SHIP NOTES, SEAPORT & this summer. Museum, PO Box 97, Solomons MD 20688. Chandler' s Wharf, 2 Ann St., Wilmington NC 28401.
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Hampton Mariners Museum will host the Museum's Small Craft Conference May 7-9, which focuses on small craft and traditional boatbuilding in the southeastern US, especially North Carolina. Chas. McNeil!, Curator, Museum, 120TurnerSt. , BeaufortNC28516.
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"The Sea and Me," an educational program for children sponsored by The Mariners Museum this past summer, integrated Museum resources with hands-on experiences and local points of interest. A day in the program might consist of discussion on topics ranging from the design and use of work boats and sailmaking to visiting a fi shing pier, sailmaker and seafood processing house. An enthusiastic response ha s spurred the Museum's education department into expanding the program next summer. Museum, Museum Dr., Newport News VA 23606.
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The Second North Carolina Maritime Heritage Conference will meet at Cape Fear Technical Institute in Wilmington on March 5. Focusing on the life of people in North Carolina coastal communities and their contact with the sea, discussions will deal with early European exploration, the Lost Colony, underwater archaeology, ports and contemporary maritime folklife and art. NC Maritime Heritage, c/o USS North Carolina Battleship Memorial, PO Box 417, Wilmington NC 28402. Florida Maritime Museum is in the process of negotiating a lease with the City of Miami Commission that has already voted its intent to designate property in Bicentennial Park for use by the museum. Plans include a visiting ship program, small boat shop and administrative offices. Museum, PO Box 013162, Miami FL 33101.
GULF COAST The replica HMS Bounty, built in Nova Scotia in 1960 for the MGM movie "Mutiny on the Bounty," has been a dockside attraction in St. Petersburg for the past 16 years. Last spring, the square rigger made a 600-mile round trip to Pensacola while filming commercially. Her managers hope to continue to sail her for commercial purposes and festivals.
The Historic Skipjack MAMIE MISTER is now taking reservations for the 1982 sailing season. For information about daysails and twilight cruises in New York Harbor write: Captain Parker
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The Galveston Historical Foundation has announced that the 1877 iron bark Elissa, undergoing restoration, has been moved to her permanent berth adjacent to the Strand. Her mainmast was stepped in October, and the mizzen the following month . All three topmasts are now up , while work continues on the deckhouse and poop accommodations. A shed area next to the pier, still being used as a work space, will eventually house a vis itors' center. (see Sh 20:30; 21 :32) Foundation, PO Drawer 802, Galveston TX 77553.
WEST COAST The sailing ship Balclutha, part of the National Maritime Museum's fleet at the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in San Francisco, recently underwent repairs and a new coat of paint at the Pacific Drydock Co. in Oakland. The 1886 square rigger, built in Scotland, remained in commercial service until 1933 and was saved by the Museum in 1954. The National Park Service has expended $180,000 to replace some hull plating, apply a plastic coating to the bottom, paint the hull and install new safety equipment. Museum, Ft. of Polk St., San Francisco CA 94109. Friends of Alma and Historic Ships has called for an all-out letter-writing campaign to support a solution whereby the National Park Service's Hughes Mining Barge (recently acquired from the General Services Administration) would be leased to Crowley Maritime Corporation in return for repairs needed to save the 1915 steam schooner Wapama. Friends points out that "this proposed solution would not cost the taxpayer a cent!" Letters of support may be addressed to President Reagan, Secretary of Interior Watt, Governor Brown, Mayor Feinstein and Senators and Congressional representatives from California. Wm . Whalen, GGNRA, Building 201, Ft. Mason, San Francisco CA 94123 (415-556-2920). Pacific Northwest Maritime Historical Society, in the process of gathering photographs of maritime interest for future exhibition, hopes to centralize such a collection in the Northwest, that will be accessible to the public. The Society recently became an affiliate Society to the Oregon Historical Society. Society, PO Box 1083, Lynnwood WA 98036/PO Box 66,0regon City OR 97045. According to Director Dick Wagner, the Center for Wooden Boats has gotten "the green light from the city and state,'' which will allow them to develop Waterway 4 on Lake Union for public use. Reconstruction of a building to be used as a boatbuilding workshop has begun . Docks at the Center's shoreside park will be open for anyone to "bring their lovingly restored classic boats and replicas," and for all to visit. The Center plans a grand opening on July 4th weekend, when they hold their annual Wooden Boat Show. Till early April, the Center also holds wooden boat seminars every Saturday . Center, 2770 Westlake Ave. N., Seattle WA 98109 . Traditional Wooden Boat Society was founded in 1975 "to encourage people interested in traditional plank-on-frame boats and the skills needed to build and maintain them," writes Secretary Robert Chapel. Monthly membership meetings-free and open to the public-include talks by square-rigger sailors, boatbuilders, maritime historians , wood scientists, museum curators and blacksmiths, and are held on the fourth Friday of each month at Seattle's Museum of History and Industry. For $10, one can receive Lines and Offsets, edited by Chapel, an open and outfront
SEA HISTORY, WINTER 1982