailing Instructor Dan Leach, Community Engagement Lead/ Boatwright David Lloyd, Youth Sail Instructor Elena Losey, SLU Livery Manager Danielle Rynning AmeriCorps Crew Member Support Lead Aislinn Palmer, Event Manager & Working Group Lead Judith Rickard, Member/Donor Relations Mindy Ross, Sailing Education Director Lara Schmidt, Communications and Volunteer Resources Manager Sarah Szabo, Development Assistant Saaduuts, Artist-in-Residence Tyson Trudel, Youth Programs Manager Jeremy Tyler, Youth Sail Instructor Levi White, Boatwright
BOARD OF TRUSTEES Mark Barnard Alex Bennett Ros Bond Chris Butler Chad Cohen Jim Compton Kay Compton Caren Crandell Elsie Hulsizer
Adam Karpenske Sue McNab Mark Nowlan Lori O’Tool Walt Plimpton Rob Sendak Denise Snow Suzanne Zonneveld
OUR MISSION To provide a gathering place where maritime history comes alive through direct experience and our small craft heritage is enjoyed, preserved and passed along to future generations. Shavings is published by The Center for Wooden Boats 1010 Valley Street, Seattle, WA 98109 Phone: (206)382-2628 Fax (206)382-2699 www.cwb.org
Volume XXXIII, Number 3. ISBN 0734-0680 1992 CWB
THE CENTER FOR WOODEN BOATS
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hen The Center for Wooden Boats was in our collective womb, we visualized it as a Victorian environment. There would be small, craftsman-like rowing and sailing boats accessible and affordable to rent. We must have succeeded; in August, 1983, the first year of our operations at South Lake Union, a group of people decided to have a Victorian rowing party at CWB. Year-by-year, we enhanced and upgraded our learn-by-doing programs. Our goal was to involve our community’s diverse urban population in experiences that made them aware of their maritime heritage and gave them maritime skills to use for a lifetime. From the beginning, there were wait lists for adults who wanted to take our sailing and boatbuilding instruction. Our floats and rowing boats were filled with elementary school kids, but there were no middle or high school youth. We knew our hands-on programs could help make them great achievers in math, science, history, teamwork and leadership. Alas, principals would not agree to exchange textbooks and white boards for building and using historically significant boats. The only option we could find to involve teenagers was to bring in those who were not in school. Social service agencies found hordes of teenagers who had been kicked out of school and we started a program for them: “All Aboard”, a summer day camp. They learned to sail a variety of small craft and undertook woodworking projects, including traditional boatbuilding. The effect of “All Aboard” was phenomenal. The kids evolved from their grim expectation of yet another academic environment in which they would fail to high-confidence individuals looking for more complex problems to solve. The first “All Aboard” group of six boys and six girls, all 16-year-olds, not only built a 24’ umiaq and learned to sail our boats, they also built their own toolboxes, designed and built a rope-making machine, wrote a poem on the launching of the umiaq and composed a song that included the words “hydrodynamic” and “aerodynamic”. From a Victorian boating party to programs for disadvantaged youth, CWB has found time and space to accommodate a variety of activities for a growing audience. For 30 years we have added more and more boats, floats and workshops. Today we are taking our biggest step forward: adding an Education Center that is three times bigger than the other buildings on our Waterway #4 site. I’ve always pushed for more challenging workshops because I know the more opportunities we offer, the more participants will come from public schools, private schools, alternative schools and home schools. The Education Center is going to take CWB to a new orbit. It will give our community more Classic boats and classic garb were on display at boats operational, more exhibits, more events and a 1983 Victorian rowing party at CWB. more junior boatwrights and admirals. It’s a rock- - photo courtesy of Louise Wasson solid building but it’s also going to be transparent. There will be magic in large side walls that can open up and let the sun in and other walls that SHAVINGS STAFF have glass battens, similar to the slots between boards of the Victorian era boatshops. Dick Wagner, Editor Functionally and esthetically, the Education Edel O’Connor, Managing Editor Center meets and beats all we now have for our Judie Romeo, Copy Editor quirky, innovating and sometimes Victorian direct Lara Schmidt, Designer experience museum. SHAVINGS C ONTRIBUTORS Shane Bishop • Lucy Blue Stephanie Bower • Betsy Davis Stefan D-W • Abby Inpanbutr Brandi Link • Mitch Reintz • Scott Rohrer
Dick Wagner CWB Founding Director
Danielle Rynning • Ron Snyder Eldon Tam • Ajay Varma Dick Wagner • Louise Wasson
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he new Wagner Education Center will be about 9,200 square feet, more than tripling space available for CWB’s indoor programs. It’s exciting to take all we’ve learned in several decades of running CWB’s programs and apply that to the design of this new space that will serve as a hub for the programs and as the signature new building in Lake Union Park. The space will be open and inviting. The active Boatshop on the ground floor will open to the outdoors on three sides to create an ideal opportunity for viewing traditional craftspeople at work on CWB’s “working exhibits”, day or evening. The working area will be sited to provide a beacon of activity with sightlines from the entire park. Indoors, the welcoming Visitor Center is double height with a viewing balcony allowing multiple perspectives of the hanging exhibits. The goal of environmental sustainability has been a priority in planning and design for the structure. The building is being oriented on the site to maximize its solar potential and will be ready for the future addition and operation of
solar panels. There will be natural ventilation throughout the building, removing the need for air conditioning, and adequate natural light to minimize the use of electricity during the day. Except where required by code or to maximize energy efficiency, all systems will be manually operated, both to keep system complexity and costs down, as well as to exemplify CWB’s hands-on style. There will be manually-operated sunscreens in the Boatshop, manually-operated windows and skylights, and FALL 2013
