Shavings Volume 33 Number 1 Spring 2013

The Center for Wooden Boats

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The desserts were magnificent, the games were lively - but the truly memorable part of our “Steer by the Stars” Auction and Dinner Celebration was the incredible support shown by more than 360 guests, a record high in the event’s 37-year history.

From the wine toss to the balloon pop and throughout all three silent auctions, the Seattle Design Center was abuzz as old friends and new gathered together to connect, to play and to win one of this year’s enviable auction items. The bidding was fierce, especially for items such as a tour of the Protection Island Wildlife Refuge, a behind-the-scenes visit to the Seattle Aquarium and even a leather Utilikilt (handsomely modeled by John Snow).

This year’s Fund-a-Need proved to be the real show-stopper, raising $48,775 – more than double last year’s total - for our Youth Programs such as Footy Pond Boat Building, Field Trips, and Job Skills Training Program.

These programs not only provide critical hands-on learning opportunities for youth, they can also be life-changing experiences. Former Crew Member Troy T. Joey, who is currently studying for his Able Seaman certification at the Job Skills Seamanship Training Program at Tongue Point, Oregon, brought the audience to their feet for a standing ovation when he spoke about the incredible impact of CWB’s Job Skills Training Program, which provided him with the structure, leadership and opportunity he needed to re-frame his goals and apply himself toward a fulfilling career in the maritime industry.

Auctioneer Eric Mamroth proved an adept addition to our team, leading off the evening with a rousing game of “Heads or Tails”. Longtime volunteer Pete “Capt. Snake” Brodsky was the winner of the $1,000 prize.

A number of attendees came in costumes to reflect the permanent “Steer by the Stars” theme or this year’s sub-theme “The Sun”. Honors in the costume contest went to Auction Chair Denise Snow, Board Member Chris Butler Spring 2013

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A sellout crowd at CWB’s 37th annual Auction at the Seattle Design Center readied their bid cards as (at center, left to right) CWB Emcee Chris Maccini, Auctioneer Eric Mamroth and CWB Volunteer Merle Myhre (partially hidden) bring up a pond model boat for bids.

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and CWB Visitor Services Manager Diana Hennick.

With so many wonderful auction items and opportunities to contribute to CWB programs, it’s no wonder we surpassed a record fundraising amount - but that doesn’t mean we were any less surprised! All together the auction grossed $150,000 for our operating fund, an incredible manifestation of the warmth, generosity and deep engagement of our community. And everyone had such fun doing it!

CWB Executive Director Betsy Davis summed up the mood of the evening: “I loved that the evening started with warm shafts of sunlight streaming through the skylights while friends old and new chatted, won prizes and ogled the Dessert Dash tables. And I was moved that the evening ended with a recordbreaking amount of support for CWB’s mission programs in the year ahead. Can’t wait for next year!”

As I add the finishing touches to this message, the sun streams through the window,

contributing to the warmth and gratitude that I feel toward all of the Auction attendees, our fantastic volunteers who did everything from greeting guests to waiting tables and to the ultra-talented, dedicated Auction committee.

Kudos to all, thank you to all!

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Founder’s Report . . ...................................... 2 New Field Trips . . ........................................ 3 News From the South Lake Union. . ............... 4-5 News from Northlake.................................. 6 News from the Boatshop.............................. 7 New Season for Job Skills Training Program..... 8 News from Cama Beach................................ 9 Sailing & Maritime Skills Workshops.............10 Junior Sailors..........................................11 The Feed and Caring of CWB.................... 12-15 Upcoming Events.......................................16 Shavings

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CWB Staff Betsy Davis, Executive Director Dick Wagner, Founding Director Eldon Tam, Deputy Director Amy Arrington, Sailing Instructor Shane Bishop, CWB Cama Beach Lucy Blue, Youth Education Coordinator Oliver Davis, Sailing Instructor Steve Greaves, Boat Donations/Sales Manager Joe Green, Lead Boatwright Jake Hawkins, Boatwright-in-Residence Cama Beach Diana Hennick, Visitor Services Manager Kyle Hunter, Livery & Boatshop Manager Christian Holtz, Sailing Instructor Andrea Kinnaman, Bookkeeper Dan Leach, Community Engagement Lead/ Boatwright Chris Maccini, Youth Educatoion Coordinator.

David Mondello, AmeriCorps Crew Member Support Lead Edel O’Connor, Workshop Program Manager Aislinn Palmer, Event Manager & Working Group Lead Judith Rickard, Member/Donor Relations John Riley, Nightwatch Mindy Ross, Sailing Education Director Ruth Sawyer, Workforce Development Program Assistant AmeriCorps VISTA Lara Schmidt, Volunteer Manager and Communications Coordinator Sarah Szabo, Development Assistant Sāādūūts, Artist-in-Residence Tyson Trudel, Youth Programs Manager Andrew Washburn, Historical Projects Manager Levi White, Livery Attendant

Board of Trustees Mark Barnard Alex Bennett Ros Bond Chris Butler Chad Cohen Jim Compton Kay Compton Caren Crandell Michael Hendrick Elsie Hulsizer

Adam Karpenske David Loretta Sue McNab Mark Nowlan Lori O’Tool Walt Plimpton Rob Sendak Johnathan Smith Denise Snow Suzanne Zonneveld

Our mission To provide a gathering place where maritime history comes alive through direct experience and our small craft heritage is enjoyed, preserved and passed along to future generations.

Volume XXXIII, Number 1. ISBN 0734-0680 1992 CWB Shavings is published by The Center for Wooden Boats 1010 Valley Street, Seattle, WA 98109 Phone: (206)382-2628 fax (206)382-2699 www.cwb.org

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How to Start a Living Museum When we started The Center for Wooden Boats, all my wife, Colleen, and I wanted to do was to give our community opportunities to envelop themselves in the era of small wooden row and sail boats. We hoped to introduce visitors to the environment of their parents or grandparents when boat liveries were the top choices for affordable entertainment in all cities with navigable waters. When a penny was worth a penny.

