MOVING DAY FOR THE OARHOUSE Af te r 10+ yea r s in the s ame locat ion, C W B ' s

venerab le O a r h o u s e has a new h o m e on its very own float, n o w located on the east s ide of the Boathouse . T h e new locat ion a f fo rds Livery per-sonnel a bet ter v iew of the sa i lboat rental fleet

and makes adminis t ra t ive opera t ions more e f f i -cient. T h e m o v e was a team effor t , as these pho-tos by Steve S u m m e r s attest. Dierk Yochim, M e g T r z a s k o m a , N a t h a n Dav i s and Sean K e n n e d y (backs to camera) push while David Erskine hauls

away or; the m o v i n g sled. Then it's Meg ' s turn to haul the float in as Dierk pushes with Cap'n Pete, Sean superv ises and David turns a p ike pole into a paddle . A l so he lp ing wi th the re locat ion were Bruce Mil l ies , T o b y A h r e n s and Liz Gron lund .

Published bi-monthly by The Center for Wooden Boats

Seattle, WA

Volume XIX Number 2

April, 1998 ISSN 0734-0680

1992, CWB

THE ONE-OF-A-KIND 1998 WOODEN BOAT FESTIVAL F o r t h e 2 2 n d c o n s e c u t i v e y e a r , an a m a z i n g

c o l l e c t i o n o f w o o d e n b o a t s wi l l g a t h e r at t h e s o u t h e n d o f L a k e U n i o n f o r a l o w - k e y pa r t y - bu t o n e g u a r a n t e e d to p r o d u c e fireworks. T h e d a t e s a re Ju ly 3, 4 a n d 5 a n d the e v e n t is t h e L a k e U n i o n W o o d e n B o a t F e s t i v a l .

T h e t h r e e d a y s o f the F e s t i v a l a re j u s t l ike e v e r y d a y at T h e C e n t e r f o r W o o d e n B o a t s -e x c e p t t h e r e wil l be a gaz i l l i on m o r e boa t s and l aye r on l aye r o f a c t i v i t i e s .

T h e F e s t i v a l is a d o - t o u c h , d o - u s e . d o - l i s -ten , d o - w a t c h e v e n t . P e o p l e a n d the i r b o a t s c o m e to sha re . T h e r e a re d o z e n s o f s c h e d u l e d t a l k s and d e m o n s t r a t i o n s a n d t w i c e as m a n y i m p r o m p t u o n e s . T h i s is an a f f o r d a b l e ( w e ask a $3 d o n a t i o n f o r a d u l t s , $5 f o r a f a m i l y a n d $1 f o r s e n i o r s ) , a c c e s s i b l e a s s e m b l y of e x p e r -t i s e , i n f o r m a t i o n a n d , o f c o u r s e , w o o d e n boa t s .

N o t w o F e s t i v a l s h a v e e v e r b e e n a l i ke , bu t t h e r e a re m a n y t r a d i t i o n a l e l e m e n t s , i n c l u d -ing toy b o a t b u i l d i n g , t h e Q u i c k & D a r i n g B o a t b u i l d i n g C o n t e s t , w a t e r t ax i s , fo lk m u -

sic , f o o d b o o t h s a n d a d i n n e r f o r e x h i b i t o r s a n d v o l u n t e e r s . O v e r t h e y e a r s w e h a v e a d d e d t h i n g s such as a C l a s s i c Y a c h t R a c e , a p u b and a floating w a l k c o n n e c t i n g C W B a n d the N a v a l R e s e r v e B a s e . In fac t , w e e v e n a d d e d C W B .

F o r t h e f i r s t s ix F e s t i v a l s ( 1 9 7 7 - 8 2 ) t h e r e w e r e no C W B fac i l i t i e s . Al l o u r a c t i v i t i e s and e d u c a t i o n a l p r o g r a m s w e r e c o n d u c t e d on f r e e or c h e a p - r e n t s i tes . By M a y , 1983, C W B had its o w n s i te on sou th L a k e U n i o n and o w n B o a t s h o p b u i l d i n g at the s i te .

In fac t , t he B o a t s h o p w a s so n e w w e h a d n ' t ye t s t a r t ed to u s e it fo r C W B p r o g r a m s . So f o r the 1983 F e s t i v a l , t he s h o p w a s t r i cked ou t as a t ea a n d s c o n e s h o p . N e v e r b e e n as c l ean s ince . H o w e v e r , w e a c t u a l l y did h a v e a w o r k i n g b o a t s h o p at that F e s t i v a l . R i p K n o t t o w e d o v e r h i s U l t r a m a r i n e S e r v i c e s f l o a t i n g s h o p .

