Shavings Volume 18 Number 2 (April 1996)

Published bimonthly for The Center for Wooden Boats lOlO Valley Street Seattle. WA 98109

One of the small craft in our shop at the Center right now is our Poulsbo boat, in for a major restoration and a repowering. We are converting it from the original gas engine to an electric engine for use in our clean-up operations on Lake Union. I asked Dierk, our shop manager, about the time frame, he assured me, "Oh, they are all fine, it's the planks that have sprung." Well, they've got to do something to amuse themselves out there, and terrible jokes are better than bon fires. The boat should be ready for rides by the Festival July 5-7. In the mean time, we are reprinting an essay from the famed 1980 (and out of print) Poulsbo Boat Monograph. If you would like to order a copy of the monograph, or the Davis Boat Monograph we do have a waiting list.

Volume XVIII Number 2 April, 1996 ISSN 0734-0680 1992, C W B

A JAUNTY LITTLE BOAT FROM POULSBO...

by Tom Beard

Many different boats have been used on Puget Sound for sport fishing over the decades, but there never has been a singular sport fishing style in the region. Any boat fancier in the area in the 1940's, however, was bound to recognize one distinctive model which came to be called the Poulsbo Boat— characterized by its generous freeboard, springy sheer, flat oval transom all above water, more-than-average flare forward and tumblehome aft. These features gave a jaunty, seaworthy and

sturdy look to the boats and they became extremely popular with sport fishermen.

The small wooden boats built by Ronald Young from about 1933 to 1965 were designed to be used for sport fishing on Puget Sound and adjacent waters. Some made it to Alaska. The craft were sold primarily as fleet rental boats to fishing camps scattered along the Strait of Juan de Fuca and on Puget Sound. Their popularity as a serviceable boat in these sometimes hazardous waters, under hard usage and minimal care, increased their demand.

Many owners extended the service well beyond that originally intended by the builder. (One Sixteen Footer saw several years' service as a commercial troller out of Neah Bay, Washington.

Now thirty years old, with little care beyond a couple of paint jobs, it is still serviceable today. Another has been used as a tug and rescue vessel out of Port Townsend, Washington for many years, where it is still in commission.

Its adventures alone warrant a book.)

Demand never ceased for this little wooden boat, built of traditional plank on frame methods (with some unique variations by the builder) and powered with an air-cooled one-cylinder gasoline engine. Customers sought out this unique-looking, low-powered craft long after speedier plywood and fiberglass designs were on the market. Most of the boats were built in the basement of a waterfront service station-garage in the Scandinavian influenced town of Poulsbo, Washington. About 900 were dragged up the ramp leading from the —CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

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TRUSTEES' PAGE PROGRAMS PROGRAMS PROGRAMS Lin Folsom,

Program Committee Chair

Yes and more programs. Programs that make C W B one of the most exciting museums and boating centers in the US. Programs that require imagination, hard work, organization, funding, and love. Programs that are created, designed and implemented at the Center by staff and volunteers. Would you like to be part of the process of reviewing, providing ideas, evaluating and helping with development of C W B Programs?

Come join us on the Program Committee which does all of the above. We have such a large variety of programs the committee needs more members to help.

Presently there are at least 24 programs C W B is actively involved in, so we can not keep up with all the excitement. We need people who are interested in the tremendous diversity of programs that we offer and who can help us with our mission: to support and assist staff to insure quality, performance and assurance that each program of the C W B is in alignment with the C W B mission and goals.

What are some of the programs at C W B ? ? ? Some include boat livery, SailNOW!, summer programs with atrisk youth and handicapped adults, workshops in boat building and related activities, advanced sailing and programs at Cama Beach, visiting vessels, and many many more.

If you have any interest, please talk to Dick Wagner who is our Staff representative. Or, if he is too busy call L i n Folsom at 360 293-7084 or leave a message at the Program Committee file that Roger will direct you to. Our Meetings are the fourth Monday of each month.

Marketing Committee Update

by Dennis Palmer, Member, Board of Trustees and Marketing Committee

After a successful fund raising auction, the marketing committee is already focusing on enhancing revenue in other areas, in order to support all of the good things that go on at the Center for Wooden Boats. If you are interested in serving on the committee, we would appreciate the help! Please call C W B at 382-BOAT to volunteer.

