LETTER FROM THE FOUNDING DIRECTOR Above all else. The Center for Wooden Boats

offers knowledge of our heritage through direct experience. This year our hands-on programs reached new dimensions in achievement.

Our youth programs' most spectacular event was the Pacific Challenge. This was a gathering of 17 teams of teenagers from throughout the Northwest for friendly competition in traditional maritime skills. Paddle-, oar- and sail-powered boats of English, Spanish, Inuit, Hawaiian and American heritage and their crews gathered at CWB in May. It was a weekend of physical chal-lenge. problem solving, teamwork and, espe-cially. fun.

Kris ta Brown of the vessel Elizabeth Bonaventure from Anacortes wrote: "I wanna thank you guys for putting on the best show. It was great! I had the time of my life. It was my first year, and I had so much fun I'm gonna stick with rowing forever. . . . I thank you from the bottom of my heart."

Sarah U'ilani Marcell wrote: "I helped paddle the Hawaiian outrigger canoes. I just wanted to drop you a line to tell you that I love your orga-nization and I really love all the work you do."

There were many other events that outdid our expectations, including the "Cast O f f " program. This gives free rides on weekends in various his-toric craft not suitable for livery. Our 21' steam launch Puffin was the star attraction in previous years but Puffin needed a new boiler this year. Several friends of CWB and steamboats, recog-nizing the importance of keeping Puffin avail-able for the "Cast O f f " program, stepped up and contributed to the campaign. Enough was raised for the boiler, repairs to the trailer and a new cloth boat cover. That was a triumph in itself but, better yet. our 35' New Haven Sharpie, Puffin's replacement, gave rides to hundreds of visitors. Our phones this summer were jingling on Saturday and Sunday mornings with callers asking if the Sharpie was sailing. This replica

1880's oystering vessel gave visitors an experi-ence in sailing a unique 19th century watercraft that they will long remember. This is the sort of experience only a hands-on museum can offer.

The 36' Haida canoe carving project on our

lawn is another example of CWB's activities leaving a wake behind. When Haida native Rob-ert Peele is working on the canoe, about three-fourths of his time is public contact In addition to the "how-to" aspects, Robert has dealt with issues of culture, environment. Northwest his-tory and spirituality in his gentle, thoughtful manner. The canoe project has broad impact on our community. Many return weekly to see the progress. School groups from pre-schoolers on up come regularly. Through this project. Robert has taken on another canoe carving project. Working with the students of Kilo Junior High, a 16' cedar canoe is being built. Recently, the whole school came to CWB to study Robert's 36' canoe, talk to students working on Inuit kay-aks, attend a talk and demonstration on "Cedar Culture" by Steve Philipp. renowned expert on native maritime skills, and paddle our umiak. Talk about kids in a candy store!

CWB's logo is the salmon gillnetter. Our living example, more than 100 years old, needed major restoration. Through public and private grants this project was done, but not in our back-yard. We partnered with the Port of Seattle and Odyssey Museum to re-build the gillnetter on the central waterfront, alongside Odyssey. A whole new audience was able to see a traditional fishing vessel on the operating table this sum-mer. We at CWB must reach out to our commu-nity; one of the ways is to take the museum to the people.

Our heritage skills workshops have been part of CWB's core since the beginning. The most successful this year was the nine-day baidarka class, taught by Corey Freedman. Evaluations from this workshop gave the course and instructor straight As - and often A+ for cither or both categories. We had planned only

The kids from Pacific Crest School crewed CWB's gig Dan in the 8th Annual Pacific Challenge, just one of the many outstanding youth programs CWB hosted in 1999.

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one baidarka workshop this year but word-of-mouth endorsements and a New York Times ar-ticle brought so much response, we scheduled five more and they all filled up. Boatbuilding classes always stir up exceptional enthusiasm in the stu-dents In the baidarka case, that enthusiasm bubbled over, due to Corey's teaching techniques, which include teamwork, paddling breaks and stu-dents" choice of music to work by.

The pay-off for everyone was the site Corey chose: our open-air Pavilion, which CWB visitors pass through coming and going. Corey look the boatbuilding program out of the box.

And then there's Pirate, a 39' knockabout sloop. Pirate is an " R " class, designed by Seattle's Ted Geary and built by Lake Union Dry Dock in 1926. CWB member and former Trustee Scott Rohrer discovered Pirate in Southern Cali-fornia. organized a syndicate to buy, restore and maintain Pirate and donate her to CWB.

