Shavings Volume 21 Number 5 (October 2000)

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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,

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