manually-operated plumbing fixtures. The building will be finished to a level appropriate for a durable, working facility. For example, there will be plywood walls for greater durability and minimal labor to install or repair. There will be no added floor material; the ground level floor is the top of the concrete foundation slab, the second level floor is the plywood attached to the joists. The fixtures specified are efficient but with a durable, costeffective finish. Because CWB is such an organic organization and community-based, the building has been designed for maximum versatility. All the public spaces are being planned to allow multiple uses. The Visitor Center can have exhibits by day, then be rearranged for a talk or event at night. The dedicated Youth Classroom by day can become exhibit or lecture space in the evening. The Boatshop can be a venue for boat maintenance projects part of the time, then all the power tools can be stored to make the space safe for youth programs or a special event. The building also is designed for longterm flexibility. The steel structure allows for minimal load bearing walls within the interior. Most internal walls can be moved or removed as future program changes require. The mechanical, electrical and plumbing runs are also being planned with flexibility in mind. As
programs grow, the limited administrative space easily can be converted to another classroom or combined with the Youth Classroom to make a larger space. When CWB’s original architect for the new Education Center retired, the planning committee decided the visibility of the project warranted selecting a new architect with significant experience and stature. With five strong candidates, CWB selected the firm of Olson Kundig Architects to design the new Education Center. That design has been adopted by CWB’s Board of Trustees, and has been approved by Seattle Parks, Seattle Parks Foundation, and the Seattle Design Review Board for projects built on city property. CWB selected Olson Kundig Architects for their tremendous commitment to making the building serve our program needs and mission. “We designed the [Education Center] to reflect our region’s deep maritime history and to serve as a functional and efficient environment for The Center for Wooden Boats to serve their diverse audiences,” said architect Tom Kundig. “The design features wood, glass and steel. Large windows flank open spaces and movable exterior panels allow for the control of natural light. And, just like on a boat, every inch of space and feature is designed to provide the highest function. The new building is beautiful, but at the end of the day, it’s a tool box, not a jewel box.” CWB’s Deputy Director Eldon Tam is the coordinator for the design and building of the Wagner Education Center. SHAVINGS 3
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T H E P U B LI C C A M PAIGN IS UNDERWAY! BUSINESSES PROVIDE INDIVIDUAL GIFTS INSPIRE KEY SUPPORT: CASH,
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nstrumental leadership gifts from the business community are buoying CWB’s campaign. Special thanks to Foss Maritime Company, Lake Union Drydock Company and U.S. Bank Foundation.
Other companies are providing critical donated services to keep the projects moving forward, including Sparling , Foster Pepper, AnchorQEA, KPFF Consulting Engineers and Mithun.
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avid Dolson, a former member of The Center for Wooden Boats’ Board of Trustees,, who still brings his grandkids down to walk the docks, was first in line to pull out his checkbook and make a donation in August when CWB took the wraps off the final design for the new Wagner Education Center that will be built next year in Lake Union Park. “I didn’t know I would be the first to donate in the public phase,” said Dolson. “But this new Education Center will be an exciting, exciting addition to the city - and I hope a lot of people follow my lead.” Dolson, who served on the Board from 2002 to 2010, was there when the Board realized the exploding demand for CWB field trips, classes, sailing lessons and other programs was making the museum burst at the seams. He was there for the early Board votes that set in motion all the planning, research and fundraising that has brought the project to within months of groundbreaking. “This new Education Center, with a shop big PUBLIC FUNDING SUPPORTS enough to work on two big boats at once and CAPITAL PROJECTS still have room for visitors to watch, is the heart CWB has received critical funding through of CWB, “said Dolson. “It’s going to be a great competitive grant programs from the city, thing for the city and for CWB.” county and state governments.
David Dolson is one of 193 individuals who are supporting CWB’s Capital Campaign with gifts ranging from $5 to $500,000.
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A NOTE FROM LEONARD GARFIELD The Center for Wooden Boats, with its focus on using historic small boats for handson education for all ages, has been quietly redefining and expanding the definition of what it means to be a maritime museum,” said Leonard Garfield, Executive Director of the Museum of History & Industry. “When you walk CWB’s charming docks on a sunny Sunday morning and take one of their free rides on an historic boat, it is very easy to overlook the truly innovative, award-winning work they do in their youth programs, in vessel documentation research and in exhibit design. Seattle needs to understand what a treasure CWB is and how much it deserves our support as it raises the funds needed for their Capital Campaign. CWB is unique to Seattle and helps people understand how the water we see in every direction has defined how the city came to be what it is today.”
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he new Wagner Education Center at Lake Union Park directly supports each of CWB’s five mission priorities that are outlined in our Strategic Plan: The facility promotes Preservation of Northwest history with a Boatshop to preserve skills, a classroom for education and new exhibit space both indoors and out. Youth Programs will grow and thrive with a new dedicated Youth Classroom and additional shop space for hands-on programming. The building provides a venue for Lifelong Learning for visitors of all ages and backgrounds. From viewing exhibits and watching craftspeople at work, to participating in hands-on workshops, boatbuilding or sailing classes, this will be a hub where different generations learn side by side. The public will have even broader Free Access to get to the water’s edge in a welcoming environment and to get out on the water in a variety of boats. The new building will continue to build Community engagement, with open doors, visibility and continued volunteer opportunities and inclusion for people of every background. It is truly exciting to be part of this next step in the story of The Center for Wooden Boats.