Pirate has been sailing every Saturday and Sunday since she arrived in mid-July, giving the stakeholders and anyone else on the dock the

thrill of handling a pedigreed historic racing yacht. The whole operation, from purchase to donation, was an example of opportunism, faith (a leap of) and commitment. This was not a typi-cal CWB event, but it certainly was typical of the atypical activities at CWB this past year.

CWB is a museum of programs because we feel direct experience is the best way to learn.

Looking at static exhibits can be a f ine intro-duction to the creativity, technical skills and so-cial implications of historic objects. Written in-formation and talks may give deeper insights. But hands-on history is the most challenging and long-lasting education experience. Visitors to CWB are the engine that puts CWB resources to work, stimulating thoughts and senses. CWB is the engine's vital spark. - Dick Wagner

SAILING INTO THE FUTURE

The last place one would expect to find sail-ors on a sunny, breezy Sunday afternoon is in-doors. but that is just where a dedicated group of friends and staff of CWB could be found on October 24. Nearly 30 people gathered at the home of CWB Trustee Betsy Davis for a Strate-gic Planning Retreat. Participants included CWB Founding Director Dick Wagner. Executive Di-rector Bob Perkins, longtime members, volun-teers and friends of CWB. past and present staff and the CWB Board of Trustees.

Facilitators Jean Leed and Brad Wakeman from Business Volunteers of the Arts kept us on course and on time. There was much discussion and sharing of ideas as we reviewed survey re-sponses and developed draft goals. Guest speak-ers Chuck Fowler of Northwest Nautix. and Don

Harris of the Seattle Parks and Recreation De-partment brought us up to speed on regional maritime heritage projects and the development of the Naval Reserve Center respectively.

The Strategic Planning Committee met Octo-ber 26 to review the preliminary goals drafted at the retreat, collect additional data and finalize the next steps. Betsy Davis joined the committee as the CWB Board Executive Committee represen-tative. Betsy has taken on the task of overseeing the organization of all the pieces into a workable strategic plan. A skeletal draft of the plan was presented to the Board for comment at the No-vember 9 meeting. Dick Wagner agreed to head up the effort to refine our vision and mission statements.

At the December 5 meeting of the Strategic Planning Committee, Dick presented revised mission and vision statements for committee comment, thanking Judie Romeo and staff mem-ber Casey Gellermann for their input. The revi-sions will be passed onto the Board for approval consideration at the December board meeting. Bob Perkins described a plan for drafting final goals and developing implementation strategies which includes integration of the Cama Beach site on Camano Island. There was much discus-sion surrounding this exciting process. The pro-cess is scheduled to begin before the New Year and should be completed during the first quarter of 2000. Look for updates on the process in the coming months. - Deb Cibene

ANNUAL MEETING

Our year-end membership meeting on Octo-ber 29 was held in the venerable Naval Reserve Armory, just west of CWB. The meeting rolled along smoothly as soon as we figured out how long it took for the venerable Navy-issue mer-cury vapor ceiling lamps to produce light.

Comments on the state of the Center were of-fered by Board President Bill Van Vlack. Trea-surer Len Marklund, CWB Executive Director Bob Perk ins and F o u n d i n g Direc tor Dick Wagner. Questions and suggestions were vigor-ously offered by the members. If there's any-thing CWB can always count on, it's involve-ment of members. CWB is a historic museum as process, not product. Our members and their active involvement exemplify our goal of direct involvement in history.

The attending members also actively involved themselves with the fantastic cookies, made by Judie Romeo.

After the business part of the meeting was com-pleted. Paul Dorpat, renowned historian of Seattle's built environment, gave us a hilarious and thought-provoking slide talk on the development of our waterfronts. He began with a public partici-pation event, showing a series of slides of heri-tage boats and asking the audience to identity who, what and when. The slides that followed showed downtown and Lake Union waterfronts vastly dif-ferent from today's urban setting.

Normally, the results of the Board of Trustees election would have been revealed at the Annual Meeting. Because of mail delivery problems, it was announced at the meeting that a new ballot would be mailed to members with the results publicized in December. Interestingly, the sec-ond mailing produced the highest "voter turn-out" in CWB' s history.

Elected to the two vacant membership-nomi-nated seats on the Board were Debra Cibene and Trip Zabriskie. Re-elected to the Board were Caren Crandell. Steve Excell. Ken Greff and Bill Van Vlack.

A By-laws change allowing for the temporary appointment of a member to fill a vacant mem-bership-nominated Board position was ratified. - Dick Wagner

CAMA BEACH: A PROTOTYPE PARTNERSHIP When the new Cama Beach State Park on

Camano Island opens, reviving a nature and rec-reational experience enjoyed by Northwestern-ers from the '30s until the late '80s, it will have a new element: the programs and activities of The Center for Wooden Boats. Shavings periodically reports on how things at Cama Beach are moving along.

