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Young people are everywhere at The Center for Wooden Boats. All year long they carve dugout canoes, take sailing lessons, paddle umiaks, teach sailing lessons, and volunteer in the livery or the shop. Once in a while you can even see them driving tugboats. Building on the success of past years, there are several new exciting programs that will get more kids involved in more ways. Throughout the winter kids at CWB will be building boats. Students at Billings Middle School will be constructing 8’ El Toro dinghies; the same boats we use in our youth sailing program. Twice a week for the spring, 7th and 8th grade students will put their math skills to practical use as they measure and calculate the size of each piece, then shape it to fit using traditional hand tools. This program will be taught at the Billings campus and will be part of their school curriculum. The last day of the class will be the launching ceremony where the kids will be able to sail the boat they built themselves. The students’ work will live on at The Center as the boats they build will be used in sailing lessons for years to come. Also this winter The CWB Boatshop staff will be building an umiak with foster youth in Tacoma in partnership with Gateways for Youth and Family Services. The umiak is a Native American skin-on-frame boat of Inuit design. Interestingly the entire boat is made without a single metal fastener; the entire boat is held together by lashings and wooden pegs made from bamboo chopsticks. The umiak built in this class will remain with the organization for them to use in their own programming. Springtime at the CWB is the beginning of school groups coming to The Center, nearly 1,500 kids a year come as part of school tours. This year we have expanded the field trips available to include a new EALR (state-required social studies learning requirement) aligned two hour class that surrounds the January/February 2007
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lives of fishermen. The history of the Pacific Northwest is rich with the stories and culture of the fishing industry. This class engages students in this tradition by sailing the Bristol Bay gillnetter, setting a net, and creating their own label for a can of salmon. Building off of the success of our youth sailing programs that teach kids to sail in the fleet of El Toro dinghies, the CWB staff has created new programs to enhance the experience. Kids who like books or are looking to get a head start on their summer reading list can enroll in the new “Words on Water” program that includes time for reading maritime themed books while learning how to sail on
our El Toro dinghies. Big Boat Buffet is a new class that teaches kids 12 and up about sailing both on the El Toro dinghies and the bigger boats of the collection. Students will learn the concepts of sailing on small boats and then use the same knowledge as part of a crew. This class blends the greatest lessons of small boat sailing with the unique experience of sailing museum pieces. Whether the young people have an interest in building boats, using boats, or volunteering as part of our community there is something for all interests at The CWB in 2007.
Inside This Issue:
FOUNDER’S REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 News from South Lake Union . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7 At the historic ships wharf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-9 The Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-11 News from Cama Beach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Junior Sailors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Buy a BOAT from CWB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Feed and Caring of CWB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Upcoming Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Shavings