Shavings Volume 22 Number 2 (June 2001)

Annual Festival Edition: June 2001 - June 2002

The Center for WOODEN BOATS 1010 Valley Street Seattle, WA 98109-4468 ISSN 0734-0680 1992 CWB Volume XXII Number 2 June 2001

25th Annual Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival June 29 - July 1, 2001 Our Annual Festival Edition - so chock full of information, it's good all year round!

by Bob Perkins CWB Executive

kids in and out of school. We've served about 2,000 kids this year.

Director

Whassup?

The short answer is: what isn't up?

Heaven's to Betsy (appropriate enough expression since our energetic Board President Betsy Davis was recently voted Volunteer of the Year and we thank Heaven for her), it's busy around CWB! If we listed all the details this page would catch fire. Who woulda thought that those legendary characters assembled in Dick and Colleen Wagner's houseboat 25 years ago were putting into motion the H a n d s - On - M a r i t i m e - H e r i t a g e Machine?

A sample of what's going on: Major boat fix-up effort Our boats are looking better than they ever have. If you've been down recently you probably noticed. Brad Rice, our talented Boatwright, is leading the charge, along with Dockmaster Patrick Gould and tons of able volunteers. A talented group led by volunteer Scott Rohrer is completely restoring the largest boat in our collection, the lovely R-Boat Pirate.

Youth Programs Nancy Ries, Youth Programs Manager, has been busy working with

Lots of planning Opportunities presented by the development of the new Maritime Heritage Center on this site, the development of South Lake Union all around us and creation of a new state park on Camano Island at Cama Beach have everybody in dreaming and doing mode. The staff and Board are updating our Strategic Plan to make sure we do it right.

Andrea Kinnaman, our Development Manager, and Betsy Davis have been putting us all into "We're moving into the big time, kids" mode. As our programs expand we're putting more and more effort into looking for new funding sources so that it won't be money that slows us down.

Sailors and other do-ers As I write this, the phone is ringing off the hook with callers signing up for our popular SailNow! program (thanks, PI writer Kristin Dizon for a great article about SailNow. No, she's not on our payroll!) We've also got people building boats, renting boats, navigating boats, repairing boats and giving free rides in boats.

Whassup at CWB? .

Welcome to the Festival!

Wooden Boats: Inspiring, Challenging, Involving Volunteer of the Year What's Our Course?...

CWB Founding Director Recognized by Peers!

Experience One-on-One Sailing.

It's Not Only Boats Out with a Roar A Solid Foundation Calendar of Events & Workshops Recipe for an Exciting Learning Experience It's a Long Trail That Has No Turning Ed Monk Award Winner Named.., Rules of Tools : News From Cama Beach Whale Tales Youth Programs at CWB Little Pirates Teens Sail Tall Ship Adventuress Festival Map Lake Union Businesses Map

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OUR MISSION: To create a community center where maritime history comes alive and our small craft heritage is preserved and passed along to future generations.

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volunteers,

Mindy Koblenzer, Volunteer Manager, wrangled over 200 volunteers this year. All told, they provided about 18,000 hours of work. If we could figure out how to wire 'em up we'd solve the energy crunch.

Do we sleep? Yes. But guess what? With all this stuff we're doing we can use more help. Want to pitch in? We need: skilled volunteers to take leadership roles repairing boats, producing publications, building

exhibits, marketing our programs, answering phones, entering data; people to help us make important community connections; folks with a fewormany dollars they're willing to share with us; folks with boats they're willing to donate; teachers to lead skills workshops; somebody who will give Dick Wagner the jaguar he's always dreamed about.

We happen because our community helps us happen. With your help we can do it even better. Stay tuned!

Development and Fundraising

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Welcome to our 25th annual Lake people use them; and our boats make Union Wooden Boat Festival! We're people better because they use them make discoveries about glad you've joined us for our Big Party. and There are probably as many themselves, each other, their heritage reasons for coming to a classic wooden and their environment.

If you're an old friend of CWB, boat show as there are people who attend. People who dream of owning then we welcome you as one of our a wooden boat, people looking for partners in making hands-on maritime their next one, people who just like heritage programs the state of the art. looking at fine craftsmanship, peopleIf you're new to CWB, don't make the who like seeing our Quick and Daring festival your only visit - we want you sailors fall overboard, people who have to become an old friend! ; to have bratwurst. with their folk Enjoy the boats, enjoy the dreams, music, people who like hobnobbing eat good food, down a brew (if you're with the glamorous movie stars over 21!), dance if you feel like it, make showing off their latest designer a toy boat, take a boat ride yachting togs. and...become a CWB member!

At CWB, we pride ourselves on Thanks! having something for almost everybody all the time. Why? Because when we do boats, we do community.

Bob Perkins Our mission statement boils down to Executive Director "Boats and People."

Our boats are better because

byBetsyDavis President, CWB Board of Trustees Why do I spend time around wooden boats? Their visual aesthetic warms me. Their movement calms me.

Their construction, maintenance and handling challenge me.

Their uncompromising combination of function and beauty inspires me.

For these reasons I have chosen to spend time as a volunteer at the Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle, and am currently serving as board chair. I think it's great to have a place within minutes of downtown Seattle where people can come and take a "time out" from the hustle and bustle of technolife, and take a reprieve amidst the waves and light dancing on the water.

Rowing a boat with the Space Needle in the background! The park that is Lake Union beckons, and The Center for Wooden Boats gives our community a way to answer the call.

As The Center for Wooden Boats board chair, I welcome you to the 25th Annual Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival. I hope that while you're here you get a feel for the exciting developments of this new South Lake Union Park. Most exciting to me is that the best dungs about the Wooden Boat Festival will be extended to be available year-round. Any time of year you'll be able to come down and browse through and learn about a variety of boats and their related histories. Come down to learn a variety of maritime crafts and seamanship skills, or to get some hands-on time in boats learning how to sail. Bring kids down for play and learning with a maritime focus.

We are developing long-term plans to ensure that we will continue to be an integral and vibrant component of the evolving South Lake Union Park.

In conjunction with fellow maritime organizations involved in the Maritime Heritage Foundation, we're laying the

It was our annual April Spring Cruise and the year was 1851. Having digested a report from a recent arrival from way back East, who predicted that the area would soon be a thriving metropolis of 1,000 people, and also a potluck featuring a variety of homecooked chili, the crowd settled in to hear the results of the balloting for Volunteer of the Year.

The following volunteers were nominated: Betsy Davis, David Dolson, Catherine Hall, Larry Hennings, Jim Knutson, Pike Powers, Vern Velez and Trip Zabriskie.

groundwork for future programs. One exciting development will be the addition of a second boat shop which will allow us to expand our ability to care for the livery fleet we open to the public, and also to expand our ability to offer hands-on workshops. There will also be a viewing area so you can come down and observe the traditional methods of wooden boat construction while it's happening.

The Center for Wooden Boats is also actively planning for the future with a new second site on the west side of Camano Island. Picture: an old-time fishing resort with 50 rustic cabins perched on a mile-long gravel beach ; with a western exposure over Saratoga Passage. The park's development is being overseen by Washington State Parks, and, in close cooperation, The Center for Wooden Boats is developing programs which will take advantage of the unique setting and also complement those we already offer at South Lake Union.

What changes might you see at The Center for Wooden Boats as we keep evolving and growing? Our primary focus this year has been to improve the care and maintenance of the wooden boats in our collection, and we're proud to be seeing the results. Take a look around. Let us know what you think!

some things from changing at The Center for Wooden Boats. We want to keep the down-to-earth atmosphere at the Center, and a sense of fun and adventure. We want the Center to continue to be a place of inspiration, one boat ride at a time. We value diversity, community service, and a strong, sense of volunteerism. (We wouldn't run without it!)

I encourage you to become a member of The Center for Wooden Boats. In addition to receiving a regular newsletter and discounted rates on boat use and in our gift shop, you also get the satisfaction of supporting a nonprofit organization actively working to fulfill our mission, which is "to create a community center where maritime history comes alive and our small craft heritage is preserved and passed along to future generations" If you'd like to volunteer some time at the Center, you can choose from a whole array of projects ranging from leading kids' maritime activities to helping re finish" brightwork to

teaching sailing (listed under "Volunteers" on our web site at www.cwb.org).

If you have no time but would like to contribute financial support, again there are a wide range of options — from sponsoring the restoration of a particular boat or sponsoring a particular public sailing event to funding "bricks and mortar" projects required to improve and expand our physical sites, to endowed funds for kids' scholarships or general operations, or considering us in your planned giving. Please contact our Development Manager, Andrea Kinnaman, at (206) 382-2628 or andrea@cwb.org for more information. We are. also delighted to accept boats that we can sell to raise money for programs at the Center.

Thanks again for coming down to The Center for Wooden Boats and South Lake Union Park, and on behalf of all the organizations and volunteers making this event possible, I hope you enjoy the show!

As our organization grows, we've also been developing new methods of operating, ranging from new financial reporting systems to developing an annually updated Strategic Plan with participation from board, staff and members and volunteers. You might want to check out our newly revamped web site (www.cwb.org) which discusses all the programs we offer, describes the boats in our collection, and provides an up-to-date calendar of events.

But we're working hard to keep

And the winner? Betsy Davis, President of CWB's Board of Trustees, our leader of unlimited energy and enthusiasm.

As you can probably tell from her letter above, Betsy not only is enthused about CWB, but shares that enthusiasm with others, inspiring us all. to grow and improve, encouraging everyone to work together to help CWB reach its goals. She has put in many hours planning, listening, coaching, coaxing, supporting and doing. Thank You, Betsy!

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by Dick Founding

Wagner Director

John asked me where would the wood stove be? Where can we sit around and yarn? Tom said he loves the diversity of the livery fleet. One day he can sail a fat, stable, gaff rig and another he can try a slim, slippery lug rig. Pete wants to know where is the new boatshop. He's not into the hot stove league or nostalgic about archaic rigs. He wants a CWB body and fender shop, so we can maintain our growing fleet of operational boats. Sue asks if there is room at the table for the disadvantaged folks. After all, they are part of the neighborhood, and shouldn't we include all the neighbors in our activities?

CWB's fabric is a complex weaving of relationships, collections, structures, and programs. CWB's future will be an even more complex fabric. In the process of going to tomorrow we will discover some very interesting uncharted channels and will re-discover some time-tested lessons.

Physical changes at our Lake Union site will be dramatic. The Maritime Heritage Center will cover about six acres of the new twelve-acre

South Lake Union Park. Of course, the Park will be an entry to Lake Union, which will be regarded as a 700acre playground for classic wood boats.

In addition to CWB's homestead on Waterway #4, there will be tall ships, both permanent and visiting on the new piers, an active Northwest Native American maritime skills program, exciting interpretative displays in the Armory, and a pond with a pond model rental and scheduled model boat regattas, and several annual events in addition to our Boat Festival.

waterway connecting to Lake Union, under the street. Either way, it will be a unique and memorable entry experience.

Our Boat Festival will be free again, as it was for the first 10 years and it will explode in attendance, and exhibits through sponsorships and increased activities; Sponsorships will eliminate the need to ask for donations at the entry.