We began planning for a future cam-pus at Cama Reach in 1991. It has been a long but rewarding process. As it moved along, the planning became more inclusive of all the qualities of Cama Beach and more detailed and consistent with the vision of a park dedicated to preserving its natural and cultural resources. Underline cultural. Much time has been spent trying to balance the historical integrity of the original Cama Beach Resort with the present functional and economic reali-ties of a State Park.

It might appear that the planning pro-cess is a long spiral down a black hole, but consider that we are participating in creating a model for future state parks. This will be the first state park with a vision statement created before planning, with a Master Plan created before construction, with an Anchor Tenant (CWB) and with an Advisory Board - the Family (descendants of the Cama Beach founders). CWB and the Cama Beach Institute - to the State. This park is a prototype public/private partnership.

C W B ' s Cama Beach Committee has com-

LETTERS Dear Mr. Wagner,

I am researching the history and tradition of Forest Service boat building and boat use in Alaska. The Forest Service used workboats, called "ranger boats." in the management of the roadless forested islands and coastal mainland of the Tongass and Chugach National Forests. For 1916-1955 the Forest Service operated its own boatyard. Gravina Marine Station, near Ketchikan, where boats were maintained and Ranger 7 - Ranger 10 were built. (For more information on the ranger boats and the Gravina Marine Station, there is an article on the Internet at: www.fs.fed.us/r10/tongassforest_facts/re-sources/heritage/rangerboats/html

I would like to ask your members and staff if they know of either (a) the current location or

pleted a Cama Beach Business Plan, the third it-eration since 1992. The Committee now is plan-ning CWB activities on Camano Island before

the Park opens, which now is projected as the summer of 2001. The pre-opening activities in-clude organization of committees, workshops, interior rehabilitation of the CWB-operated

(b) the demise of the following ranger boats (date built in parenthesis): Ranger 1 (1913). Ranger 2 (1920), Ranger 4 (1918). Ranger 5 (?), Ranger 6 (1923). Ranger 8 (1928). Ranger 9 (1930), Taku, Langille, Maybeso, Weepose, Marmot and Hiawatha. I would also appreciate suggestions of people or references that may help me fill in the missing information. You can reach me at (907)228-6201 (work). (907) 225-1430 (home). PO Box 6412, Ketchikan, AK 99901, or e-mail: pjmac@ ptialaska.net

Sincerely, Paul Mcintosh

Dear Mr. Wagner,

Many thanks for your letter with the informa-tion on the Center and advice on finding a direc-tory of producers of our favorite craft.

I truly envy your association with the Center.

buildings, restoration of some Cama Beach boats, restoration of the historic marine railway, building traditional boats specifically for Cama

Beach programs and community build-ing of sailboats for youth training.

Once the Park is open, in addition to our general hands-on programs. CWB will offer activities unique to Cama Beach. Those being planned include an apprentice program, study and moni-toring of the ecology of Saratoga Pas-sage in our boats and special annual events such as show-and-tell Camano Island mar i t ime heritage, a f ishing derby in traditional (wood, human-powered) boats, an iron man two-day row around Camano Island and a hu-man-powered tour of the Stillaguamish River (potential guides for the Stilly tour please contact Dick at CWB).

On October 17. the Cama Beach Committee hosted a barbecue for Is-landers to introduce our programs to the community. Bill and Mary Harpster

sailed on in to the event. Their boat, appropriately, is Joshua, a replica of Spray, the vessel that Joshua Slocum singlehanded around the world. Slocum and Spray showed a new way of cruis-ing. just as CWB shows a new genre of historic museums.

Forty Islanders showed up. Funny, that's the same number of wooden boat

nuts who came for the first CWB planning meet-ing in 1976. It took us seven years to get our South Lake Union site. Seems like good plan-ning doesn't happen in a flash. - Dick Wagner

I grew up on Lake Washington (Yarrow Point and Medina) in the 1950s and have fond (?) memories of hours with sandpaper and marine varnish. At age 8 I bought a 10' clinker-built dink for $10 and my father, who was a naval architect/engineer, designed a rig for it. We got our spars and sails at the St. Vincent de Paul on Lake Union. When finished, the damn thing would only sail downwind, but I didn't mind rowing home. Since then, it 's been many boats in many parts of the world but all have been of those bland "modern materials."

Part of my mid-life crisis seems to be an abid-ing desire to gel back to roots - such as those high-maintenance darlings of my childhood. I will enjoy your newsletters and will drop by next time I'm in Seattle.