D i d n ' t I say no t w o F e s t i v a l s w e r e a l i k e ?

O n e of the bes t t h i n g s a b o u t o u r Fes t iva l is

the p e o p l e . M a n y m a k e t h e i r l i v ing w i th the i r h a n d s , b u i l d i n g b o a t s and s a i l i n g b o a t s . O u r r e g i o n is b l e s s e d w i th a l a r g e c o m m u n i t y o f f o l k s w h o s p l i c e c a b l e , m a k e ne ts , c a u l k b ig h u n k s o f p l a n k i n g and sai l in b l u e w a t e r . A n d they l ove to p a s s on t h e i r h a r d - e a r n e d sk i l l s .

Fe s t i va l r e g i s t r a t i o n is u n d e r w a y . S o m e o f the b o a t s tha t h a v e a l r e a d y s i g n e d on are a 1945 W e s t C o a s t T r o l l e r , a 32 ' T h a i T a x i , an a u t h e n t i c V e n e t i a n G o n d o l a and a 16' O s l o F j o r d i n g w i t h s q u a r e sa i l . If y o u ' d l ike to b r i n g a b o a t (o r k n o w s o m e o n e w i t h a g rea t boa t y o u ' d like t h e m to b r i n g ) , d i s p l a y m a r i -t i m e gea r , or g i v e a s k i l l s d e m o n s t r a t i o n or t a l k , c o n t a c t C W B f o r r e g i s t r a t i o n f o r m s : p h o n e ( 2 0 6 ) 3 8 2 - 2 6 2 8 ; fax ( 2 0 6 ) 3 8 2 - 2 6 9 9 ; e m a i l c w b o a t s @ t r i p l . o r g . That list o f n u m b e r s wil l w o r k j u s t a s we l l fo r t h o s e w h o w o u l d l ike to v o l u n t e e r to p l a n , s e t - u p and o p e r a t e the F e s t i v a l ; j u s t a d d r e s s y o u r q u e r y to V o l -u n t e e r C o o r d i n a t o r S u e S c h a e f f e r .

W h e t h e r y o u s h o w , tell or j u s t h a n g ou t , th i s wil l be f u n . T r u s t m e . T h e last o n e i n ' s a ro t t en ( o o o p s ) b o a t ! - D i c k W a g n e r

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CAMA BEACH UPDATE

(When the new Cama Beach State Park on Camano Island opens, reviving a nature and rec-reational experience enjoyed by North-western-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 peri-odically reports on how things at Cama Beach are moving along.)

Cama Beach is the most exciting wooden boat opportunity since Noah's Ark. The Center for Wooden Boats will be the powerful drawing card in a new State Park. Cama Beach is a time cap-sule of 1930's waterfront recreation. It is a 430-acre site with 6,000' of beach, backed by virtu-ally untouched forest and wetlands. The tidelands are a thriving habitat for crab and clams. The uplands have eagles, waterfowl and river otters.

In 1932, simple cabins and a boathouse for 50

small boats were built along the meadow above the beach. This development, Cama Beach, was in continuous operation until 1989. It is possibly the last intact fishing resort on Puget Sound. The State Parks department purchased this property from the granddaughters of the founder. It will be a park with a theme: preserving the cultural and natural resources of Cama Beach. The de-velopment will be a light touch that brings the resort back to life, with the buildings restored and usable.

For our activities at Cama Beach, we will uti-lize the original Boatshop, machine shop and boatkeeper's cabin to provide the maritime heri-tage experiences we do at CWB in Seattle. We will have a traditional boat livery, sailboat rides and instruction in traditional maritime skills, in-cluding how to build and sail those old boats. We will have historically significant boats on exhibit, talks, demonstrations, regattas and

This concept of a State Park as a living mu-seum with a non-profit organization as the activ-ity center is a unique effort. The State and CWB are planning ways to make certain that the park can be self-sustaining. We are thinking of the kinds of activities that both are compatible with our mission of preserving our small craft heri-tage and that will attract visitors in the fall and winter and spring to this location. In addition to the livery (weather permitting) and workshops, these activities could be school Field trips, talks, conferences, reunions, retreats and corporate team-building. CWB also could cooperatively sponsor activities with other historic, natural, cultural or marine organizations. Your ideas on potential off-season activities at Cama Beach are welcome. - Dick Wagner

IN OUR MAILBAG Dear Dick,

I don't know if you remember me. Through my high school, I did a one-month internship [spring, 1997] at the Center. Unfortunately, with entering college in Colorado I have not had time to keep in touch with the Center. I would like to extend my gratitude to you and your staff for all you did for me. The Center gave me an opportu-nity and now, reflecting on my experience, I can only think of how much it built me as a person

as well as building me as a person who appreci-ates the wooden boat- Specif ical ly , Dierk Yochim. who took me under his wing, was not only an influential boat builder but someone I look up to even today. The rest of the staff and volunteers accepted me with open arms and not only taught me more about wooden boats, but were respectable and influential individuals. Now all I think about is how I would like to visit the Center again and be a part of the wonderful com-munity which surrounds it.

