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Northwest
Maritime Center & Wooden Boat Foundation
Newsletter
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September
2006
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We hope you will join us at the 30th Wooden Boat
Festival as we celebrate the success of our first year
together as the Northwest Maritime Center & the
Wooden Boat Foundation! We've pulled together and are
committed to the next 30 years, building on the legacy
and success of both organizations. This summer nearly 40
classes and programs happened at our dock and several
hundred people learned to sail, row, race, build or
otherwise get out on the water. We accomplished final
design plans for the new facilities and have begun the
final permit process. We hope to see you on the
waterfront! (photo by Larry Crockett)
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Pulling
Together, Celebrating the Spirit of the Crew September
8-10, 2006
Port
Townsend's Wooden Boat Festival, the "Woodstock
of Wooden Boats" turns 30 this year with gusto.
If you haven't been to this festival, or haven't been
for a while, or even if you were just here last year,
this is definitely the year to go. Many of the
festival founders and early boat exhibitors will be in
town, mixed, as usual with a virtual who's who of
wooden boats from across the country. Evening talks
will feature George Maynard, a circumnavigator and
boat builder with unending stories and sage advice;
Matt Murphy, editor of Wooden Boat Magazine and Robert
Ayliffe, a feisty boat builder and alternative energy
advocate from Australia. As is typical of this event,
there are lots of old salts, challenging
conversations, beautiful boats and support for anyone
interested in building, voyaging or just learning more
about wooden boats and all the history and skill they
conjure.
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Join
us for evening presentations at the Marina Room at Point
Hudson Festival Grounds. Learn answers to these questions: Why
is it important to keep wooden boats alive? Who does the work,
how do they do it and who really cares? If you're curious
about what's really involved in the restoration and
preservation of historic wooden boats, or have specific
questions about some major work done on large vessels in our
region, then plan to attend this year's Symposium.
Meet
the shipwrights, see photos of the work and talk with
representatives from major boat projects completed in the last
few years in Port Townsend and Seattle. Presenters include
George Maynard, Matt Murphy and Robert Ayliffe.
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What
kind of socks do pirates wear? Arrrrrgyles! What does it cost
a pirate to get his ears pierced? A buccaneer! If you had
taken the sold-out, wildly popular Messing About in Boats
program this summer, you would know that. This is the second
season for the curriculum designed for 7-to-9-year-olds called
Messing About in Boats.
Messing
About in Boats students learn about wind, weather, current,
marine trades, maritime history and other things nautical.
They learn to row, they sail aboard the classic lapworth 45
foot sloop Annie Too, and they walk the beach between Point
Hudson and Fort Worden. (photo by Victor Judd)
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In
partnership with the YMCA, the Northwest Maritime Center &
Wooden Boat Foundation began the first year of youth and adult
Learn to Sail courses along the waterfront of downtown Port
Townsend. Not only did we have new boats, an excellent crew of
instructors and a safe summer on the waterfront, but our
enrollment increased significantly over 2005. Youth
enrollment, co- promoted with the YMCA, was up 31%, along with
a 45% increase in adult enrollment.
2006
is the first year the NWMC Dock has been used for classes, the
first year with our new vanguard-15 fleet, and the first year
in Port Townsend for new lead sailing instructor, Erik Coburn.
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The
Pocock Classic Cedar Singles project continues with a little
help from our friends – especially Bob Brunswick! The idea
for an entrepreneurial venture that would underwrite the
organizations’ regional maritime programs was born in 2003
when the world- famous Pocock Racing Shells (PRS) donated the
forms and jigs for building their elegant cedar singles so
that their legacy would continue. After a century of wooden
boatbuilding, PRS has moved on to concentrate on cutting-edge
racing technology, and has handed us the gem of their wooden
racing shell line.
The
PRS donation was directed to our organization based on the
boatbuilding skills of local rower and shipwright Steve
Chapin, who is known and respected in the Pocock community for
his restoration work on existing wooden Pocock shells. Steve
Chapin’s love of the sport, coupled with his appreciation
for the craftsmanship behind the historic shells, nurtures his
deep commitment to the project. He has not only agreed to be
the contracted boatbuilder for the business, but has also
already dedicated time and space in his boat shop to the
storage of the Pocock materials as well as to the
establishment of an area where the first cedar singles may be
constructed.
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The
Northwest Maritime Center is pleased to serve as co-sponsor of
the Westward Documentary Project. Celebrating maritime history
is an important part of our core mission. The 86-foot M/V
Westward, a motor yacht, was built in 1924.
Her
restoration has been tended to by several members of our local
Port Townsend maritime trades services. This documentary
project will produce a film record of the M/V Westward that
will become a uniquely accessible, influential resource for
raising the public consciousness about our great Pacific
Northwest traditions of wooden boat building and wilderness
exploration.
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See
you on the waterfront at the 30th Port Townsend Wooden Boat
Festival! Celebrating the Spirit of the Crew, September 8-10,
2006
Wooden Boat Festival Staff & Crew
Northwest Maritime Center & Wooden Boat Foundation
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