Published bimonthly by
Volume X X I Number 5 October 2000
The Center for Wooden Boats 1010 Valley Street Seattle, WA 98109
ISSN 0734-0680 1992 CWB
O U R MISSION:
TO provide a community center where maritime history comes alive and our small craft heritage is preserved and passed along to future generations.
Classic Sailing at CWB by Dick Wagner Founding Director T h e 2000 N o r m Blanchard W O O D (Wooden O n l y O n e Design) Regatta on September 22-24 was a great success. T h e weather was fantastic: blue sky and 10 to 12 knots of northwest wind. F i f t y - o n e vessels participated o n two courses. A l t h o u g h t h r e e races were p l a n n e d f o r S a t u r d a y and t w o
for
Sunday, the wind and sun were too good to miss, so there were actually five races on Saturday and three on Sunday. M i n d y Koblenzer, our S a i l N O W ! Program
and
Volunteer
Manager
rounded up a great bunch of helpers and was also in charge of the committee boat for the small boat course. Vern Velez, C W B ' s " O l d M a n of the Sea" (a l o o o o o n g - t i m e volunteer and father of the S a i l N O W !
program),
o r g a n i z e d t h e R e g a t t a a n d ran t h e committee boat for the big boat course.
1927 Pirate Pond Boat found by Scott Rohrer
commentary
During the recent Lake
Union
Wooden Boat Festival, the C W B
by
CWB
Executive
Director, Bob Perkins.
T h e B l a n c h a r d R e g a t t a h a s an see REGATTA, page 3
had the good fortune of meeting model yacht builder and collector
Hank
Pirate
During the show Michael Murray
DeMeerleer of Woodinville, who seemed
Committee built and manned a display
ably demonstrated the building of these
more than slightly excited when he saw
restoration project and
great little vessels using his partially
the model sailors. "I have one of these!"
featured the 3 9 " Pirate pond sailers. T h e
completed boat as an example. We were
he told us and started poring over the
sight boats built by t h e students at
assisted in the booth by J o h n Kelly, J o e
kids' boats very carefully. We gave H a n k
Alternative School No. 1 were on display
Cable and model makers Nevin Root
a m o d e l drawing and asked h i m to
In the booth. Races for the models were
and Djaerick Rudolph-Peck.
measure and compare his boat carefully
for the Pirate
field f e a t u r i n g
a riotous
running
O n the final day of the festival, we
see
PIRATE,
page 6