Home Built Boats Weekend

Home Built Boats Weekend:

For people who have built small craft, and for those who want to.

10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, July 25
10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Sunday, July 26

Free to visitors. Donations to help support CWB greatly appreciated.

About the event: An on-the-docks two-day event featuring amateur boatbuilders and their boats, visitors interested in boatbuilding and seeking how-to information, plus professionals who cater to the amateur builder. Skills demonstrations and Q&A sessions will be offered by professional boatbuilders and instructors.

Home Built Boats will be free to visitors with donations accepted. A picnic area will be open on the main deck and in the CWB Boathouse gallery. A regatta sail will be organized for either one or both days.  

Attending Boats: As of mid-July, we have about 35 home built boats scheduled to attend. See below for photos of many of the boats.

CWB Boat Shop Talks ... we've scheduled five one hour talks for amateurs and others interested in small boat
building. All talks will be in the CWB Boat Shop. See the schedule
below for more information.

- SCHEDULE -

Saturday

10 a.m. - Home Built Boats Weekend begins. More than 30 boats current scheduled to attend.

Noon - CWB Boat Shop Talk
Pat Ford: Finish Work For Amateurs, Preparation and Application of Paint and Varnish. Ford will also explain the "roll and tip" paint application methodology.
About: Pat Ford is a professional boatwright in the Seattle area. In recent years, he has specialized in the restoration of classic yachts and runabouts.

1 p.m. - CWB Boat Shop Talk
Lawrence W. Cheek: Will talk about his new book, The Year of the Boat, which chronicles the construction of his Devlin-designed 13 foot Zephyr.
About the book: "It began as a project to build a wooden sailboat in a suburban garage within a self-imposed deadline of one year. But difficulties—both technical and emotional—made a shambles of the deadline, and Lawrence Cheek’s project to build a boat became an inquiry into the nature of beauty, a struggle with obsession and perfectionism, and finally a question of character. The Year of the Boat is the story of how one man built a boat in spite of himself." - notes from LawrenceCheek.com.
Amazon listing here. This book also available in the CWB Store.
http://lawrencewcheek.com

2 p.m. - CWB Boat Shop Talk
Sam Devlin & Mark Bunzel: Q&A on their new kit-built design, the Candlefish 16.
About: An Olympia-based boat designer and builder, Devlin is a staunch pioneer and advocate of “Stitch and Glue” boatbuilding. www.devlinboat.com
Note: James McMullen of Emerald Marine and Mark Bunzel will show the Candlefish 16 they built from the kit now being sold by Fine Edge Classic Kit-Built Boats

3 p.m. - Home Built Boat Weekend Parade - All boats invited to depart for a Lake Union sail, motor or cruise. Let's sail to Gasworks Park and back.

6 p.m. - End of day one.

6:30 p.m. - Builder's Potluck/Barbecue - In the CWB Boat Shop for Home Built Boats Weekend for exhibitors, speakers, friends, CWB staff and volunteers. Please bring your own girllable items or potluck foods.

Sunday

10 a.m. - Second day begins.

Noon - CWB Boat Shop Talk
James McMullen: "What I Learned From My First 50 Boats" ... tales of a longtime amateur boatbuilder who recently turned pro.
About: James McMullen was born in Denver, Colorado by mistake. Since that's roughly as far away from the ocean as it's possible to get, he's spent most of his adult life trying to correct for this tactical error by obsessing about boats and water full time. Since 1989 James has built 50 boats and counting. Although James has worked on everything from sea kayaks to schooners, his personal favorite type of boat is the traditional Sail & Oar type of boat. He has travelled pretty much the entire Puget Sound area under wind and muscle power in boats he built himself.  McMullen is a partner at Emerald Marine in Anacortes. www.emeraldmarine.com

1 p.m. - CWB Boat Shop Talk
Eric Hvalsoe: "Traditional Lapstrake" ... with demonstrations of Clench Nailing & Riveting.
About: Eric Hvalsoe has nearly 30 years of experience in small wooden craft design and construction, marine carpentry and fine woodworking.  Trained as a professional boatwright, Hvalsoe has also taught students around the world in the finer points of traditional lapstrake construction. Hvalsoe has a shop in Shoreline. www.hvalsoe-boats.com 

3 p.m. - Home Built Boat Weekend Parade - All boats invited to depart for a Lake Union sail, motor or cruise. Go have fun. 

3:30 p.m. - Home Built Boats Weekend officially ends.

For amateurs: Home Built Boats Weekend Application.
Completing this form helps us know how much dock space will be needed at the event. 

If your boat is over 23 feet, first send us an email and tell us about your boat. There's a great chance we'll say yes.

Professionals are asked to email tim@timyeadon.com for more information.

Thanks! To John Weiss and the Puget Sound chapter of the Traditional Small Craft Association, WoodenBoat, Small Craft Advisor, 48 Degrees North, Capt. Richard Rodriguez at the BitterEnd blog, and many, many others for spreading the word about CWB's Home Built Boats Weekend.

- Tim Yeadon, Noah Seixas, Eric Hvalsoe and Walt Plimpton
CWB's Home Built Boats Weekend Coordinators