The results were better than we imagined.

The City eliminated our rent on Lake Union’s Waterway #4 and the uplands because of the accessible services we were providing to underserved and physically disabled youth and adults.

Soon after, Social Services, Alternative Schools and private schools began sending us teenagers to learn our maritime heritage through sailing and boatbuilding programs.

Adults were filling the workshops for sailing, boatbuilding and multiple maritime heritage skills. Volunteers were handling sail instruction, boat maintenance, Livery and the front desk.

The word started circulating that on a little lake in the middle of Seattle, a Living Museum of small boats was defying standard museum policies with their do-touch programs.

It didn’t take long before we were contacted by drop-ins, phone calls and letters from communities throughout the world seeking information on how to organize hands-on museums in their towns.

We have been the “mother” to 55 youngsters. The ones that have become an integral part of their communities are at Alexandria, Virginia; St. Petersburg, Russia; Panesville, Australia; Brookhaven, New York; Portland, Oregon; Hobart, Australia; Petaluma, California; Fogo Island, Newfoundland, Canada; Coos Bay, Oregon; Sausalito, California; Kalispell, Montana; Buffalo, New York; Provo, Utah; Berkeley, California, and Bay of Islands, New Zealand.

The Center for Wooden Boats has become the beacon for teaching maritime heritage by passing on maritime heritage skills.

CWB will continue to offer direct experience maritime heritage programs and we also will continue to help any other place on Planet Earth that has a waterside and a vision of learning through hand and mind.

Dick Wagner CWB Founding Dirtector

Shavings Staff Dick Wagner, Editor Edel O’Connor, Managing Editor Judie Romeo, Copy Editor Lara Schmidt, Designer

Shavings Contributors Shane Bishop • Lucy Blue • Kim Carver Betsy Davis • Joe Green • Chris Maccini Aislinn Palmer • Neil Rabinowitz Mitch Reintz, eMeLaR Photography Denise Snow • Tyson Trudel Vern Velez • Dick Wagner

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New Field Trips: Lake Union History Afloat b y

From the time of the earliest human civilizations in this area through to the present day, Lake Union has played a unique and critical role in defining the culture and industry of what is now Seattle. Its shores were first home to Duwamish longhouses, then trading posts, sawmills, boatyards, airplane hangars, houseboats, a gas plant, a naval base, parks and museums. Even before the construction of the Lake Washington Ship Canal, Lake Union’s central location, sheltered waters and proximity to Puget Sound and Lake Washington made it an ideal haven to foster trade and industry.

The Center for Wooden Boats has always strived to connect people with the rich and vibrant history of Lake Union through direct experience on its waters. Utilizing public rides, boat rentals, sailing lessons and workshops, CWB allows people the opportunity to not just learn about but to become a part of the history of Seattle’s urban lake.

Every year, CWB shares an experience on the lake with more than 2,500 young people through our field trip programs. This winter with funding from 4Culture Heritage Education and help from three local school teachers, we were able to develop a brand new set of field trips specifically designed to share the history of Lake Union while aligning with state and local learning standards in history and science. The program is called Lake Union History Afloat. Through extensive teacher preparation packets and grade-level specific activities, students participating in these new field trips are able to connect their experience at CWB to the history of their city as well as to the curriculum they’re following in the classroom.

The new field trip comes in three grade-levelspecific modules. For second- and third-graders, there is What Floats Your Boat? – Exploring Buoyancy. In this program students learn about the concepts of buoyancy and displacement by building their own wooden toy boat and using our hand-pump-powered model dry dock to lift their boats in and out of the water. After they’ve seen it work at scale, the group paddles to nearby Lake Union Dry Dock, (one of the oldest continuously operating businesses in Seattle, founded in 1919) where they can see real ships in working dry docks.

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Canoe carving during the Native Seattle field trip.

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on Lake Union provided the skilled labor and raw materials to foster a fledgling aviation industry led by William Boeing, whose first airplanes were seaplanes built right here on the lake. By building their own wooden model propeller, each student explores the properties of spruce, the lightweight Northwest wood that was the material of choice for early airplanes. Then they paddle on Lake Union to see the two operational seaplane companies on the lake today, Seattle Seaplanes and Kenmore Air. The final module is Native Seattle, tailored for a middle school audience.

Through classroom lessons and activities, students learn about the Duwamish and other Coast Salish communities and their interactions with the early European and American setters. The discussion continues at CWB, where they learn

local place names in Lushootseed (traditional Duwamish language) and Chinook Jargon (a trade language developed between Coast Salish and European traders). Each student also has the opportunity to make their own piece of art, a spindle whorl in Coast Salish style. For the second half of the program, the group travels by boat to the west side of Lake Union Park where students work with CWB’s Artists-inResidence, Brant Lodge and Sāādūūts, to help carve a cedar dugout canoe.

Each of these modules was developed to align with what students are learning in the classroom at various grade levels. This critical link between experiential and classroom learning would not have been possible without the financial support of 4Culture and the creativity and passion of the teachers we worked with, Heidi Trudel and Rena Kido from Leschi Elementary and Dave Pippin from St. Thomas School.

We are excited to share these new programs with our community. For more information, see our program catalogue (available online at www.cwb.org) or email fieldtrips@cwb.org Chris Maccini is CWB’s Youth Education Coordinator.

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4 pm and includes music, food and onthe-water activities. The Lake Union Park Ambassador volunteers will be on hand to fill you in on Park happenings and you can also learn more about the program and become a volunteer yourself! Most of the activities are free: a small donation or fee may be requested for some.

There will be activities for every age. The Gypsy Jazz Trio will play and the famed Mosquito Fleet steamer Virginia V and the ice cream cruise boat Fremont Avenue will be available for dockside tours. Lake Union Charters & Adventures will host short sails around the south end of the lake aboard the sloop Solana; other boats may sell tacos and fresh produce. The Museum of History & Industry will be open with standard entry fees, and CWB volunteers will be ready for sailors at the Model Boat Pond. Visitors can also tour the CWB docks and the Historic Ships Wharf.