As for the thesis I wrote for my high school through my internship at the Center, faculty at the school were amazed at the level of teaching the Center gave me. Comparing my project at the Center to those of other students, my high school will use my project as an example for upcoming students. I can only take a very little part of that recognition; the Center was, for the most part, responsible for my success. I have enclosed my thesis paper in this letter. Although it may seem simplistic, I had to write for people who have no idea of what the wooden boat rep-resents.

My wish for the Center is that it stays in the same context as a learning experience for all of the people involved with it. I hope to be able to visit you again.

Sincerely, Chad Stansberry Boulder, Colorado

Dear Chad,

It was a pleasure to hear from you. We all re-member the high school student from Idaho who interned last spring. I shared your thesis with the staff. The praise it received from your school was well deserved. Good work!

Everyone is busy here. Our SailNOW! pro-gram has a waiting list. Meg is training a great corps of Livery volunteers. Dierk and his volun-teers have completed restoration of several boats and there are always four or five projects under-way. Judie is busy getting out letters and news-letters. Bob continues with day-to-day adminis-tration and has also added instruction in sailing and boatbuilding for homeless teenagers and projects for people with AIDS to his duties.

Wherever you go and whatever you do from now on, your study of boats will be of value. Water and boats have been a primal experience

in all cultures. If there were no seafaring, imagine where the world's population and technol-ogy centers would be today. There would be no culture with-out history. And, without boats history would be boring at best.

Good luck at the U. of Colo-rado. Come visit us when you can. A deep draft of Lake Union air will be a great restorative.

Best regards, Dick Wagner

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ASSIGNMENT: ANGUILLA Historic preservation is an issue everywhere.

Some places it's a hot item, in others it's taken as a social requisite. And in many spots it's just dawn-ing. Last year, Colleen and I visited Anguilla, Brit-ish West Indies, where the dawn is breaking. Anguilla is the northernmost of the Lesser Antilles, the arc of islands stretching from just east of Puerto Rico to just north of Venezuela.

We were the guests of three odd bedfellows: The Historical and Archaeological Association. The Board of Tourism and American Airlines. I was to review their maritime heritage and brain-storm its potential as a tourist attraction and as a living maritime museum. Why was I invited? It was The Center for Wooden Boats and our hands-on heritage programs involving the whole communi ty that excited and inspired the Anguillans.

Needless to say, the environment of small is-lands and constant easterly trade winds is the usual medium for a boat culture. Historically, trading schooners and sloops for fishing and lightering were built on the beaches of all West Indian islands. But in Anguilla, maritime his-tory took a curious wobble. The British planta-tion system set up there in 1650 came to a halt in the early 1800s. Not enough product from the small, coral rock island to warrant the complex administration of plantations. Because of this, no traditional British bureaucracy had been set up. Thus, the society quickly changed from a master-slave system to a community of freehold-ers, with small farm and fishing operations.

Much work in the gathering of resources for export was done cooperatively. Traditionally, parties would mark the end of volunteer projects. Rum was an expected ingredient. Exorbitant Brit-

DOCK LINES That's not just woodsmoke you see coming out

of the Boatshop. Dierk Yochim reports his shop crew is really smoking along with boat restora-tions:

"March saw the launching of the Petrel. Thanks to all who worked on her: Molly, Irene, Patric, Toby, Steve, Bill, Dave, Phillip and all the rest. She received new centerboard trunk, gaskets and sister frames aft of the trunk and all her brightwork was renewed.

"Currently the Woods Hole Spritsail boat (or Woods'l Sprits'l) is occupying the place of prominence in the shop and needs a bit more than Petrel: all new frames, butts and furniture. We would like to have her going by June 1.

"Thanks - and count your fingers."

The 12' Whitehall also is out of the shop, with (continued on page six)

ish duty was charged for rum imported into Anguilla but cheap rum was available in the French islands. So the Anguillans built small, fast, quickly-derigged boats to outrun the con-stabulary and disappear among the small reef-bound coves.

Without the rum. there would be no crops or fish for export. Without small fast boats there would be no rum at affordable prices. Think of those relationships as an economic ecology.