Rick Sherman Washington. D.C.

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HOW I GOT CENTERED by Tom Robb

The Pacific Ocean called out to me. I missed the canyons, the mountains, and the endless skies of the West In 1984 my wife, Anita, and I piled the kids in the 12-year-old Dodge van (our Conestoga wagon) and headed west for a Grand Tour We wanted to see the country and try to give the kids a sense of what a huge magnifi-cent land we've inherited and of the despera-tion. the enormity of the pioneers' efforts to settle the West.

When we got to Seattle, I happened to spot The Center for Wooden Boats near our motel We stopped by and someone put our boys and me to work pumping rainwater out of the livery boats. The area, the Center, the boats somehow struck a Chord deep in my proletarian uncon-scious. It was love at first sight. I'd been read-ing WoodenBoat magazine off and on. The fan-tastic perfection of the boats in the magazine seemed as unapproachable as an airbrushed Playboy centerfold. Seductive but unreal.

Compared to back home the Center was a whole new world. In Ohio boats are mostly alu-minum fishing skiffs, lubberly geezers' pontoon boats, canoes or plastic yachts. Warp Drive pow-ered bass boats and a smattering of roto-molded kayaks, They serve a mass market's wants but lack character. Kandy-Apple Tangerine metal-

flake paint suits them. Our only wooden boats are pampered old Chris Craft runabouts, the oc-casional old wood and canvas canoe rotting in some elderly neighbor's back yard or beached and forlorn 1950's era Popular Mechanics cruis-ers - the boatyard equivalents of street people.

Past forward. In 1994 my daughter finished grad school and got a job in the Seattle area Visiting became not only possible, but obliga-tory! Now, for a week or two each year I get to volunteer at the Center. They actually let me work on the boats. Not a big deal you say? For professionals it'd be a busman's holiday for sure. My for-money job is what we used to call Tele-phone Man. These days I sit in a cubicle and stare at four computer monitors and talk on the phone trying to get someone else to Fix failed circuits. The abstraction - the unreality - the sense of isolation, of death by boredom, of wish-ing my life away. eight hours at a time, gets me down.

That first year I was set to work pumping out the boats again. I sat down on the stern seat of one of the Peapods to get the water to pool aft where I could pump out most of it. The seat collapsed under me. "Oh s#@%!" I thought. "I 've vandalized a museum piece!" I 'fessed up to Dierk, the shop manager. Unfazed. he said.

"Do you want to make a new one?" So I did. The Center gang trusts us and in turn we try to

make a workmanlike job of it. It's not a perfect seat by any means, but it has lasted. I even saw-it on a postcard. Talk about positive feedback.

The second year was consumed with making seemingly thousands of toy boat hulls for the kids. Tedious, but the goal was worth it. The year after that I made new floors for the old Woods Hole catboat restoration and repaired the starboard rubrail on one of the sailboats. This

year we cleaned up after the garage/junk sale, cast and machined the lead in the new center-board for the same Woods Hole boat and rear-ranged the dock floats for the WOOD Regatta The work is varied, endless and never boring (ex-cept for the toy boat hulls.)

In spite of the plastic marina-queens next door and the creeping gentrification of the waterfront. Lake Union still retains a working world feel, an air of practical honest dignity. On any given day you may find wintering-over Alaskan trawlers, Russian factory ships, drydocks, funky counter-culture houseboats, coastal steamers, sea planes, sea kayaks, a sick and dying once proud 19th century lumber schooner and retired tugs, all pre-sided over by the found-sculpture of the Gas Works Park to the north and on the south by the salty jewel of the Center. There is much for the eye to feast upon.

The Center has become something of a reality fix for me. I get to mainline the heady smell of

cedar and pine tar. paint and varnish. I get to help restore well-used (and not-so-well-used) boats back to health and usefulness. I get to learn and help maintain the pool of old skills that keeps a working waterfront culture alive. I get to warm my hands by the scrap wood fire in the shop stove on cold rainy days. I get to chew the fat with the old guys over the ubiquitous cup of coffee (this is Seattle after all). I get to join God in the act of creation by simply messing about varnishing a transom, making a new seat, replacing a shat-tered rubrail or helping someone discover the grace and lithe strength of a long skinny row-boat. I get to talk with and learn from people who care about boats and the sea as much as I do. They even let us play with the boats. In the process. I'm restored to health and usefulness. And let's not kid ourselves, it's also plain old fun.

Dick Wagner and his crew of worthies have created better than they could have hoped, better than any of us could have imagined. In spite of all the politics, the massive entropy, the under-funding. the competing goals and cross purposes (or is it because of them?), this place thrives and helps us heal as we rebuild the boats and craft our souls.