At both Lake Union and Cama Beach, we will find limitless opportunities to weave our maritime heritage into various cultures, activities, disciplines of science, and passions of the arts.

CWB will have a new Boatshop, located on shore. It may be the first structure the visitors pass through at the Maritime Heritage Center. The parking lot for the Park and MHC will be across the street. Visitors can reach the park either by a bridge, which will take them to the mezzanine of the Boatshop, where they can view on going restoration projects, or by a classic, electric powered launch, in a

The new development between Mercer and Valley will be special also.

The community Plan guidelines call for quality detailing at eye level, view corridors, and other esthetic amenities.

I believe the structures will go beyond the minimum conditions of

development, and will offer surprises of space, light, color and texture.

Smaller, more discreet surprises at CWB will be two new entrances, one from the south and another from the west, and a new floating building to house educational planning. That will free our library of the desks, and computers, and phones.

Our current Boatshop will be a 24hour classroom. In addition to our weeklongsessions, we will also schedule workshops for evening and weekends and adult-youth team boatbuilding instruction. By having more flexible hours we will enable almost anyone to fit their schedule to ours.

activities and opportunities we provide on those waters.

Education programs at Lake Union, and Cama Beach will be linked to middle school curriculum. There will be squadrons of traditional wooden small boats on Lake Union and Saratoga Passage with 7th and 8th graders perfecting their rowing, paddling, and sailing skills, in conjunction with perfection of their math, science, history, and social studies skills. As an outgrowth of this program, CWB will become a teacher of leaders. We will conduct teachers' workshops at Lake Union and Cama Beach on hands-on education.

This new wave of hands-on education will get educators abuzz because of its results. Kids who were on the threshold of dropping out will be excited about the value of school.

The high achieving kids will gain appreciation for the practical values of abstract theories. Boys and girls will be on an equal plane in a recreational setting. Gang members will gain new values from their mainstream teammates in the boats.

At Cama Beach and Lake Union we will have a fleet of traditional onedesign boats for three sailors and an instructor. With these fleets we will expand our sailing instruction to include racing. Members will enroll in a series of regattas at each CWB site.

One fleet will have gaff rigs and the other Marconi. We will have CWB regattas where all use the host's boats, and all learn the special features of each rig and hull design.

At Cama Beach we have an abundance of natural resources, which Historic tours on Lake Union and will lead us to develop new programs Saratoga Passage will expand, using and activities. They include an annual Admirable, our sailing Wooden gillnetter, Boat Fishing Derby and floats Sharpies Colleen and New Haven, steam down the Stillaguamish and Skagit launch Puffin, gas launch Ida B. and rivers. We will build two 30' rowing new electric-powered fantail launch and sailing whaleboats, in order to have Dora Duggan. We will provide a map weeklongexpeditions, camping at of historic sites in the area for the various public waterfront sites and passengers at both sites. Lake Union learning boating under oar and sail. and Saratoga Passage will become known as historic sites with Continued on following page educational programs through the

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CWB's fabric is a complex weaving of relationships, collections, structures, and programs. CWB's future will be an even more complex fabric. In the process of going to tomorrow, we will discover some very interesting uncharted channels and will re-discover some time-tested lessons.

All our programs at Cama Beach will involve our environment. The boatbuilding students will be shown the forest of Cama and learn to judge the trees with best chance of boat grade lumber, as well as the changes in the forest ecology due to logging.

Our Marine Science Lab will give adults and youth the opportunity to examine various tideland organisms and then return them to their habitat.

They will do an annual clam census.

We will also go forth on the deep water in our classic boats and study the health of Saratoga Passage while learning heritage seamanship. Students will monitor a particular location for temperature, clarity and organic content, using a compass and bearings to verify their position. This data will become the pulse and blood pressure chart of Saratoga Passage.

At Cama Beach our heritage preservation programs will be integrated with forest, beach and Puget Sound preservation programs. We will actively partner with organizations such as Audubon, Pure Sound, and Nature Conservancy, to provide a wide view of the connections and relationships of culture and nature.

Another integration aspect at Cama Beach is art. Boats and the sea have been persistent themes of literature, music and painting. CWB will create programs to help us interpret the abstract expressions of water and boating. This program will involve series of artists-in-residence at CWB. Our adult workshops at Cama Beach will be very popular with outof-staters, who will enroll early to ensure a week or two of educational vacation in the mystical Northwest.

A key part of CWB's youth program will be a two-week summer session for 14-18 year olds. The first week will be sailing a 100-ton traditional schooner. Following the cruise they will stay at Cama Beach for a week, building a classic small boat and studying the ecology of Cama

Beach. The students will gain the many values of hand-on-learning, the romance of tall ships, teamwork, great teachers and a bunch of new friends.

years. There were no traffic lights or public schools on Camano Island 10 years ago. Now there is one light and two elementary schools.

Native Americans will be woven into our programs from two directions.

The youth of the Tulalip Tribes will participate in seamanship programs at Cama Beach both after school and during the summer. And all youth at Lake Union and Cama Beach will become acquainted with the rich maritime heritage of the first people of Puget Sound.

Our programs will evolve too.

We will explore new channels in order to provide a place where people of all cultures will find sanctuary, education, adventure and cultural connections.

Our relationships with our community will expand and thrive.

At both Lake Union and Cama Beach, we will find limitless opportunities to weave our maritime heritage into various cultures, activities, disciplines of science, and passions of the arts. And at each campus one will find a cozy, quiet corner where there will be a gathering of companionable, witty people to just share stories of good wooden boats.

The Pacific Challenge is a wholesome competition of teenagers in a wide scope of traditional maritime skills, using a traditional small craft.

The essence of Pacific Challenge is spirit, teamwork, and initiative. This event has been held every May in different locations around the Northwest. Now there will also be an annual Pacific Challenge at Cama Beach in the fall. This will gather about 150 teenagers from California to British Columbia. Pacific Challenge at CWB will become a spectator event, sponsored by youth and photography oriented corporations. The public will be attracted by the classic vessels, the bright and energetic crews and the photo opportunities of the event.

Marketing all our programs at Cama Beach will be aided by the marketing staff of Cama Beach State Park. Together we will effectively contact a wide constituency of historic and environmental preservation organizations. Conferences and annual meeting of historical organization will be a frequent activity at Cama Beach.

The attraction is the environment, the dining hall and conference rooms and especially the hands-on history activities of CWB, that enhance the conferences.

Service to our community is our mission. And our community is evolving. Ten years ago the majority population of our largest cities was white. Today the majority is people of color. The population of Camano Island has increased 82% in the last 10

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What a Deal! A private lesson for no more than the rental cost of the boat from the livery. Yes, that's right. You get this really great instruction for free. So make an appointment, come out and start on a wonderful adventure.

by Peirce Brawner CWB Volunteer Sail

Instructor

The goals: Get you sailing on your own as quickly as possible while having fun.

This simply means you will be taught to handle the boat under various conditions, in a manner safe for you and your crew and safe for the boat.

Stripped to its barest essentials this requires your being able to: get away from the dock and out of the channel, tack, gybe, work the boat to weather (so that you can always get home) and land at the dock without damaging anything. (First, of course, you will learn what these words mean.)

You won't be an accomplished sailor at this point but you will be able to check a boat out on your own. Then you can spend the rest of your life honing your skills and learning, in greater and greater depth, sail theory, sail trim, rigs and rigging, the many elements of seamanship, Rules of the Road, piloting (coastal and inshore navigation), safety at sea, vocabulary of the sea, lore of the sea and on and on without end.

So, what might a typical session on the water be like? If you happen to be the first student of the day, you will have the privilege of helping rig the boat - a useful learning experience and one you should avail yourself of before you finish all of your lessons. With a minimum of pre-departure instruction and after donning the required life jacket, you will board the boat, take the helm (tiller) and the line controlling the after sail (mainsail).

Your instructor will control the other sail.

The instructor will push the boat off and away you go.

The instructor will talk

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through some of the maneuvers mentioned above and, depending upon the amount of wind, you will accomplish these with either high drama and excitement or just average pleasure and a growing sense of accomplishment. In either event, it should be fun - one of the goals.

you

During your time on the water, the instructor will find time to talk with you about various basics such as some of the terminology s/he will be using during every lesson, basic right of way rules and ways of controlling the amount of heel (tipping). On returning to the float after your first lesson, the instructor will usually take over the helm to dock the boat. You will dock the boat yourself after a few more lessons.

Suggestion: The One-on-One volunteer instructors each cover one day of the week. It is a good idea to choose different days for some of your lessons so that you get the benefit of the different perspectives and presentation styles of various instructors.

This is a year-round program.

Winter is particularly interesting to me because of the variety of people we get from colder climes. I've had a bush pilot from Alaska who came here specifically for these lessons, many people escaping Minnesota and Michigan winters and an interesting fellow from Texas who was in town as one of the technicians arranging the implosion of the Kingdome.

Speaking particularly of winter, some hesitate to come out then because of perceived rainy weather. A very perceptive friend of mine makes the following observation about winter: "In Seattle it threatens to rain a whole lot more than it does it." And that is true. But now it's summer, so come on out and earn your Livery Card.

Peirce Brawner has been volunteering at CWB since 1990 and teaches sailing every Friday.

By Jack Saylor CWB Volunteer The cacophony of sounds which might make a music lover think of a symphony by Paul Hindemith or Paul Glass comes from a mixture of highpitched giggles and brassy percussive sounds emanating from The Center for Wooden Boats Boathouse.

But this is not a modern symphonic music concert - the musicians are twenty-five first graders working hard at creating toy boats. In the hours spent at CWB they discover they can create. And how they create!

Looking at their "finished" products which at times they have had to "disagree" with a doting parent to design, one experiences the future - the thought of designs for not only boats, but the world in general. The color schemes - well - Andy Warhol would be jealous! It is not only boats! It is the human with the boats.

A group of adolescents boards an Aleut-style Umiak canoe and gracefully glides toward the middle of Lake Union. This vessel was patiently put together by a group of

"at-risk youth" who were spending time at the Center for Wooden Boats.

These youth are at risk because they have survived a life of verbal, physical, mental and even sexual abuse; they are trying to redirect their lives in a positive direction and learn that they are productive human beings. The selfworth that has been excised from their lives starts to come back when they commune with nature - where their efforts are lauded, not debased.

A minibus arrives at the CWB parking lot. Six slow moving persons, some in wheelchairs, enter the grounds of CWB and make their way to the Boathouse. Two of the visitors prefer to wend their way toward the Boatshop.

Those who make their way toward the Boathouse quickly pick some ropes and engage in the ancient art of knot-tying. They learn how to do the knots and what the knots are used for. There is laughter in them as they tie and untie the lines. Soon after, they board a sailboat skippered by a CWB volunteer for a relaxing sail in Lake Union.

The other two visitors prefer to sand the bright wood trim of a rowboat being "refreshed" in the Boatshop.

They are in wheelchairs - all are patients at the Bailey Boushay hospice for HIV affected patients. They are visiting CWB enjoying some hours which are filled with life in contrast with the stay at their residence where the sight of ebbing life is the everyday routine.

We have before us three frequent scenarios at the Center for Wooden Boats.