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hree thousand seven hundred and twenty six. That’s how many CWB wooden nickels our Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival visitors dropped through the voting box slots to select their favorite boats. The 150 or so boats were all types, all ages; what they had in common was the presence of cardboard (a wood product) voting boxes at each boat. Here are the results of the wooden ballots in the categories of small and large sailboats, small and large powerboats and row/sail or paddle boats: For sailboats under 30’, the winner was Opus, Lee Bjorklund’s 18’-6” Marconi rig, lapstrake double-ender. She is a seakindly vessel with cabin, deck and cockpit. Opus was designed by Ian Oughtred with a Scandinavian influence. In the over 30’ category, the most nickels were accumulated by Ariel of Victoria, a 46’ LOD center cockpit ketch. She was designed by and built in seven years by Ronald Hunt in Nainaimo, B.C. The owner, Christy Scoggins
Nearly 150 boats of all sizes, types and vintages, in the water and on the shore, awaited CWB wooden nickel “votes” for the People’s Choice awards at the 2013 Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival. – photo: Mitch Reintz, eMeLaR Photography Granquist, rates her as powerful, quick, comfortable and commodious (she seats 14 for dinner). The small power boat that topped the votes was Edison. She is a 17’ electric runabout. She runs without noise or fumes. Her design was based on the barrelbacks and double-cockpits of the 1920s and ‘30s. As owner Steven Shovoly
says, “The elegance of our past meets the technology of our future.” First place for large powerboats was a tie between the 55’ 1956 Chris Craft At Last and the 92’ 1909 Edwardian motor yacht Lotus. Phil Boshaw, owner of At Last, has completed a year-long makeover of his boat to render her “a true mid-century classic”. Lotus is also an elegant vessel from another era. She is now owned by a non-profit foundation and is operated as a floating fishing lodge in Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands under the leadership of Christian Gruye. The hot item in the row/sail or paddle boats category was Fractious, built and owned by Mark Preuss. It is a 12’-6” open boat with oars and spritsail. Mark got the plans from WoodenBoat magazine and launched it from his basement shop in 1980. Voting with wooden nickels is a fun activity at our annual Wooden Boat Festival. We hope you’ll join us next year – and maybe bring your boat too!
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here is a group in Seattle that has been quietly preserving one of the country’s oldest active fleet of wood boats and the maritime cultural traditions associated with them while building a lively industry and creating a sustainable fishery over the course of the past century. The Center for Wooden Boats will help bring the important story of the century-old longline fleet to the public with an exhibit opening in mid-February, 2014, in the CWB Boathouse Gallery. The project, a part of CWB’s ongoing effort to document the stories, structures and vessels of Seattle’s working waterfront, has been made possible through support from many partners, including the Fishing Vessel Owners Association; the International Pacific Halibut Commission; Associate Professor Bruce Hevly, History of Science, Technology, University of Washington; Dean Adams, author of Four Thousand Hooks: A True Story of Fishing and Coming of Age on the High Seas of Alaska; Phillips Publishing FALL 2013
Resolute typifies the hard-working vessels of the longline fleet. – photo: Abby Inpanbutr Group (Fishermen’s News and The Sea Chest), and King County’s 4Culture. The vessels of Seattle’s halibut fleet include century-old wooden boats that fish side-by-side with their modern counterparts and clearly illustrate the cultural and economic significance of our maritime and fishing heritage. Their designs and construction reflect how the boats and industry adapted to the need for speed to
market, durability and longevity. The fishery itself demonstrates how fishermen, vessel owners and government can collaborate to sustain an industry. The exhibit is being curated and designed by Abby Inpanbutr, who previously designed CWB’s “Fish On!” exhibit. In addition to communicating the stories of the North Pacific longline fishery, CWB plans to record the stories Longline Exhibit of these watercraft Curator and Designer and the families Abby Inpanbutr. who operate them to create a resource which people can draw on for future research. SHAVINGS 5
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e at CWB Cama Beach are proud to announce that Jacob Hawkins has accepted a position at least through the end of the year wearing many hats: serving as instructor for young people in the Job Skills Training Program and Detention Alternatives Program, running the Livery during the month of October, and serving as on-site Boatwright, leading maintenance and repair efforts on Cama’s fleet of boats during the winter months. Just one of Jake’s many jobs - moving the umiaq Jake joined us at Cama Beach last spring as -photo: Danielle Rynning our Boatwright-in-Residence. He’s a graduate of the Marine Carpentry Program at Seattle Central Community College. We are very lucky to have Jake on board. He’s a great addition to the staff. He does an excellent job with our youth staff, our volunteers and our customers and creates a safe environment for all. Jake’s new email is jhawkins@cwb.org. Feel free to drop him a line or come up and meet in him person. We are open Tuesday through Saturday until the middle of December. Shane Bishop recently was promoted to Cama Beach Operations Manager. He can be reached at sbishop@cwb.org .
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nder the leadership of Washington State Parks, all the organizations operating at Cama Beach State Parks came together to celebrate their volunteers and the year’s successful programs. CWB recognized volunteer Aaron Thomas for his dedication as one of CWB’s youngest volunteers this year. Aaron is a star volunteer. He came to the Boathouse every Saturday and worked all day. He is a hard worker, enthusiastic and a voracious crab fisherman. Just the kind we like to keep around! Thanks for all the hard work Aaron.
Ranger Tom Riggs served as an energetic Master of Ceremonies.
The Center for Wooden Boats at Cama Beach State Park welcomes an umiaq that was recently donated by a group of Sea Scouts who built it in Kent, Washington. It was built in the traditional native style from red and yellow cedar lashed together with seine twine and pegged with hand-carved dowels. The umiaq is called Tuvaaq (meaning “hunter”) and it is now serving as one of CWB’s primary program boats at Cama Beach.
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taff and volunteers at Cama Beach State Park determined that they wanted to pilot renting a skiff with an electric outboard to the public. They pitched the idea effectively to CWB’s Board and the project got underway this summer. So far everything is working out great, with at least 20 rentals this season with great reviews. The outboard sits on a boat that was built at Cama Beach State Park by students from the Kirkland Environmental School as part of one of CWB’s maritime intensives programs. CWB volunteer Bob Forman kindly donated the Minn Kota 55-pounds-thrust trolling motor. Customers love the quiet and ease of use and staff enjoy a nearly maintenance free, light motor. This is the first electric boat rental option on Camano Island and it serves goals of providing an environmentally and user friendly experience. It is a great option for first-time powerboat customers or customers who want to fish for salmon. A big thanks to the electric motor team and all involved with making this project happen.
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he winter crab season at Cama Beach just opened and runs until the end of the year. CWB will have crab pots and boat rentals available, weather permitting, through December 15th.
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Tim Martin, CWB Volunteer and avid fisherman, with his catch of the day.
