SHAVINGS. The Center for Wooden Boats. Newsletter of. Volume One - Number One. November 1978 NEW OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES

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1 SHAVINGS Volume One - Number One November 1978 NEW OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES The Center for Wooden Boats held its first annual business meeting October 3, electing the following officers and trustees to one-year terms. OFFICERS President - Dick Wagner, "our founder," and proprietor of The Old Boathouse, 2770 Westlake Ave. North, Seattle, WA (Phone ) Vice-President - Pat Ford, boat builder and chandler, P.O. Box 801, Bothell, WA (Phone ) Secretary - Ted Cooper, th Avenue N.E., Seattle, WA (Phone ) Treasurer - George Weldin, Edgecliff Drive, Seattle, WA (Phone ) TRUSTEES Ray Aliberti, Pete Becker, Bob Chapel, Sally Dickman, Gloria Grandaw, Rip Knot, Marty Loken, Phillip Mallinson, Rowland Messer, Charlie Olsheski, Ron Render, Myron Richards, Jamey Thompson, Carlyn Tucker, Colleen Wagner, Land Washburn, John Watson. Other highlights of the October meeting: * Marty Loken, secretary-treasurer during the Center's first year, reported that the group had $2,800 and 70 paid members as of October 1. * Dick Wagner, Rip Knot and Bob Chapel volunteered to study grants given recently by the National Trust for Historic Preservation (Maritime Division), to see if The Center for Wooden Boats might wish to apply for National Trust grants in the future. Competition for maritime grants apparently is tough the National Trust offered $280,000 to 19 organizations recently, after receiving requests for more than $7 million. So far, the Center's attempts at grantsmanship have been on a far smaller scale at press time, we were waiting to hear about our mini-grant application to the Washington Commission for the Humanities (for restoration of the 31-foot rowing gig), and a King County Block Grant application to rebuild two smaller boats, the 14'-7" Metlakatla Boat, and 14'-3" Acme Boat Works skiff. * Dick Wagner offered another report on our search for a permanent site, concluding that the Center should continue looking into availability of the so-called "asphalt plant," a prime piece of waterfront adjoining the U.S. Naval Reserve facility on Lake Union. One distinct longer-range possibility is that several maritime groups will combine efforts to create a Historic Seaport on Lake Union the Virginia V Foundation, Northwest Seaport, Historic Seattle, The Center for Wooden Boats, and the U.S. Navy. The result could be a spectacular maritime museum and waterfront park featuring the smallest and largest traditional watercraft found in the Northwest... from 7-foot prams (we have enough of those) to the old codfishing schooner Wawona. The Center for Wooden Boats officially Newsletter of The Center for Wooden Boats

2 supports development of such a park, of course, but we will continue to develop our own small-craft maritime museum as plans for the larger and more costly Historic Seaport unfold. (No sense in waiting around; these multi-million-dollar ideas take awhile to develop. There are many small-craft programs the Center can pursue without a lot of money...) THE FIRST YEAR Looking back over development of The Center for Wooden Boats, we realized that the idea has been "public" for exactly one year. Here are a few highlights of our activities during the first 12 months: * In October, 1977, we formally announced formation of the Center at FISH EXPO, held in Seattle, throwing together a booth display, brochures, posters and other materials a few days before the exposition opened. The booth featured Marty Loken and Gloria Grandaw's Poulsbo boat, Shine, which helped attract hundreds of fishermen to our display. * Then, early in 1978, we participated modestly in the Seattle Boat Show, sharing a Kingdome booth with our friends at Northwest Seaport. * In June, just in time for our second annual Seattle Wooden Boat Show, we established membership fees and other "rules and regs," allowing us to accept donations and offer tangible if upcoming benefits to members. * The Seattle Wooden Boat Show (July 1-4, 1978), organized and sponsored by The Center for Wooden Boats, was a tremendously successful event...with displays of boats and other traditional maritime goodies, rowing and sailing races, films, slide shows, demonstrations of boatbuilding skills, booths displaying tools, hardware and fastenings, chantey singers and fund-raising auctions. The Center emerged with a few thousand dollars in the bank, our first official paid members, and more 2 than a few plans for the future. * A big step was taken August 1, 1978, when members approved the Center's Bylaws and Articles of Incorporation, making possible our application for official status as a non-profit organization (first step in the search for funding). * Finally, we set our first annual business meeting for October 3 and elected officers and trustees (see item elsewhere in this issue on the October meeting). * In mid-october our application for non-profit organization status was approved by the Secretary of State's office. CENTER MEETINGS Meetings of The Center for Wooden Boats are offered on the first Tuesday of each month, 7:30 p.m., at Dick and Colleen Wagner's place 2770 Westlake Avenue North, Seattle. Please come if you can! SHAVINGS is published monthly for members of The Center for Wooden Boats, 2770 Westlake Avenue North, Seattle, WA Membership dues are $7.50 per year for individuals, and $15 per year for organizations. (See details, page 8) On the cover: We wish to thank the Apprenticeshop at the Bath Marine Museum, Bath, Maine, for use of the sketch of a Matinicus peapod...taken from their booklet, Apprenticing Revived.