Although smuggling is no longer a commu-nity endeavor, that part of Anguilla's past still lives in the form of replicas of the smuggling boats. The boats are still an integral part of life on Anguilla but they come to the fore the first week in August when the August Monday boat races are held. The boats, by race rules, are built and rigged exactly as their 200-year-old prede-cessors: no winches, halyards or battens and few blocks. The simple technology keeps the cost low. Every cove, bay and village has its own home-grown boats, island-built and grass roots financed.

You can't watch the regatta without getting caught up in its excitement. The boats race ev-ery day. Stores and public facilities close. The entire population goes to the series of beaches where each race starts. They picnic, dance, sing and watch the races, screaming support and ad-vice and re-hashing the races from the end of the last one in the evening 'til the start of the first one the next morning. I found myself in a hot-bed of passion - about boats, community pride.

theater and historic awareness. It was virtually a national World Series with an historic spin. If it could be bottled, historic museums would buy it by the shipload.

As for their historic preservation goals, the Anguillans have the horsepower to make their dreams come true - a tourist attraction that can be as magnetic as Mardi Gras and a maritime museum that will capture the heart and soul of the community. Their passion for maritime his-tory is virtually genetic, their willingness to vol-unteer their energy and skills is legendary, and the cooperation of a history organization, a tour-ism agency and a travel corporation is cutting-edge community teamwork. In tiny, isolated Anguilla, I witnessed the essential building blocks that any museum today needs in order to succeed in providing sustaining public benefits that will serve the visitors and the citizens.

Anguilla is somewhat different from Seattle -unoccupied beaches, fine white sand, air and wa-ter of unbelievable clarity, cooling tradewinds, more goats than people (except during the race week when every living Anguillan returns to the clan gathering) and people who were uniformly kind and courteous.

It was a tough assignment, mon! - Dick Wagner

(You can meet some of the folks who make this country of boat race enthusiasts work and see a display on Anguillan racing boats at the Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival July 3-5.)

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Dierk Yochim, David Burchard and Meg Trzaskoma (left to right) use tackle and strongback to safely launch Petrel following her restoration. - photo by Judie Romeo

A FEW SNAPSHOTS FROM OUR AUCTION ALBUM

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GOING, GOING.. . . . . gone, but not forgotten -Tradewinds: Fill

Our Sails, the 1998 CWB Fundraising Auction, that is. While bidders were busy raising their paddles, Volunteer Patrick McKenna was rais-ing his camera lens to capture these vignettes (opposite page) from a memorable evening

(Top, left) Auctioneer Mark Schenfeld con-gratulates Larry Hennings on yet another suc-cessful bid as Helen and Dick Senseny (left) and Keith and Evie Callow share the merriment. Larry not only sold the most Auction tickets, he was among the most prolific bidders.

(Top, right) Auction Co-Chair Karen Brait-mayer was all smiles when the auctioneer pro-claimed her the winning bidder for a painting by Dale Chihuly. Looks like Karen's husband, CWB Trustee David Erskine, and their table partners, Dan and Jane Warner, were reserving judgement.

(Center, left) With all her hard work behind her, Nicole Malone-Ryan, who designed and cre-ated the Auction poster, invitations and program, and her friend, Marc Boozer, enjoyed a relaxed evening.

(Center) The Silent Auction tables displayed an amazing array of goodies, including some that invited the close scrutiny of Clark Gill.

(Center, right) That's a canoe paddle Auction Donor Bill Biddle is brandishing. Bill's person-ally-guided canoe trips on Lake Ozette have been highly-sought-after Auction items for the past several years.

(Bottom, left) The Auction had a few "firsts," including the debut CWB appearance of Shop Manager Dierk Yochim (center) in a suit and tie! With Dierk are Livery Manager Meg Trzaskoma and Tom Mansfield.

(Bottom, right) The Auction would not have been possible without a lot of work by a group of very dedicated volunteers. Among them were (seated, left to right) Cynthia and Ed Stegall and Keith and Kathy Williams, who capped their Auction service with a stint at the bidder regis-tration desk. Standing at rear is Auction Invita-tions Chair Kay Schardein.

The inscription on the original (see story below) reads: This Royal Maya Yacht built in 1311 AD out of a huge, hollowed-out Chechem Hardwood log was 23' long with a generous 4' beam. The chief paddler forward is relaxed even with skipper yelling orders aft, a thing skippers have always done. In the middle sits the Royal King, just forward the Parrot and Jaguar and aft the Monkey and Iguana, the four most revered animals of the wild, 687 years ago. They all enjoy

the cruise down the River of Passion on the Yucatan Peninsula. The hull form was excellent but after the demise of the Maya civilization the art and knowledge disappeared.