The Ambassador program aims to create new community connections at Lake Union Park by training interested volunteers to serve as Ambassadors. The Ambassadors will connect neighbors and visitors to the many educational and recreational activities and events they can participate in. A mobile information kiosk will be placed near the model boat pond to serve as an anchor location for the Ambassadors, who will help direct visitors, pass out maps and provide information about all the activities available that day in the park.

The Seattle Department of Neighborhoods and the Rotary Club of Lake Union provided start-up funding for the program. Neighbor Day is a great chance for the community to learn more about the program and the activities in the Park.

Welcome New Staff to CWB Lake Union The Center for Wooden Boats welcomed two new staff members in March: Development Assistant Sarah Szabo and Livery Attendant Levi White.

Sarah Szabo is a Kansas native who graduated from Lawrence University in Wisconsin (B.A. in Anthropology and Spanish), studied in London and Costa Rica and spent three years working in Ireland and then traveling in Europe and South America.

In 2010, she earned a Masters in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and an Advanced Certificate in Museum Studies at New York University and also interned at the National Museum of the American Indian. Following a summer at the Custer Battlefield Museum in Montana, she interned at New Orleans’ Louisiana Children’s Museum before “getting the wonderful news that I would be moving to Seattle to join the Development team at CWB!” As a youngster, Levi White began sailing with his grandmother; at 14 he joined the Se a S c o u t s i n LaConner, learning seamanship aboard the 1931 56’ stays’l schooner SSS Rejoice for four years, two of those as Bosun. In high school he raced double-handed dinghies on Lake Washington. He participated in the William I. Koch International Sea Scout Cup twice, winning the Kiwi Cup once and placing in the Koch cup the next year.

In high school he also took classes in Marine Technology at Skagit Valley Community College and then went to California Maritime Academy, attending as a Marine Technology (Deck) Cadet for three semesters, including a 60-day South Pacific training cruise on the T.S. Golden Bear. He’s happy to be at CWB or, as he calls it, “the epicenter of wooden boat enthusiasts in Washington State.”

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Haida master carver Sāādūūts continues to carve canoes as part of CWB’s community.

The carving project has expanded to become a partnership with the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation in anticipation of their new Northwest Native Canoe Center that will be built near the beach on the western side of Lake Union Park. Antioch University is another active partner in the program, with faculty member Cynthia Updegrove bringing classes to the park to meet and learn from Sāādūūts.

Sāādūūts named his program Carving Cultural Connections to reflect his philosophy: “Then there is the canoe as a cultural icon. The reason I began carving in the first place. I had to ask myself what a canoe really is. I mean, what does it mean to me as a native person, a Haida, a Tlingit? When we see images of canoes these days, we usually see what is called the ‘War’ canoe loaded with young native men all decked out in their ‘War’ gear with special ‘War’

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paddles, but this is not the image that I see. I see the canoe as a sacred instrument and would consider it much like I would a ‘Big’ House or ‘Smoke’ House, a sacred place in which native peoples have practiced and conducted their cultural and spiritual lives within the context

of community, tribe. I see the canoe as a sacred cultural instrument, a vessel, a place to practice what our ancestors have done for eons, the things that they have left for us, given us.”

Sāādūūts is passing along his carving traditions to his adopted nephew Brant Lodge, 26, of Lynnwood, Washington, and his grandson Brandon Mayer, who in turn are helping convey their culture and stories to the larger community. Brant has joined Sāādūūts in leading CWB’s newest educational field trips for middle school students, who paddle from CWB to the site of the canoe carving project. In addition to sharing information with visitors to Lake Union Park, Brent and Brandon have been interviewed by the Seattle Times and KIRO. In conjunction with the opening of The Museum of History & Industry The Seattle Channel produced a program about the project that is now archived and available for viewing on their website.

More information about The Canoe Project is available from Betsy Davis, betsy@cwb.org; UNIAT board member Steve Paul, spaul@andersen-const.com, or Antioch faculty member Cynthia Updegrave, cupdegrave@antioch.edu.

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Good news! The Family Boatbuilding Program is coming back to The Center for Wooden Boats.

Double good news! Not only are we bringing back Family Boatbuilding, we are going to be building El Toros. In fact, I picked up the first of the new El Toro kits in late March.

Every year during summer youth sailing (where El Toros are used for teaching), a number of parents and students ask where they can get El Toros of their own. Previously our only answer was “Craigslist”. Now we can say, “You can build one at CWB during the Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival July 4th” (see page 10 for class info). And we have developed a number of different options to fit different families’ desires, ranging from building a boat that will become part of CWB’s youth sailing fleet to building a complete boat that the family can take home and paint and finish on their own.

Historically most El Toros have been built using conventional plywood boatbuilding methods. Our new El Toro Kits are built using the Stich-and-Glue method of boat construction.

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zip ties and then the seams are glued together using epoxy resin and fiberglass cloth.

Through this project, CWB developed a great new partnership with Paul Bierky and the Tacoma Boatbuilding project. Paul, who has been in the marine carpentry business for over 30 years, is president of Belina Interiors, a company in Tacoma that specializes in the design and construction of large yacht interiors. Last fall Paul came to CWB to get information on our Youth Boatbuilding programs; he and a group of others were interested in establishing a youth boatbuilding program in Tacoma. During a series of meetings we discovered that we both had an

interest in developing a small, easy-to-build kit boat. CWB was interested in expanding our existing El Toro fleet and his group, Tacoma Community Boatbuilding, was excited about the possibility of working towards a sailing program.

So we settled on the El Toro as the kit boat.

CWB volunteer Don Rothwell created a 3D computer model of an El Toro and John Biedel of Belina Interiors used the model to develop all the programing necessary to create precision El Toro kits on Belina’s CNC router table.

This has been a classic example of how well CWB partner projects succeed; things fit together on multiple levels, we were able to support another organization and in turn receive support, grow our El Toro Fleet and extend our programs for youth and families.