3 The Center's 14-foot, peapod-style Metlakatla Boat, purchased by an anonymous member for donation to o r fleet. The boat was built in 1927 or 1928 by Davis & Son, in the Tsi ishian Indian village of Metlakatla, Alaska. (Photo by Marty Loken) CENTER DONATIONS Quite a number of items have been donated to The Center for Wooden Boats during its formative months, including: * 14'-7" Metlakatla Boat, purchased by an anonymous member for donation to the Center. The boat was built 50 years ago in the Tsimshian Indian village of Metlakatla, Alaska, by Davis & Son, who built a variety of fast and seaworthy small boats for handtrolling and pleasure use. * Lines of a Columbia River gillnetter, taken off of an abandoned hull at Astoria in Donated by Hobart Thompson, of Salem, Oregon. * Half-model of a gillnetter, based on lines mentioned above. Donated by Jean A. Deschenes III, of Grafton, Mass. * A handsome Center for Wooden Boats sign, carved in wood (of course!) and donated by Tom Parker of Seattle. * 14'-3" whitehall-style pulling boat built perhaps 40 or 50 years ago by Acme Boat Works, of Seattle. (If anyone has heard of Acme Boat Works, please let us know.) This is a pretty boat...but also mysterious... and we haven't yet researched her background. She was donated by Loren Avenell, of Redmond. * Another boat we should mention, although it doesn't belong to the Center, is the 31-foot Navy rowing gig Dick Wagner purchased last year. This boat needs a lot of work, obviously, but Center volunteers cannot continue the restoration begun last year in Port Townsend until a suitable that is, large enough shop space is made available. A 20' x 40' covered area would be ideal. Any ideas?

4 THE CENTER FOR WOODEN BOATS... A DOODLE FROM DICK WAGNER'S DINING-ROOM TABLE Z/<6 <4 Y /2oo & - -+ Dick Wagner's assignment for Volume One, Number One was simple. "Just turn on the genius and give us a Master Plan," we told Wagner. "Something that will awe and inspire, or at least make somebody mad enough to come up with their own idea of what the Center should look like..." He said he'd try...and here it is-- hot off the dining-room table! To quote a bit from Wagner's scrawled notes: "No site & no budget really leaves everything to the imagination... Entrance experience-- try to lessen the dreary impact of the parking lot, a necessary evil. Make the entrance, by land or sea, a surprise. By land, you filter through two man-made hills (executive wine cellar under one hill; executive sauna under the other). Coming to the shoreline, a choice of which way to go--to the left leads to a covered boat exhibit with graphic displays and a library upstairs...walls lined with books and filing cabinets filled with boat plans. Great hideout on a rainy day. Outside this building you can take a float out to the boathouse (rental boats, repair and storage area, with meeting room and director's office upstairs.) If you take the entry path to the right you arrive at the boatshop. Visitor's gallery and loft floor above. From the secondfloor view deck, take a bridge across to the boathouse and visitor's dock. (Bridge has 18' clearance, enough for small boats moored inside.) Also, boat ramp and parking for trailers is needed. Probably should have warehouse for general storage. Total land and water area 300' by 500'. Anyone have any better ideas?