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e are excited to begin the third year of the Job Skills Training Program at Cama Beach. The fall program is already underway with an enthusiastic group recruited from Stanwood High School and Lincoln Hills High School. Our crew includes Hannah Waite-Thiede, Tristan Gavin, Nick Evans, Nick Snowden and Spencer Bennett. Through the Job Skills Program, we are striving to heighten awareness of the maritime industry and break down the barriers between low-income, underserved youth who desperately need employment skills and a growing industry that is thirsty for a younger, knowledgeable workforce. The Job Skills crew members will work on developing three skill sets: hard skills, soft skills and employment skills. In the hard skills department, Cama Boatwright Jake Hawkins, the Youth Programs Boatbuilding Lead, will take the lead as students roll up their sleeves and dig into skills in the Boatshop. Jake worked with the Job Skills Training Program Crew last year as well as with the students in the Maritime Intensive week-long sessions. Fall Crew Members will gain hands-on experience as they finish the Pelicano utility skiff that was begun in the spring session of Job Skills. As far as acquiring soft skills, crew members will learn important work habits such as
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showing up to work on time, teamwork and dependability. I will be teaching the employment skills curriculum of the program. With my degree in English literature, coaching experience and commercial fishing background, I am thrilled to have the opportunity to work with youth to improve their employment skills and also encourage an interest in the many facets of the maritime industry. In this part of the Job Skills Training Program, crew members will focus on creating polished resumes and cover letters and practice job interview and informal interview skills. This fall, CWB at Cama Beach also is partnering with Snohomish County Juvenile Justice and Snohomish County’s Miller Trust in a new program, “Programs/Projects: Enriching the Lives of Youth”, to provide an exciting new boatbuilding program as an alternative to detention. Selected Snohomish County youth will be building two El Toros, one this fall and one in spring, 2014. These El Toros will be built from kits provided by Belina Interiors of Tacoma, a company that also graciously provided the same kits for CWB’s family boatbuilding this year. On another note of interest, three of our Job Skills Training Program spring session students stayed on for the summer and completed internships funded by Snohomish County
WorkSource. It is results like these that confirm the impact of CWB’S programs such as Job Skills and heighten anticipation in the promise of the upcoming session.
The Cama Beach Job Skills Crew is already pulling together. From front to back: Crew Member Support Lead Danielle Rynning, JSTP Crew Members Tristan Gavin, Nick Evans, Spencer Bennett, Nick Snowden and Hannah Waite-Thiede.
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his fall, The Center for Wooden Boats is pleased to once again welcome a new AmeriCorps member to our Youth Program staff. Danielle Rynning is serving as the Crew Member Support Lead for our Job Skills Training Program. She will be working at both Cama Beach and South Lake Union. We a s k e d FALL 2013
Danielle to tell our readers about her background and here is what she had to say: “After completing my studies in London, United Kingdom, I graduated from the University of Washington in 2011 with a B.A. in English Literature. “My ties to the maritime industry run deep. For 11 years, I’ve played an integral role in my family’s commercial fishing operation in Bristol Bay, Alaska, where I operated the last remaining wooden set-net skiff at Nushagak Point. In my spare time I am involved in the sport of equestrian vaulting, which is defined as
dance and gymnastics performed on the back of a moving horse. I have been vaulting and coaching for almost 12 years. “Being able to work with youth while in a maritime environment is like a dream come true for me. I am thrilled to be a member of the CWB team.” Welcome aboard Danielle.
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t has been a long, hot summer at the South Lake Union Livery and the docks have been busy. Our renters have used the boats hard, making maintenance and education our top priorities. After being sidelined in May with shroud issues, our San Francisco Bay Mercury is back in service. With its highly adjustable rig, under-deck sail controls and heavy keel, this small, double-handed racing sloop is ideal for the performance-oriented sailor. Our other keelboats, the Blanchard Junior Knockabouts, remain our most popular sailboats. The waitlist to rent one this summer usually had three or more names on it, which presented a great opportunity to teach people to rig and sail our centerboard boats. Those looking for a sloop enjoyed our Lightnings and our Pelican. Renters with dogs came to appreciate the roomy cockpit of our Woods Hole Spritsails. Some even tried out a canine lifejacket. Our focus on volunteer training has been a great success. Volunteers such as Bobby
CWB’s Visitor Services Manager, Diana Hennick, takes our recently relaunched Beetlecat, June Bug, for a spin on a sunny day. -photo: Stefan D-W Ives learned to tie decorative knots including Turk’s Heads. We used these as the buttons that protect our oars. Peter Johnson took charge of those oars and the entire rowboat fleet on several Sundays. He and many other volunteers
patiently taught novices to row and helped people in and out of boats. Those looking for a boat easier to operate than a rowboat discovered our canoes. An Old Town, a Tacoma-built Willits and what we believe is probably a Kingsley offered a range of stability and performance for our renters. The canoes also inspired everyone’s favorite addition to the Livery, a cable ferry dubbed B/V (Barely Vessel) Diana. Livery Attendant Levi White and Eric Johnson, summer Boatshop staff, rigged up a spare dock as a hand-overhand “ferry” to shorten the distance to the canoes. Volunteers and staff have been very creative in finding reasons to pull themselves between the Oarhouse and Boathouse. As we wound down the busy summer season, we welcomed another Beetle Cat back into the Livery. Lead Boatwright Joe Green and his Boatshop volunteers recently launched an aqua-painted Beetle, informally referred to in the Livery as June Bug. We look forward to teaching lots of you to sail June Bug this fall.
Give the Gift of Sailing! All sailing lessons pre-paid between November 15 and December 31 will include a Holiday Gift Bag, including a copy of “The Complete Sailor” textbook, a practice line for knot-tying, and your sailor’s choice of a hat, as well as a one-year CWB individual membership!