We have before us the unheralded deeds of a number of volunteers and staff members who work so hard at rescuing lives from the unpleasantries that fate has brought them.

It's not only boats. The Center for Wooden Boats refreshes lives, enlivens minds, gives new hope to tormented humans who feel life is not worth fighting for. It's not only boats, but the boats do it!

Jack Saylor; aka Vern Velez is a our dream volunteer: He is intelligent, charming, a premier sailor, our best salsa dancer and he never asks for a raise!

The time is 1954, when wooden twoman trollers ruled Washington's Pacific Coast. Terrine, Dolphin, Danny Boy and Ample were part of a fleet of hundreds of sea mustangs that prowled the waters from the Columbia River to Cape Flattery.

From Sea Struck Š 1999 by Steve 0sborn My fourth year commercial fishing was a slow one and jobs were scarce. I headed out to La Push in the Chevy as soon as school was out. I think the folks were probably glad to see me go. Things were slow in the fleet and there were no jobs available, so I got a job washing dishes and cleaning up at a little restaurant that had started up that winter. Ten dollars and two meals a day.

A couple of weeks went by and no boats. Finally, I took a no pay shot on the troller Terrine, a big forty-two foot transom stern boat. The skipper had been doing a lot of prospecting but was also talking about selling the boat so he was checking out the other ports for a buyer. He said I would get a chance to check out some of the other fishing ports. He would put me on for a week or two to try my luck. It beat dishwashing and I turned in my apron, parked the car and threw my gear aboard Terrine.

break even after fuel and ice. We started back down the coast, catching the odd fish here and there. The skipper decided to go to Grays Harbor, so we trolled south into, for me, uncharted waters. We laid over at Destruction Island, then headed on south. The barometer was dropping and we were both getting tired of that vicious short roll. It was getting too rough to fish, so we pulled the gear and headed for Grays Harbor.

The entrance is distinguished by a really bad bar which breaks across the entrance in any weather at all. The wind and seas were getting worse and offshore it was really getting black. The barometer had been dropping all day.

The big question now was, could we cross the bar? There were several boats ahead of us and one about a quarter mile behind us as we approached. You could see it was breaking badly, but one boat after the other made it across ahead of us, the last couple almost broaching and rolling very heavily.

The skipper hollered, "It's now or never!" and jammed the throttle forward. We got on the crest of a big grayback and I thought we were going to pitchpole as our bow dropped into the trough in front of us, then the skipper cut back on the throttle and we roared over the bar like a forty-two foot surfboard the deck buried in a smother of foam. As we got into the smoother water inside the bar, we met the lifeboat heading out. I looked out the aft wheelhouse window and could just make out what appeared to be a set of trolling poles disappearing into the breaking sea. The lifeboat took a terrible pounding, then returned to the station.

Terrine was certainly big enough.

The berths and galley were in the wheelhouse.

She was very uncomfortable though, being a "snap roller," which meant she rolled only a few degrees, but very quickly. It was hard to keep your , footing and gear was always being thrown off shelves. We trolled, our way up to Neah Bay and I That, with the exception of the made the rounds. Not enough fish, no return to sea after the gale had blown jobs. We had made enough to about itself out, was my only exposure to the

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Grays Harbor Bar. I made up my mind that I wasn't going to look for work where that sort of thing was routine.

That may have been an erroneous impression as it is still a fishing port, but it was enough for me.

We trolled our way back up the coast to La Push where I signed off and returned to shore. I was beginning to think that my fishing days were over. Everything seemed to have dried up on me. Then, one day, Dolphin pulled in. I asked Walt if he would consider taking me on again, same terms. He wanted to know what had happened to Donny Boy so I told him the whole story.

After quite a bit of discussion, he decided to hire me back. He thought it was funny when I pulled out a cigar, bit off the end and lit up.

We awoke to the boat starting to plunge into a head sea. Walt rolled out and glanced at the barometer, then tapped it. The bottom had fallen out!

Spray was hitting the wheelhouse like buckshot. Walt had bought a fathometer and he turned it on to see almost no water under the keel. I had

"Last year, you were this non-smoking, nondrinking, holier than thou kid and this year you can drink, smoke, and swear with the best of them. It's a miracle!"

"Well, Walt, times change and people change. I can still navigate and I can still fish and ice down. That's what it's all about, isn't it?" And with that, my season finally began The rest of the season was pretty routine with modest catches, but enough to put money in the bank, There wasn't much worth writing about until the last trip. We had a ton or so of salmon aboard and the ice was getting low, so we decided to fish one more day. We pulled into Strawberry Bay, just south of La Push. It's a neat little cove, sheltered from the prevailing northwesterly winds and swell by Teahwhit Head. You approach it by skirting a pair of wash rocks, then anchor just outside a ledge in about six fathoms. The first time I had been in there was with Bob, and I had used it quite a number of rimes in both Dolphin and Donny Boy. It was a quiet spot where you could get a good night's sleep without a big swell rolling your guts out. You stayed out of it if you were expecting a southwester as it was totally exposed and a dead lee shore. The weather was fine and we had a good dinner and sat on deck and yarned for an hour or so, then turned in.

been climbing into my oilskins and stowing whatever was loose in the cabin.

"I'll light her off, get ready to pull the hook, we've got to get out of here!"

He hit the starter button and the Jimmy coughed into life.

I opened the cabin door and stepped out on deck, then jumped and grabbed the boom! It took a moment to persuade myself that it was just phosphorescence. It looked like something glowing and evil was coming aboard to grab me. Every wave was glowing, The spray looked like fireflies and the stabilizers were great, glowing balls on either side of the boat; I went forward and the anchor line looked like an incandescent bar, a foot thick, that faded away ten or fifteen feet below the surface. Walt put the engine ahead to take the strain off the anchor line and I cast it off the cleat.

He took a couple of turns around the windlass barrel and began pulling the hook. We got to chain and finally I could see the bar begin to bend aft.

"We're off the bottom!" I hollered.

He jumped into the wheelhouse and goosed the throttle. We took a big, short sea right over the. bow, then

Riding Out the Weather: "Like a Wood Chip in a Storm Drain" began to move. I went aft to winch in the rest of the anchor line and get it up to the bow. We were moving through the darkness, lit only by the wildly glowing seas. Finally, we saw two big fields of light, to starboard. The washrocks! Walt gave them a wide berth and, as they faded away behind us, swung us off shore. Once we got out into deeper water, the seas weren't quite so steep, nor breaking so hard, but the wind felt almost like a solid wall when you stepped out of the shelter of the wheelhouse. You couldn't hear or be heard unless shouting at the top of your lungs.

from a thirty-seven foot boat are definitely awe-inspiring in a horrible sort of way. You feel like a wood chip in a storm drain. After breakfast and a washup, I stowed everything moveable down below and passed lashings over anything I thought might shift.

Dolphin started to swing off broadside to the seas and Walt ducked in and took the helm. I was frantically trying to clear and coil down the anchor line so the end wouldn't get over the side and tangle in the screw.

With no power, we would broach, sink and be dead in seconds.

I went in the wheelhouse and tapped the barometer. Lower still!.

"What's next, Walt?"

"Well, we can't run the Quillayute at night in this stuff, we'll see if we can't drop the hook in twenty fathoms and wait for daylight."

The seas were really getting high, by now. We could feel Dolphin rise and rise, then the wind would strike full force and heel her over and the breaking crest would fling spray across the wheelhouse windows, then she'd start to drop like an express elevator and the wind would cut off for a few seconds, then the whole process would repeat itself. We could, catch glimpses of the James Island Light from time to time at the top of a sea and I took quick bearings. Walt kept a spare eye on the fathometer. It's marker light was wildly swinging through a range of twenty or twenty-five fathoms as we rode the swell. Finally, it averaged about twenty fathoms and Walt said to let her go. It was sand bottom and the thirty-five pound Danforth bit in and started running the line out so fast it smoked around the windlass head.

"Give her more power or we'll lose it!" I hollered. Walt increased power until I could control the line, then I eased it out until we had about sixty-five or seventy fathoms out.

She was riding pretty well, but the anchor line tended to snub her bow down near the top of the seas and we were taking quite a bit of green sea over the bow. We eased the anchor line another twenty fathoms which helped some. The phosphorescence was not as intense out here in deep water, but we watched for about an hour before turning in. She seemed to be riding okay.

We slept pretty lightly as the scream of the wind kept slowly rising in pitch and the roller coaster ride kept getting more violent. Finally dawn broke, or at least the world went from black to a dark grey. I got the galley range lit and made a big breakfast, which we ate in the wheelhouse, watching the sea. Seas that big seen

Walt hollered that we'd try to let her buoyancy try to surge the anchor out.

I watched, hanging over the bow, until the line went straight down, then turned to give Walt the signal. BANG! The line broke about twenty feet down and snapped up past my head, tangled around the bow poles and slithered down to a heap across my hands and arms. Had I still had my head forward, it would probably have taken it off.

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I had turned on the radio at breakfast and heard Chris on the Ample calling, so I answered him and asked where he was. He said he had anchored in twenty fathoms near the whistler last night "Stand by one and I'll take a look, you should be pretty close to us."

I went out on deck and looked around. The visibility wasn't too good with the flying spray, but I could see there was no boat in our vicinity. ' Ample, this it the Dolphin. Take a look around, Chris, I don't see any sign of you."

"Roger, I'll get right back to you."

We waited, nothing. Finally, we started stowing our spreads and getting everything secured on deck to start our run for home. I tried calling Chris again, no answer. Walt said, "Let's get the hook up and go home."

I tightened the body and soul lashings on my oilskins and headed for the bow. The top of every sea was breaking aboard now and I had to hang on for dear life for each one. I started to cast the line off the bitts and it started to run so fast it yanked my hands into the chock and stripped much of the skin off my palms. Walt took the slack on the windlass head and I got my smarting hands back. Walt had the engine running slow ahead to take some of the strain off the anchor line but the bow was still being dragged down as we hauled the anchor.

He picked up the speed a bit more, but we didn't want to override the anchor and get tripped by a sea. I was hanging on to the bow poles and watching for the line to become vertical. The first time, we lost it and it took ten or fifteen fathoms to stop the line running and the process began again. This time,

Once I had the line secured and got off the bow, Walt waited for a smooth, then put the helm down and swung us stern to the seas, headed for La Push. I heard Chris on the radio and asked him where he was. He had dragged almost to Hand Rock. I asked him how that Northhill anchor looked.

"Like polished silver," he said.

Danforth," I retorted. There was lots of discussion and opinion as to proper ground tackle, evenings in the cafe.

Chris held to a Northhill, lightweight, designed to hold seaplanes in calm harbors. I said if he wanted real ground tackle, get a Danforth, with heavy chain and line. With this gale, I felt my point was made.

Walt was watching the seas closely, jockeying the throttle to keep us high on the face of the following seas, much like using a surfboard.

Finally we would slide back over the top and he would give her full throttle until the next sea reared up behind us.

Then cut back to get near the top again.

deck was under three or four feet of water! I suddenly realized that the main hatch was beginning to rise, floating off the combing. I jumped for the hatch, bracing my shoulders under the boom and pressed down with all my strength. I could feel it sort of shuddering as it tried to rise off the combing, then the water began to run off as Dolphin rose to the sea and the hatch slid back down into place. That was the only heavy sea we shipped.

