In This Issue: The Davis Family, Boat Builders of Metlakatla, Alaska

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Ash Breeze
The
Journal of the Traditional Small Craft Association, Inc.
Vol. 28 No. 3
Fall 2007 – $4.00
In This Issue:
The Davis Family, Boat Builders of Metlakatla, Alaska
Single Up • Reports from the National Meeting
John Gardner Project Report • Daisy R • A Boatbuilding Story
Log of the Court of Inquiry Regarding the Loss of a Sea Scout Vessel
Acorns and Rich Kolin
The Ash Breeze
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Editor’s Column
There is a legislative action alert in
this issue. It came in late in the production cycle and appears on page 11. Please
read it, do your own research (I suggest
you Google the topic) and, most importantly, email your concern to your representatives.
From the President
Richard Geiger
This year we have taken a step that
shows that TSCA is truly a national organization.
We’ve just held our first Council
meeting and membership meeting outside of our home port of Mystic. The
San Francisco Maritime Historical Park
and the Sacramento Chapter were the
hosts. The facilities and hospitality were
top notch. The chance to participate in
the one-week Gunkhole cruise sponsored by the Park, was a unique opportunity.
You will find the minutes of the Council meeting and the informational notes
from the general membership meeting
in this issue. Unfortunately, due to a
scheduling glitch, we missed the numbers for a quorum for the latter meeting, but information was shared and
there was no pressing issue that needed
to be addressed. The Council felt that it
was good to have the flexibility to move
the annual meeting to different locations
around the country. Two possible spots
that garnered enthusiasm: the Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival at the Chesa-
For the bylaws change proposed in the
insert to this issue, we are instituting the
option of email voting. If you can make
use of this option, please do so. Use of
email for voting, membership reminders,
and political action alerts has the potential of reducing organization expenses and
better serving our membership.
Regards to all, Dan Drath
peake Bay Maritime Museum in St.
Michaels, Maryland and the Wooden Boat
Festival in Port Townsend, Washington.
Since the bylaws stipulate that we meet
in June, and both of these events are held
in the fall, the Council is putting forth an
amendment to the bylaws to be voted by
the membership. You will find information in this issue of the Ash Breeze on how
to vote on this matter.
Since I’ve yet to attended the annual
meeting at Mystic, I may not be familiar
to many of you. Coincidentally, in this issue you will see a small piece on my
family’s modest boat that set me on this
path. I spent all of my vacation time in
my first eighteen years on this little 18foot gaff-rigged yawl.
My wife Susan and I have an 18' gunning dory that we have sailed in the San
Francisco Bay and Delta, and once across
the Catalina Channel. We also sailed down
the Loire River in France in a small lugrigged open boat. Although we have had
larger boats, we have never had as much
fun as in the small ones!
It is my honor to serve this great group.
Please let me hear from you.
Email me at rggeiger@comcast.net
Front Cover
The historic scow schooner Alma tends to her “chicks” on Nurse Slough near
Suisun City in the California Delta. This was an overnight stop on the San Francisco
Maritime Historical Park’s annual "Gunkhole" cruise.
Twenty-five boats and sixty people participated in the event. Photograph by Kathy
Geiger.
Address Changes: We instruct the Postal Service to forward the journal to your
new address, but if it is not forwardable, we are charged the full third-class fee (not
the less expensive bulkrate fee) for its return, along with the address correction fee.
To help us reduce postage costs and ensure that you don’t miss an issue, kindly
send your new address to TSCA Secretary, P. O. Box 350, Mystic, CT 06355.
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Gardner Grants
“To preserve, continue, and expand the achievements, vision and goals of John Gardner by enriching and disseminating
our traditional small craft heritage.” In 1999, TSCA created the John Gardner Grant program to support projects for which
sufficient funding would otherwise be unavailable. Eligible projects are those which research, document, preserve, and
replicate traditional small craft, associated skills, and those who built and used them. Youth involvement is encouraged.
Proposals for projects ranging from $200 to $2000 are invited for consideration. Grants are awarded competitively and
reviewed semiannually by the John Gardner Memorial Fund Committee of TSCA, typically in May and October. The source
of funding is the John Gardner Memorial Endowment Fund. Funding available for projects is determined annually.