Tom Robb. who "commutes" to CWB from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, dropped in in

November for a week of volunteer chores in the Boatshop. - photo by Judie Romeo

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TWO MORE TREASURES

In our on-going quest to see just how far we can stretch our luck at attracting terrific work-ers. the CWB staff has grown by two additional highly-qualified people.

Andrea Denton has joined us as part-time Administrative Assistant. Andrea has volun-teered with us for a couple of years and it was exciting to be able to ask her to play at our house more often. Her background is in law. business management and journalism. She will prima-rily be assisting Dick Wagner and Bob Perkins and working with Casey Gellerman to provide services to our members.

Nancy Ries will be our new Youth Program Manager. Since our youth program is one of the most exciting pieces of our development, it was important for us to find the right leader and we did! Nancy comes to us by way of the schoo-ner Adventuress, sloop Clearwater and several years of planning and executing educational pro-grams. She sports a captains license and tons of enthusiasm to boot.

Come down and meet the new kids! And re-member, after you shake hands, the next polite thing to say is: "How can I help?" - Bob Perkins

EQUINOX This started out to he a poem but somewhere

along the line it turned into a prose reflection, says Tom Robb.

Yesterday summer's heat sparkled and danced on the waves of the south wind.

Last night the cold wet Alaskan winds of au-tumn bullied their way down the Sound.

The Boatshop, ghostly in the mist, seemed a living Japanese woodcut. I hunched my shoul-ders against slating icy rain and hurried down the gangplank to the dock.

Flights of Canada Geese, returning from their Arctic Summer, turned up wind on final ap-proach. Gliding, more graceful than ballerinas, dark wings deeply arching downward, feet reaching for the water, chattering excitedly among themselves they water-skied softly onto the lake. A Gathering of the Clans.

Light shone from the shop windows, smoke blew sideways from the stovepipe. The wind slammed the door behind me as I stomped my feet on the rope mat. and hung my slicker on one of the pegs on the wall.

The old man had a fire going in the wood-stove and a pot of coffee steaming on top. He struck a wooden kitchen match and held it over

his pipe. The flame drew down into the bowl with each puff. He looked intently at the match flame for a moment, tossed the match into the

stove and said, "Nice day." I smiled, nodded, and said. "They say it might rain."

I shivered and turned to warm my back by the heat of the fire. Sipping my first cup of coffee of the morning. I considered anew the quiet peace of this place.

Outside a foghorn moaned in the distance. Gulls screeched and cried. Arctic winds wailed. Cold autumn rain beat on the windows. Earth

yawned and readied herself for her winter's sleep.

The old man leaned toward the warmth of the fire. Between slow puffs on the pipe he began retelling his story about being dismasted in a winter gale rounding Cape Horn sixty days out of Shanghai.

- Tom Robb 1999

Not all volunteers are prose poets but all CWB volunteers do get to have a glorious good time messing about in boats. If you'd like to be one of the crew, just call Mindy Koblenzer at CWB. (206) 382-2628, and she'll get you started.

CLASSIFIEDS 18' One-Design Mercury sloop (with cuddy),

set of nylon working sails, portable heavy-duty cradle, sail and cockpit cover, stainless steel out-board motor bracket, plus extra gear. Bargain at $1,185. (206) 878-7745.

17' Thompson Sea Lancer. Lapstrake ma-hogany utility runabout. 1962. Unrestored. Origi-nal canvas, trailer and 75hp Evinrude. Runs great. $3,200. (425)688-1102.

Monk-designed Cruiser (34' x 10'6" x 3'4"). plank-on-frame, built by Kuntz Bros, in 1947: 6 0 h p F o r d - L e h m a n diesel w/kee l c o o l e r . Dickinson oil stove, roomy and comfortable w/ many extras. Vessel has been under cover for four years with a large remodeling project un-derway. Owner now has other priorities and would like new and caring owners to carry project to completion. Asking $15,000. Located in Ju-neau. Alaska Boat & Marine, 888-530-BOAT; e-mail: alaskaboatandmarine@gci.net

1933 U.S. Navy Liberty Launch (50' x 12 9"' x 5"), converted to a cruiser at the end of WWII. Commodious, airy live-aboard. 90hp Perkins die-sel, cruises at 7 knots, consumes 2.5 gph. Diesel stove, whaler type dinghy w/OB. oak frames, creosote-impregnated fir planking, ironbark guards. Asking $50,000. Located in Juneau. Alaska Boat & Marine. 888-53()-BOAT: e-mail: alaskaboatandmarine@gci.net

25'convertible lapstrake built by Cruisers in 1966 (the last year these boats were built of

wood). Excellent condition. Re-powered with a 350 GM and Mercruiser outdrive. Includes sur-vival suits. 9.9hp Yamaha kicker, full canvas aft cover and side curtains. Asking $12,500. Located in Juneau. Alaska Boat & Marine, 888-530-BOAT: e-mail: alaskaboatandmarine@gci.net

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.