C W B ' s pro bono advertising agency, Hammerquist and Saffel, has been very generous with their time and have created an elegant new brochure and poster to promote the banquet space in the Boathouse. The Boathouse is a great place for weddings, birthday parties, and business meetings, so if you know of anybody looking for a room with a view, tell them about C W B - The team at Hammerquist & Saffel are now working an brochures to encourage row boat rentals, and advanced sailing seminars aboard the Martha, a 68' staysail schooner. Thank you, Hammerquist and Saffel!

The marketing committee has been working hard on new systems for retail sales, and new and interesting products to sell in the lobby of the Boathouse.

The main emphasis of the marketing committee from now until early July is the promotion of the 20th Annual Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival. For the first time ever, we have a media sponsor of the event. Radio station K M T T (The Mountain) 103.7FM. K M T T is going to help publicize the festival.

Sponsorships are being offered for various aspects of the festival, such as a title sponsorship, and several event sponsorships. Recreational Equipment, Inc. has signed up to be the sponsor of the toy boat building shop, and Audio Environments, Inc. will be the sponsor of the music stage. If you know of a company who is interested in some good publicity, and may want to invest in a sponsorship, please leave a message at C W B for Dennis Palmer. The title sponsorship and four event sponsorships are still available, but not for long!

C W B Board of Trustees '96

Name

Position/Committees Occupation

Celeste Archambault W i l l i a m K . Blethen Caren Crandell C h u c k Edwards Steve E x c e l l L i n Folsom B i l l Keasler Len M a r k l u n d Dennis Palmer R o n Snyder Bill Van Vlack Richard Wagner Dan Warner

Program Finance Program V. President Marketing Finance Program Treasurer Finance Marketing Program President Curatorial Founding Director Curatorial

Teacher Consultant Treasurer Seattle Times Science Teacher Stolt Sea Farms Paragon - M a r k e t i n g & PR Retired Software Designer Leonard H . M a r k l u n d C P A Principal AS#1 Electrical Engineer C W B Director K P Graphics

Standing Committees & Chairs Marketing: Edwards Finance; Marklund Program: F o l s o m Curatorial: Warner 2

FESTIVAL VOLUNTEERS Here's yet another opportunity to put your freely donated time where it really makes a difference - at our Annual Wooden Boat Festival.

Help is needed providing information about C W B , receiving admission donations, operating water taxis, selling ice cream, monitoring toy boatbuilding, setting up the show, picking up the trash and moving out after the show.

There will be a member-volunteer pot-luck and fireworks watching party at C W B on Friday night, July 4, Volunteer and exhibitor dinner Saturday, July 5 (be our guest) at the Naval Reserve Base and pizza party for volunteers at C W B Sunday, July 7, after the Naval Reserve grounds are cleaned up.

CWB HAPPENINGS The steamboat Puffin is conducting Lake Union circumnavigations under supervision of Frank Hogan whose technical knowledge of steam engines is topped only by his hilarious tales of adventures in steam boats. Puffin is a 21' Truscott (St. Joseph, Missouri) Launch, built in 1906.

Puffin is part of CWB's "Cast O f f program. This gives us a chance to show off some of our larger sail and engine powered vessels. Qualified skippers give half hour free rides on weekends, weather permitting. Our visitors that have neither the time or inclination to try out one of our livery boats can still get the feel of a "living" museum. Our boats get the airing and exercise they need to keep in shape.

DAY CAMP

Frank Hogan welcomes volunteers who want to learn steamboat operations.

Call C W B and set up an appointment for steamboating 103.

BOATFEST '96 Our Annual whoop-de-do party, the Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival, will be held at South Lake Union on Friday, July 5 through Sunday July 7. The hours will be noon to 6 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

Why not bring your wooden boat? Why not demonstrate your maritime skills.

Every type of wooden boat and every type of shipboard and boatshop skill is welcome. The whole purpose of this event is to share experiences. The cost for displaying a boat is zip unless it has a "For Sale" sign. Skills exhibitors are also free, unless we supply a tent or furniture.