CHOOSE FROM FOUR GREAT PACKAGES: CWB’s signature SailNOW! Course - $340 - This award-winning class establishes the foundation for a lifetime of sailing. Off-Season SailNOW! - $200 - Sailing during CWB’s “Off-Season” means less sun - but sometimes it also means better wind! We want to share this local secret with you by offering a discount on tuition for SailNOW! sessions starting in January, February and March. Two-Hour One-On-One Lesson - $100 - Sailors work one-on-one with an instructor to improve their skills. Two-Hour Sailing Lesson for Two - $130 - Come along with your loved one on a OneOn-One lesson! Sailing packages may be purchased in person at our South Lake Union location or over the phone at 206-382-2628. Packages will include instructions on how recipients can register for their lessons. Visit www.cwb.org/store/holiday-gift-bag for more information, or email store@cwb.org.
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orrential rain and wind gusts up to 20 knots were no match for the tenacious sailors of the 2013 Norm Blanchard WOOD (Wooden Open & One-Design) Regatta hosted by The Center for Wooden Boats on Lake Union. Race Chairwoman Mindy Ross complimented the field of racers on their tight maneuvers and strategic sailing with several port tack starts and close finishes. Optimism, uncertainty, and a high sense of adventure marked the start of racing Saturday, September 28, as nearly 30 vessels took to the choppy waters of Lake Union in wind and rain. Small boats, including youth sailors enrolled in CWB’s El Toro racing classes as well as adult entrants in a variety of small cat boats, set out to race at the south end of the lake only to have the race called off after several capsizes. Despite these setbacks, the regatta had two full days of hard racing. All five Blanchard Junior Knockabouts (BJKs) from the CWB Livery fleet, a classic plastic fleet of eight San Juan 21s, along with a Blanchard Senior Knockabout and even one of CWB’s Lightnings completed the races.
Sunday’s races took place on a shortened course in winds that pushed boats and skippers to their limits. Small boat racing was canceled but the larger boats raced all day. Even with reefs in and sailors hiking out beyond the gunwales, the Blanchard Junior Knockabouts heeled over hard. Gary Bangs dominated the BJK class aboard Pamela, winning for both his class and overall. The rest of the class was closer with Nancy Engel taking second aboard Betsy Jane while Mark Wilkins tied for third aboard Lucky Seven with Terry Linkletter, who skippered Sterling. Bob Abelin, who came all the way from Montana, skippered Blue Pearl to beat out the rest of the San Juan classic plastic fleet and receive the Classic Plastic Armchair Sailor Award. Pete Brodsky won the open class aboard CWB’s Lightning, Roseburg (aka Hooch). Congratulations to all who shared in a great sense of adventure and the Corinthian spirit! Stefan D-W, a familiar face from Livery operations, is now CWB’s Registrar and Night Watchman.
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or more than 300 years, yesterday has been hanging over the heads of indigenous people all over North America - and it has not been kind. Manifest Destiny lies spelled out in treaties aimed at stealing people’s lands, children marched off to boarding schools to have their nativeness stripped away, not to mention marching whole peoples off their lands in a “Trail of Tears”. The United States and Canadian governments, in concert with industry and with the blind acceptance of most of the North American non-native people, have allowed this and much more to be done to the First Peoples in the name of greed, politics, fear, and religion. You see, after suffering starvation, disease, public degradation in everything from movies, textbooks, sports team names, the job market, education, the military, alcoholism, drugs, poverty, the theft of the bodies of the ancestors by major museums, the outlawing of cultural practices that harmed nobody, especially nonnatives, and the stealing of entire cultures as savage and unacceptable to other people’s notions of civility, believe it or not, the native survivors of that holocaust are coming together to help each other blossom in the 21st century. Now that the truth is out in the light of day, let’s look at where we find ourselves today in the Northwest as relates to our Native friends, neighbors and partners. Many nativeowned businesses are doing well, court cases are being won, treaty-promised lands and rights are being returned to some degree, and more native children are participating each year in the annual “Tribal Canoe Journey” gathering of canoes, communities and nations - and that’s important. The yearly gathering of as many as a 100-plus canoes from more than 60 canoe families, communities and nations is all about the return of celebration of self, community and nation, a return of culture and traditions and a better tomorrow for native youth and families, and a thank-you to the elders for their guidance, patience and wisdom. This year, 65 canoes from more than 40 canoe families challenged themselves to paddle from as far away as Bella Bella, B.C.;
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the Columbia River; the south end of the Salish Sea, South Lake Union and through the locks (CWB) and more than 40 other places throughout our region. They pulled for as
CWB’s carved canoe Steve Philipp was one of the 65 canoes on the 2013 Journey to the Quinault Nation. -photos: Ajay Varma long as a month - often through ocean waves, winds and currents - to reach the Quinault Nation on August 1. They came to share their songs, dances and stories and to celebrate a six-day potlatch of gift-giving, culture-sharing, mutual respect, and a love of life and family. It’s strange and yet wonderful. I have been involved with the gathering of canoes for 20 years. While he has been Artist-in-Residence at CWB, I have helped Sāādūūts as best I could to carve and potlatch (gift) seven canoes to needy communities that wanted to reinstate their village’s canoe culture. There have been young men and woman as young as two-yearsold pulling in those canoes; many pullers were young families and there were elders well into their later years. Not once did I see a puller who was drinking, stoned, ready to start a fight with another human being, disrespectful to the environment, or forced to be where they were setting forth in a canoe with a paddle in hand.