One more thing: This project has created a need for volunteer Boatbuilding Mentors to provide one-on-one instruction for groups in family boatbuilding. If you are interested, please email ttrudel@cwb.org.

Tyson Trudel is CWB’s Youth Program Manager

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A t C W B ’s No r t h l a k e Wo r k s h o p & Warehouse, we are continuing restoration of our historic Blanchard Jr. Knockabout fleet. Our current major undertaking is getting Pamela back into shape.

Our to-do list includes a new stem, 20 new planks, half a transom, and 15 steam-bent frames, quite a lot for our little BJK. Prior to haul-out the only evidence of Pamela’s poor condition was a spongy stem head and a weeping seam caused by some broken frames on the starboard side; but by staying on a port tack and keeping a bilge pump handy we were able to get a little time to clear out the shop and source material for the project.

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red flags at the Boatshop because it meant that almost the entire bow was made of planks less than 3’ long, leaving the bow very vulnerable to damage. With all of this in mind, Pamela certainly was ready for haul-out.

With fingers crossed we pressure washed the hull, hoping that we wouldn’t blow a hole through the bottom, and trailered the boat to our Northlake shop. Since January, volunteers and I have replaced the stem with laminated mahogany, replaced 15 of the steam-bent frames, replaced the forward half of the planking, built a new skeg and put in a brand-new transom. All that is left to do is the aft deck and get her painted out - all in the shop next door to the location of the old Blanchard Boat Company at the foot of Wallingford.

With all of the frames in place, planking begins. Four planks down, seventeen to go.

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Joe Green is CWB’s Lead Boatwright and can be most often found in the Northlake Workshop & Warehouse. Keep up with Joe at his blog: intheboatshop.tumblr.com Pamela was named as a memorial to Pamela Cochran, a longtime suppor ter of CWB’s mission who brought creativity, joy and passion for being on the water every day that she volunteered. In her honor, a scholarship fund has been established to encourage women in sailing. Please contact Sailing Education Director Mindy Ross, mross@cwb.org or 206-382-2628, to make a contribution or to apply.

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The Fish On! exhibit that opened in December showcases the historic fishing resorts and boathouses of the Puget Sound region. Since 2008, CWB has operated one of these original boathouses at Cama Beach State Park. In October, 2012, the State of Washington gave CWB an original 1934 kicker boat, Cama #45 to be restored, stabilized or rehabilitated.

hull based on the original Cama #45. Youth in CWB’s Job Skills Training Program will complete the remaining tasks: outfitting the floorboards, benches, thwarts, and deck and then transform the boat into a shiny fish hunter destined for our Livery at Cama Beach State Park this coming summer.

Our hopes of an historic restoration unravelled as we poked and prodded at the hull of the 14’ motor skiff Cama #45 in the Boatshop at the grand opening of the Fish On! Exhibit. Bad news In CWB’s South Lake Union Boatshop, Shipwright lurked under the pine needles Brian Magliozzi works on caulking the hull of a new and old paint. Half the transom kicker boat, which he patterned and built from the was rotten. The keel was riddled original Cama #45. Job Skills Training Program Crew with soft spots. The patches of Members will complete the interior and paint the hull galvanized steel and copper used before the new boat goes into service in the Cama for quick repairs to cover up Beach Livery this summer.

- photo: Edel O’Connor minor damage were hiding massive cavities where the wood had turned stern to bow giving it a handsome sweeping into dirt. This was hardly a surprise but telling sheer. The garboard plank twists almost 90 nonetheless of the boat’s long, hard life in degrees as it comes across the stem. The splash and out of the elements. A decision had to deck has the perfect amount of camber. The be made between restoring a boat built in Samson post or “bit” is a delicate square1934 and building a new boat using the lines inch thick. of the old.

The Cama #45 kicker boat was probably not meant to last more than a decade. She saw heavy use in Saratoga Passage as one of the 42 boats that originally comprised the rental fleet of the Cama Beach Resort. Bert Johnson and his son, Eddie, built this skiff along with 33 others over the winter of 1934.

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Building a new boat takes creative planning in a non-profit organization that is already tasked with caring for a collection of 150 small craft. In order for this new construction project to happen, the historical projects team, Boatshop, and our Youth Education Department figured out how to accomplish this task. With funding from the Hameleinen Charitable Trust CWB hired local shipwright Brian Magliozzi to pattern and construct a

We were fortunate to be able to engage Brian’s services. He grew up in Cork, Ireland, around the sea. He learned to sail in his youth and even built a raft out of steel kegs, pallets and wire. “It was a lively raft”, he chuckled as he thought back to that time. He came to the United States 15 years ago and enrolled in the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in Port Hadlock, Washington, where he completed the boatbuilding program. Since then he has built several small craft, various types of houseboats, worked as a shipwright around Seattle and ultimately acquired Zulu, a 40’ gaff-rigged yawl. He and his partner, Marlene, along with a rotating crew of friends and family, spent last year sailing Zulu south along the Pacific coast to Baja, Mexico, then on to explore the Marquesas Islands of the South Pacific and the Hawaiian Islands before returning to the Northwest. Brian maintains Zulu beautifully, as it is his livelihood on the sea and to ensure its survival against the elements well into the coming decades.

This spring, Job Skills Crew Members are finishing the boat at our location in South Lake Union. By July, the new boat will available for rent at Cama Beach. Visitors are encouraged to come and celebrate this project by admiring the sound craftsmanship of this historic vessel.

Kyle Hunter is CWB’s Boatshop & Livery Manager.

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New Season for Job Skills Training Program!

After a highly successful pilot project in 2012, CWB’s Job Skills Training Program has begun a new season with five students selected to participate at Cama Beach and eight at South Lake Union. The Crew Members will spend 12 weeks together learning hands-on maritime skills and the communication and teamwork skills required in the workplace. Participants will also learn more about jobs in maritime industry and practice writing resumes and interviewing for jobs. The program will support each participant in the development of their own personal goals and mapping out a plan for accomplishing them.