Please request a registration form, and join in our 20th annual celebration of good wooden boats.

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C W B wants to know of interest in youth sailing/seamanship instruction this summer. We have developed this program, "Summer in the City" for 9 & 10, 11 & 12, 13 to 15 year olds. Older kids too, if there is a need. Fees are $125/student for Monday-Friday, 9 am - 4 pm. Students bring their own lunch or purchase at the nearby emporiums.

The program is designed to gain boating skills, historic awareness and memories that will last forever. Please call or write if you know someone that should enroll. Dates, in July and A u gust will be determined shortly.

cellar to the street above. (We should mention here that at least five other Puget Sound builders produced similar boats and some have even been called "Poulsbo Boats" for lack of a more accurate name. It is possible that some of the builders imitated Young's design and also conceivable that Young borrowed a few twists from fellow builders.)

Most were sold unfinished because the shop lacked a suitable dirt and dustfree room, and because Young usually lost interest or went fishing when construction was finished. (The shop's part cement, part-wooden floor would occasionally flood at high tide, creating an interior sea of floating wood scraps, sawdust and shavings.) The only light came from dust-covered bare bulbs dangling from twisted, cloth covered wires, and from small windows in the concrete wall overlooking the bay.

Ronald's son Gordon was the only employee, starting at age ten and continuing until he left for college. Boats were built two at a time after all the parts had been pre-cut. It usually took ten to twelve days to build them (normal production was 50 to 70 boats per year) but once on special order two were finished in four days, according to Gordon, who now lives in Vancouver, Washington.

Gordon was paid $50 for each hull that went out the door, and his decision to start college was encouraged by his lack of success in negotiating a pay raise.

With Gordon's departure, the shop became a one-man operation and stayed that way until production stopped in 1965.

Young followed the ancient tradition of building his boats from halfmodels which he carved. Once a shape was decided on, boats of different sizes could be made by expanding the mold of the shape. The only suspected notes or drawings made of the boat were done by a "wealthy British gentleman" visiting Poulsbo prior to World War II. He reportedly returned to England with "plans" of the boat, but it is not known

if a Poulsbo boat was ever reproduced in England.

Boats were sold at the shop on a cash-and-haulaway basis. (Young would not knowingly sell a boat to anyone who had to borrow to pay for it. He didn't like to feel that someone was taking on a financial burden in buying one of his boats.) The most popular, the Sixteen-Footer, sold in 1946 for $275, in 1955 for $400, and in 1965 for over $600. The price in the 1930's began at $90. One of his earliest boats (about 1914) was traded for a piano that son, Gordon, still uses today. The only boats not sold on a cash basis were the first of the production boats—Fourteen-Foot rowboats built from 1933 to 1935 in a partnership arrangement with Hugh Danforth at the Orchards Beach Resort in Hansville. Sixty to seventy of these boats were built. (Danforth bought the resort and went in with Young, giving him a share of the operation in exchange for the boats.)

The next thirty years, from 1935 to 1965, was the period when most of the 900 boats were built in the small shop on the water's edge. The Fourteen-Footer grew to the more popular Sixteen-Footer during this period, when about 750 of these durable craft were built. Larger Eighteen, Twenty and Twenty-Two footers also appeared, and one Twenty-five Foot cabin cruiser was built for a customer in Southeast Alaska.

A l l had the familiar steeply sweeping sheer, pronounced flare forward, and tumblehome aft. A Fifteen Foot double ender was built in 1941 for Gordon by his father. That boat was being reconditioned (in 1979) near Lofall, Washington. Additional double enders built include an Eighteen and a Twenty Footer. The distinctive shape of the popular transomed Sixteen and Eighteen Foot launches carried over to the double ended boats, built in the late 1940's.

Young built only open boats. It's not uncommon today to see small cabins on Poulsbo Boat hulls, but Young was not responsible for them, although

he did deck over some of the Eighteen Footers about 55 inches back from the stem.

Poulsbo Boats were usually powered with single cylinder air-cooled Briggs & Stratton or Wisconsin gasoline engines. Power ranged from about one horsepower to ten (two boats used a two-cylinder, 10-horsepower Onan).

