Shavings Volume 32 Number 3 Fall 2012

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The Center for Wooden Boats

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Nobody dropped from exhaustion during our five-day 2012 Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival. We owe that to about 1,000 CWB staff and volunteers and exhibitors and boat owners, who were fresh and chipper every day. They set a great example of having fun and learning history for our 30,000 Festival visitors. Chief among those who had Festival experiences they will long remember were the kids making toy boats and kites (with materials supplied by the Drachen Foundation). Once they got their hands on tools and materials, the junior attendees made memories as they also made things that float and things that fly. The model pond and the low hills within Lake Union Park were the sites of much excited floating or flying of their creations. Of course, there were about 150 boats of all sizes and vintages at the docks to admire or board and CWB’s fleet of traditional sail, steam and electric power boats offering free rides around the lake. The Livery was open so visitors could rent one of CWB’s diverse rowing and pedal-power boats. More boats awaited on shore and a wide variety of boat models was displayed in the Boathouse. The visiting boats were worthy eye-catchers, including Lotus, a 92’ Edwardian cruising houseboat built in 1909 – in Seattle’s Golden Age, the same year as the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Another chindropper were the Dragon Boats, long and skinny, being paddled around the lake at flying speed with a drummer on each bow. Sound Experience’s 1913 101’ schooner Adventuress and Sarah Howell’s 30’ Yankee One-Design Gemini were gorgeous and classic. Seattle Outboard had a “I wanna try one” display of mini hydroplanes. Visitors voted – by dropping CWB wooden nickels in on-deck containers – for their favorite. Once again the People’s Choice title went to Bob Lamson’s Capolavero, a Venetian water taxi that is a functional work art. Boatbuilding and maritime skills not only happened in the Toy Boat tent. In the CWB Pavilion Corey Freedman instructed Fall 2012

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legs on the final day of the Festival. The winners, Chip Thorp and Bill Haas, made a pretty, roundbottom, skin-onframe boat, Woodie II. It had a sliding seat for rowing and a lug rig sail. Woodie II not only sailed fast, it sold fast to a visitor, so Chip and Bill didn’t have to take it home. Probably the most At the docks, on shore or out giving free rides on Lake Union, our 36th creative boat at the Festival had boats of every vintage and size to be boarded or just admired Festival was designed from the docks. -photo: Rich Mann and built by Adam Karpenske. It was the prototype Hot Tub Boat. three students who were building their own All were eager to put on swimsuits and go for authentic Aleut ikyaks (kayaks). In the outdoor a ride in a hot tub. Adam’s design was based workshop, Dennis Armstrong demonstrated on the Bering Sea power scows. As usual, our the application of weather protection (service) Festival was a place for “you haven’t seen it to the shrouds of a traditionally-rigged schooner anywhere else” experiences. Adam left with a to visitors of all ages. Nathie Katzoff fired up pocketful of names of prospective buyers. the steambox and demonstrated steam-bending techniques. CWB Boatwright Joe Green The music stage – this year including a showed how to caulk seams, shape a spar and special July 4th show sponsored by One Reel apply a good coat of paint as well as answering and KEXP – entertained with everything dozens of questions from eager boat-owners at from sea music to modern melodies. Our the popular “Ask-a-Boatwright” daily seminars. always-welcome food vendors offered yummy treats; the one with the longest line-ups from On the wonky side, the Quick & Daring morning to night was Lopez Island Ice Cream. Challenge boats were being built by teams of It’s amazing how many people had ice cream two; they raced in sailing, rowing and freestyle cones for breakfast every day!

I N S I D E TH I S I S S UE : Founder’s Report . . ...................................... 2 Inside Passage Southbound . . ......................... 3 News From the South Lake Union. . ............... 4-5 News from the Boatshop.............................. 6 Eleanora, A Work in Progress . . ...................... 7 Historic Resources Strengthen Hands-on Programs... 8

News from Cama Beach................................ 9 Sailing & Maritime Skills Workshops.............10 Junior Sailors..........................................11 The Feed and Caring of CWB.................... 12-15 Upcoming Events.......................................16

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