This spring the Cama Job Skills Crew Members are building a boat that will serve as a new utility/safety boat at Cama Beach. The boat has a Northwest pedigree; it is a Pelicano Utility Skiff designed by local veteran designer/builder Sam Devlin.

The South Lake Union crew kicked off their training with an overnight trip aboard CWB’s longboat Discovery to Seattle’s Seward Park.

With the Job Skills Training Program’s growth and success, CWB was selected to participate in the “Youth Program Quality Initiative” administered by School’s Out Washington and funded by the Raikes Foundation. The program focuses on strengthening the quality of outof-school-time programs by learning to measure and assess them more effectively. Our cohorts include organizations that involve young people in activities ranging from boxing to ballroom dancing to theater.

One measure of the success of the initial Job Skills Training Program is how students have fared this year. Last year’s Job Skills Crew Member Troy Joey was greeted with a standing ovation when he shared his story at the CWB auction in March. Now enrolled in the Job Corps Seamanship Training Program at Tongue Point in Astoria, Oregon, Troy said of his experience, “Every day I see people who want to leave this place and people who want to learn. For the first time in my life I am a part of the group that wants to learn. Thank you for helping change my life.”

The 2013 Job Skills Training Program projects are underway.

(Top photo) Crew Members at South Lake Union caulk the seams of the Cama #45 replica boat which they are finishing.

(Bottom photo) CWB Youth Programs Manager Tyson Trudel (right) works with Cama Beach Crew Members building the Devlin Pelicano Utility Skiff that will serve as the utility/safety boat at Cama. – photos: Chris Maccini (top) and Shane Bishop (bottom).

GiveBIG Day! For the third year, The Center for Wooden Boats will be part of The Seattle Foundation’s GiveBIG day. From midnight to midnight (Pacific Daylight time) on Wednesday, May 15, each donation made to CWB on The Seattle Foundation’s website - www.seattlefoundation.org - will receive a prorated portion of a matching funds (or “stretch”) pool. (The amount of the “stretch” depends on the size of the pool and how much is raised in total donations on GiveBIG day.)

GiveBIG is a one-day, online charitable giving event “to inspire people to give generously to nonprofit organizations that make our region a healthier and more vital place to live.” In CWB’s case, this means changing lives one boat at a time. Donations made May 15 by credit card (Visa, Mastercard or Discover) through The Seattle Foundation’s website will qualify for the stretch pool. Last year’s GiveBIG day raised $7.4 million in online contributions; in 2012, more than 60 friends of CWB made GiveBIG donations. The “stretch” makes GiveBIG day an excellent time to make a contribution.

For more information, visit www.seattlefoundation.org eMeLaR Photography

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The Center for Wooden Boats’ 2013 Maritime Intensives program opened with a week-long program at Cama Beach for high school students from the Overlake School in Redmond, Washington. This is the third year Overlake students have taken part in the program.

The students lived on-site in Cama’s rustic cabins and cooked for themselves in the Fire Truck Garage. Each of the 10 students spent half of their time in the shop building a 14’ flatiron skiff, to be used as both a rowboat and a motorboat. The boat will stay at Cama to be Overlake students and teachers with their piloted with an electric outboard motor and used finished boat at Cama Beach. as a Livery boat that the public can rent.

Other activities included model boat design where each student built their own functional model sailboat. They also studied native culture on Camano Island and completed the rowboat obstacle course.

This is the third year students from several schools have participated in the Maritime Intensives program. Instructor Tyson Trudel enjoys teaching them: “It’s fun to see how surprised students are to find they can build a boat period, let alone completing it in a week.”

Meet Jake Hawkins My name is Jake and I’m the new Boatwrightin-Residence at Cama Beach. I’ve enjoyed coming to The Center for Wooden Boats ever since I moved to Seattle three years ago. I needed to get on the water every now and then and CWB gave me the chance to learn about classic boat designs and to rent the rowboats cheaply. I also was able to do some volunteering.

Recently I graduated from the Marine Carpentry Program at Seattle Central Community College and now I have the opportunity to hone my new skills every day. Working with student boatbuilders is a big part of my job. The Job Skills program is a very rewarding challenge because the participants are mature and enthusiastic about the project. They want to learn as much as they can. They work all day and stay focused.

The Maritime Intensives students were here for such a short time that it was very important to stay on schedule and make every hour productive. That’s a tall order for most high schoolers but those students managed to get it done and have a good time too.

It has been a satisfying experience so far. The students have been enthusiastic and mature. The challenge is to keep ahead of them. But trying to teach these skills only makes me better at them.

Glad to be here.

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Tyson Trudel (left) and Cama Job Skillls Crew Members working on stitching together the bottom panels for the new Pelicano Utility Skiff.

A new utility/safety boat soon will join the CWB fleet at Cama Beach.

The new Pelicano Utility Skiff, designed

by Sam Devlin of Devlin Designing Boat Builders in Tumwater, Washington, is being built this spring by Crew Members in the Job Skills Training Program under the guidance of CWB’s Youth Programs Manager Tyson Trudel and Boatwrightin-Residence Jake Hawkins. The boat is designed with a deep vee bottom that helps it ride well in the waves.

The boat is being built using the Stitchand-Glue method in which full-sized pieces of the boat are cut out and “stitched” together with wire; then epoxy is applied to the seams. This process introduces the Job Skills students to modern techniques of working with composites, a growing field. They will be working on the boat in the Cama Beach Boathouse from 10 am to 5 pm every Saturday until early June. You are invited to drop by and see how the boat is progressing.

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Sailing & Maritime Skills Workshops Natural History for the Salish Sailor with Deep Green Wilderness NEW!

Sail for a day onboard the 1934 classic wooden yawl Orion and adventure Puget Sound while learning about the Salish Sea!