Eligible applicants include anyone who can demonstrate serious interest in, and knowledge of, traditional small craft.
Affiliation with a museum or academic organization is not required. Projects must have tangible, enduring results which are
published, exhibited, or otherwise made available to the interested public. Projects must be reported in the Ash Breeze.
For program details, applications and additional information visit TSCA on the web at www.tsca.net
Benefactors
Life Members
Samuel E. Johnson Sidney S. Whelan, Jr.
Jean Gardner Bob Hicks Paul Reagan
Generous Patrons
Howard Benedict Willard A. Bradley Lee Caldwell
Richard S. Kolin
Michael S. Olson Gregg Shadduck Zach Stewart Richard B. Weir Capt C. S. Wetherell Joel Zackin
...and Individual Sponsor Members
John D. England
Rodney & Julie Agar
Jon Lovell
David Epner
Doug Aikins
The Mariners Museum,
Tom Etherington
Roger Allen
Newport News, VA
Edna Erven
Rob Barker
Pete & Susan Mathews
C. Joseph Barnette Friends of the NC Maritime Museum Charles H. Meyer, Jr.
Ben Fuller
Ellen & Gary Barrett
Alfred P. Minnervini
Richard & Susan Geiger
Bruce Beglin
Howard Mittleman
John M. Gerty
Charles Benedict
John S. Montague
Gerald W. Gibbs
Gary Blackman
King Mud & Queen Tule
Jordan E. Gillman
Robert C. Briscoe
Mason C. Myers
Les Gunther
John Burgess
Charles D. Nord
Mr. & Mrs. R. Bruce Hammatt, Jr.
Richard A. Butz
David J. Pape
John A. Hawkinson
Charles Canniff
W. Lee & Sibyl A. Pellum
Peter Healey
Dick & Jean Anne Christie
Stephan Perloff
Colin O. Hermans
David Cockey
Ronald Pilling
Steve Hirsch
James & Lloyd Crocket
Robert Pitt
Stuart K. Hopkins
Thad Danielson
Michael Porter
K. E. Jones
Stanley R. Dickstein
Ron Render
John M. Karbott
Dusty & Linda Dillion
Don Rich
Carl B. & Ruth W. Kaufmann
Terry & Erika Downes
Richard Schubert
Stephen Kessler
Dan & Eileen Drath
Paul A. Schwartz
Thomas E. King
Frank C. Durham
Karen Seo
Arthur B. Lawrence, III
Albert Eatock
Michael O. Severance
Chelcie Liu
Michael Ellis
Austin Shiels
Gary & Diane Shirley
Charles D. Siferd
Walter J. Simmons
Leslie Smith
F. Russell Smith, II
Stephen Smith
John P. Stratton, III
Robert E. (Bub) Sullivan
Jackson P. Sumner
George Surgent
Benjamin B. Swan
John E. Symons
James Thorington
Joel Tobias
Ray E. Tucker
Peter T. Vermilya
John & Ellen Weiss
Stephen M. Weld
Michael D. Wick
Chip Wilson
Robert & Judith Yorke
J. Myron Young
The Ash Breeze – Fall 2007_________________________________________________________ 3
“Only if our children are introduced to boats at an early age and grow
up using them on the water will what we are doing today have any
relevance for the future.”
– John Gardner (former counselor, Pine Island Camp)
Founded in 1902, Pine Island remains true to the simple, island life-style established by
the current director’s grandfather and committed to providing an adventurous, safe summer. No electricity, an absence of competitive sports and the island setting make Pine
Island unique. Ten in-camp activities offered daily, include rowing, canoeing, sailing,
kayaking, swimming, workshop, archery, riflery, and tennis. Over thirty camping trips
each summer, include backpacking, canoeing, kayaking and trips to the camp’s 90-acre
salt water island. Campfire every night. Write or call the director for more information.