BOATS FOR SALE BY CWB

31' 1964 Richardson. Twin 220hp Ford 302 gas engines. Propane stove, oven & heat. Legal head & holding tank: fresh water system. 30 amp shore power, battery charger. 3 bilge pumps. Canvas enclosed cockpit. $ 12,000/negotiable

26' Gulfweed ketch. Volvo diesel, potential live-aboard. Needs some work but will go any-where when you ' re done. $5.000/negotiable

Lightning 19'. Recently in our livery. Ready to sail with just a bit of work. In water at CWB. $ 1,000/OBO

14' Catspaw Dinghy. Needs work. $100/ OBO

14' Hobie Cat, full rig on Shoreline custom galvanized trailer. $600/OBO

All boats subject to prior sale, To see any of these, stop by The Center for Wooden Boats or call Bob Perkins, (206) 382-2628.

Our Annual Fundraising Auction Saturday, February 19, 5 pm - 10 pm

Bell Harbor International Conference Center Tickets: $55 (parking, dinner, Auction)

Auction plus Special Preview Party: $75

Among our Auction items: A 12' Catboat and trailer, Puget Sound Aerial Sight Seeing Tour, Ride along with the Husky Crew Coaches, Harbor

Patrol Ride Along, Island Getaway at the Inn at Langley, Fly to the San Juan Islands on Kenmore Air, Weekend Cruise on the elegant Schooner

Martha, Pocock training shell, Haulouts for almost any size boat, 16' Chesapeake sea kayak, Fully-restored Greenwood wood-and-canvas

canoe, and Much More: Marine Gear, Getaways, Museums, Artwork, Restaurants, Sail and Power Cruises, Adventure Travel and B&Bs

It's a great selection, but we still need more donations. If your business wishes to donate goods or services to the Auction, please

contact Casey Gellermann, (206) 382-2628

BE A DONOR, BE A BIDDER BE THERE!

Invitations go out in early January. Donations are needed now. Call CWB, (206) 382-2628, for donor forms and ticket information

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Every 3rd Friday CWB THIRD FRIDAY SPEAKER SERIES 7 p.m. CWB Boathouse

Each month CWB finds a speaker of wit and experience to talk about his or her special 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).

December 26 (Sunday) FROSTBITE POTLATCH

This is one of our four annual membership gatherings, but open to guests of members too. The purpose is to show off our collections, give a rundown on our plans and have some recre-ational sailing. Registration for the Beetle Cat

Team Championships begins at noon and the racing at 1 p.m. I here will be four teams of four skippers participating in relay races and two rounds of racing. The entry fee is $5 per per-son. Teams will have costume themes, with an award for most original costume. We'll wind up the day with another of our famous potluck suppers, music and dancing.

December 29 (Wednesday) AVAST. ALL KIDS! 11 a.m. - 4 p.m Fee: $4 for the first child, S3 for each addi-tional kid

Now that all the holiday presents have been tried out and tossed aside, set sail for a day of fun at The Center for Wooden Boats. Kids can build a toy boat (and take it home), learn how to fold paper boats, find out how to tie knots or even make a sailor's bracelet, listen to sea sto-ries and sea music or learn about lots of other maritime skills. Grown-ups can help their child work or just enjoy looking at cwb's historic boats. Refreshments will be available too.

January 21, 2000 (Friday) THIRD FRIDAY SPEAKER 7 p.m. CWB Boathouse

Frank Schattauer will give a slide talk on "'Re-storing Tioga" the classic 60' yawl designed by K. Aage Nielsen and built by Baglietto in 1956. Frank and his brother. Axel, run Seattle's renowned Schattauer Sail Loft, founded by their father, Franz. Tioga has been part of their fam-ily since the early '70s. Frank will discuss the history of Tioga, the reason for the restoration (an electro-chemical reaction) and the procedure of rebuilding.

January 22 (Saturday) RADIO CONTROLLED MODEL BOATS 10 a.m. - 4 p.m CWB Boathouse

The Northwest Radio Controlled Modelers Association will display their boats and provide on-the-water demonstrations of how amazingly realistic their miniature craft are.