As we approached James Island, I looked to the North and could see a fishing boat making very heavy weather of it. I grabbed the mike and said, "Chris, is that you about northwest of James Island?"

"Yeah, and I've got my hands full!" was the reply.

We finally surfed into the river mouth, cut the throttle back and headed for the fish dock. Almost a ton of fish gave me a pretty good payday.

After we tied in the string, I went up to the BS box to watch Chris come in, then went down to give him a hand.

Later, we watched Box Ed Slim rolling his bottom paint out as he came in from the southwest. He made a slow pass past the strings and asked if a couple of people would give him a hand as he couldn't get out of the wheelhouse. Turned out his anchor line and a bunch of gear had tangled up and jammed the wheelhouse door shut. There were two or three boats lost in that gale. It hit so fast it caught a lot of smaller boats out. They didn't have much of a chance. After we were secured, I walked over to the Coast Guard station. During the gale, they recorded a sustained eighty knot wind gusting to eighty-five.

I didn't realize that that would be my last commercial fishing trip, but it was certainly one to remember.

Steve Osborn is a classic wooden I was standing in the wheelhouse boat junkie whose exciting and unique door, watching these huge seas behind experiences could fill a book. In fact, this us when one began to topple. With a piece is a chapter from a book Steve is thunderous crash it pooped us and the writing.

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By Bob Sittig MHF Executive

facility for Seattle's historic vessels at South Lake Union Park, was seeded A permanent address, phone by a one million-dollar grant received number and office from which to from the Kreielsheimer Foundation in July 2000. It is anticipated that the cost conduct business are key for any nonof the completed project will near three profit organization to demonstrate million dollars. We will shortly stability and credibility. This is undertake a capital fundraising drive especially applicable in fundraising for the balance of the funds necessary efforts. Our ability to operate from to create this exciting stage for our star the site of the developing Maritime vessels.

Heritage Center has been a considerable help in instilling the vision and scope of the completed Facilities I n t e g r a t i o n S t u d y project in the minds of visiting Begun and Completed supporters.

While all of the participants in the

Naval Reserve building.

Director

Almost a year has passed since the Navy turned the deed to the Naval Reserve Center over to the City of Seattle. That transfer was a signal for the Maritime Heritage Foundation to shift to high gear in the process of creating a major regional cultural attraction, one that will showcase the rich maritime heritage of the Pacific Northwest. And shift we did. The period since last July 1st has been marked with significant advancements in the development of a Maritime Heritage Center at South Lake Union Park. Several deserve particular recognition.

MHF Members Set Up Offices In September 2000, the Maritime Heritage Foundation, The Virginia V Foundation, The Northwest Schooner Society, The Center for Wooden Boats, The Schooner Martha Foundation and the Shipping and Railway Heritage Trust (Fireboat Duwamish) each established administrative offices in the former

Fundraising for Historic Ships Wharf Begins During these same months we have enjoyed more than a moderate degree of success in our fundraising efforts. We have received over $200,000 in unrestricted operating funds and are the designated recipients of $420,000 more in governmental grant monies earmarked toward the construction of the Historic Ships Wharf.

Maritime Heritage Foundation had wonderful ideas regarding of our Maritime Heritage Center, no one was qualified to design the whole facility.

We knew then that it was time to call in the professionals. In September of 2000, after reviewing proposals from eight cultural facility design firms, we contracted with Lord Cultural Resource and Management Ltd., a Toronto, Canada firm, to perform a study that would integrate the ideas, programs and exhibits of all the participants in the center.

This project, to create a home port The result of that study was recently published and it describes the nature of the future Maritime Heritage Center and the interactions of the participants.

A general physical description is proposed in this study along with space requirements suggested for key activities. This report, augmented by input from the Maritime Heritage Foundation board of directors, will give an architect most of the information needed to create an attractive, imaginative and exciting facility. This design process, in conjunction with the overall park design, has recently commenced. $ 3 6 , 0 0 0 in Operating Grants Awarded

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this year as a result of these grants.

Interim Operating Agreement Completed In July 2000, the City of Seattle City Council passed a resolution which adopted an updated master plan for South Lake Union and designated the Maritime Heritage Foundation the organization to create the Maritime Heritage Center in that park. That same resolution directs us to create an interim operating agreement, describing our short- term occupancy arrangement, and then a longer-term agreement necessary to develop the more extensive improvements in the park. I am pleased to report that the interim agreement is complete and that a team has been formed to develop the long-term document, which is targeted for completion this year.

Tall Ships Coming in 2002!

At least, this is what the American Sail Training Association (ASTA) desires will happen. When ASTA visited Seattle in the spring of 2000, they were looking for an organization to act as host port for a visit of about thirty tall ships in the summer of 2002.

This seemed like a natural activity for the Maritime Heritage Foundation and we stepped up to the plate to sponsor this event in Seattle. ASTA and the host ports of Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego have mounted a major effort to establish facilities, sponsors and ships to participate in this exciting gathering. The present schedule calls for the Seattle visit to occur between August 15th and 19rh, 2002. A great deal more coordination is required for this event and the Maritime Heritage Foundation anticipates enthusiastic participation from the volunteers of all the operating organizations.

Most of the progress described above relates to the development of facilities. This may be no real progress at all if we do not remain focused on the reasons to establish those facilities in the first place, programs and public benefit. Included in the unrestricted funds mentioned above is $25,000 from the Kreielsheimer Foundation for the general development of the Maritime Heritage Foundation.

The goals of the Maritime Heritage Foundation are easy to describe. We exist to manage the development of a high quality Maritime Heritage Center in South Lake Union Park and to provide resources to our operating organizations in the form, of facilities for administration and programs and exhibits, financial aid, technical assistance and program coordination.

The MHF board of directors elected to utilize those funds along with others, to aid the operating organizations of the foundation in fielding active programs at the South Lake Union site. At the April 2001 board,meeting, $36,000 was approved for implementation of four programs that will be managed by six different non-profit and one city agency. More than fifty event-days will be created

It is our desire that the programs and exhibits available at the Maritime Heritage Center Heritage be the products of our operating organizations whenever possible. Our role is to provide appropriate resources that will ensure those efforts are successful. Based on the progress of the past year, we believe that. Maritime Heritage in Seattle has, indeed, a solid foundation. *

C W B ' s events andworkshops are the best friends your brain can have. At C W B you learn through direct experience, with the left and right brains working in sync to give you the same thrill of learning you had when you took your first wobbly steps, your first wobby two-wheel bike ride.

W e all know it's fun to play with boats; it's even more fun to smooth a plank with a sharp plane, or trim your sails so you sail without touching the helm. Come to CWB Free Public Sail.

Every Sunday at 2 p.m.

Enjoy free half-hour sails on one of our classic sailboats. Our Cast Off! program allows visitors the chance to sail in boats that are too large or too complex to be a part of our regular livery program.

Currently, we're sailing on Admirable, a recently restored Bristol Bay gillnetter and our logo boat.

You might also have the chance to find out what it's like to sail Puffin, our steam launch, Amie, a Friendship sloop, or our New Haven Sharpie, a 35foot oyster boat. Come down and join us any Sunday (weather permitting) for a free afternoon sail on Lake Union. Please feel free to call us around noon on Sunday to check weather conditions.

YACHT REGATTA

POND

June 18, 2001 (Monday) 12 p.m.- 3 p.m.

Models of the R-Class sloop Pirate, made by 7rh and 8th grade students of Alternative School #1, will, conduct a series of races at CWB. The original Pirate, now a part of the CWB collection, was designed by the legendary Ted Geary and built by Lake Union Drydock in 1926. Lines of the Pirate model can be purchased from CWB.

ANNUAL LAKE UNION WOODEN BOAT FESTIVAL June 29, 30 and July 1, 2001 (Friday - Sunday) 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. each day Boats, boats, and more boats. All types, all sizes, all wood. Visitors will be welcome aboard boats to view, ask the owners questions, and take rides.

Interaction with wooden boats and maritime skills is the quintessential element of the Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival. Participate in several marine skill demonstrations, watch the Quick and Daring boatbuilding contest. See the future boatbuilder of America build toy boats. It's fun, educational, and if you dare, adventurous. The site is Seattle's latest waterfront park, the former Naval Reserve Base jutting into Lake Union. There will be food, beverages, great folk music and a terrific view of the lake. Hope to see you there.

FAMILY FUN DAY July

4,

2001

(Wednesday)

This year we are adding a July 4 Family Fun Day. CWB will he open so that visitors can view the boats, go for boat rides, and "watch demonstrations of only on CWB grounds, however, our docks will remain in their festival configuration, extending Armory building and the South Lake Union Park.

We expect that many of our festival boat exhibitors will still be docked with us allowing another chance TO view dozens of classic wooden boats. Well be asking for a suggested donation of $5 per family to participate in these special July 4 activities,

SUMMER IN THE CITY

Three Sessions: July 16 - 20, 2001 (ages 12-14) July 23 - 27, 2001 (ages 12-14) August 13-17, 2001 (ages 15-18) Fee: $175

A maritime skills day camp for ages 12 - 18. Learn sailing, rowing, navigation and marlinspike (knot tying) skills. The week includes a combination of these activities, with the primary focus on sailing skills. On-the-water activities use our fleet of classic small wooden boats. There are nine openings available per session. Contact Youth Programs Manager Nancy Ries at (206) 382-2628 for more info.

ADVENTURE BOUND

For ages 14-18 August 5 - 10, 2001 Fee: $575

This summer, spend; an adventure-filled. week sailing the tall shipAdventuressthrough the San Juan islands. Students will become part of the ship's crew, standing watches and learning to sail the 101 -foot schooner while also learning navigation, knot-tying, and marine ecology. The ship will depart from and return to Friday Harbor on Orcas Island in the San Juans. The fee includes food, lodging, instruction and supervision. For more information or an application, contact Youth Programs Manager.

Nancy Ries at (206) 382-2628.

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NATIVE AMERICAN CARVING TOOLS

LEARN TO "SAIL NOW!"

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

11 a.m. - 1 p.m. or 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Saturday & Sunday 6 p.m. — 8 p.m. Monday — Thursday (April 16-Sept 6th) Instructors: Volunteers Fee: $250 per person (includes a one-year CWB membership, the textbook The Complete Sailor, and an on-the-water skills test) Students will learn to sail classic boats in one session of classroom work and 8 —10 lessons of hands-on instruction (within a four-month period) in our small boats, no more than two students per instructor. Students will graduate when able to sail a variety of keel, centerboard, sloop and catboats by instinct, by themselves.

Classes begin every other Saturday during the winter. Please call ahead for reservations. For the student who is only free on weekdays, or prefers one-on-one instruction, we continue to offer individual lessons ($20/hour for members, $30/ hour for non-members) on weekdays, between 12 p.m. and 5 p.m., by appointment.