Ben Swan, P.O. Box 242, Brunswick, Maine 04011
TSCA Chapters
Join or start a chapter to enjoy the fellowship and skills which can be gained around traditional small craft
Adirondack Chapter TSCA
Friends of the North Carolina
Scajaquada TSCA
Mary Brown, 18 Hemlock Lane, Saranac
Charles H. Meyer, 5405 East River, Grand
Maritime Museum TSCA
Lake, New York 12983, 518 891-2709,
mabrown214@hotmail.com
Annapolis Chapter TSCA
Sigrid Trumpy, P.O. Box 2054, Annapolis,
MD 21404, hollace@crosslink.net
Barnegat Bay TSCA
Patricia H. Burke, Director, Toms River
Seaport Society, PO Box 1111, Toms River,
NJ 08754, 732-349-9209,
www.tomsriverseaport.com
Cleveland Amateur
Boatbuilding and Boating
Society (CABBS)
Hank Vincenti, 7562 Brinmore Rd,
Sagamore Hills, OH 44067, 330-467-6601,
quest85@windstream.net
Connecticut River
Oar and Paddle Club
Jon Persson, 17 Industrial Park Road Suite
5, Centerbrook, CT 06409, 860-767-3303,
jon.persson@snet.net
Delaware River TSCA
Brent Creelman, 315 Front Street, Beaufort,
NC 28516, 252-728-7317,
maritime@ncmail.com
John Gardner Chapter
Russ Smith, Univ of Connecticut, Avery
Point Campus, 1084 Shennecossett Road,
Groton, CT 06340, 860-536-1113,
fruzzy@hotmail.com
Lone Star Chapter
Howard Gmelch, The Scow Schooner
Project, POBox 1509, Anahuac, TX 77514,
409-267-4402, scowschooner@earthlink.net
Long Island TSCA
Myron Young, PO Box 635, Laurel, NY
11948, 631-298-4512
Lost Coast Chapter - Mendocino
Stan Halvorsen, 31051 Gibney Lane, Fort
Bragg, CA 95437, 707-964-8342,
Krish@mcn.org
Island, NY 14072, 716-773-2515,
chmsails@aol.com
SE Michigan
John Van Slembrouck, Stoney Creek
Wooden Boat Shop, 1058 East Tienken
Road, Rochester Hills, MI 48306,
stoneycreek@stoneycreekboatshop.com
South Jersey TSCA
George Loos, 53 Beaver Dam Rd, Cape
May Courthouse, NJ 08210,
609-861-0018, georgeowlman@aol.com
South Street Seaport Museum
John B. Putnam, 207 Front Street, New
York, NY 10038, 212-748-8600, Ext. 663
days, www.southstseaport.org
TSCA of Wisconsin
James R. Kowall, c/o Door County
Maritime Museum, 120 N Madison Ave,
Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235, 920-743-4631
North Shore TSCA
Dave Morrow, 63 Lynnfield Str, Lynn, MA
01904, 781-598-6163
Tom Shephard, 482 Almond Rd, Pittsgrove,
Patuxent Small Craft Guild
NJ 08318, tsshep41556@aol.com
William Lake, 11740 Asbury Circle, Apt
1301, Solomons, MD 20688, 410-394-3382,
Down East Chapter
John Silverio, 105 Proctor Rd, Lincolnville, wlake@comcast.net
ME 04849, work 207-763-3885, home 207Pine Lake Small Craft Assoc.
763-4652, camp: 207-763-4671,
Sandy Bryson, Sec., 333 Whitehills Dr, East
jsarch@midcoast.com
Lansing, MI 48823, 517-351-5976,
sbryson@msu.edu
Floating the Apple
Mike Davis, 400 West 43rd St., 32R, New
Puget Sound TSCA
York, NY 10036, 212-564-5412,
Gary Powell, 15805 140th Ct. SE, Renton,
floapple@aol.com
WA 98058, 425-255-5067,
powellg@amazon.com
Florida Gulf Coast TSCA
Roger B. Allen, Florida Maritime Museum,
Sacramento TSCA
PO Box 100, 4415 119th St W, Cortez, FL
Todd Bloch, 122 Bemis Street,
34215,
San Francisco, CA 94131, 415-971-2844,
941-708-4935 or Cell 941-704-8598,
todd.sb@comast.net
Roger.Allen@ManateeClerk.com
Organizing
Eastern Shore Chapter
Mike Moore,5220 Wilson Road, Cambridge, MD 21613, estsca@mail.com
Michigan Maritime
Museum Chapter
Pete Mathews, Secretary, PO Box 100,
Gobles, MI 49055, 269-628-4396,
cpcanoenut@cs.com
ReOrganizing
Oregon TSCA
The Davis Family,
Boat Builders of
Metlakatla, Alaska
By Rich Kolin
The history of traditional small craft in
America is replete with the stories of enterprising families who, through their talents and energies, made important
contributions to our small craft heritage.