The Salish Sea (Puget Sound, Strait of Juan de Fuca and Strait of Georgia) is the perfect cruising ground for sailors interested in natural history. Learn about common marine birds and mammals of this area, how to properly identify them in the field, the ecosystem in which they live, and discover some key spots for cruising and boat-based wildlife viewing. Hoist sails, trim sheets and take a turn at the helm while spending a fun-filled day learning about the environment. The class is led by Captain Kevin Campion who has spent the last decade in and around the Salish Sea, performing scientific research and teaching marine biology, and is the founder of Deep Green Wilderness. Departs from Shilshole Marina in Ballard.

D ates : M ay 18, J une 15, O ctober 12. 10 am - 4 pm (S aturday) $120 members $160 non - members (cost per day) 12 passengers

Build Your Own Kaholo Stand-Up Paddleboard

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In this six-day class, build your own beautiful wooden stand-up paddleboard!

Developed over many years, the Kaholo SUPs by Chesapeake Light Craft are light and fast. Boatbuilder, author and paddler Geoff Kerr leads this class. The fast-paced week starts by gluing up okoume marine plywood hull panels. Next, boards are assembled using the stitch-and-glue process.

Reinforcement is added in the form of epoxy and fiberglass. In the final days, you will customize your own board with flourishes of your own devising, under Geoff’s careful direction. You get a memorable week at The Center for Wooden Boats and a custom wooden SUP that competes with fancy carbon fiber boards and will last for a generation. Choose from a 12’6” or 14’ board.

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J uly 9 - 14, 8 am - 5 pm (Tuesday - Sunday). $1,650 (tuition & materials) Register with Cheseapeake Light Craft www.clcboats .com 410-267-0137

Family Boatbuilding: El Toro

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This classic event gives families, friends or coworkers the opportunity to work together to develop new skills, create lasting memories and build a boat they can take home at the end of the Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival.

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The El Toro was originally conceived as a small boat that would work as both a youth trainer and a small yacht tender. The El Toro is a versatile small boat which can be sailed by one or two kids or an adult and a child. It was designed in the 1940s during “bull sessions” at the Richmond Yacht Club near San Francisco. The basic boat is a great craft to learn on and you can add performance features too as your skills increase. The El Toro is an excellent introduction to basic boatbuilding. In four eight-hour sessions, you will build your own boat from a pre-cut kit. At the end of the class your El Toro will be ready for final painting and finishing.

June 29 & July 4 - 7 9 am to 5 pm (Saturday & Thursday - Sunday).

There are several options for building; visit cwb.org por more information.

These are just a few of the great experiences offered for adults and kids at CWB. Please check our website at www.cwb.org for the latest listings and information or call us at (206) 382-2628. The Center for Wooden Boats keeps class size small to promote quality instruction and experience. Courses are filled on a first-come, first-served basis so we recommend early registration.

Call (206) 382-2628 or visit www.cwb.org for more information.

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The Book Nook A Pacific Alphabet

by Margriet Ruurs, Illustrated by Dianna Bonder Ages 3-6

“Albatross, albatross, up in the air – with wings like yours, I could fly anywhere!”

Explore the alphabet through the sights, sounds and animals of the Pacific Coast. Each page of this book features a rhyming alliterative poem for a letter of the alphabet. Accompanying the poems are whimsical, colorful illustrations of beaches, surf, boats, people and animals of the coast.

Sheep on a Ship

by Nancy Shaw, Illustrated by Margot Apple Ages 5-9

If you’re looking for a silly, exciting story of high seas adventure to share with young readers, this is it! Follow a crew of sheep as they steer through a storm, have to abandon ship and finally make it back to port. (For more sheepish adventures, check out Sheep in a Jeep, Sheep in a Shop and Sheep Out to Eat.) Both of these books can be ordered by emailing store@cwb.org or can be purchased in person at the CWB gift shop.

Ask the Captain Dear Captain Pete, I’ve heard people say “rule of thumb” when talking about how to do something.

What does that mean and where does it come from? Since when are thumbs making the rules?

Sincerely, Tom Thumb Dear Tom, A “rule of thumb” means a sort of unofficial guideline or standard way of doing something. It’s used for just about anything but, like a lot of our everyday phrases, it has roots in sailing! Legend has it that many captains would never let their ship come closer to land than the width of their thumb on a chart. That way, they’d be sure never to run aground. It sounds like a good idea as long as your chart is the right scale!

Fair winds, Captain Pete

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Hey KIDS, Check out Youth Sailing & Boatbuilding at CWB! Looking for something fun to do this summer? Learn to build or sail your very own boat. If you’re looking for a full day of activities, we can help!

This year we’ve structured our programs to provide both day-long classes and half-day classes. Combine a boatbuilding class with a sailing class and you’ll spend half the day learning some cool stuff and the other half learning to sail on Lake Union! Some classes that pair well together are:

Beginning Sailing Science of Sailing Waterways Camp Youth Kayak Building Or combine...

Beginning Sailing and Woodworking for Kids Intermediate Sailing and Build a “Footy” Pond Boat Grad School and Quick & Daring

visit www.cwb.org to register!

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The Center for Wooden Boats serves more community members every day. This is made possible by engaged volunteers and by grant funding provided by a wide variety of friends and foundations. Here are a few snapshots of what their support has catalyzed.

Job Skills Training Program In 2012, seed money provided by the Russell Grinnell Memorial Trust enabled CWB to establish its significant new Job Skills Training Program for underserved youth ages 16-20. With the successful results of the pilot program, CWB has continued to evolve and grow this platform thanks to generous community support from US Bank, the Rudine Fund at the Seattle Foundation and the Lucky Seven and OneFamily Foundations.

To ensure the Job Skills Training Program meets best practices for quality, CWB also was selected to participate in the Youth Program Quality Initiative funded by the Raikes Foundation.

When asked why he wanted to be a member of the Job Skills Training Program, one applicant replied: “ . . .because I don’t know anything about boats. The program interests me because, on top of acquiring knowledge about boats (safety, maintenance, etc.), I also will acquire important job experience.”

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A teacher’s view of her class’s CWB field trip: “I have to say that this was one of the best field trips I’ve ever been on. The timing of everything was superb, you shared important ideas, the kids were busy the whole time, there was opportunity for inquiry and creativity.”