IKYAK. (ALEUTIAN KAYAK) WORKSHOP

June 9-17, July 7-15, or August 4-12, 2001 9 a.m. — 5 p.m. CWB Pavilion Fee: $900 members, $950 non-members Instructor: Corey Freedman The ikyak, most commonly known as the baidarka, is arguably the best long-range open water kayak ever designed. It is fast, seaworthy, and carries a fair load. The class uses few tools and lots of handwork. Students will receive

Skills September 29 30, 2001 (Saturday & Sunday) 9 a.m. — 5 p.m. CWB Boatshop Fee: $100 members/$110 non-members Instructor: Ray Arcand Ray Arcand is an experienced wood carver and toolmaker. Students will make their own nativestyle crooked knife and another knife preferred by local native carvers.

Students will gain historic information and knowledge of the annealing, hardening and tempering processes and the fitting of blade to handle. Limited to 6.

paddling instruction in ikyaks during the class..

The instructor is renowned for his knowledge of ikyak design and construction and his teaching style. Limited to 4.

LOFTING WORKSHOP

July 7 & 8 (Saturday — Sunday) 9 a.m. — 5 p.m. Marysville Boatshop Fee: $115 members, $125 non-members Instructor: Rich Kolin Students will 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. This class is highly recommended as a prerequisite for our boatbuilding workshops. Limited to 6.

SKIFF BUILDING WORKSHOP

September 15-23 (Saturday thru Sunday) 9 a.m. — 5 p.m. Marysville Boatshop Fee $600 members, $650 non-members Instructor: Rich Kolin Rich Kolin, an experienced designer, builder, and instructor will lead the class in building a classic 14' lapstrake sides, flat-bottom skiff. A copy of Kolin's book on skiff building, Building Heidi, is included in the tuition. Limited to 7.

SAIL REPAIR WORKSHOP

October 13, 2001 (Saturday) 9 a.m. — 5:30 p.m. Naval Armory Fee: $85 members, $95 non-members Instructor: Ellen Falconer The course will include repair of holes and September 22, 2001. (Saturday) rips, chaffing of seams and wear from hardware.

9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

There will be instruction on inspection and CWB Library prevention maintenance to avoid problems with Fee: $40 members, sails. $45 non-members The instructor owns a sail loft and has a wide Instructor: Dennis Armstrongrange of experience in both sailing and repair.

Throughout history, sailors have Limited to 6. passed away the long hours on ocean crossings by inventing decorative and functional knots. Before World War II these knots adorned nearly every handle and bar aboard the big October 13 & 14, 2001 (Saturday & Sunday) ships. The fo'c'sle arts include such 9 a.m. —. 5 p.m., both days, CWB Boatshop fancy knots as monkey's fists, Turks Fee: $100 members, $110 non-members heads, sennits and the star knot. As Instructor:.

Ray Arcand in all good knot classes, some basic Each student will build their own shaving and practical knots will be covered. horse, a. traditional portable work bench with a Mastery of the basics, will lead to the clamp that is operated by foot pressure. This is construction of monkey's fists and an ideal bench for making oars, paddles, and spars.

Turk's heads. Other fancywork will Students will get a material list and provide their be discussed as time allows. Limited own wood for the project. Limited to 6. to 10.

FO'C'SLE! ARTS (FANCY KNOTS) SEMINAR

SHAVING HORSE CONSTRUCTION

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NAMEBOARD CARVING WORKSHOP

October 13 & 14, 20 & 21 (Saturdays & Sundays) 9 a.m. — 5 p.m. at Marysville- Boat Shop Fee: $190 m e m b e r s , $200 non-members Instructor: Rich Kolin Under the guidance of instructor Rich Kolin, students will learn to design, layout, and carve nameboards, banners or a seat rest for a boat or home. Before the class, students wall receive both a tool list and a copy of Jay Hanna's Sign Carving Handbook. Tools will-be available for those without them. Limited to 8.

T I D E

RIPS,

E D D Y S ,

&

B A C K MUD

F L A T S ,

O H MY! October 17, 2001 7p.m. - 9:00 p.m. CWB Boathouse Fee: $10 members, $12 non-members Instructor: Earl Doan Powerful but predictable forces churn the waters we paddle in. Current tables and charts can help you avoid difficulties and hazards. With slides and video, Earl shows you how to meet the challenge of the tides.

Learn, where to find tide rips, how to use eddies, how to avoid a long walk in the mud, and how to predict slack water time and current speeds.

Limited to 40.

OARMAKING

November 10 & 11 (Saturday - Sunday) 9 a.m. - 5 p.m, Marysville Boatshop Fee: $110. members, $120 non-members Instructor: Rich Kolin Students will learn the design elements of good oars and build both straight blade and spoon oars under the guidance of instructor Rich Kolin.

Limited to 8.

NATIVE AMERICAN PADDLE CONSTRUCTION

November 3 & 4, 2001 (Saturday & Sunday) 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. both days CWB Boatshop Fee. $125 members, $135 non-members Instructor.

Ray Arcand Ray Arcand is very experienced with canoeing and various styles, of canoe paddles and is a skilled

P L A N E MAKING December 8, 2001 (Saturday) 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. at Marysville Boatshop Fee: $80 members, $90 non-members Led by Rich Kolin, students will build and take home a classic 9" block plane and blade. The tool is practical to use, pleasant to touch, and a classic piece of folk art. Limited to 8.

WOOD IS A MARINE ENGINEERING

MATERIAL

February 3, 2002 (Sunday) 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. CWB Boathouse Fee: $10 members, $12 non-members Instructor: Bob Pickett Bob Pickett, the founder of Flounder Bay Boat Lumber, will talk and demonstrate the astounding

ROPE FENDER WORKSHOP October 20, 2001 (Saturday) 9 a.m. — 5 p.m., CWB Library Fee: $40 members, $45 non-members Instructor: Dennis Armstrong Mysteries of the rope fender will be revealed.

There are proper traditional fenders for proper traditional boats. Dennis Armstrong, an experienced knot type and salty traditionalist will show how to weave those practical and smart appearing fenders. Limited to 10.

Woodcarver, tool maker and, paddle maker. In this class, students will be introduced to the evolution of paddle styles and types of preferred woods. They will then use a variety of traditional hand tools to carve their own traditional Northwest. native; paddle, either single or double blade. Those who build their shaving horse on October 13 & 14 (see Shaving Horse Construction Workshop) should bring them to use in this class.

Limited to 6.

SAIL REPAIR WORKSHOP

November 10, 2001 (Saturday) 9 a.m. — 5:30 p.m. Naval Armory Fee: $85 members, $95 non-members Instructor: Ellen Falconer The course will include repair of holes and rips, chaffing of seams and wear from hardware.

There will be instruction on inspection and prevention maintenance to avoid problems with sails.

The instructor owns a sail loft and has a wide range of experience in both sailing and repair.

Limited to 6.

qualities of various woods to withstand voracious teredos, relentless sun, and twisting stress of the sea.

Participants will learn the right woods for various elements of the boats, and just how much punishment they can take. Limited to 40.

MODERN WOOD TECHNOLOGY

February 10, 2002 (Sunday) 2 p.m. — 4 p.m. CWB Boathouse Fee: $10 members, $12 non-members Instructor: Bob Pickett .

This will be a "how-to" and "why do it" talk & demonstration of various alternative techniques of wooden boat building. Topics included are strip planking, epoxy laminations, and other variations. The instructor has done them all and has tons of pragmatic experience to share. Limited to 40.

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THIRD FRIDAY SPEAKER SERIES Every 3rd Friday 7 p.m. CWB boathouse

Each month CWB finds a speaker of wit and experience to talk about his or her special knowledge. It is also an opportunity for CWB members to meet one another and the staff. Admission is free and refreshments are served (donations to cover costs are appreciated).

September 21, 2001 "Nine Lives, T h e Story of the C a t b o a t " Vaun Raymond who has produced a number of videos on subjects of historic significance, including documentaries of CWB and Northwest Seaport, will present his video on the history of Catboats.

Vaun will augment the video with comments on its background and production. This film is narrated by Robert McNeil of McNeil-Lehrer News Report

October 19, 2001 " S o u t h L a k e Union's History" Paul Dorpat, who probably has intimate knowledge of every photo ever taken in Seattle and its' vicinity, will give a slide talk on the transformation and communities of South Lake Union from the days of the forest and tranquil lake. Paul Dorpat is the author of the many volumes of "Seattle, Now and Then" and the weekly "Now and Then" feature in Sunday's. The Seattle Times.

November "Canal

16, 2001

Cruising

in

Belgium a n d

Holland,

This is a slide talk of two old friends, Dean Black and Lloyd Haugen, following the ubiquitous canals of Western Europe in a decidedly laid back and economical voyage. And they're still friends.

Knots Boat Building Tricks Brightwork Canoe Restoration Workshop Celestial Navigation Half Model Building Maine Guide Canoe Building Metallurgy/Bronze Casting Oar Making

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Plans are in the works for a series of Saturday seminars and demonstrations on a variety of maritime heritage subjects.

You're encouraged to suggest your ideas!

NORM BLANCHARD

REGATTA September

28-30,

2001

Each Fall, we honor a legend of Northwest boat building and yachting Norman C. Blanchard - with the WOOD (Wooden Open One Design) Regatta. All wooden; sailboats 8' to 40' are invited to participate. For larger racer-cruisers, the regatta is the Wooden Yacht. Racing Association overall championship. There also will be one-design and daysailer classes (three boats constitutes a fleet) and, to recognize great designs and longevity, a "Classic Plastic" division.

SPRING C R U I S E April 28, 2002 The Spring Cruise is an opportunity to embark in a time capsule back to the past.

We choose a different historic period for each cruise. The participants and CWB visitors will hear someone from the period telling us about the current events and plans for the future.

Then all who wish can embark on one of our boats, or boats of visitors, with a chart of Lake. Union for the time we are celebrating. We circle the lake in a leisurely fashion and then return for a potluck dinner.

26TH A N N U A L LAKE UNION WOODEN

BOAT FESTIVAL

2002 Hope to see you next year at the 2002 Wooden Boat. Festival for even more fun!

FROSTBITE REGATTA .

December 30, 2001 This is one of our four annual membership gatherings, but open to guests of members, too. The purpose is to show off our collections, give a rundown on our plans, have a round robin Beetle Cat race, and a hearty potluck supper as we bid farewell to 2001.

ANNUAL AUCTION

France"

Basic.

SATURDAY SEMINAR

February 2002 Set sail with us during our Annual Fundraising Auction. Don't miss this chance to enjoy an evening of fun while supporting our programs.

Sailing & Advanced Sailing Toy Boat Building Woodworking for Teens Basic Navigation Boat Photography Canvas Canoe Repair/Restoration Model Ship Building Plane Making Salmon Wherry Workshop

Skiff Building Lofting Strip Plank Canoe Building Rigging Wherry Rowing Sail Making & Repair Wooden Boat Restoration Strip Plank Kayak Building Block Making W o o d Carving Boat Shop Tour The Salish People & Their Skills Carvel Plank Boat Building Nameboard Design & Carving Greenland & Aleut Kayak Construction

One Part Center for Wooden Boats, One Part Schooner Martha Foundation, One Part Maritime Heritage Foundation, One Part Public School Classrooms. ... Then Just Add Water

by Jo Ann O'Connor Pres., Schooner Martha

Foundation

we have the answer!