6 MEMBERSHIP ROSTER - THE CENTER FOR WOODEN BOATS (As of November 1, 1978) RAY ALIBERTI 127 N. 175th St. Seattle, WA Phone J. WINSTON ANDERSON 627 Holiday Guemes Island Anacortes, WA Phone Owns 16' Bjorkedal boat, 14' clinker lifeboat BOB ARGUE 808 Skinner Building Seattle, WA Phone Owns 13' lapstrake Whitehall, 15' plywood knockabout, 18' plywood outboard cruiser ASH BREEZE (Traditional Small Craft Association newsletter) 575 Seventh Ave. Santa Cruz, CA Phone TOM BEARD P.O. 3ox 2073 Port Angeles, WA Phone Owns Cheoy Lee Offshore 31 PETE BECKER Route 3, Box 713 Shelton, WA Phone Owns 42' staysail ketch, R/V Morning Bells, and 13*5' fiberglas Whitehall EDGAR BOISVERT, JR. 18 Middle Road Ellington, Conn Phone (203) Owns manufactured Pintail BILL BOULTON E th Spokane, WA Phone (509) Owns 35' centerboard sloop, 12' Hank Long dinghy RAY P. BOURNE P.O. Box 47 Jefferson, OR Phone (503) Owns 20' rowing shell, 12' plywood kayak MARK BOYD 5805 Kensington PI. N. Seattle, WA Phone BOB CHAPEL P.O. Box Bainbridge Island, WA Phone Owns 29' gaff sloop Skye, 16' Whitehall CHEN TECH, INC. (G.D. Schindler) 4481 Greenwold Road Cleveland, OH Phone (216) BRUCE COLE (National Fisherman) st Ave. W. Seattle, WA Phone MATTHEW COOPER 1003 Northeast 50th Phone TED COOPER th Ave. N.E. Seattle, WA Phone Owns "one dinghy" LARRY D. DEWEY 9792 N.E. Winters Road Bainbridge Island, WA Phone Owns 12' sailboard SALLY DICKMAN 225 Seventh Ave. W. Kirkland, WA Phone FRANK DIDIER N.E. 78th PI. Kirkland, WA Phone ROGER DRAPER 807 N. Allen PI. Seattle, WA Phone DAVID DUNNING 4223 N.E. 33rd St. Phone JOHN W. ERICKSON Hartstene Point Hartstene Island, Shelton, WA Phone Owns Bristol Bay boat, Optimist, and 16' sailing skiff DON FLORA 6326 N.E. 24th Ave. Portland, OR Phone (503) Owns 18' Oslobat, built in 1950 PAT FORD P.O. Box 801 Bothell, WA Phone FREYA BOAT WORKS (David Jackson, Win Anderson) 909 Third Anacortes, WA Phone JOHN GARDNER (Mystic Seaport, National Fisherman) Mystic Seaport Mystic, Conn GLORIA GRANDAW 515 West Prospect Seattle, WA Phone BETH A GUTSCHE th N.E. Phone Owns 10' wherry yawl DEAN HAYNES Box 262 Stillwater, Minn Phone (612) (Builds Whitebear skiffs) JONATHAN HERSH 8842 Stone Ave. North Seattle, WA Phone BILL ISENHOWER 8901 Frontage Road N.E. #34 Albuquerque, N.M Phone (505) DR. AND MRS. DAVID KELLEY 2735 Simmons Road N.W. Olympia, WA Phone Owns Concordia Sloop Boat JAMES KNAPP 2202 Northeast 63rd Seattle, WA Phone Owns 17' yawl boat RIP KNOT 2323 Perkins Lane Seattle, WA Phone Owns 12' wherry, 14' lapstrake, 20' dory RICHARD S. KOLIN 575-B Seventh Ave. Santa Cruz, CA (Editor of Ash Breeze, TSCA newsletter) CHRISTIAN LANSING 1809 E. John Seattle, WA Phone BARBARA B. LARSON 7 La Bolsita Way Orinda, CA MARTY LOKEN 515 West Prospect Seattle, WA Phone Owns 15^1 Poulsbo boat, Shine, 12*3 Reinell clinker skiff built in 1935, 7' carvel-planked pram, 12' flatiron skiff STEVE LUCKMAN P.O. Box A San Diego, CA Phone Owns 1926 Alden schooner Revenge, 30' Block Island cowhorn cutter PHILLIP R. MALLINSON 2422 E. Roanoke St. Seattle, WA GEORGE M. MATHISEN P.O. Box 4685 Rolling Bay, WA Phone ROBERT A. McCONNELL th Northwest Seattle, WA Phone Owns 17' Rangeley boat, Pam STEWART McDOUGALL 2351 Fairview Ave. E. Seattle, WA ROWLAND E. MESSER Exeter N.E. Seattle, WA Phone Owns 11' sailing dinghy J.R. MORAN A Street Delta, B.C., Canada V4M 3J2 Phone (604) Owns 16' Whitehall NATIONAL FISHERMAN st Ave. W. Seattle, WA Phone CHARLES OLSHESKI Aurora Ave. N. Seattle, WA Phone ROLF OLSON Plum Bottom Boat Co. Route 1, Box 108 Neshkoro, WI Owns 32' canoe-stern Norwegian sloop ROBERT C. PETERSEN P.O. Box 182 Ilwaco, WA Phone Owns 18' gaff sloop, 14' lapstrake Whitehall, 11' Bolger "instant boat" EARL L. POWELL th Ave. E. Seattle, WA Phone Owns Spirit Bird ketch, Willits canoe THOMAS G. REALE nd Ave. N.W. Seattle, WA Phone