HOW I FOUND A PICTURE OF AMERICA'S OLDEST YACHT

On February 3, 1976. I arrived in Guatemala City to meet with Enrique and Elizabeth Alvarez. Enrique's company in Merida, Yucatan. Mexico, had won two bids to build nearly 100 small 31' and 40' fishing boats for Panama and Costa Rica, as financed by the Inter-American Development Bank. I had won the contract to design these boats and we had an amicable discussion on this.

Two days later, we went to the airport and flew to Tikal in the northern jungle to look at some very old Mayan Indian temples. The rickety old DC3 aircraft landed on a very bumpy dirt run-way, the landing rougher than any I had ever experienced.

After looking at the ruins, our guide telling us the stones to build them had come from some far-away quarry, we ended up in what they called a museum, which it was in a very small way as most of the display material was for sale as sou-venirs. I bought some and then I saw this picture of an old Maya canoe. Elizabeth translated what was written on the parchment-like paper under the drawing of the boat, passengers and crew. (Even though she looked more like a refined Spanish princess, she knew some Mayan. Enrique, on the other hand, looked exactly like a Maya Indian, but knew only Spanish.)

That drawing was part of the museum, not a souvenir for sale. However, the curator was go-ing to Guatemala City on the same flight as we were. For $ 10 he agreed to take the drawing with him, have it copied and deliver it to my hotel.

Our return flight, on another DC3. was har-rowing. The cabin was nearly filled with bundles of some fern-like small cut plants, supposedly going to Chicago to some perfume maker - but

the scent was such I'd never like it. Then, after almost an hour in the air, we were met by a huge storm, the front stretching so far north and south the plane could never circle it. The pilot advised he didn't have enough fuel to return to Tikal and had decided to fly through.

Up, down, sideways. Creaking of plane, thun-der and lightening all around, the bundles of plants flying all around covering the six passen-gers, Enrique and Elizabeth both screaming and hugging each other. I was just gripping the seat, scared.

After a two-hour ride-of-our-lives, we landed in sunny, warm Guatemala City. A couple of hours later, the museum curator came to the ho-tel with a photostat of the boat only, not the text beneath it, so the description I have provided is based on the translation by Elizabeth.

(A small part of this story is fiction. You guess which it is!) - Nils Lucander

CWB ON THE WEB Although The Center for Wooden Boats has

had its own home page for some time, our web site has updated and redesigned. You can view the latest Calendar of Events and Workshops, check out eve ry th ing f rom Sa i lNOW! to what's new in the gift shop or even take a look at how CWB looks from outer space. It's all at http://www.eskimo.com/~cwboats

Thanks for the web site's upgrade go to Victor Eskenazi. Randy Magliozzi, Sean Kennedy. Jen-nifer Oxley, Jim Whittaker and Judie Romeo.

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DOCK LINES (CONT.) several new planks and frames and a sparkling new paint job. Also back in the rowing fleet is the Peapod. She too is sporting new paint.

Up in the Pavilion, the Chittagong Delta boat is back on display, having been refurbished by a hard-working crew headed up by Steve Must, Kay and Keith Schardein and John Emswiler. Also in the Pavilion is one of our favorite boats, the Herreshoff 12 ½. Sara, the first boat to re-ceive the attention of the new Boatkeeper Pro-gram. Sara will get a complete refinishing and some minor repairs.

Summer hours are now in effect in the Livery. You can rent a boat anytime between noon and 6 p.m. Wednesday through Monday (closed for maintenance on Tuesdays). Boats must be back at the dock by 7 p.m. So come on down and take advantage of CWB's great member rental rates: $10 to $15 an hour for rowboats and $12.50 to $18.75 an hour for sailboats.

We kicked off April with another great garage sale. Half a dozen boats and several hundred items, big and small, found new homes and $2,500 found its way into CWB's coffers. Many thanks to the hard-working volunteers who made it possible: David Erskine, Margaret Little, Bill Drohan, Marc Lentini, Annette Toutonghi, Gwen Anderson, Stephen Kinnaman. Dean Black and Colleen Wagner.