That’s part of the message of this “Full Circle Journey”. A pledge, offered by Phil Red Eagle, has been taken by almost 6,000 pullers and is marked by a copper ring worn with pride by each new promise-maker: “I will not abuse myself with alcohol, drugs, and frivolous violence.” That message is everywhere your canoe stops along the journey. Each town, village and nation now celebrates its youth and their choice to stay in school, to learn new skills, to stay healthy, and to stay free of alcohol, drugs, cigarettes and violence. Each tribe, even those that historically made war or raided each other, now pulls with each other in peace and a spirit of new days ahead. New days where the past is a learning and the future is brighter than ever. A future filled with partnerships with our neighbors and a new sense of mutual need and trust. When assessing the cause for these positive relationship changes in the Northwest, many thanks must be given to today’s efforts by every participant in the yearly gathering of Northwest canoes and nations, both native and non-native alike. As CWB master Haida canoe carver Sāādūūts has been saying for more than 16 years: The canoe has allowed us to “Carve Cultural Connections”, and that makes all of us stronger, and better friends. Writer Ron Snyder is a former CWB board member and was a puller in the G’ana’k’w Canoe Family on this year’s journey. Ron and his wife, Cathy, live outside Blaine at their demonstration farm, The Circle of Trees Studio and Homestead, where they teach local food security techniques and Cathy is a fine artist. In September, Ron reports he “was adopted by the Alaskan Haida and given the name ‘Duunaay’, which means ‘Younger Brother’. Cathy was adopted by the Tlingit and will receive her name shortly.” Photographer Ajay Varma came to The Center for Wooden Boats through the purchase of a learn-to-sail Groupon offer that he bought for himself and his wife. When he arrived at CWB, he found a dugout canoe and a welcoming community that he didn’t realize he had been searching to find. Ajay has participated in the Canoe Journey for several years and he kindly shared some of his remarkable photographs with CWB.
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here is almost too much fun, adventure and education at The Center for Wooden Boats. This is because we charted a new course in maritime history: Direct Experience! Every visitor can participate in maritime heritage skills. They can pick up the oars and row a classic boat, pick up the helm and sail a classic boat, pick up the tools and build a classic boat. The floor of CWB is hundreds of acres of water. The ceiling is the sky, from horizon to horizon. At CWB you learn by doing. Experiences at CWB are lifetime skills, creating lifetime memories. For some, CWB is even life-changing. Our programs are designed for a wide variety of ages and abilities from preschoolers building toy boats to academics comparing and contrasting traditional boats. Programs cost money but, with the dedication and creativity of our staff, every dollar earned or donated really counts. This year we have gained great support for our hands-on projects, facilities and documentation of collections from a variety of sources: Snohomish County’s Miller Trust provided funds for “Programs/Projects Enriching the Lives of Youth”. This is a three-hours-aweek, three-month course building a sailing pram at CWB’s Camano Island campus. The participants will be youth under the supervision of Snohomish County Juvenile Justice. The program is a detention alternative that offers an educational alternative and job skills. Trust me, whether the boat is built by at-risk kids or well-adjusted retirees all will find they learned more than they expected and are proud of their achievements. Seattle’s Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs selected CWB as one of eight organizations (out of 24 applicants) to participate in its inaugural Work Readiness Arts program, in collaboration with the Seattle Youth Violence
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and Prevention Initiative. Working within CWB’s Job Skills Training Program, youth will build a traditional boat, gaining experience in traditional and contemporary boatbuilding techniques, maritime culture, on-water skills, teamwork, leadership and career pathways. WASHINGTON STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY Heritage Capital Projects Fund (HCPF)
Washington State’s Heritage Capital Funds awarded $990,000 for construction of CWB’s new Wagner Education Center. It’s not a program. It is a facility that will shelter multiple programs. It will be located just west of our Waterway #4 site in Lake Union Park. The Center for Wooden Boats ranked seventh in the group of 26 organizations that received appropriations from 2013-15 Heritage Capital Funds.
Leave a Legacy CWB is providing membership in our new “Navigator’s Club” for those friends who have decided to include a gift to CWB in their wills and estate plans. The planned gifts of Navigator’s Club members vary greatly in size, but all are based on a generous commitment toward preserving handson boating experiences for future generations. CWB’s Development Assistant Sarah Szabo is building and stewarding the Navigator’s Club program. All those who let CWB know about their plans between now and the end of 2014 will be permanently known as Navigator’s Club Founding Members. Sarah would be delighted to provide more information about CWB’s Navigator’s Club. She can be reached at sszabo@cwb.org.
Through the Institute of Museum and Library Services, a federal government agency, we were one of 47 applicants awarded a “Sparks! Ignition” grant. Our project will utilize photogrammetry to document the condition of our historic small craft over time. Photogrammetry uses a series of images taken from the same camera with settings from different angles to create an accurate threedimensional model of the object. This will be a year-long experiment for monitoring our boats. The innovations of CWB have been seen and valued. We have been woven into our community fabric. It is no surprise that in 2013 we have been generously gifted by Snohomish County, Seattle, Washington State and the United States! Next year, maybe Antarctica!
If you are interested in considering a planned gift to The Center for Wooden Boats, below is a little information which may be helpful to you as you work with your financial planner and/ or attorney on defining your own charitable giving plan in your will. “I give to The Center for Wooden Boats of Seattle, Washington an amount equal to five percent (5%) of my adjusted gross estate to be used in such a manner as the Board of Trustees of The Center for Wooden Boats shall, in its sole discretion, determine.” “I give to The Center for Wooden Boats of Seattle, Washington the sum of $ to be placed in the general endowment.”
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he Center for Wooden Boats retains the values and spirit that comes from a group of community members building an organization from the ground up. Because it is the involvement of so many individuals that forms CWB, it is critical that we communicate effectively about the organization’s activities and future direction. CWB has elected to participate in a national program that encourages non-profit transparency on a national scale and allows non-profits to supplement the public information that is available from the IRS. “Charting Impact” is led by the BBB Wise Giving Alliance, GuideStar USA, and Independent Sector and helps an organization tell its story in an accessible, concise way by answering five simple yet powerful questions. • What is your organization aiming to accomplish? • What are your strategies for making this happen? • What are your organization’s capabilities for doing this? • How will your organization know if you are making progress? • What have and haven’t you accomplished so far? “Charting Impact has the potential to empower charitable organizations to crystalize and align their missions, goals, and achievements. It facilitates strategic thinking about practices and how results are measured and fosters idea sharing within the non-profit community,” said Diana Aviv, president and CEO of Independent Sector, the leadership network for non-profits, foundations, and corporate giving programs. “I am delighted that the Charting Impact reporting tool is now embedded in the GuideStar Exchange, extending our important partnership.”