Most popular power range was five to seven horsepower. Small 2-to-l gearbox/clutch units were manufactured in the Seattle area and fitted to some engines. A satisfactory performance combination was a seven horsepower engine, 2-to-l gear reduction and a 10-x-10 inch three-blade propeller on a 3/4-inch shaft.

The engines were designed, at that time, to run in the range from 2200 to 3200 RPM. Some Poulsbos were modified specifically for outboard power. One version had the outboard engine mounted on the transom in the conventional manner. A second modification had the hull altered by dropping the buttocks lines aft for more speed. An inboard well built adjacent to the starboard side of the keel at about station #10 (on the drawings) was the third installation of outboard power to the standard hulk However, most common and best remembered is the classic inboard aircooled one-cylinder engine Puttputting its way across Northwest waters.

Metalwork wasn't fancy—Young used whatever was available. Sheet brass, sometimes bronze, and in the early years 12-gauge galvanized iron, was used for the flat work. Many tillers were cross-arm braces from telephone poles. A l l bolts were 1/4-inch galvanized carriage bolts with the heads pounded to a 1/2-inch square. Propeller and rudder shafts were standard 3/4inch marine bronze. The rudder shaft housing was 3/4-inch i.d. galvanized pipe threaded on the outside and held with a locknut at the bottom end. The metalwork for the different sized boats was the same—one pattern was used for all the boats.

The only modification to style

came near the end of production in the early 1960's. The distinctive tumblehome at the transom was reversed on itself, flaring outward along the sheer.

Nevertheless, the Poulsbo Boat retained a saucy appearance.

Ronald Young's Swedish-born father lived in Poulsbo during the late 1800's and was named Johnson, like so many of his immigrant neighbors. Frustrated over the misdelivery of his mail to other Johnsons, he changed his name to Young. His son Ronald was born in Poulsbo in 1892 and before long, became a hunter, fisherman, mechanic and boatbuilder.

Ronald Young's early boatbuilding experience must have been influenced by his interest in mechanics.

Gasoline engines became available to enterprising mechanics in the first decade of this century. Articles published in the boating magazines of the time were touting plans of small boats to build that would go 20 miles per hour with a modest gas engine. Small powerboat racing had begun on Puget Sound. A schoolmate of Young's remembers him building a speedboat around 1910 or 1912 and racing and beating the famous Klickitat passenger steamer that ran into Poulsbo from Seattle.

Ronald Young entered the Army during World War I. After returning from the European campaign, he started a service station and auto repair garage in Poulsbo with his cousin, Joe Danielson. He continued working in the garage for 20 years—making seasonal fishing trips to Alaska between 1924 and 1930—while at the same time building boats in the back of the shop. (He loved to fish, and whenever the urge was too strong he would ship an 18-foot outboard north to Alaska on a freighter, joining the boat in Southeastern for a summer of hand trolling.) After 1939 he moved the boat shop to the basement and gave up the auto repair work to become a full-time boatbuilder.

Shortages of lumber and nails dur-

ing World War II shut down the boatbuilding operation. Ronald went to work for the Navy at the nearby Keyport torpedo base, assigned to the sheet metal shop. Gordon went to the U.S. Army.

The shop returned to production after the war, and while demand for the boats never ceased, production slowly declined as Ronald grew older and chose not to expand facilities. (He may also have decided to go fishing more often ... ) There were customers waiting for his quality boats until 1965 when he finally stopped building them. Ronald Young died in 1968, a native and resident of Poulsbo for all of his 76 years.

His personal philosophy was, "A good boat and a good person are a joy. " He left a legacy of a little wooden fishing boat that came from out of the past to compete with the modern boats—to sometimes win, and to place the name Poulsbo Boat in the files of Northwest maritime history.

THE BALTIMORE CLIPPER "BORJA" Don Townshend is Captain and owner of Borja, a Pete Culler designed schooner that was recently re-rigged as a Baltimore Clipper by C W B member Steve Osbom. The following letter, from Capt. Townshend to Steve and his wife Adrienne is about a charter for midshipmen of the Indonesian Navy.