Meanwhile a City of Seattle Youth Arts grant has made possible a new pond boat building program in partnership with Powerful Schools. A grant from the Enerson Foundation will provide for hiring a new high school intern, who will learn to help repair the pond boats and assist Livery customers at the pond this summer.

This year, CWB will provide a special session of sailing classes to youth from the Cascade neighborhood, thanks to a generous grant from the Seattle Yacht Club Foundation. We’ve recently wrapped up a project to extend the outreach of our youth programs to more underserved students.

This activity was funded by the Paul G.

Allen Family Foundation program Growing Out of School -Time Programs for Underserved Youth. CWB successfully grew the numbers served in our out-of-school time programs from 2,565 in 2010 to 3,275 (2011) and then to 3,408 (2012).

Historical Projects At South Lake Union, “Fish On!”, CWB’s current exhibit in the Boathouse, tells the story of the fishing resorts and boathouses of Puget Sound. The exhibit will keep developing and ultimately will become a permanent exhibit at our campus at Cama Beach State Park.

The project was initially inspired with a grant from the Johanna Favrot Fund for Historic Preservation administered by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Other leadership funding came from the Goodfellow Fund and the Hamaleinen and Worthington families, with exhibit sponsorship from Ivar’s.

A previous Boathouse exhibit, “Persistent Work”, photographically documenting maritime industry on Lake Union and Salmon Bay, has been selected to be featured in the downtown Gallery4Culture in May, 2014. CWB has also received funding from 4Culture for the new exhibit we are working on related to Seattle’s historic halibut fleet and the Fishing Vessel Owners’ Association, which will turn 100 years old in 2014.

“Awesome! Brings back memories of when I learned to fish at Possession Point.”

- John Schwartz

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Getting Ready for the Season We have completed another major step in improvements to our original floating facility on Lake Union, upgrading electrical utilities and installing new outdoor lighting, thanks to funding from the Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs and 4Culture. Another fabulous set of upgrades at CWB’s Seattle campus funded by 4Culture is improvements to CWB’s safety boats, including several new engines. 4Culture funding also is enabling us to install additional fenders for protecting the boats alongside the Livery docks.

“The new lighting really creates an inviting apperance to folks strolling the docks.”

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CWB also is leading the development of a new volunteer Ambassador program at Lake Union Park. The Park Ambassadors will help visitors discover all the things they can do throughout the park; there also will be an online map available. Setting up this program has been possible through grants from Seattle Department of Neighborhoods and the Rotary Club of Lake Union.

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The real power of CWB is our dedicated and supportive friends.

Supporting General Operations Some of the most valuable funding CWB receives is “unrestricted” so it can be used wherever the need is greatest. The vision of CWB is preserving our small craft heritage by passing on maritime heritage skills to all ages and abilities. The experiences we provide are in the water and in the Boatshop, following the ways of our ancestors, but with a few practical compromises.

We use light bulbs rather than kerosene lamps and candles. We use electric power tools rather than broadaxes and pit saws.

Gifts for general operations that pay for these - as well as other essentials such as computers, the copy machine, phones, insurance and

“You can always see people here working on restoring a boat or taking classes to learn about how to restore boats – or even teenage kids doing sailing/boat camps in the summer. It’s pretty awesome that this slice of Seattle history is being preserved in such an active way.” – from an online review

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Jim Feltrup After working for 37 years with Western Electric Jim retired on Mercer Island and became a CWB volunteer. Jim was always a very calm and low-key but highly productive volunteer who got things done, not even thinking about recognition. He was one of the original SailNOW! sailing instructors.

For more than 28 years Jim, who was a 1941 graduate of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, spent endless hours teaching sailing and restoring boats he loved. He also spent a lot of time on the docks, talking to visitors and fellow boat lovers. Jim led the restoration of CWB’s Lightning ZAP!, which was built by Lippencott in his New Jersey homeland. Even after several pacemaker operations he was always on the go. Jim built models too; his last models were a radio-controlled tug at a Colleen Wagner workshop and a Lightning class sloop in memory of his beloved Lightnings.

Jack Kutz On November 9, 2012, Jack Kutz, 90, sailed away. He was a man of many skills. Jack, a UW graduate in naval architecture, designed vessels, built vessels, documented vessels and sailed vessels - and had great stories from all of the above. Anyone who talked to Jack or listened to Jack felt his humor, intelligence, warmth and compassion. He messed around in small boats at Port Madison, Bainbridge Island, with Bill Garden. He worked with the legendary shipwright Charlie Taylor at Port Madison. He went to war in the Navy Torpedo Boat Service in the South Pacific. He worked as a designer/engineer for Todd Shipyard, Nickum & Spaulding, Glosten and Columbia Sentenial. Jack and his family sailed on Ocean, his old Norsk fishing boat converted to a sloop, and on his Bristol Bay gillnetter Roaring Bessie, both rebuilt by Jack. He restored an International 14 and donated it to CWB. One of his best stories was about the two decades he devoted to restoring and preserving the 1980’s sternwheeler Nenana in Fairbanks Alaska. Jack was an iconic character of the Northwest Pacific.

Frank Cunningham

Frank told me his best course at Harvard was rowing; he stroked the Crimson varsity.

Frank was as influential in competitive rowing in the Northwest as George Pocock.

Frank was the go-to guy for advice on everything from maintaining sculls and shells to building the best stroke. He came to CWB when I asked him about the outriggers and stretchers and rails for sliding seats for the 20’ Petaluma wherrys our students were building. He came down and did more. Besides instructing on the rise of the outriggers and the stretchers positioning, he took each student and coached them on rowing all our boats from sculls to longboats and sweep oars. Being involved with rowing in all types and circumstances made Frank a happy guy. He is a member of the U. S. Rowing Hall of Fame and a recipient of the U.S. Rowing Medal of Honor. Frank wrote the book, The Sculler at Ease. Frank was so immersed in rowing history he was a walking encyclopedia of those who crossed the oceans by oar. Frank was also a teacher at Lakeside School. He gave classes in the Humanities and coached the Lakeside rowing team. He also was the catalyst who, partnering with the Seattle Parks and Recreation Department, developed rowing for disadvantaged youth and homeless at Lake Washington. I see rowers almost every morning on Lake Union and I’ll bet everyone has been coached and inspired at some time by Frank Cunningham.