Don't miss the May Third Friday speaker (8 p.m. May 15). He's Kip Schisler, an expert in flint knapping, who will provide a lesson in this stone age method of edge tool making. As he talks. Kip will demonstrate the techniques, wind-ing up at the end of his talk with a finished tool for your inspection

WISH LIST We continue to get positive response to our

Wish List, so here's a hearty "Thank You!" to those who've donated much-needed items to CWB. You may have some of the things on the list below just taking up space in your garage, basement or backyard. Here's what we can use tight now:

• Full suits of Herreshoff 12½, Mercury and Blanchard Jr. sails in good condition

• #1 bronze oarlocks and sockets

• Paddles for our sailboats

• A Cyclone-style separator to augment our

Boatshop dust collection system

• Two random orbit sanders

• 15-passenger van in good running condi-tion for field trips

• 14'-16' Boston Whaler or hard-bottom in-flatable in good condition for use as a Livery assist boat

We also are still looking for sponsors for the boats being built for us by students in the boatbuilding program at Seattle Central Com-munity College. It's a new program where CWB will commission boats that we want to add to our fleet, the students at SCCC will build them -and we will be seeking out donors who would like to purchase the boats for us!

Since the school only charges for the cost of the materials, this is a great way for us to add desirable boats to our collection. A typical 18' sailboat will only cost about $4,500, which is insanely cheap compared to the $20,000 it would take to have one built elsewhere! There are two boats in the works: a 12' Woods Hole Spritsail boat, which is nearing completion ($3,500), and a reproduction of Munro's Sharpie, Egret, which is just underway. If you would like to contribute all or part of the funds for these boats, please contact Bob Perkins, (206) 382-2628.

As always, your donations to CWB are tax deductible. And you'll get a million thanks from all of us too!

CLASSIFIEDS 9' sailing tender, designed & built by Rich

Kolin, 1977. Design based on Herreshoff Colum-bia Lifeboat Model. Round bottom, lapstrake, cedar on oak. 75 lbs. $2,500. Rich Kolin, (360) 659-5591.

Excellent 12' Fishing Skiff, vee-bottom, ce-dar planked, completely restored 8/96. Includes rare 1957 Johnson Seahorse 5 ½ hp outboard with motor cover & dolly. Price reduced to $895. Ri-chard McColley, (206) 878-7745.

14' Whitehall, rowing model (the subject of Rich Kolin's next book), currently under con-struction. (360) 659-5591.

14' Cosine Wherry, good condition, with trailer. $1,200/OBO. Bill, (425) 673-8876.

9 ½' Lapstrake Pram, copy of a Norwegian boat, built at CWB. Red cedar on white oak fas-tened w/copper clench nails; bright finish, mint condition. Includes oars. $ 1,350. (425) 392-2810.

Classified Ads are available, free of charge, only to CWB members. Please contact Judie at CWB if you would like an ad to appear in Shav-ings or Sawdust.

FOR SALE BY CWB 30' Chris Craft Constel lation Express

Cruiser. 1964, in good shape, nice, clean inte-rior. Twin 283 V-8s run clean. VHF, DS. $10,000/OBO.

San Francisco Mercurys, one with trailer ($300/OBO) and one without ($400/OBO). Both need work.

18' Geary Flattie. No mast but has deck hard-ware. $75/OBO.

15 ½' Dory. Needs minor repair and a paint job. $125/OBO.

Port Madison Pram. No mast. Needs work. $ 100/OBO.

9 ½' Lapstrake Pram, copy of a Norwegian boat, built at CWB. Red cedar on white oak fas-tened w/copper clench nails; bright finish, mint condition. Includes oars. $ 1,350. (425) 392-2810.

Take 5 multi-purpose "boat." Accessories make it a windsurfer, sliding seat rower or a sail-boat. It's a teenager's dream. $200/OBO.

Johnson 35hp outboard. $75/OBO.

Atomic 4.engine. Cracked block but every-thing else is good. New manifold and lots of spares. $250/OBO.

Westerbeke 4-91 good, rebuildable block. $ 100/OBO.

To see any of these, stop by the CWB Boat-house or call Bob Perkins, (206) 382-2628.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Every 3rd Friday CWB THIRD FRIDAY SPEAKER SERIES 8 p.m CWB Boathouse

Each month CWB finds a speaker of wit and experience to talk about his or her special knowl-edge. It is also an opportunity for CWB mem-bers to meet one another and the staff. Admis-sion is free. Refreshments served (donations to cover costs are appreciated).

THE OCCASIONAL CAFE 7:30 p.m. (new starting time) every other Thurs-day CWB Boathouse

Only three performances remain for the Occa-sional Cafe, a concert series in association with the Puget Sound Guitar Workshop, featuring some of the Northwest's best, most in-demand performers. The "cafe" of the series title is the CWB Boathouse with casual seating and yummy cafe-style refreshments. Tickets are $8, under 14 or over 65, $6 (at the door only). Scheduled per-formers are: April 30, Cats 'N' Jammers, swing trip par excellence; May 14, Ruthie Dornfield, Ruthie Hunter and Cathie Whitesides, Balkan songs and tunes, and Hank Bradley, the poison Coyote kid, and May 28, Danny Barnes and Mark Graham, quirky irrelevance and superb musicianship, and Orville Johnson, mongrel folk.

