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The Center for Wooden Boats is a museum and a resource for information about wooden boats, how to build them and maintain them, and maritime skills in general. We do get lots of requests for information and we do our best to respond to them as quickly as possible. Fortunately for on-line users, there is a wealth of shared information available from both pros and talented amateurs on the internet. Some of these resources are listed below.

• newsgroups
• maritime museums/educational facilities
• places that get people on the water building and using their own boats
• places that engage people in maritime related activities for fun and education
• wooden boat events

A link to another site does not imply an endorsement.

Newsgroups

• rec.boats.building

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Historic/Educational Vessels

• Martha
  B.B. Crowninshield's classic yacht sails Puget Sound. The Schooner Martha Foundation offers sail training programs for youths (ages 12-18) as well as charters and trips for adults.
• Lady Washington
  A full-scale replica of the first Amerian vessel to explore the Pacific Northwest Coast.
• Endeavour
  A replica of the vessel used in 1768 by Lieutenant James Cook, RN, as he set sail on a voyage of exploration and scientific investigation.
• Pirate
  Designed and built in Seattle by famed yacht designer, Ted Geary, in 1926 and now being restored at CWB. Nominated to the historic register in the Spring of 2000.
  

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Museums/Educational

• The Antique Boat Musuem
  America's Freshwater Antique Boat Museum
  Clayton, NY.
• The Arques School of Traditional Boatbuilding
  I believe the name says it all...
• Bates Technical College Boat Building Program
  A Tacoma, Washington, based boat building course to prepare for apprentice-level employment in the marine industry.
• Historical Photographs, courtesy of the Museum of History & Industry, Seattle, Washington
  Includes many maritime photographs .
• History Links
  Fun to browse - lots of history resources for Seattle and King County.
• LA Maritime Museum
  Los Angeles' Maritime Museum .
• Maritime & Yachting Museum of the Treasure Coast
  Preserving significant & irreplaceable boats that provide a link to the past; maintaining a record of Florida's maritime heritage and providing maritime & yachting educational programs.
• Mystic Seaport
  A 40 acre waterfront maritime museum.
• North Carolina Maritime Museum
  Its mission is to preserve and interpret all aspects of North Carolina's rich maritime heritage through educational exhibits, programs and field trips.
• The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding
  Teaching and preserving fine wooden boatbuilding and other traditional maritime crafts.
• The Northwest Steam Society
  A non-profit volunteer organization formed in 1973 for the mutual benefit of steam enthusiasts in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
• The Okanagan Antique & Classic Boat Society
  The Okanagan Antique and Classic Boat Society, located in the heart of the Okanagan Valley, is a group of enthusiastic boat owners who are actively promoting the history, mystique and preservation of wooden boats.
• Port Townsend Wooden Boat Foundation
  The Wooden Boat Foundation is a non-profit organization located in the heart of the victorian seaport of Port Townsend, Washington. We are dedicated to the preservation and celebration of traditional maritime skills, culture and heritage through education.
• Smith's Master Index of Maritime Museum Websites
• Sound Experience
  Protecting Puget Sound through education since 1989 aboard the historic schooner Adventuress.
• SS Virginia V Foundation Inc
  The last wooden passenger steamship in the West.
• The Tahoe Maritime Museum
  Focuses on the watercraft and maritime heritage of the Lake Tahoe area.
• The Traditional Small Craft Association
  A non-profit educational organization "which works to preserve and continue the living traditions, skills, lore and legends of working and pleasure watercraft. It encourages the design, construction and use of these boats and it embraces contemporary variants and adaptations of traditional designs."
• The Yankee Clipper
  West Seattle Sea Scouts.
• Youth Maritime Training Association
  Dedicated to providing a bridge between the maritime industry and Washington State schools, with "School to Work" programs.
• The Wooden Canoe Heritage Association, Ltd. (WCHA)
  A non-profit membership association devoted to preserving, studying, building, restoring, and using wood, wood-canvas, cedar strip and birchbark canoes, and to disseminating information about canoeing heritage in North America .
• Working Waterfront Maritime Museum
  To educate the public, preserve and showcase the history of Tacoma's working waterfront and to demonstrate and teach maritime crafts .

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Boat Festivals

• Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia
  "Promoting Wooden Boat Heritage and Education" .

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Boatbuilding Resources

• Allied Veneer Co.
  Allied Veneer Co. is a full service marine plywood supplier. Featuring the highest quality marine plywood and many different domestic and import woods.
• RavenWood Services
  Specializing in custom milling and export of of premium quality Western Red Cedar, Sitka Spruce, Douglas Fir and Yellow Cedar. 
• Hvalsoe Boats
  Eric Hvalsoe has nearly 30 years of experience in small wooden craft design and construction, marine carpentry and fine woodworking. Involved in design, construction and repair of wooden boats as well teaching boat building classes at The Center for Wooden boats and other venues.