Fair winds good friends. We will miss you all.

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CWB Wish List

Help us continue to restore our collection of historic wooden vessels. Donate an item on our wish list, which can also be found in the “Support Us” section of our website, www.cwb.org.

Please contact us at cwb@cwb.org before donating.

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Coffee, coffee, coffee!

Sturdy dock carts Boat fenders Dock line Handheld VHF radios Megaphone & air horns Oars & oarlocks New or like-new throwable flotation cushions Boatbuilding lumber - Spruce, Yellow Cedar, Red Cedar, Fir and White Oak Trim router Sawzall Woodworking hand tools Shop vac Paint and scrub brushes Rain barrels Durable plastic storage bins with lids, 20 to 50 gallon capacity Plastic and metal bottle caps Mini-flags of all nations on toothpicks for toy boats Markers and crayons for field trips Decorative punches, stickers and other paper craft supplies (specifically nautical- or non-denominational holidaythemed) Origami paper Nautical books & children’s books New launch ramp or railway, cart, winch.

A 4 x4 truck Kayak trailer New mattresses for Cama Beach cabins New livery outboards Web cam Digital Projector Microscope Ships wheel Spindle sander Handheld Power planer Kit for leatherwork/sail repair Radio antenna/ waterproof handheld Trailer for new safety boat Depth finder Safety gear for Cama livery boats.

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Buy a Boat from CWB The Center for Wooden Boats accepts donated boats that do not quite fit with our programs. We find good homes for these boats and use the proceeds to fund our operations. Contact the front desk for more info or call Steve Greaves at 206-371-0486. Also check our website www.cwb.org - for new boats and sale prices!

25’ Catalina Cruising Sailboat Honda 4-stroke 8hp outboard.

Price: $5,250 ANNIE - 14’ Rich Kolin Traditional Sailing Skiff Classic construction and rig, Price $2,500

YOLA - 24' double-ended gaff-rigged cutter. Built in 1989, this is a stunning traditional cruiser. Diesel inboard motor.

Price: $19,500 WOOD DUCK - 19’ Core Sound Sharpie.

Mid ’90s construction.

9.9hp Yanmar Diesel inboard motor. Gaff rigged. Comes with cover.

Price Reduced: $6,900

8’ Cold-molded Constant Camber dinghy Builder Richard Hill, Maine, mahogany strip and epoxy, oars, beautiful, like new.

Price $1,750

ALIEN QUEEN - canopy steam launch 3” x 4” Semple 34DL Engine, lever reversing, Beckman VFT-20 boiler with 12Vdc oil burner, keel condenser. Matching trailer included. Price: $10,800 16’ Herreshoff Sailing Hull - Major project, no trailer, needs a good home.

Price: $250 14’ Babson Island 14 Sailing Skiff Plywood, built at CWB. New. Price $1,500

CWB Can Now Accept Car Donations!

CWB has accepted donations of boats for a number of years, but we’re excited to announce that we can now accept donations of cars and vehicles, too! An external service handles these donations, and CWB gets nearly 70% of the final sale price of the donated vehicle. If you choose to donate your car through this program, you may qualify for tax incentives, and you’ll also be helping support CWB! It’s a win-win!

To donate a used car (running or not!) please fill out the form on our website: www.cwb.org/support-cwb/donate/

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Non-Profit Organization U.S. Postage PAID Seattle, WA Permit No. 1583

1010 Valley Street, Seattle, WA 98109-4468 206.382.2628 • www.cwb.org

U p c o m i n g Cast OFF! Free Boat Rides. Every Sunday at 2 pm, CWB in Seattle. Sign-ups start at 10am. Come early! Rides are first-come, first-served.

Tugboat Storytime. The second and fourth Thursday of each month, 11am to noon, aboard the historic tugboat Arthur Foss.

Spaghetti Social at Cama Beach. Bring the whole family for a fun, festive spaghetti dinner at the Cama Center at Cama Beach State Park. $8 adults, $6 kids (12 and under). Discover Pass required. April 20, 3-7pm.

Member Day. Our thanks to you for being a member! Activities include Free Rides, Toy Boat Building, Nautical Card-Making. Free Check-Outs and Free Boat Rentals.

If you’re not a current member, membership can be purchased or renewed at the event.

Most activities end at 4pm, when the Annual Meeting begins; boat rentals are open until 8pm. April 27, 10am-8pm.

Mother’s Day Saturday Sail. See box for details. Saturday, May 11, 10am-4pm.

E v e n t s 37th Annual Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival July 4th - July 7th, 10am-6pm, FREE Free rides, visiting vessels, activities, music, food and fun for four days on the shores of Lake Union. Mark your calendars for this family tradition, which takes place at CWB in Seattle, in Lake Union Park, and on the Historic Ships Wharf.

To bring your boat or business to the Festival, register at: www.cwb.org/2013festival

3rd Friday Speaker. Tightwads on the Loose: a Seven-Year, 34,000-mile Pacific Odyssey, presented by Wendy Hinman. May 17, 7pm, in the CWB Boathouse. Free.

Mother’s Day Saturday Sail at Cama Beach State Park

Youth Fishing Derby and Cama Exhibit Opening. Free registration, discounted row boat rentals, free parking day, no fishing license required. June 9, 10am, at CWB at Cama Beach State Park.

Saturday, May 11, 10am-4pm

3rd Friday Speaker. Sea Chest, Publication of the Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society, presented by Ron Burke, Editor. June 21, 7pm, Free.

Treat your mom to a free sail from CWB at Cama Beach. In addition to Free Boat Rides, there will be Toy Boat Building, Mother’s Day Card-Making, and music

by Willow & the Embers.