Dear Guize, As to Borja the last training mission was on the night of the 1st, to teach the lads how wind looks at night. Left the dock at 1600, and had Pulau Damar Besar abeam by nightfall at 1800. Wind out of the East at 10-15 kts, had everything up. Piped up a bit, and I remembered another saying I'd read somewhere, "The time to reef is when you first think of it" so we reduced her down to the four lowers. Good thing. Back up to hull speed again. Since I still don't have any of the reefing gear set up for the main, we handed and furled it in maybe twenty knots of wind, (yeah, sure I know, just a zephyr on the Bay, but remember, I am solo in this schooner) just for the practice. Then got the fores'l reefed as well (works a charm, sets beautifully) and with the sails all inboard now, she jogged

along like the lady she is, while the gentlemen from the Navy worked out just exactly where they were at the moment -I think it was fourteen miles South of Murmansk Went up on the foredeck and laid down on the flat of the bowsprit forward of the bitts, and looked at her masts and yards swing against the background of God's stars. I can't remember ever having such a feeling of peace - and wonder. Borja looked every bit the part of a Letter of Marque commerce raider-the black spars, the low slung hull, and the sails - how the sails define this vessel, with their vast spread.

I sat at the rail and watched the bow race to pierce each wave, she seemed so eager, and the process so effortless.

The wake streamed away, brilliant with phosphorescence, and the occasional curious dollop boarded her through the gun port to bring up against the break in the deck. The Navy was spread about the deck and on the cabin top, asleep, Borja does that to you, inspires confidence. Two or three aft at the tiller, faces dim in the compass light, feeling her go.

Guy on the tiller is a natural helm, never forces her, gives her just as much as she needs to avoid strain, and brings her back onto course when she's ready. They work well together, these two, kindred spirits.

Four O'clock in the morning, we ghosted back in through the North Gate to Tanjong Priok Harbor. The wind did what it always does toward midnight, died off to baby's breath. We were squeezing every foot out of each one, since I had forbidden them to use of the engine until they got her in through the gate. Now that they'd coaxed her that far, they were reluctant to give it up, and we continued under a full suit. A freighter eased past in the narrow confines of the channel, incredulous at the sight of this escapee from the past. The man on the bridge wind waved - it turned, into a salute - he has seen something in the wee hours of the morning - food for thought till the change of the watch, and maybe for some time to come.

Flat calm, water truly a mirror, her engine a murmur at idle, a schooner edged into her berth just before dawn.

Quiet voices, lines made fast, engine silenced, faces in the galley, finish the curry. Hell we made too much of it by far. Nobody wants to be the first to break the spell, the warmth, the camaraderie of a night shared, and we sit, sprawled across the galley sole, dripping, sipping scalding coffee until the sun can't any longer be denied.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS Every 3rd Friday CWB THIRD FRIDAY SPEAKER SERIES 8 p.m. CWB Boathouse Each month C W B finds a speaker of wit and experience to talk about his or her special knowledge. It is also an opportunity for C W B members to meet one another and the staff. Refreshments served (donations to cover costs are appreciated).

April 28, 1996 SPRING CRUISE Noon - 8 p.m. Membership Meeting at 1 p.m.

The Spring Cruise is an annual time capsule adventure. This year it will be 1942. The world is shocked by the collapse of France and Hitler's marching armies.

Seattle, like cities all across the county, was contributing to the War effort with the minesweepers coming out of Lake Union Dry Dock and other local boatyards. An interesting development was that all the old shipwrights were back in school to learn to build from plans rather than half-models.

Prizes for costumes and the best chili for the potluck supper.

Registration for use of our boat is $5, or bring your own.

May 18 & 19, 1996 STEAMBOAT MEET 10-5 p.m., C W B 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 owner keeps feeding me with wood, coal or oil.

Yummy! My owner sometimes taps my gauges that show how much steam pressure I have. That tickles. My owner is happy to talk all about my pistons, boiler

and stuff like that. It sort of embarrasses me, but my owner really is proud of me, and he likes others to know about it. I let my owner toot my whistle, because we both love the sound, and it is a great stress reliever for both 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.