7 RON RENDER 7622 Tyee Way N.E. Bremerton, WA Phone Owns Providence River tent boat, Rangeley lake boat MYRON RICHARDS nd Ave. N.E. Kirkland, WA Phone Owns 28' cutter JOHN D. RILEY P.O. Box 1877 Anchorage, AK Phone (907) Owns Eskimo seal hunter's skin boat ROBERTS & ADAMS 3816 Railway Ave. Everett, WA Phone Owns Teach, 16' Atkin daysailer DENNIS ROSE 1068 E. Thomas St. #6 Seattle, WA Phone TERRY AND JAN SCOTT 2460 Westlake Ave. N. Seattle, WA HENRY SIEMENS 923 S.E. Bay Blvd. #6 Newport, OR HEt^RY SIMPSON 14 Rockwell St. Cambridge, Mass TIM SPENCER th Ave. N.E. Seattle, WA Phone Owns 13' Whitehall C. JEFFREY TANNEBRING 16 Hale St. Beverly, Mass Phone BRUCE TANNEHILL 239 Deer Trail Whitefish, MT Phone (406) Owns two wood-canvas canoes, one cedar strip canoe, and sailboat TELLTALE COMPASS South Old River Dr. Lake Oswego, OR Phone JAMES S. THOMAS th N.E. Phone Owns Atkin ketch HOBART A. THOMPSON 3373 Willamette Dr. N. Salem, OR Phone (503) Owns 17' Rana boat JAMEY THOMPSON th N.E. Seattle, WA Phone Owns Poulsbo boat VERN PETER TOL U.S. Coast Guard Coos Bay Box 5659 Charleston, OR Phone Owns three clinker pulling boats 12', 17' and 23' CARLYN ANN TUCKER th N.E. Seattle, WA DICK AND COLLEEN WAGNER (The Old Boathouse) 2770 Westlake North Seattle, WA Phone Boats owned: "Enough" ROY D. WAGNER P.O. Box 222 Redmond, WA Phone Owns 8' sailing pram. Ranger 20 LAND WASHBURN (The Wooden Boat Shop) th N.E. Phone JOHN A. WATSON 3910 Latona Ave. N.E. GEORGE WELDIN Edgecliff Drive Seattle, WA Phone HERBERT YATES 6317 S.W. Capitol Way Portland, OR Phone ARTHUR ZIMMERLING S.E. Fair Oaks Ave. Milwaukie, OR Phone (503) Owns 25' Chris Craft Cavalier and Sea Chief cabin cruiser ABOUT OUR SERIES OF MONOGRAPHS... The Center for Wooden Boats is about to launch an exciting new series of publications monographs covering traditional Northwest boats such as the Bristol Bay double-ender (our official logo). Each issue will include the story of a particular boat type and its builder or builders together with photographs, lines and offsets, drawings and details on performance characteristics. Early editions will focus on the Metlakatla Boat (also known as the Davis Boat, a fast and sturdy creation built for years in Southeastern Alaska); the Poulsbo Boat; the Willits Canoe; the Mukilteo Boat; the Columbia River gillnetter (sister to the Bristol Bay double-ender), several types of Northwest Coast Indian dugout canoes...and so forth. If you have information on any boats that were peculiar to the Northwest, or if you would like to participate in our research projects, please get in touch...phone (206) or write to 2770 Westlake Avenue North, Seattle WA NEWS ITEMS? PHOTOS? PLEASE SHARE... If you have newsletter contributions (ideas, items, photos, questions or whatever), please send them to The Center for Wooden Boats, 2770 Westlake Avenue North, Seattle, WA or call (206)