February 18, 2000 (Friday) THIRD FRIDAY SPEAKER 7 p.m CWB Boathouse

Seattle shipwright and marine surveyor Lee Ehrheart will speak on "Eighteenth Century Ves-sels: Keels to Topmasts." Lee has spent consid-erable time surveying and sailing on HM Bark Endeavor, the replica of the vessel Captain Cook took on his first Pacific voyage. Lee will give us an inside view on the structure, rigging and sail-ing procedures of this anachronistic vessel.

February 19, 2000 (Saturday) TRADEWINDS 2 0 0 0 - FILL OUR SAILS 5:30 p.m -10 p.m Bell Harbor International Conference Center (Seattle waterfront)

It's back to Bell Harbor for another spectacu-lar CWB Fundraising Auction, which promises to outdo even the outstanding 1909 Auction. The Auction Procurement Committee is already hard at work lining up an amazing array of items for bid. All sorts of things are needed: nautical and non-nautical goods, services of every kind, va-cation getaways, hands-on experiences, sports equipment, theater and sports event tickets or unique or hard-to-find items. Particularly sought are unique items that will provoke spirited bid-ding. And we're also recruiting volunteers for the myriad jobs it takes to make the Auction a success. If you have an item to donate or would like to sign on as a member of the Auction crew, call Casey Gellermann at CWB: (206) 382-2628.

March 17, 2000 (Friday) THIRD FRIDAY SPEAKER 7 p.m. CWB Boathouse

Scott Rohrer. renowned racing captain, will give a slide talk on the great yacht designer, Ted Geary, and the exuberant yacht racing scene in the early 1900s. Scott's tales will include a near war between Seattle and Vancouver (B.C.) over the Alexander Cup and Sir Thomas Lipton of-fering a way to calm the waters.

April 21, 2000 (Friday) THIRD FRIDAY SPEAKER 7 p.m. CWB Boathouse

For 100 years Seattle's houseboats have been an integral part of our community. Jeri Callahan, a houseboater who runs lours of the Lake Union houseboats, will present a slide talk. This will be an historic overview and a playful romp through the social aspects of Seattle's unique floating communities.

May 19, 2000 (Friday) THIRD FRIDAY SPEAKER

7 p.m CWB Boathouse This session is about the natural history of the

Northwest along its shorelines. Our speakers tra-ditionally talk about our cultural history but there is no wall between small craft cruising our North-west waters and the experience of the rich and

diverse environment of our tidelands. Dr. Susan Zwinger has a doctorate in interdisciplinary arts

in education. She has published four books on natural history and several essays, articles and poems. She will focus on her latest book: The Last Wild Edge. One Woman's Journey from the Arctic Circle to the Olympic Peninsula.

July 1-4, 2000 (Saturday-Tuesday) 24TH ANNUAL LAKE UNION WOODEN BOAT FESTIVAL

10 a .m. - 6 p.m. each day Four, count 'em, four glorious days to enjoy

our annual homage to the beauty, endurance and vitality of wooden boats. All your favorite boats

from dainty dinghies to stupendous schooners —and activities-toy boats, boat rides, skills dem-onstrations. historic and modern day exhibits, the Quick & Daring Boatbuilding Contest and more - will be there. And we'll have a few sur-prises too. So mark your calendar now

MARINE SKILLS WORKSHOPS

All year 'round (daily classes in the summer!) LEARN TO "SAIL NOW!"

11 a.m. - 1 p.m. or 1:30 p . m . - 3:30 p . m . Satur-day & Sunday Fee: $200 per person (includes a one-year CWB membership) Instructors: Volunteers

Students will learn to sail classic boats in one session of classroom work and as many sessions of hands-on instruction as necessary (within a four-month period) in our small boats, no more than three students per instructor. Students will graduate when able to sail a variety of keel, cen-terboard. sloop and catboats by instinct, by them-selves. You may begin any Saturday, space per-mitting. Please call for reservations. For those who are free only on weekdays, or prefers one-on-one instruction, we continue to offer indi-vidual lessons ($20/hour for members, $30/hour for non-members) on weekdays by appointment.

February 19&20 and 26&27 (Saturdays & Sundays) SAIL MAKING WORKSHOP 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. CWB Boathouse Fee: $225 (members)/$250 (non-members) Instructor: Ellen Falconer, Sound Sails

Participants will build a mainsail for CWB's Concordia sloop. During the two-weekends class, the instructor will guide the class through all the steps of constructing a sail, including both machine and hand work. Limited to 6.

