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Look at what the press has to say .....
Allen to give $10 million for building park -- with a few conditions - Seattle Post Intelligencer
"Mayor Greg Nickels and the Seattle Parks Foundation yesterday announced a record $10 million donation from billionaire Paul Allen's Vulcan Inc.
The contribution is the largest single private contribution to a public park in Seattle history. However, it will be made in two parts and comes with some serious strings attached."
Festival launches don't miss the boat. - Seattle Post Intelligencer
"Ahoy, matey! This weekend is the 28th annual Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival, where kids of all ages can build and sail boats and learn what it's like to live on the high (or not so high) seas."
A concrete solution to a wooden problem - Seattle Post Intelligencer
"It was an odd sight, the Mary L tugboat pulling two 100-foot docks across Elliott Bay, through Hiram Chittenden Locks and into a placid Lake Union. But for the city of Seattle, yesterday's unusual tow job was a free solution to a pricey problem. "
Debera Carlton Harrell chronicles the arrival of new concrete docks at The Center for Wooden Boats.
A New park planned for Lake Union - Seattle Post Intelligencer
"A new project planned for South Lake Union has nothing to do with biotechnology or Paul Allen, but could transform the area more than anything else. It's a $20 million, maritime-themed park, to be built on a 12-acre lakeside lot that has been home to a mill, a glass manufacturing facility and an asphalt plant."
An R-Boat is Rescued in Seattle - Sail Magazine
"In the early 20th century, R-boat racing attracted the brightest and the best. R's were large enough to be yachts and small enough to be toys. One of the most historic of the lot, Pirate, R11, is being restored in Seattle at the lively Center for Wooden Boats."
Wooden boats float from history to a dock near you - Seattle Times
It started more than 25 years ago with what Dick Wagner calls "a fancy market study." In 1977, Wagner launched the first Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival, a street-fair-style event to show off some of the oldest boats still in use in the Northwest.
Historic boat enthusiasts gather to talk shop - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Whether restored or newly built craft, these folks would prefer wood, and hanker to anchor with like minds. Writer Andrew Engleson joins the Traditional Small Craft Association at a "messabout" at CWB's future Cama Beach facility.
A Wooden-Boat Revival - Antiques Road Show
In early 2003, The Antiques Road Show came to Seattle. The host, Dan Elias, and crew visited CWB during their stay and gained an appreciation for a new kind of historical preservation.
Canoe Carver is on a Journey of Peace - Seattle Post Intelligencer
"He is a weaver of
stories and teller of jokes, a singer of songs, a teacher who is always learning
from his students. He also is a carver of huge, solid cedar canoes. Robert
Peele, a 52-year-old native of Prince of Wales, Alaska -- known to his Seattle
students and friends by his Haida name, Saaduuts -- is the man behind, on
top of and often inside the large cedar canoe taking shape at the Center for
Wooden Boats on Lake Union."
John Hahn introduces his readers to Robert Peele.
Shipshape: From tip to stern, this boat's got family written all over it - Seattle Times
"I smelled trouble
at the nametags. Here we were, nearly a dozen families and couples, bunched
together in the top floor of the Center for Wooden Boats, bracing for the
uncertain task of building a small fleet of small boats."
Read reporter Eric Sorensen's account of his experience building a small sailing
craft during one of The Center for Wooden Boats' Family Boat Building weekends.
Gone
with the wind: Teaching the blend of ‘you, the boat, the water and the wind’
- Seattle Post Intellingencer
A puff of wind tugs the sails, lifting one side of the boat as it heels to starboard. Three passengers lean over the edge to counterbalance the Petrel as she skiffs through the light-stippled water of Lake Union at sunset. One of the small wooden sailboats in the SailNOW! instructional program at The Center for Wooden Boats makes its way across Lake Union. Gilbert W. Arias / Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Instructor Stephen Kinnaman asks the helmsman to tack, or turn the bow of the boat through the eye of the wind. "What do you say?" he prompts, as a student prepares to change course with the tiller. "Helm's . . . helm's . . . ," she stumbles. "A-lee," he supplies. Devony Fitch, in the midst of her 10th SailNOW! lesson, smiles. "I think the language is what gets me. It's driving me crazy," she says amiably, not looking crazed at all.
Kids gets hands-on learning while sailing on schooner - By Keiko Morris Seattle Times staff reporter
ON PUGET SOUND - Carefully balanced on the bowsprit, Lindsey Carlson and Sara London wait for a feisty wake to topple them into the dark green water. Their classmates Milo Phillips-Brown and Tom Hanna lay on their backs thumb-wrestling on the deck. It's a Saturday, and technically this is school. "It feels like a waterbed," Hanna, 14, said. "Yeah," Phillips-Brown, 13, said lazily, "except it's nothing like a waterbed."
Their weekend classroom is the Martha, an 84-foot schooner carrying almost 94 years of history. These teens from Seattle's Alternative School No. 1 are the willing guinea pigs, the test pilots for the Schooner Martha Foundation's attempt to expand its youth sailing programs for the regional schools.
Thursday, October 19, 2000
Haida canoe takes shape on Lake Union in tribute to tribal culture - Seattle Times
Robert Peele, who also teaches Haida cultural heritage to school kids through a King County Arts in Education grant, uses canoe carving as a way to talk about spirituality and his Native beliefs. He calls his project "Spirit of Peace," and wants to share his culture with people of all races.
Sunday, September 24, 2000
The time capsule of Cama Beach - Seattle Times
A patch of Northwest history is being saved - by a family who didn't measure its worth in money, and a state agency that agreed with their vision.
Sunday, August 27, 2000
Norm Blanchard and the art of wooden boats - Seattle Times
In a city seemingly obsessed with computer software, airplanes and coffee, it is easy to forget that Seattle's roots are sunk deep in its seaport. For nearly 50 years, it was little more than a frontier village perched on the edge of the wilderness. Hemmed in by forests and water, the pioneer economy depended entirely on boats to move people and goods from one place to the next.
Monday, June 12, 2000
Students sail through school - Seattle Times
The floating docks at The Center for Wooden Boats shook and creaked as a dozen teens from Seattle Alternative School No. 1 brought to the water the results of nine months of labor: 3-foot scale models of the historic sailboat Pirate. They had built the models in shop class using blueprints, sugar pine and buckets of bright paint.
Monday, June 12, 2000
Center for Wooden Boats puts visitors in touch with Seattle's nautical history - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
For residents of the Seattle area, the Center for Wooden Boats is a getaway in their own back yard and an opportunity to soak up the city's vibrant maritime history. Visitors are invited to touch, help restore, sit in and sail some of the more than 100 small wooden boats in the center's historical collection.
Saturday, April 22, 2000
Fishermen
find cargo of memories in restored gillnet boat
- Seattle Times
Today, The Center for Wooden Boats will formally launch its refurbished gillnetter, a fitting tribute to a prosaic work boat that put countless Washingtonians through school, supported families and helped make salmon a mighty industry.
Wednesday, October 20, 1999
73-year-old West Coast racing yacht donated to Center for Wooden Boats - Seattle Times
The Pirate, built at Lake Union Drydock in Seattle, was the first West Coast yacht with the audacity to enter - and win - a competition on the Atlantic. This weekend, The Center for Wooden Boats on Lake Union will gain ownership of the boat.