Boat(s) owned 1! WE NEED ADDITIONAL MEMBERS! Please feel free to complete the membership application form below if you have not yet joined The Center for Wooden Boats.

8 Boat(s) owned 1! WE NEED ADDITIONAL MEMBERS! Please feel free to complete the membership application form below if you have not yet joined The Center for Wooden Boats...or share the application with a friend if you have already signed up... MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION FORM The Center for Wooden Boats ( ) Please enroll me as a member of The Center for Wooden Boats, a non-profit organization (dues are tax-deductible), and send me the Center's newsletter (one-year subscription), monograph series on Northwest boats, membership card and supporter pin. ( ) Regular membership $7.50 per year ( ) Organizations $15.00 per year ( ) Contributing $50.00 per year ( ) Life membership $ COMING IN FUTURE NEWSLETTERS: PROFILES OF NORTHWEST BOATBUILDERS Upcoming editions of Shavings, the newsletter of The Center for Wooden Boats, will include profiles of some of the Northwest's contemporary small-craft builders... and their boats. Articles, photos, drawings and suggestions are welcome! Editor of Shavings, effective with the next issue, will be our newly elected Secretary, Ted Cooper. News items, photos and/or story ideas may be sent directly to the Center at 2770 Westlake Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109, or to Ted Cooper at th Avenue Northeast, Seattle, WA Ted's phone number is (206) ( ) Please send me a Center for Wooden Boats T-shirt (Navy blue, pre-shrunk cotton, with the Center's logotype and image of Bristol Bay sailboat) $5.50 postpaid ( ) Adult small ( ) Adult med. ( ) Adult large ( ) Adult x-1 ( ) Youth med. ( ) Youth lrg. TOTAL AMOUNT ENCLOSED: $ Name j Address City State Zip Phone ( ) The Center for Wooden Boats 2770 Westlake Avenue North Seattle, Washington Telephone [206) A 14-foot Danish beach boat built by Paul Schweiss of Clinker Boatworks, Tacoma. Paul is one of several innovative Northwest builders we'll profile in future editions of Shavings. (Photo by Marty Loken)

Baker Boat Works Plans are now available through Mystic Seaport Collections, Mystic, CT

Baker Boat Works Plans are now available through Mystic Seaport Collections, Mystic, CT [1] Robert H. Baker (Nov. 1927 - Sept. 1983) Beginning with childhood summers spent in the bays and marshes of Westport,