Module One will start in the classroom taught by the student's teacher. They will pick a subject based on maritime studies involving math, science, history and art. In the classroom there will be suggested readings and creative projects.

The Center for Wooden Boats and the Schooner Martha Foundation have formed a partnership for an exciting program beginning in the 2001-2002 academic school year.

Module Two will be taught at The Center for Wooden Boats, where each student will learn small boat handling, line handling, marlinspike/knot tying, and basic seamanship skills.

The program will integrate with local schools to provide a hands-oninterdisciplinary education experience for academic credit. The program will consist of four modules. One module to be taught in the school classroom, one at The Center for Wooden Boats and one on the schooner Martha. The final module will be a seminar and open house at the Maritime Heritage Center, where activities are planned as a culmination of the program.

Module Three will be a five-day trip on board the schooner yacht Martha, where students will apply their math skills with navigation, science with weather, physics with sail trim, while learning about the local maritime history of Puget Sound and the art of sail and vessel design and construction.

How many times have you heard a student say, "What good is it to learn math, science, history or art? How do I apply it to everyday life?" We think

The program's goal is to immerse the student into a hands-on-discipline, using sailing and seamanship as a teaching model. By subordinating the individual to the needs of the ship and her people, an understanding develops of the relationship between teamwork and leadership. Sail training has been

recognized as multidiscipline educational system for over a century. Few other educational processes combine these elements with such intensity. None has comparable power to stimulate young minds by combining learning and adventure.

One of the most important outcomes of this program is the ability to see the importance of education through widening the horizons and values of direct experience learning and the ability to apply what students learn in daily life.

We are proud to announce that the Maritime Heritage Foundation has provided a grant to launch this program for the academic year 2001-2002. More funds are needed for scholarships. Both Organizations are currently raising funds for this program. If you would like more information on how to make a tax-deductible donation to this program, contact either The Center for

Wooden Boats at (206) 382-2628, or the Schooner Martha Foundation at (206) 310-8573.

Come by and visit Martha at the Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival, June 2 9 - J u l y 1, 2001!

Outreach Programs

Leadership Positions

Summer in the City Youth Sailing

Board of Trustees

Youth Boat Building and Seamanship Programs

Collections Committee

All Aboard: homeless youth sailing

Finance Committee

School Tours, Umiak Paddling and Toy Boats Alternative School #1 Pond Boat Program Pacific Challenge annual maritime youth competition Cast Off! Public Boat Rides Sail Away Challenge, cohosted by Footloose Disabled Sailing Association Bailey-Boushay House Afternoon Sailing Program SailNOW! and One-on-One sail instruction Corporate Sailing & Volunteer Service Days City of Seattle Summer Youth Employment Community Service Volunteer Program University and high school internships

Programs Committee Site Committee Marketing Committee Something you may already know is that The Center for Wooden Boats is a great place to volunteer. Individuals, friends and family volunteers assist CWB in providing, organizing and accomplishing great maritime programs year round. W e have a wide range of volunteer needs for daily operations, programs, special events and committee work. At every level, there is an opening for your involvement. Here are some areas that may be of interest.

Development & Fundraising Committee Daily Operations Livery - boat rentals & repair Front Desk - Reception Boat Shop - skilled help on restoration projects

When people ask how we provide such a range of programs, we have over 400 volunteers to thank! Benefits for volunteering include free boat rentals, sailing lessons, maritime workshops and social events. W e operate year- round six to seven days a week with flexible volunteer shifts. The Center for Wooden Boats is also working towards opening a second maritime preservation site at Cama Beach State Park on Camano Island in addition to expanding our South Lake Union site.

To volunteer, feel free to stop in at the Boathouse, talk to staff and volunteers and sign up for the next Volunteer Orientation. For an application on-line, visit www.cwb.org.

Sail Instruction Special Events Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival C W B at Cama Beach State Park Events Ed Clark Memorial Regatta Norm Blanchard Regatta Frostbite Beetle Cat Regatta Annual Auction Spring Cruise

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The judgment of the sea dooms Wembly but he wins on appeal

by Chas. Dowd, © 2001 To say that Wembly had bad luck with boats was like saying that Bill Gates has a nice little nest egg set by.

Or that Bill Shakespeare was a dab hand at writing. Wembly's Dream, Wembly's Dream II, and Wembly's Dream III fell prey to the perils of the sea — well, WDIII never made it to the water — and Wembly's Dream IV stranded on the reef of Insufficient Funds. So for the fourth time, Wembly swallowed the anchor and vowed nevermore to go down to the sea.

Instead, he got a dog. More precisely, his helpmeet Gloria got a dog. Since Wemb originally got into boating because he was allergic to nearly everything on land, the dog was a hypoallergenic poodle. And since Gloria fully agreed with Wemb's

policy that you should never do things by halves, she got her companion animal its own companion animal.

Wembly forebore naming them Wembly's Dream V and VI, calling them instead Marat and Sadie. Not a week had passed before Wemb, Marat, and Sadie had established themselves at the end of C dock, Wembly with his fancy rope work and the two dogs each with a large soup bone. The next time they showed up, his companions were in doggie life preservers.

Gearing up "I never understood how much gear there was with dogs," Wembly remarked reflectively. "If you think marine hardware multiplies endlessly, it's nothing compared to dogs. The variety of dog feeding dishes is at least as broad as the variety of cleats. If you think a dog dish can't cost as much as a hand-cast bronze cleat, you just haven't been looking in the right places. Then there are kennels for moorage, leashes for cordage, and monthly vet visits instead of yearly

haulouts. And I have never had the expense of obedience classes for a boat.

It wouldn't be so bad, except that dog gear, like boat gear, is automatically subject to a 10 to 15 percent markup."

Despite the expense, Wembly took an active hand in training Marat and Sadie. Wembly being Wembly, there were some slight revisions. For example, the command "Heel" was supplanted by "Come under my lee."

"Sit" became "Anchor." "Down" became "Moor." "Come" became "Avast."

Marat became the starboard consort and Sadie became the port one, with corresponding red and green collars. In his abortive boat-Owning days, Wembly always said he eventually wanted to own a boat with a rig so complex that nobody could steal it. It was obvious that he was training dogs that nobody else could handle. Wembly is nothing if not consistent.

Wembly speaks heresy After a few months, Wembly began to give voice to a belief that has long circulated among some boating wives. Many men are not so much in love with the sea as with they are with boat gear. "Guys love gear," Wembly contended. "Boat gear, dog gear, computer gear, or sports gear, it makes no difference. Look at the motto of the Car Guys on NPR: 'Any project worth doing requires a new tool.' If that isn't a paean to gear, I don't know what is."

days, Wembly sailed up in a tiny 16foot French fishing lugger. Marat and Sadie were at their respective stations on the starboard and port sides, barking in affable greeting to other boats, gulls, and the world in general.

Gloria was seated comfortably in the bow box, wearing a dashing matelot outfit. Those of us who knew Wembly's boat-owning history stood by awaiting tragedy.

Wembly rediviva But months went by and no tragedies seemed to ensue. It was a violation of the Laws of Nature. It was as if the sun rose in the west or the water in the kitchen sink suddenly began to swirl down the drain counterclockwise.

Among the spectators who had been holding their breath, the wiser heads began breathing again and the truly sceptical holdouts quietly expired. Finally, as the youngest member of The Dock Committee, I was despatched to ask Wembly if he had any idea why maritime doom had apparently glanced away from his boat-owning.

Wembly adopted an air of mystery and took me out to the end of the float. Looking in all directions including up, to see if any arrant ear was overhearing, he waited until a passing jet ski produced a curtain of white noise.

"It came to me when I was developing my philosophy of gear," he muttered out of the side of his mouth, like Jimmy Cagney in White Heat. "I had nothing but trouble when I bought boats. But look at. the name of my latest.

Wembly's attitude was hard to combat. Harrison tried, but everybody on the waterfront knew that he had Sure enough, the sternboard did purchased progressively larger boats because he loved doing the kind of not read Wembly's Dream V, but Bark knotwork with which bos'uns like to Barque. encrust handrails, ship's wheels, and "It's not a boat," he pointed out the handles of watertight doors and desperately needed more display space. with the sly glee of someone who has Though nobody ever voiced it, there done the Fates one right in the eye. "If was a widely-held opinion that it had been a boat, it would have sunk Wellington had a forty-foot schooner at its moorings sometime in May. But built to match a set of four antique it's not mine. It belongs to the dogs. bronze, cabin, door hinges and a It's really just the ultimate piece of dog skylight from a Grand Banks codfish g e a r ! " boat. Even Elliot's tiny Friendship Cave Canem. sloop, so devoid of frills that it lacked a head or bunks, had a Yankee topsail Chas. Dowd is anything but a linear that Elliot admitted was only there to give him more sheets, halliards, and thinker. If you asked Chas, to describe a spars. "There's something lovely about square, he would give you an elegant the words 'jewel block,' don't you description of its 16 unique sides. In think?" he used to remark dreamily addition to keeping us up to date on escapades, Chas is an from amid the tangles of cordage it Wembly's took to hoist and set the 15-square foot announcer for our Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival Keep an ear out during the triangle of canvas.

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The Center for Wooden Boats is pleased to announce the first recipient of the Ed Monk Scholarship. F. Jay Smith of Anacortes, Washington has been awarded $1,500 to research and record traditional Norwegian boat building in Norway. This summer, Smith will apprentice with Nils Ulset of Ulser Batbyggeri, Ulset builds heritage Norwegian small craft. Smith will submit a written report on his project and also provide a public talk at CWB. The date will be arranged after his return from Norway.

The Ed Monk Memorial Award Fund was established to provide educational opportunities for professionals working in traditional maritime trades. The mission of the award is to provide travel expenses that will enable maritime professionals to have first hand experience in the techniques of other cultures.

Applicants are to link with a mentor who they will work with during the grant. Study and research may include current and historical methods of boat construction using different- materials; designs based on the functions to be

served by the boats, materials available for construction and the state of technology.

The Center for Wooden Boats is seeking applications from qualified persons for next year's award.

Applications are due on or before March 15, 2002. The applicant should explain how the project will enrich the existing knowledge of the applicant and how the funds would be used. The budget for the grant may include transportation, housing, and other appropriate expenses. Also required is the background of the applicant in traditional marine trades and a list of references.

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$1,500.

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The Award was named to honor Ed Monk, a prominent and respected boat designer and builder in the Northwest. There will be a permanent Ed Monk Scholarship trophy at CWB. The Fund was established by John M. Goodfellow, who supports the hands-on history activities at The Center for Wooden Boats. He is an advocate of preserving traditional maritime skills and wishes to encourage

this through studies of those traditional skills being carried on beyond the applicants' local regions and local knowledge.

The application committee consists of the donor, CWB Founding Director Dick Wagner, and the current CWB Executive Director. Applicants can be of any locality, wishing to study indigenous materials and techniques of other areas. For more information, contact Dick Wagner at (206) 382-2628.

Decisions by the application committee will be made no earlier than April 15, and no later than May 15.