June 2 1 , 1996 THIRD FRIDAY SPEAKER 18th Century Ship's BoatTools of the Trade; their construction & Use. 8 p.m. C W B Boathouse Sam Johnson is a boatbuilder and maritime historian. He has researched and supervised construction of American, English and Spanish 18th Century ship's boats. This lecture gives a clear understanding of needs that small craft served in the golden age of commercial sail, and how they were designed and built to fulfill their functions.

July 5-7, 1996 (Friday-Sunday) 20TH ANNUAL LAKE UNION WOODEN BOAT FESTIVAL The Annual panorama of about 150 wooden Boats, maritime skills demonstrations, boat rides. Quick and Daring Boat-building contest, Toy Boat Building, Ed Clark Memorial Yacht Race, and lots of warmth, fun, friendship, and shared know-how.

Suggested donation $3 Individuals $5 Families $1 Seniors and Students

September 27-29, 1996 WOOD REGATTA This is a regional event in the W O O D Regatta series begun by WoodenBoat Magazine in 1992. The W O O D Regatta utilizes an equitable means of handicapping the total spectrum of classic wooden racing classes.

There will be awards by classes as well as an overall trophy.

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MARINE SKILLS WORKSHOPS All year 'round (classes every day in the summer!)

LEARN TO "SAIL NOW!" Fee: $125 per person (includes a one-year CWB membership) 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday & Sunday - also at 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday & Sunday - also at 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Summer Weekdays Instructor: Volunteers Students will learn to sail classic boats in one session of classroom work as many sessions of hands-on instruction in our small boats, no more than three students per instructor. Students will graduate when able to sail a variety of keel, centerboard, sloop and catboats by instinct. Y o u may begin any Saturday, space permitting. Please call ahead for reservations. For the student who is only free on weekdays, or prefers to oneon-one instruction, we continue to offer individual lessons ($20/hour) on weekdays. Call for an appointment.

Almost Every Weekend Spring & Summer, 1996 SCHOONER SAILING WORKSHOP Fee: $135 10 a.m. CWB The Center for Wooden Boats announces an opportunity for graduates of the Center's sailing classes and other experiences sailors! An Advanced Sailing Seminar aboard the beautifully restored 85' O A , staysail schooner Martha. Enrollment limited to six students.

Cruise dates are Saturdays and Sundays when a full crew has signed on. Cost is $135 per student, including dinner and breakfast cooked on board. Bring brown bag lunches for the two days.

April 27, 1996 INTRODUCTION TO METALLURGY SEMINAR Fee: $25/$30 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. CWB Boatshop Instructor: Prof. Paul Ford Kinds and properties of alloys.

Heat treatment for ferrous and non-ferrous metals. This workshop provides information about what all those little atoms do when you heat different types of metals. This is an extremely valuable course for anyone doing forging or casting. It is especially valuable for students interested in the Casting Workshop (currently unscheduled). Limited to 20 students.

May 4-5, 1996 HOLLOW MAST BUILDING WORKSHOP Fee: $40/$50 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. CWB Boatshop Instructor: To Be Announced Each year we get dozens of requests for mast builders. The theory is simple but the practice is challenging.

Masts are a critical part of any sailboat and wooden ones are hard to find. A properly made mast is not as easy as it looks and construction is filled with pitfalls. This course will build a Penguin mast for our Port Madison Pram. L i m ited to 7 students.

May 18-19, & 25-26 1996 PARENT & CHILD CLANCY BUILDING Fee: $1300/$1325 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. CWB Boatshop Instructor: Bob Pickett The Clancy is an excellent little 9' sail training boat perfect for children from 6 to 60. Not only can children learn the joys of sail, they can learn to build too. And there is nothing on this earth that compares with sailing a boat you built with your own hands.

Bob is co-owner of Flounder Bay Boat Lumber in Anacortes, the company that produces these amazing little trainers. We have room to build 4 boats. At least one partner must have basic woodworking skills. At the end of the two weekends, depending on how fast you work, your boat will be ready to paint and after that. . . ready to sail.

May 25, 1996 VARNISHING SEMINAR Fee: $50/$60 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. CWB Boatshop Instructor: Christine Greene There is nothing more beautiful than a deep, crystal clear varnish on the delicate curved woodwork of a small boat. Christine, owner of Native Brightwork, comes highly recommended. She has been doing professional finish work for years and is one of a small elite varnish experts. The class will cover various types and brands, surface preparation, application, and finish coats. It is a must for anyone who wants their varnish work to sparkle. Limited to 20.