Many are unsung and deserve to be recognized. One such family is the Davis family of Metlakatla, Alaska. Made up of three
generations of Tsimshian Indians, this remarkable family designed and built beautiful and practical workboats that were an
important part of the Northwest boating
scene from the turn of the 19th century to
the early 1960s. In 1981 the Center for
Wooden Boats in Seattle published a marvelous monograph written by Marty
Loken, which told this family’s story. Unfortunately, it is out of print. It served as
the major source for this article.
Grandfather John Davis started out his
boatbuilding business as a part time
builder of skiffs in Vancouver, BC in the
late 1880s. The Great Seattle Fire of 1889
drew him south to help rebuilt the city. It
was the Alaskan gold rush in the late 1890s
that gave him his start. John and his son
Rod spent three summers at Lake
Lindeman and Lake Bennet building boats
for the miners who needed to transport
their supplies down the Yukon River to
the goldfields. Working with hand tools
alone and newly felled trees they built
rough barges and rowboats. Diligently
saving the money from this work, they
were able to set up a boat building business in Metlakatla, Alaska, a new community of Tsimshian Indians founded by
a missionary, Father William Duncan.
Duncan designed the community around
pulsion and motor
power. It is not a planing boat. It is a displacement boat which rows
well and is easily pushed
by a low powered outboard. Its sharp bow followed by flat floors
makes for an easily
Profile of a later 14-1/2' model from which the driven yet stable hull.
The high freeboard almeasurements were taken. All pictures by the author.
lows for a dry sea boat.
the economy and culture of the United Somewhere in the period a new design for
States with the concept that it would be the double-ender appeared with a plumb
self-supporting. Under this premise Father stem. Pictures from the 1930s show both
Duncan got the U.S. Congress to cede double-enders.
86,000 acres to the Metlakatla Indians.
In 1999 I was fortunate to find a 14 foot
This was the first land grant reservation square sterned Davis boat being restored
in the Alaskan territory.
in Marty Loken’s (Marty is the editor of
John and Rod became an important link the newsletter of the Classic Boat Sociin the local economy by founding a saw- ety) classic boat restoration shop. I made
mill, boatyard, general store, and fish several visits and took the lines off. In the
saltery. John Sr. was the master boat spring of 2001, a class held at my shop in
builder; Rod turned out to be an enterpris- Marysville, Washington through the ausing businessman selling boats and even- pices of The Center for Wooden Boats
tually branching out into a bowling alley (CWB), built a boat to those lines with a
and a movie theater. John and Rod sold modified construction plan. This new contheir boats through a network of agents in struction plan beefed up the frames, added
many of the major coastal towns and vil- limbers and bent floors to increase her
lages. These agents were usually postmas- strength and longevity. This boat turned
ters and owners of the local general store. out to be all that I hoped and will be part
When grandson John Jr. was old enough, of the rental fleet at the new CWB facility
he went to Seattle to attend a trade school at the Cama Beach State Park on Camano
to learn boat design and helped the fam- Island, WA that will open in 2008.
ily business by designing fishing boats.
In 2006, I received a TSCA Gardner
The family built sealing boats, skiffs, grant to measure a 14-1/2 foot doubleand lighthouse tenders. Their big hit was ended Davis boat in the CWB collection.
a double-ended boat, which began a new The original double enders had bows more
hand trolling salmon fishery on the Alas- reminiscent of the sealing boats possibly
kan coast. These popular boats were 14 to derived from New Bedford whaling boats.