To s e e C W B ’s report you can use the Guidestar website at www.guidestar.org and type “The Center for Wooden Boats” when it asks for the organization’s name. You will see that CWB received the GuideStar Exchange Gold Level Logo, demonstrating CWB’s d e e p c o m m i t m e n t CWB received the GuideStar Exchange to transparency and Gold Level Logo, a leading symbol of transparency and accountability provided accountability. We have worked hard by GuideStar USA, Inc. to showcase our progress toward our mission and our long-held belief in being transparent about our work to our constituents. As a GuideStar Exchange participant, we use their platform to share a wealth of up-to-date information about our work to our supporters and GuideStar’s immense online audience of non-profits, grantmakers, individual donors, and the media.
O U R AWARD-W INNING REP ORT In June of this year, the Washington Museum Association recognized The Center for Wooden Boats’ 2012 Annual Report (produced by CWB) for excellence in publication. According to the WMA’s announcement of the award, “…with colorful design and lively photos, the annual report conveys the vibrancy that visitors to The Center for Wooden Boats experienced in 2012, explains how their goals conform to best practices, and communicates the impact of their work on the community. This annual report has set an elevated standard for all museums throughout Washington State.” The full-color six-page report summarizes 2012 at CWB in narrative and numbers, including program highlights, awards and honors; “By the Numbers” – a summary of the ways CWB serves more than 100,000 unique visitors annually; a Financial Statement, and a listing of CWB’s Board of Trustees and Staff. You can find the 2012 Annual Report on CWB’s web site: www.cwb.org
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e lost a good friend and eager volunteer when Chris Tarnstrom passed away at home just a few days after the 2013 Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival. Totally unexpected, Chris had been in his usual good mood with his normally friendly disposition as he sat aboard Pirate and shared her story with any Festival visitors who happened to drop by. Chris was born in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and moved with his family to Massachusetts at age 4. His classwork at Concord was interrupted only by time spent in schooling in the Marshall Islands where his father was working in the ‘80s. Post-graduate work in Germany led to more school at Reed College in Portland and the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) and degrees in Computer Science and Accounting. Jobs from Vermont to California finally led Chris aboard Pirate en route from Seattle to Chris to Seattle and into our hearts at The Vancouver in 2010. Center for Wooden Boats. When Pirate made her longest trip as a CWB vessel, to Vancouver, B.C., and return in 2010, he immediately volunteered for duty; with Chris aboard, the boat found her way safely home. Chris is survived by his parents and three sisters (and three nephews) back east and his sweetheart, Emma Levitt of Seattle. Just 41 when he died, if you met him, take a moment to remember this sailor, beer-maker, gardener, entrepreneur, activist and storyteller and be happy you knew him. This writer is.
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he Center for Wooden Boats, the R-class sloop Pirate in particular, lost a dear friend when Jay Broze passed away on September 19, 2013, following a long struggle with cancer. Jay’s CWB roots went all the way back to the days of The Old Boathouse. Born in Seattle at Virginia Mason Hospital, Jay’s family moved to Alaska when he was two. There he attended Chugach Elementary School before moving to Seattle, Nathan Eckstine Junior. High School and Roosevelt High. A B.A. from Whitman College in the late ‘60s and a Master’s degree from Johns Hopkins left him fit to write on, or discuss, almost any subject with any of his friends who admired his alacrity. Following school, he went into writing for local advertising firms and, indirectly, to writing for SAIL magazine on sailboat racing from the annual Southern Ocean Racing Conference (SORC.) to the 1983 America’s Cup racing with its technological leaps in keel and sail shapes. His friends in big-league yachting will never forget his shy-sly grin and quick wit driving one good question after another. Well-read, sharing and clever, he wrote the copy for the first Pirate newsletter, “Pirate’s Progress”, bringing to it his love for maritime topics generally and specifically for Pirate; a subject of regular generosity from his and wife Diana’s charitable Cape Flattery Foundation.
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f you visited CWB during summer you might have noticed a new noise in the background. A high-pitched SQUEREKWEREEWK joined the buzz of seaplanes landing, the chatter of the jackhammers working on the road and the hum of traffic from I-5. An observant woodworker will recognize it as the sound of a bandsaw being used – and used vigorously. The bandsaw was purchased for the CWB Youth Programs and currently lives in the Pavilion at the top of the south entry ramp. At the beginning of the summer we realized we were fully booked for field trips. More field trips means more toy boats! And more toy boats means more blank toy boat hulls – and that means more use of the bandsaw. Once we had secured the tool, we only needed to find The Man Behind the Bandsaw. Through CWB’s partnership with YouthCare, we met a young man named Tyshon Vinson. He quickly became our Master Toy Boat Cutter and Field Trip Supply Facilitator. He can create a barrel of hulls in a couple of hours, perfectly turning the trickyto-handle bows, and do it all with a smile never seeming to mind the layers and layers of sawdust built up on his arms and settling like snow on his hat. Recently, when I was assisting a group of kids building toy boats on their field trip, Tyshon stopped by on his coffee break to watch the kids hammer. I asked, “How does it feel to know nearly every kid in Seattle has a toy boat you’ve cut?” He thought about it, smiled and said, “It feels like being famous. I guess I’m kinda famous!” Thank you Tyshon for keeping the toy boat supply running for all the many field trips and festivals this summer! We couldn’t have done it without you. Lucy Blue is CWB’s Youth Education Coordinator.
Fair winds dear friends. We will miss you.
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THe Book Nook Who Sank the Boat? by Pamela Allen | Ages 2+
Beside the sea, there once lived a cow, a donkey, a sheep, a pig, and a tiny little mouse. One warm, sunny morning - for no particular reason - they decided to go for a row in the bay. Do you know who sank the boat? It’s a charming adventure – and also an American Bookseller “Pick of the List” book.
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi | Ages 12+
Thirteen-year-old Charlotte Doyle is excited to return home from her school in England to her family in Rhode Island in the summer of 1832. But when the two families she was supposed to travel with mysteriously cancel their trips, Charlotte finds herself the lone passenger on a long sea voyage with a cruel captain and a mutinous crew. What began as an eagerly anticipated ocean crossing turns into a harrowing journey, where Charlotte gains a villainous enemy and is put on trial for murder! A Newbery Honor Book. These two books and more can be ordered by emailing s tore@ cw b.org or can be purchased in person at the CWB gift shop.