Funds granted must be used within one year of the award. A written report of the activities and benefit derived from the experience must be submitted to CWB. A public presentation at CWB is also required. The budget may include travel to and from CWB for the presentation. Grants awarded will

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By Foster Nostrand

or essential item.

Having spent many years fiddling with various hand tools, while fiddling with various boats, I have come to believe that there are rules by which tools live. I am master of no tool, truth be known. But I think I've caught an essence of the laws by which they live.

There are millions. And I have not yet found the order of importance or a "listing" rationale. The rules just are!

For example:

The old fashioned brace is a wonderfully romantic tool. I inherited one from my grandfather. But it has tricks of it's own, Pushing the rosewood butt with your stomach to increase pressure when the going gets tough has given many a woodworker "the hern." The brace job I like best is driving large screws. The squeak and groan of a plank meeting a frame it hasn't seen for awhile is truly satisfying. The ratchet assembly on this tool has the same uncanny property of always being set to go the wrong way. This we come to expect.

A hammer left on the top of a stepladder will fall when you have forgotten and move the ladder, but it will not fall on your head. It will give itself some time to accelerate, turn head down and impact your toe! Unless, of course, you are wearing safety shoes instead of sandals when it will bend the rule and conk your head.

A reversible drill/driver will turn the wrong way after you've carefully lined up the screw. These drills have forward/reverse switches that are capable of knowing which is the wrong way to go.

A carefully sharpened and honed chisel, when knocked off the bench will invariably fall between the duckboards and hit the raw cement edge down. The resultant spark will start a fire if you've been using gasoline, which everybody told you not to do.

The aforesaid chisel will be knocked off the bench not by you, but by the third thing to roll, tip over, skid, after you've upset them by picking up something stuck to epoxy, duct tape, or some other adhesive glop.

When working aboard, tools will not fall directly overboard, but will bounce once or twice, giving you a chance to snatch at them, thus knocking directly some other valuable

But the auger can also have a way of breaking out prematurely, splintering the other side of the work.

The scrap block that everybody tells you to affix to thwart this has fallen noiselessly off. This is not too bad (the splintering being on the "other" side of the work) but when you break through you may slam the brace against the "finished" side, thus scoring it up. Not too bad except you can chip a tooth when you slam through it, etc., etc. The brace looks great hanging in the shop. Several are even better.

A twist drill will break off only after it's in to sufficient depth to be irretrievable without tearing up the work and the work will be something cosmetic. If you say "to hell with it!" and plug the hole, you'll find that drill piece sometime with an expensive saw blade.

Tools are born to hide. If they are small and used often, such as my awl, (I'm always looking for my awl) they will slither and slide under things, plans, rags, other tools, even hide in your clothes. Stand up to brush the shavings off the shirt - Flick!, overboard goes the awl.

When you've lost the chuck key to your favorite drill, no other aboard nor any of the neighbors will fit. You will try the nearest and learn again about skinned knuckles.

Somewhere, someday, you are going to run into a gorgeously designed piece of machinery, engine, pump, compressor, whatever. It will have been exquisitely made in the Black Forest by elves or in Edo by samurai and will have all the SAE bolt heads, except one! This drain, adjusting clamp, port cover bolt will be out of sight and after fiddling awhile you'll realize it's metric! On the whole blankety-blank machine one metric bolt. Why? Who did it? You don't have a metric socket set so into play comes the old standby—the adjustable wrench. Now with this tool we know you must buy the best because cheap adjustables will work open or closed at their own whim. So here we take the best adjustable money can buy, run it open and closed to find the chip that always gets in the gear. Ready? On to the bolt head!

It won't turn!

Something, a stud, casting fillets, Or other bolt heads block your swing.

Curses! Try again. Wait! It will turn, slightly and if you reverse the wrench after each miniscule turn you can, after 4678 reversals, have the bolt and wrench drop into the most inaccessible spot in the bilge. But you, YOU have outfoxed'em. You have a magnet!

Except the bolt is non-magnetic stainless for the same reason it's a metric on an SAE machine.

It is possible to break a cheap socket wrench (and we buy cheap because tools always go overboard anyway). And we're back to skinned knuckles.

The worry is not pain or infection but staining the work with blood!

Which brings to mind the genius who designs "band-aids" which cannot be opened at all, much less one-handed in the dark and which refuse to soak-up any blood at all.

Really small parts of tools will, when dropped, vanish into thin air.

Gone from this universe. Somewhat larger parts will disappear only long Extension cords will writhe into enough for you to replace or work the water all by themselves, when around it. Then it will turn up working dockside. " Attempts to flip painfully right under your bare foot. them out will get the plug joints in and blow all the manna's fuses. No one Batteries must be detachable from around will know where the breaker battery driven tools by law these days, or fuse board is (it's locked anyway). so they can (theoretically) be disposed of environmentally. Detachable Any screw that fits the repair will batteries fairly leap into the drink. be slotted or Phillips, depending on There is no replacing one battery with which screwdriver you've just knocked another from a different tool. They overboard. This overboard tool never fit! So you've got a dead tool, "suicide" seems directly proportionate which come to think of it probably to expense or the necessity of the tool can't hurt you. Ah yes, drop it on your to the job at hand. Cheap "gas" pliers toe. never go overboard.

They will disappear for awhile. To where?

The real nature of a tool will show Unknowable. up suddenly after years of complacency. The camber of the cabin roof and a slight roll from wake will start a favorite screwdriver rolling, to bounce on the deck and (see above).

The shiny plastic housing of a drill will allow it to skid like a puck on ice across the deck to puncture the inflatable boat, bounce off, knock over the martini pitcher before going you know where!

Edged tools will herd together, edges in close proximity. To reach for one while holding the work steady is to invite an incision. Leaping back from this hurt will clash edges together, putting nicks in several. The original will continue off the bench to the concrete floor and at least one other will slide insouciantly overboard just ahead of your grasping, bleeding hand which is staining the new teak whatever. Beginning to get it?

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There are tools you learn to love.

I have given my heart to several wooden block planes that I bought in Germany while in the Army. Ulma Otts. None too big. Took a lasting edge. Glided over the work like Teflon. A couple have cracked the same heart by going missing. I regret to say I think of thievery. I don't blame the guys, who I think took my planes, the temptation being so great.

But if proven, I'd happily bash them with my mallet. Provided I could find it and the head would stay on.

Well, we pound, grind, twist and often curse them. Worst of all we use them for jobs they weren't designed for (ever see a guy so exasperated he drives a screw with a hammer because its slotted and he has only you know what? It's not surprising tools develop a defensive strategy. Nobody getting this far thinks for a second that I've even scratched the surface of "The Rules Of Tools." They'll fight back the best they can. Remember the old song "Can't get along with 'em and can't get along without'em?"

Recently a report was made to the CWB Board and staff outlining the vision for CWB at Cama Beach, from park opening through 10 years.

The following is a summary of that report.

We will rehabilitate the five structures that CWB will control, purchase tools, computers, furniture, utilities, and maintenance supplies for those structures.

By Dick Wagner Founding Director

We will plan an apprenticeship program. This will allow two apprentices to learn boatbuilding through the restoration of CWB boats and construction of new classics.

Describing CWB by cataloging the things we are going to do really doesn't capture the magic that envelops the visitor to CWB. We are a place of pleasant and memorable experiences and surprises. There is no other historical museum that offers its collection as a means of learning. What people experience at CWB is a luscious palette of images, sounds and textures.

There is no admission cost, no steelyeyed guards, no polished marble floors and no ancient relics in glass cases.

The Center for Wooden Boats is larger than the boats, the tools, and the buildings. It expands exponentially to the limits that people sail. The heartbeat of CWB is people learning by doing in the shop and in the boats.

This tradition will continue at our new campus at Cama Beach State Park.

May 2001 to Startup Our education programs will be accessible to all: young and old, able bodied and disabled, economically advantaged or disadvantaged. We will continue to offer workshops on maritime heritage skills. There is one simple reason for this program: We preserve our maritime heritage by passing on the maritime heritage skills.

The most enduring means of learning is direct experience. Our workshops provide a deeper and more long-lasting education on history than books or lectures can convey. Boatbuilding workshops will provide boats we can use in our various programs.

We will obtain a boat of fishing heritage to interpret commercial fishing and for use in school-year environmental education programs for 6 to 12 students.

We will restore a minimum of four original Cama Beach boats. We will also publish a monograph on the boats of Cama Beach in the context of the Boathouses of Camano Island in the 1930s.

CWB will provide free boat use every Mother's Day and Father's Day. We will plan other annual events, including open-houses, a wooden boat fishing derby, Stillaguamish River rides, community boatbuilding, a low key daytime auction, summer band concerts, storytelling, historic tours of Saratoga Passage, historic and classic boat rendezvous and youth regattas.

Startup through 5 Years Our annual community events are becoming part of Camano Islands' fabric. The open house has become a great history-gathering event. We encourage those who have stories about experiences at Cama Beach or boating on Saratoga passage to sit down and spin a yarn into a tape recorder.

These talks are valuable primary sources of history. We plan to work with the local historic museums and publish a maritime history of Camano Island. We hope to have students of museology help with the research.

Stanwood Middle School graduates come to CWB for a weeklong expeditions aboard our boats as their "Rite of Passage" before entering High School.

Looking Back After 10 years, we will have become a cultural center for Camano Island. Our visitors will find inspiration and therapy at CWB at Cama Beach State Park. Our Cama

By J e f f Wheeler Cama Beach State Park Ranger Having the best job in the world, I expect to see nature in her finest. As the new manager at Cama Beach State Park, I knew that over the years I would see many amazing creatures.

What I did not expect was to see so many of them on the same day.

On Wednesday April 25th, I was hosting a meeting concerning the archeology of the park with about 15 people. At 3 pm, the group had split up to look at different areas of the park.

The group I was in was at the southern end of the park when someone spotted two dolphins about 30 feet off shore heading north. I jumped in the club

Beach campus will have evolved into a smooth and self-sustaining operation through the dedication of staff, volunteers, the Board, the State and the community.

car and drove north to tell the main group to watch for the dolphins.

As we looked out, the surface of the water broke with several Orcas from the j-pod, including a new baby.

They were about 100 feet off shore and they played in front of us for about 15 minutes. As we watched, the dolphins passed by and someone pointed up to show us the three bald eagles soaring overhead. As the Orcas left, another person shouted and pointed to a pair of gray whales on the other side of Saratoga Passage heading south.

Having had this job for only six weeks I'm left to wonder, if this is just the start of my time here, how amazing are the next 24 years going to be?

The marine railway is finally rebuilt and pilings to secure our floats have been installed.

We have installed a touch tank of tidal creatures at the west side of the boathouse. Range lights have been installed on the ends and the boathouse ridge to guide boats returning in fog and dusk.

From Year 6 through 10 CWB is now sponsoring two conferences in the spring and fall of each year, on various topics relating to maritime heritage. The papers presented at the conferences will be reprinted as monographs that can be sold at CWB. Through our community boatbuilding classes, a large fleet of sailing and rowing boats have sprung up on the Island, and we now have a midsummer regatta-homecoming event.

We are reaching out to the Oak Harbor, Coupeville and Langley communities with a passenger launch during the summer months. We organize demonstrations, talks and tours for the debarking visitors.