May 15, 1998 (Friday) THIRD FRIDAY SPEAKER SERIES 8 p.m CWB Boathouse

Flint knapping is an edge tool making method that began before history. In an hour and a half, Kip Schisler will give us a 25,000-year-old les-son in stone age technology. He will describe the process and design alternatives of making flint tools and, as he talks, demonstrate the tech-niques, winding up with a finished product at the end of the talk. Percussion and flaking will have new meaning at the end of this session.

May 16-17, 1998 (Saturday & Sunday) STEAMBOAT MEET 10 a.m - 5 p.m CWB North Floats

Call me Puffin. I am a steamboat. I get lots of oil squirted on all my joints. It smells funny, but

I like it. My crew keeps feeding me with wood, coal or oil. Yummy! My owner is happy to talk all about my pistons, boiler and stuff like that. It sort of embarrasses me but my crew is really proud of me and they like others to know about me. I let my crew toot my whistle because we all love the sound and it a great stress reliever for all of us. We want you to come down and take free rides on me and my cousins. We will let you toot the whistle too.

July 3- 5 (Friday-Sunday) 22ND ANNUAL LAKE UNION WOODEN BOAT FESTIVAL 10 a. m - 6 p.m daily

Wooden boats in the water, wooden boats on the shore, big wooden boats, teeny wooden boats, more than 100 wooden boats of all sizes, types and vintages, demonstrations of how to do things on and to wooden boats, stuff for wooden boats, building wooden boats, racing wooden boats, wooden boats in history, music, food and fun. That's what our annual homage to our reason for being is all about. See you there!

July 13-17, July 27-31 or August 10-14 (Mon-days-Fridays) SUMMER IN THE CITY 9 a.m - 3 p.m

We are again offering our exciting summer maritime program for kids age 12 and older. Summer in the City includes a combination of maritime skills - sailing, rowing and marlinspike work - as well as maritime history. The focus is on sailing skills with the goal of having students soloing by week's end. Three identical five-day sessions are available: July 13-17, July 27-31 or August 10-14. The cost is $175 per student and there are only nine spaces available for each ses-sion. Register by phone - (206) 382-2628 - or in person at CWB; because of the popularity of the program in past years, no mail order registra-tions can be accepted.

July 18-24 (Saturday - Friday) ADVENTURE BOUND

In our first large vessel program for teenag-ers, students ages 14-18 will have the opportu-nity to sail and navigate the 101' schooner Ad-venturess throughout Puget Sound. They'll sail the vessel, plot its course with charts and com-pass, stand watch and prepare meals. While the focus is on sailing and navigation skills, the "Ad-venture Bound" week also will include rigging workshops, visits to salty Northwest ports, his-tory, folklore, creative writing and marine ecol-ogy. The fee of $550 per student includes food, lodging, instruction and supervision for the week. Call CWB, (206) 382-2628. for a brochure and application form. Don't delay; we've only got space for 20 lucky teens!

June 19, 1998 (Friday) THIRD FRIDAY SPEAKER SERIES 8 p.m. CWB Boathouse

Scott Rohrer. a world-renowned sailing race skipper, has had a long love affair with the fast and graceful Six Meters. He will give a slide talk on the history of these beautiful boats, including a lot of anecdotal tales about the ones he sailed and the colorful characters involved with them. CWB has just acquired the donation of the Six Meter, Hecate. Before Scott's talk, you can look over this 1920's classic sloop, designed and built by Camper & Nicholson (of England).

MARINE SKILLS WORKSHOPS

Year-round (classes even day April-October) LEARN TO "SAIL NOW!" Fee: $150 per person (includes a one-year CWB membership) 11 a.m - 1 p.m or 1:30p.m - 3:30p.m Satur-day & Sunday 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 nine-month period) in our small boats, no more than three students per instructor. Students will graduate when able to sail a variety of keel, cen-terboard. sloop and catboats by instinct, by them-selves. You may begin any Saturday, space per-mitting. Please call ahead for reservations.

We also continue to offer individual lessons ($20/hour for members, $30/hour for non-mem-bers) on weekdays by appointment.

May 2-10, 1998 (Saturday-Sunday) LAPSTRAKE BOATBUILDING Fee: $550 (members)/$600 (non-members) 8:30 a.m - 5:30 p.m CWB Boatshop Instructors: Eric Hvalsoe & Dierk Yochim

Eric, a homegrown Seattle boatbuilder, has proven he can stand up to the best of the Downeast builders. Dierk. our Shop Manager, has proven he can stand up to the rigors of leading volunteers through boat restoration. Together they'll lead students through the mysteries of lap-strake construction to build Eric's classic design, the Hvalsoe 15. Students will build the hull, spars, centerboard, rudder and tiller. Limited to 8.