June 1-2, 1996 LOFTING WORKSHOP Fee: $115/$125 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. CWB Boathouse Instructor: Eric Hvalsoe Students w i l l loft a classic boat from a table of offsets. This workshop will enable students to read plans and understand the arcane mysteries of bevels, rabbet lines, deductions and construction drawings. Eric Hvalsoe is an experienced boatbuilder and designer.

He has conducted lofting and boat building workshops for more than 10 years.

This class is highly recommended as a prerequisite for our boat building workshops. Limited to 6 students.

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June 8-16, 1996 LAPSTRAKE WORKSHOP Fee: $550/$575 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. CWB Boatshop Instructor: Eric Hvalsoe Lapstrake construction utilizes overlapping planks in the great tradition of the Viking long boats. It is one of the best ways to build a dinghy or tender.

Students w i l l build a classic Swampscott Dory from John Gardner's Dory Book. This dory will initially go into our fleet of pulling boats, but eventually will be completed as a sailboat.

The instructor, a nationally recognized boat builder, has run dozens of C W B Workshops. Basic woodworking skills are required. Limited to 7 students.

July 27, 1996 WHERRY ROWING WORKSHOP Fee: $25/$30 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. CWB Boathouse Instructor: Roger Coulter Everyone who has been to the Center has admired the slim Wherries hanging from the ceiling downstairs. They were built in C W B workshops back in the early' 80s and have only been rowed a few times since. Roger, who has been rowing and teaching since high school, will start the students rowing the Dan, our 21' Gig, and progress to the Wherries when everyone is comfortable.

The Wherries are relatively stable and an excellent steppingstone for more delicate racing shells. L i m ited to 4 students.

SPRING CLEANUP Annual

Spring

Cleaning

Plans for this year include the usual painting the docks, and repairing the floats, but also an interior painting party, and a warehouse romp.Contact Margaret at C W B for details.

CLASSIFIEDS The Classified A d s are available, free of charge to C W B members. Please contact Roger at C W B if y o u w o u l d like an ad to appear in Shavings or Sawdust. To renew your ad, you must send a copy of the ad (and any changes) by the 15th of each month to "Classifieds" c/o C W B .

S.S. JEREMIAH O'BRIEN Liberty ships were everywhere in W.W.II. Your mother or grandmother might have been a welder on one of the 2, 751 built. Your father or grandfather might have helped build the 3 cylinder engines that powered them. Today there is only one that still sails, the Jeremiah O'Brien. It's coming from its home port in San Francisco for a tour of the Northwest this summer, and will moor in Seattle July 3-8.

This vessel is a monument to Yankee ingenuity and teamwork, a living memorial to the merchant marine and armed forces of W.W.II, and a shining example of what volunteers can do. Everyone who has helped restore and run the old ship has done it out of love.

Jeremiah O'Brien w i l l be moored at Pier 66 on Elliott Bay. Watch for further information at your usual news sources.

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FOR SALE: Bolger Microtrawler, 15' x 8', standing pilot house, 2 berths, S.S.sink, steering gear & controls & marginal trailer, needs OB motor 25-40hp for planing ability $3,000. (360) 331-3789.

4000 Board Feet Clear Yellow Cedar. Enough to build a 50 foot boat. A i r dried 2 years, in bldg. $5.00 per Bd. Ft. George Calkins (360) 385-3649 Birchbark Canoe building courses. Summer 1996 on Lake Superior (Wisconsin). $750 U . S . including lodging. David Gidmark, Dept. 4B, Box 26, Maniwaki, Quebec J9E 3B3.

WANTED: Mature female teacher available for long-term house sitting. Excellent references. Call 5877172.

Firewood for CWB's steam launch. Wood must be clean and dry.

H E L P ! Ten (more would be nice) volunteers urgently needed to assist with the operation of C W B Livery/Rental!!! W o u l d like to have scheduled ongoing times & Days thru the coming summer. Please call Horace at C W B 382-2628.