We have built a replica of a 28' centerboard sloop built in Port Townsend in 1860. The original boat was very likely the first large vessel the new colonists built in Puget Sound.

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This year we built two Bevin Skiffs.

The Bevin Skiff was designed at the Alexandria Seaport Museum for their community boat building program. It is a lightweight plywood skiff that can hold up to three people. A fun and (relatively!) easy first project, students had a great time rowing the finished products out on Lake Union. Thanks to Andrew Eigenrauch for helping lead the project.

Meany Middle School Six students from Meany Middle School built a lapstrake pram made of cedar, mahogany and oak that was

featured in our annual fundraising auction. This program grew out of our summertime ALL Aboard program, which we run in conjunction with Seattle Mental Health.

By bringing boatbuilding into the classroom, we hope to enhance students' abilities to make the connection between classroom learning and real-life problem solving.

Providing a successful learning experience outside the context of desks and chairs may give some students a new outlook on the value of education and possibilities for the future.

Encouraging Hands-On Learning Young folks everywhere are taking block plane and bevel gauge in hand and making a place for themselves in our local maritime heritage. From model sailboats to lapstrake prams, we are carrying out our goal of passing on maritime heritage through hands-on education through a variety of programs that introduce young people to the art of boatbuilding.

by Scott Rohrer CWB Pirate Committee

Chairman

The CWB "Little Pirates" model yacht building program is" now in its second year. This year, middleschoolers in Johnathan Stevens' class

For many, this is not only their first experience working with wood and hand tools, but an opportunity to apply classroom knowledge to a reallife situation. Through the process of building a boat, students walk away with a sense of satisfaction from rowing and sailing a boat that they built with their own hands. This can be a profound and life-changing experience.

Here are some of the youth programs we've offered recently: Pirate Model Boat Program For the second year in a row, students at AS-1 middle school built, launched and raced pond boats that they built in the classroom. (See story Little Pirates, this page.)

Alternative School Number One Scriber Lake Students at atScriber Lake High School spent a semester focusing on maritime (AS-1) have eight boats under tradition, boat building, sailing and construction. rowing. They graced the docks of The date for the Pirate Cup regatta CWB once a week for an on-the-water has been set for June 18 at the Center experience and spent a large portion for Wooden Boats. We will have, as a of classroom time building a "wing special guest, Mr. John K. Bussey, dinghy" with their teacher, Tom Pirie. winner of the first Pirate pond boat regatta in Los Angeles in 1927. All Lakeside High School present and previous model boat For the third year in a row, builders are invited to compete. We students from Lakeside High School expect nearly 20 boats at the regatta. spent a week in April building boats Nevin Root will be defending the here at The Center for Wooden Boats. trophy.

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The building of the boats has been greatly streamlined this year in part due to the acquisition of a swell new aluminum keel mold. We are now able to cast three keels at a time with precise duplication. We are grateful to the family of Mr. Mason Backus and their Lucky 7 Foundation for the grant that funded this. Manson Backus was an ardent Seattle yachtsman who Spent many a pleasant hour aboard his Rboat Lady Pat. Thanks are also in order to Ballard Brass and Mr. Steve Morel for their invaluable contribution to the tooling project.

Sponsorship for the Little Pirates internships has been granted for another year by the Women's Group at Seattle Yacht Club. The two most capable model builders will be hired for five weeks this summer to work on boat restorations at the Center. The winners of the internships will be announced at the regatta. We are extremely thankful to the SYC women for their continued support.

The construction steps for building these wonderful little boats are now shown on the Pirate web site at www.R-boat.org. Click on "Pond Boats" and follow your nose.

In addition to messing around with (little) boats, Scott Rohrer heads up the CWB Pirate committee, which is hard at work restoring the full-size Ted Gearydesigned R-boat Pirate.

by Nick Calcott CWB Youth Volunteer Way back in July of 1998, I fell in love. The object of my affection: A 101-foot wooden schooner named Adventuress.

The week that I lived with her was the most memorable experience of my short life.

my watch leader was Meg Trzskoma, then leader of CWB's SailNOW! program, so our watch soon had the basics down and moved on to more advanced sail theory.

I knew that wasn't the end of it. I would be back. Oh yes, I would be back on board my beloved Adventuress soon enough.

They say, though, that love is all about location. Adventuress and I sure picked a great spot to fall in love. We were cruising around the majestic San When I first saw her sitting Juans, in some of the best sailing wind majestically on the dock, it wasn't love I've seen then or now, and it was at first sight. Yes, she was an old wonderful. If you've never been wooden schooner, well kept up, but I aboard an 80-ton sailing vessel moving had seen others. And the bizarre jargon at a good 12-14 knots with the lee rail coming out of the crewmember nearly under water, I urge you to try showing me and 20 other strangers it soon. There's no rush like getting a around didn't do much to endear me boat like that moving well, and it was to her. We were all there as part of a at that point during the trip, sailing youth program run through CWB, and through West Sound off Orcas Island, I'm sure that my fellow shipmates were that I first felt affection for that as confused about what we were doing swaying deck under my feet. as I was. Most of us looked apprehensive, and the few who didn't But I had some competition in my looked downright scared of being out love from the 20 other people who had on the water. stepped on board at the same time as me. We were all total strangers before "This here's the sheet," the first this, but being thrown together like mate told us. "Actually, it's the foresail this without anyone to talk to but each sheet. When we tack, who ever is on other really broke up people's initial this needs to pull it in, then let it out shyness. It was only about an hour slowly as the boat comes around." after we stepped on board that we were When we heard this, most of us started all talking like old friends. looking around for a bed to go with the sheet. It was a steep learning curve.

Amid all this wonderful sailing, company, and scenery, danger loomed.

After this inauspicious start, things None of us wanted to get back, but we started looking up. After we had left felt like that sorry day when we would the dock and our waving parents, we step back on the dock was fast started to get used to the boat arid the approaching. By the fifth day, routine on board almost immediately. whenever anyone was heard to The 21 of us were divided up into mention the words "home," "dock," or watches, seven to a watch, with a crew "dry land," a shiver would run through member and CWB-ite to lead. It was everyone listening. The honeymoon within our watches that we really was nearing completion and none of started to learn how to sail. At all times, us were ready to get back. one watch would be on deck, one watch would be cooking a meal of some When we all did finally step off of kind, and one watch would be learning the boat, it was with resignation. We basic sail theory, an area which most were sorry to leave our beloved boat of us had plenty to learn. I was lucky- behind and we would all miss her. But

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All Day, Every Day

Model Boats in the Armory Name Board Carving with Rich Kolin at the entry to South Lake Union Park Pewter Pig Pub on the West Lawn

Antique Outboard Motors Display in the Armory Boat Restoration in the CWB Boatshop Boat Rides in Sail, Steam and Row Boats on the Northeast docks Building an Aleut Kayak with Spirit Line Kayaks in the Pavilion Construction of Haida Canoe with Robert Peele on the CWB Lawn Forging with David Tuthill, West of the schooner Wawona Captain Kid's Corner: Youth activities on the West Lawn

Three Types of Australian Puzzle Boats with Flounder Bay Lumber on the West Lawn Sign Painting with Nancy Bergstrom on the West Lawn Used Books for Sale in the Armory Used Tools for Sale in the Armory Voting for People's Choice

Join us for Guided Tours with CWB Founder Dick Wagner Meet at 11:30 or 2:30 on the west steps of the

Hours 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday through Sunday

Armory

Crew's Mess: Food Booths Located at the main festival entrance Choose from hot dogs, polish sausages, wraps, bbq, philly cheese steak sandwiches, teriyaki, New York-style Italian sausage sandwiches, Thai cuisine, kettte corn, nonalcoholic margaritas, daquiris and smoothies, espresso, and more!

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Friday 11:00 12:00 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 Saturday 11:00 12:00 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 Sunday 11:00 12:00 1:00 2:00 4:00 5:00

Music

Stage

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Lawn

Opening Ceremonies Jim Hinde, Pike Place Market Musician, Singer/Songwriter Dan Roberts, the Rowing Minstrel Mary Williams, Singer/Songwriter Brendan Wires, Touch-style Bass Artist Brad Warren, Singer/Songwriter & Recording Artist Brian Butler, Exquisite Blues Singer/Guitarist Living Dangerously, a Tasty Trio of Blues Originals Val D'Allesio, Singer/Songwriter & Recording Artist Larry Murante, Singer/Songwriter & Recording Artist Frankandgwen, Engaging Duo with Guitar, Harp, & Vocals Steffen Fanger, Rock-steady Fingerstyle Guitarist Stanislove, Blues-based Singer/Songwriter & Slide Guitarist Reggie Garret & The Snakeoil Peddlers, Original/Contemporary Renee Redeker, Singer/Songwriter & Recording Artist Ken Calandra, Singer/Songwriter Antony DeGenaro, Original Guitar Soloist Mark Her, Singer/Songwriter Deb Seymour, Singer/Songwriter & Recording Artist Baby Gramps, Aboriginal Seattle Hokum Artist

Driving Directions From I-5, take the Mercer Street exit (#167). At the end of the off-ramp, bear right. At the next light (one block), turn left onto Valley Street. Turn right on Terry Avenue into South Lake Union Park (before you get to Westlake Avenue).

B u s info Bus numbers 17, 26, 28 and 70 all stop nearby (Sundays, 71, 72, 73). Call the Metro Rider Information Office at (206) 5533000 for specific route information.

Parking There is free parking for festival visitors in the lot off Terry Avenue at the entrance to South Lake Union Park; however, space is limited. Paid parking is available on the south side of Valley Street. Volunteers will be on hand to direct you to available parking.

Information Booth The Festival information booth is located on the west side of the Armory near the Festival entrance. Check the schedule of events, vote on your favorite boats, or find out more about The Center for Wooden Boats.

Emergencies A first aid tent is located on the West Lawn. Or ask for help from a radio-equipped Festival volunteer.

Lost & Found During the Festival, found items are taken to the Information Booth near the Terry Avenue Festival entrance. Once the Festival is over, any unclaimed items will be taken to the Lost and Found at the Front Desk in the C W B Boathouse, (206) 382-2628.

Thank You! To the hundreds of volunteers who help make our annual Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival possible, a big T H A N K Y O U !

Volunteers also make C W B programs possible year-round. If you would like to become a C W B volunteer, please contact Volunteer Manager Mindy Koblenzer at (206) 382-2628.

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American Meter & Appliance Armchair Sailor BluWater Bistro Clark Gundy Intersound. Investments

Crosscut Hardwoods Daniel's Broiler, Schwartz Brothers Restaurants Flounder Bay Boat Lumber The Gang at 48째 North Honey! I'm Home! Catering Lake Union Burger King Lake Union Mail Marc Lentini Jim Nason Maritime Heritage Foundation Northwest Seaport Northwest Brewhouse & Grill Olson Lumber PDQ Printers/Lithographers Port Townsend Sails Dolores & Richard Ranhofer Schattauer Sails Seattle Dep't Parks & Rec. Shipping & Railway Trust (Fireboat Duwamish) Viking Community Bank

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Shavings