May 16, 1998 (Saturday) STRIP PLANKED KAYAK SEMINAR Fee: $25 (members)/$30 (non-members) 9 a.m - 3 p.m CWB Boathouse Instructor: Prof Paul Ford

Strip planking is a hybrid technology. Thin ¼" strips of wood are edge-glued to form the hull shape and then encased in fiberglass for strength and waterproofing. The result is a strong, rigid, light "sandwich" construction. This is our only class that discusses extensive use of fiberglass. The instructor is experienced in strip building and effectively provides students with the tech-

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nical information needed - in a seminar session -to enable them to build their own strip planked kayak. Limited to 20.

May 19 & 21, 26 & 28 (Tuesdays & Thursdays) NAMEBOARD CARVING Fee: $65 (members)/$70 (non-members) 6 p.m - 8 p.m CWB Boatshop Instructor: Nathan Slater

The class will cover both layout and carving techniques to make your own signs. Each stu-dent will carve their own nameboard with letters 3" high (for a boat or house). If there is time, half model carving will also be covered. Nathan Slater is an experienced boatbui lder and nameboard carver. Limited to 6.

May 23, 1998 (Saturday) CANOE CANVAS WORKSHOP Fee: $40 (members)/$50 (non-members) 9 a.m - 6 p.m. CWB Pavilion Instructor: Eric Harman

The class will re-canvas an existing canoe, including removing the old canvas, attaching the new and filling the canvas in preparation for painting. Eric Harman is very experienced in building and repairing canvas-covered ca-noes. Limited to 8.

May 23 & 30 (Saturdays) POETRY, SEA STORIES & MACRAMÉ Fee: $25 (members)/$30 (non-members)

1 p.m - 4 p.m CWB Boathouse Instructor: Warren Scholl

Warren has been an expert at macramé since

the mid-'30s and was writing poetry before that. He welcomes poets and raconteurs to take the class and share their literary work. Warren knows an infinite variety of macramé. Students each will make two projects of their own choice. Limited to 10.

May 30 - June 7 (Saturday - Sunday) BAIDARKA (ALEUTIAN-INUIT) KAYAK WORKSHOP Fee: $750 (members)/$775 (non-members) 9 a.m -5 p.m CWB Pavilion Instructor: Corey Freedman

This kayak is a different and more compli-cated construction than the Greenland Inuit type. Each student will build their own boat. The instructor is well-recognized for his ex-pertise in native kayak construction and his teaching ability. Limited to 4.

July 18-19, 1998 (Saturday - Sunday) SAIL AWAY CHALLENGE Fee: $30/day 10 a.m - 3 p.m CWB docks (registration 9:30 -10 a.m in the CWB Boathouse)

A learn-to-sail clinic for people with disabili-ties. Volunteer instructors from the Footloose Sailing Association and The Center for Wooden Boats will teach the basics of sailing. The Sun-day afternoon sessions will be a race in which participants will test their skills. Boats for the clinic will include some with adapted seats, which allow individuals with limited mobility control of the boat. For more information or a registra-

tion form, contact Bob Ewing, (206) 236-2498.

October 19-23 (Monday - Friday) CANOE RESTORATION Fee: $450 (members)/$500 (non-members) 9 a.m - 5 p.m CWB Boatshop Instructor: Jerry Stelmok

We plan to find a canoe that needs new can-vas, a few ribs and planks and maybe even a new stem. Then we'll fix it. Everyone who has or ap-preciates true classic wood and canvas canoes should know how to fix them. If you have a ca-noe that needs fixing, maybe yours can be the class project. Limited to 4.

October 26-31, 1998 (Monday - Saturday) MAINE GUIDE CANOE WORKSHOP Fee: $500 (members)/$550 (non-members) 8:30 a.m - 5 p.m CWB Boatshop Instructor: Jerry Stelmok

Students will build a classic canvas-on-wood canoe. Jerry Stelmok of Maine, the premier builder of this type of canoe, has written the de-finitive book on canvas and wood canoe build-ing and has taught several classes on the subject. Students must have woodworking experience. Limited to 6.

NOTE: A $100 non-refundable deposit is re-quired to register for all boatbuilding work-shops; the balance is due no later than one week prior to the workshop. Pre-payment in full re-serves your place in all other workshops. Classes with fewer than four students will be canceled or postponed.

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