Ask the Captain Dear Captain Pete, My dad and I were out sailing near the red nun the other day and a plastic speedboat nearly ran into us! They saw us start to tack and then cut right across our bow. My dad said they were silly landlubbers. I was wondering: what is a landlubber? Sincerely, Nearly Boatwrecked
Dear Nearly Boatwrecked, Ha! I’m glad you were not wrecked. That was silly indeed to cut so close to a sailboat, especially one tacking. Landlubber is a kind of insult – a pretty old one too! Lubber is word from the Middle English language spoken all the way back in the 1300s. Lubber means someone who is clumsy or awkward. Landlubber, as you might be able to guess, is someone who is clumsy or careless on boats or when driving a boat. It is usually used to refer teasingly to an inexperienced sailor or a sailor on their first voyage. Fair winds, Captain Pete
Hey Junior Sailors! Have a question for Caption Pete? Know a great book on boats, boating, ships, sailing, voyaging or other things nautical for the young (and young at heart)? Send your questions, suggest books for us to review (we need the title and the author’s name) or submit your own review to captainpete@cwb. org.
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BUY A BOAT FROM CWB
at cwb@cwb.org before donating.
The Center for Wooden Boats gladly accepts boat donations. These boats are sometimes added to our collection of classic wooden boats, but more often they are sold to help us support our hands-on, on-the-water programs for kids of all ages. You can be a part of this tradition by donating or purchasing a boat at CWB!
• Coffee, coffee, coffee!
Contact Steve Greaves at 206-371-0486 or b o a t s f o r s a l e @ c w b . o r g for more information. Visit our website for new boats and sale prices!
Help us continue to restore our collection of historic wooden vessels. Donate an item on our wish list, which can also be found in the “Support Us” section of our website, w w w.c wb.org. Ple as e c ont act us
• Handheld VHF radios • Boatbuilding lumber - Spruce, Yellow Cedar, Red Cedar, Fir and White Oak
YOLA
12’ WHITEHALL
24’ double-ended gaff-rigged cutter. Built in 1989, this is a stunning traditional cruiser. Diesel inboard motor. Price Reduced. $16,500.
Rowing and sailing. Aluminum trailer with cover. Built by NW School of Wooden Boatbuilding. $3,450.
• Sawzall • Woodworking hand tools • Shop vac • Mini-flags of all nations on toothpicks for toy boats • Crayons • Wine Corks • Decorative punches, stickers and other paper craft supplies (specifically nautical or non-denominational holiday-themed) • Nautical books & children’s books • New launch ramp or railway, cart, winch • New livery outboards
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ALIEN QUEEN
Fiberglass cruising sailboat, with Tohatsu outboard, very complete, well maintained. $6,750.
• Web cam • Digital Projector • Microscope
16’ DAYSAILER
• Ships wheel • Spindle sander • Handheld Power planer • Kit for leatherwork/sail repair • Radio antenna/ waterproof handheld • Trailer for new safety boat • Depth finder • Safety gear for Cama livery boats. • Survival suits • Dry bags
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CAR DONATIONS! To donate a used car (running or not!) visit our website: www.cwb.org/ supportcwb/donate/
THE CENTER FOR WOODEN BOATS
19’ canopy steam launch with trailer. Semple 34DL Engine. Beckman VFT20 boiler with 12Vdc oil burner, keel condenser. $10,800. Designed by Harold Scheel, a wood and epoxy work of art finished completely bright. Retractable keel, comes with trailer. $6,500.
18’ THOMPSON RUNABOUT
With trailer and 115hp Evinrude outboard. $3,200.
CATALINA 25
Cruising Sailboat Honda 4-stroke 8hp outboard. $5,250.
FORTUNE 30
Fiberglass cruising sailboat. Diesel. $11,500.
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Non-Profit Organization U.S. Postage PAID Seattle, WA Permit No. 1583 1010 Valley Street, Seattle, WA 98109-4468 206.382.2628 • WWW.CWB.ORG
U P C OM ING EVENTS Surplus Sale. Saturday November 16, 9am - 1pm. At CWB’s storage warehouse, 1264 Thomas Street. Don’t miss The Center for Wooden Boats Marine Surplus Sale! Crazy things accumulate in our museum warehouse throughout the years. Items we can’t use in our programming could be just what you are looking for on your boat or at your house for decorations. And some of our marine items and parts may fit your boat. 3rd Friday Speaker. Restoration of the Purse Seiner Thelma G. at the Kodiak (Alaska) Maritime Museum, presented by Brian Johnson. October 18, 7 pm in the CWB Boathouse. Free Haunted BOOathouse at Cama Beach. Bring the kids for a trip through the maze, scary characters, scary movies and Halloween treats! Saturday, October 26, 2-7pm. Free; parking requires a Discover Pass. 3rd Friday Speaker. Four Months before the Stick: A Fishery Observer’s Journey in a Tuna Clipper in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean, presented by Shannon Fitzgerald. November 22, 7 pm in the CWB Boathouse. Free Thanksgiving Day. Thursday, November 28. CWB closed. Christmas Day. Wednesday, December 25. CWB closed.
Greet the Season at Lake Union Park! SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30 | 10AM-8PM The weekend after Thanksgiving, ditch the shopping crowds and come to Lake Union Park to celebrate the holiday season! All day on Saturday, MOHAI, The Center for Wooden Boats, and the Historic Ships Wharf will be filled with festive music and family-friendly crafts and activities. In the evening, catch the launch of the Argosy Christmas Ship Festival at Lake Union Park. Park activities are free (donation suggested for some activities); regular admission to MOHAI.
SINDBAD FREE* TO A GOOD HOME The Legendary 1926 Leigh Coolidge Staysail Schooner 40’ LOD *Must agree to restore. Contact Dick Wagner (206) 282-0985