March 4-5 (Saturday & Sunday) LOFTING WORKSHOP 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. CWB Boathouse Fee: $115(members)/$125 (non-members) Instructor: Eric Hvalsoe

Students will loft a classic boat from a table

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of offsets. This workshop will enable students to read plans and understand the arcane myster-ies of bevels, rabbet lines, deductions and con-struction drawings. Eric Hvalsoe. an experienced boatbuilder/designer , has led loft ing and boatbuilding workshops for more than 10 years. This class is recommended as a prerequisite for our boatbuilding workshops. Limited to 6.

March 11-19) (Saturday-Sunday) LAPSTRAKE WORKSHOP 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. CWB Boatshop Fee: $600(members)/$650 (non-members) Instructor: Eric Hvalsoe

Eric, our globetrotting boatbuilding instruc-tor. teaches not only at CWB but also at the WoodenBoat magazine school and. for the past three years, in the Netherlands. He's designed several classic small craft. The boat will be a classic design for our livery - maybe a Lake Os-wego boat or a yacht tender or maybe a surprise. The choice will be up to Eric, who will welcome input from students as they enroll. Limited to 7.

March 25, 1999 (Saturday) SEATTLE BOATSHOPS TOUR Fee: $25 (members)/$30 (non-members) 9 a.m. - 5 p.m Seattle Waterfront Leader: Founding Director Dick Wagner

Dick. Seattle's expert on local boatshops, will take a small group on a tour of some of the great-est historic shops around Seattle's waterfronts. Participants will visit shops that are absolutely unavailable to the public. Our fearless founder will use all his charms as a Seattle icon to gain entrance to these shops, see the work in progress and. hopefully, get some of the great shipwrights

to answer questions. Limited to 8.

April 8-16 (Saturday-Sunday) IKYAK (Aleutian-Inuit kayak) WORKSHOP 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. CWB Pavilion Fee: S900 (members)/$950 (non-members) Instructor: Corey Freedman

The ikyak, most popularly known as a baidarka, is a different and more complicated construction than the Greenland Inuit type. Each student will build his or her own boat. Corey Freedman, owner/operator of Spirit Line Kay-aks in Anacortes, is well recognized for both his expertise in native kayak construction and his teaching ability. Limited to 4.

April 29 (Saturday BRIGHTWORK SEMINAR 10 a.m. - 3 p.m CWB Boathouse Fee: $25 (members/$30 (non-members) Instructor: Rebecca Wittman

When it comes to making your brightwork gleam, there's no one more knowledgeable or better able to teach you all the basics and the professional's tricks than Rebecca Wittman. Her book. Brightwork: The Art of Finishing Wood. is regarded as the definitive work on the subject. This seminar will afford you the chance to learn all the latest and best in the world of wood coat-ings. Limited to 40.

May 6-7 (Saturday & Sunday) LOFTING WORKSHOP 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. CWB Boathouse Fee: $115(members)/$125 (non-members) Instructor: Rich Kolin

In preparation for the upcoming Boatbuilding Workshop, students will loft a classic Salmon Wherry from a table of offsets. I his workshop will enable students to read plans and understand the arcane mysteries of bevels, rabbet lines, de-ductions and construction drawings. Rich Kolin

is a boatbuilder, designer and author with nearly three decades of experience in passing on the skills of his craft to others. Limited to 6.

May 13-21 (Saturday-Sunday) SALMON WHERRY WORKSHOP 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. CWB Boatshop Fee: $600 (members)/$650 (non-members) Instructor: Rich Kolin

Under the guidance of Rich Kolin. a highly experienced boatbuilder, designer and author of boatbuilding books, students will build and launch a classic Salmon Wherry. The Salmon Wherry, similar in appearance to a Swampscott dory, has been in use in Maine for about 100 years. Limited to 6.

May 20 (Sunday) STRIP PLANKED KAYAK SEMINAR 9 a.m. - 4 p.m CWB Boathouse Fee: $30/$35 Instructor: Prof. Paul Ford

Strip planking is a hybrid technology. Thin, ¼" strips of wood are edge-glued to form the

hull shape. Then the planks arc encased in fiber-glass for strength and waterproofing. The result is a strong, rigid, light "sandwich" construction. This is the only class at CWB that discusses ex-tensive use of fiberglass. The instructor is expe-rienced in strip building and effectively provides - in a seminar session - the students with the technical information needed to enable them to build their own kayaks using the strip planked method. Limited to 20.

NOTE: A $I00 non-refundable deposit is re-quired to register for all boatbuilding workshops; the balance is due no later than two weeks prior to the workshop. For all other workshops, pre-payment in full reserves your place. Classes with fewer than four students will be canceled or post-poned.

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Contributors: Debra Cibene Steve Osborn Bob Perkins Tom Robb Judie Romeo Dick Wagner