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Other Resources

• The Adirondack Guide Boat
  Resource for wooden and kevlar guideboats and accessories
• Admiralty Head Lighthouse/WA State License Plate
  Starting in January, 2006, a stunningly beautiful new vehicle license plate became available to Washington motorists. Sale of the Washington Lighthouses special plate will give an enormous boost to the restoration of our state's lighthouses that are kept open to the public. It will also help support environmental education in Island County, which developed the prototype of the Beach Watcher program currently expanding throughout Puget sound. Please consider purchasing the plate for your vehicles.
• Boater Information System
  A navigational resource for sailors in the Puget Sound area, giving interactive winds, tides, currents and temperature forecasts. The BIS is an experimental project, funded by NOAA through a grant from the Washington Sea Grant Program and developed by the UW Applied Physics Laboratory, to test the exploration of combining weather and oceanograpic data to produce a experimental visualization of the environmental forcing parameters impacting Puget Sound Waterways.
• Common Sense Designs
  Boat plans and kits.
• Databoat
  Marine books, videos, and boat plans and plans catalogs.
• The Electric Boat Company
  The Electric Boat Company is the exclusive dealer for Duffy Electric Boats in the Pacific Northwest.
• Global Online Adventure Learning
  "Exciting and educational adventures for explorers of all ages"
• Go Seattle Card
  Unlimited admission at over 30 Seattle attractions and tours for one low price.
• Herreshoff 12 1/2 Registry
  A portal for all things H 12 1/2.
• Lake Union Crew
  Lake Union Crew is a rowing club located on Lake Union. Their website provides a link to a webcam (the CrewCam) and weather report for the lake so you can see what the sailing and rowing conditions are like.
• Marine Art at Emerald Island Studios
  Original oil paintings and limited editions by C.R. Bob Bryant - internationally known maritime artist.
• Maritime Heritage Network
  MHN promotes Central Puget Sound maritime heritage to residents and visitors from Washington State, the nation, and overseas. MHN is a collaboration among 4Culture, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and heritage groups in King and Kitsap counties. All organizations conserve heritage resources to educate everyone about the place of maritime tradition in our past and future.
• Mark Rosenstein's Sailing Page
  Historical and contemporary sailing resources.
• Master Mariners Benevolent Association
  Their purpose is to foster participation in yachting and the preservation of well designed, properly constructed and well maintained classic and traditional wooden sailing craft .
• Mercury Yacht Racing Association
  Over 55 years of providing competitive racing in the One Design spirit in California.
• The Merry Maiden
  The restoration of the Merry Maiden, a Phil Rhodes designed ketch, is underway at The Center for Wooden Boats' dock. Seaton, her owner, shares her history and future plans on this site.
• The Mother of All Maritime Links
  Also self-explanatory.
• Oarlock and Sail Wooden Boat Club
  An organization for fans of small wooden boats in Vancouver, BC.
• SailingNorthwest
  SailingNorthwest is a blog by long-time member and volunteer, Dennis Palmer. Includes a great entry on the 2007 Wooden Boat Festival.
• The Stripper's Guide to Canoe-building
  The answers to your questions about wood-strip canoes.
• Sea Dragon Marine Art Studio
  Ship models, marine paintings, seascapes, etc.
• The Traditional Small Craft Association
  Their purpose is to preserve and continue the living traditions, skills, lore, and legends surrounding working and pleasure watercraft whose origins predate the marine gasoline engine. (Puget Sound Chapter).
• The Umiak Adventure School
  Workshops for people interested in building traditional kayaks, umiaks, canoes, and paddles.
• Tourism Cares      
  Tourism Cares brings the tourism industry together to 'give back'.  We do this through volunteer programs to help restore historic sites that are in need of care and rejuvenation.  We also make grants to preserve, conserve and restore the world's natural, cultural and historic treasures.  In addition, Tourism Cares supports the future workforce of the industry by providing scholarships and educational opportunities to students studying hospitality and tourism.
• Uncle John's General Store
  An online general store, which also carries boat kits.
• WoodenBoat Magazine
  The magazine for wooden boat owners, builders and designers.
• Yankee One-Design Class
  The Yankee One-Design sloop was created in 1937, as the result of a national design contest to develop an American built One-Design class for interclub racing. Sarah Howell, a CWB member & volunteer, shares her Yankee, Venture, with CWB visitors.

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