18 feet long and resembled the Maine This boat had a plumb stem and was depeapod although their design influence signed for oar and sail. An early photocame from the sealing boats. With the in- graph shows both types participating in a
troduction of outboard motors, the Davis race at Ketchikan, Alaska. The sailing rig
family came out with a new design, the was rudimentary, consisting of a marconi
square sterned Davis boat. This design was rig with a long boom. All spars fit into the
a transition between the time of oar pro- boat. It was steered by one of the oars us-
ing the outrigger oarlocks.
Plans for both the square sterned and
the newer plumb stem double-ended Davis
boats can be obtained from the CWB. Unfortunately the early double ender from the
CWB collection was stolen. A rough set
of lines was included in a monograph on
the Davis family published in 1981 by the
CWB. Unfortunately, this monograph is
no longer available. A replica was built
from these lines but the lines needed to be
considerably reworked. If another one of
these older boats turns up, and there are
some around, I will make every effort to
measure it.
Richard Kolin
4107 77th Place NW
Tulalip, WA 98271
360-659-5591
kolin1@tulalipbroadband.net
The Center for Wooden Boats can be
reached at:
1010 Valley Street
Seattle, WA 98109
206-382-BOAT
cwb.org
About the Author
Rich Kolin has been a professional boat
builder for over 35 years and has been
teaching classes through the CWB for over
25 years. He is a past vice president of the
board of the CWB and was the founding
editor of the Ash Breeze, the newsletter of
the Traditional Small Craft Association.
Profile of the square sterned Davis boat.
He is the author of many articles
about traditional small craft and
the author of two books on
boatbuilding: Traditional Boat
Boatbuilding Made Easy Building Catherine (building a 14 foot
pulling boat in the Whitehall tradition), and Traditional Boatbuilding Made Easy: Building
Heidi (a 12 foot skiff for oar and
sail).
Stern view of square stern Davis boat.
Bow on view of the later model double
ended Davis boat.
Note: This construction plan depicts the materials used in the
measured boat. There are differences between this boat and the
boats manufactured in Metlakatla in the period before the 1940s.
In the early boats teak was not used. Fir or yellow cedar was
used instead. Also there would be only one knee be thwart. In the
boats built after the 1920s, the stem and stern post would be made
up of three futtocks.
To date there is no information about where or when this boat
was built.
Single Up
Rudder weighted tiltup
Trailer including with
purchase of boat, new
axle, spindles and bearings, replaced Spring
2006
Asking price $7,900
US
for further information, contact:
Harry Broady
16867 Odom Lane
SE
Monroe, WA 98272
360-794-1227
hbroady@earthlink.net
An open letter by Harry Broady
To All my Friends and Fellow Members
at TSCA:
On October 8 of this year ~ Columbus
Day ~ a day as good as any.
I like it to be known that on this day, I
will ~ Come About ~ Head Up Into The
Wind ~ Drop Anchor ~ Lower My Sails ~
Secure ~ And ~ Row Ashore ~.
~ And in this way end my 86 years of
—ACTIVE—Sailing ~ Rowing ~ Sculling ~ Boating ~ and ~ Sjömanslive.~
When I was 6 months old, my family
sailed across the Atlantic Ocean on a
Steamer to Sweden (the best sleep I ever
had). It was my first taste of being at sea
and also the opportunity to breathe the
Atlantic Salt Air.
As for Nord Vinden, she is for sale and
if there are no takers, she will enter that
venerable fleet of small boats you will find
in old sheds, old barns, garages, boat yards
or perhaps under cover behind the house.
As for myself, I will sit back, reminisce
and dream, with fond memories of so
many wonderful days on the water.
BUT...If it so happens that I would be
down at the Harbor and see a beautiful,
sailboat pass by with a bone in her teeth,
all her sails drawing.
WATCH ~ MY ~ WHISTLE
Harry Broady
Puget Sound Chapter
National Council
Members
2005-2008
Bill Covert, Delaware River
Richard Geiger, Sacramento
Chauncy Rucker, John Gardner
2006-2009
Clifford Cain, Sacramento
David Cockey, Southeast Michigan
Chuck Meyer, Scajaquada
2007-2010
Robert Pitt, Florida Gulf Coast
Todd Bloch, Sacramento
Jim Swallow, Lost Coast
Letter to the
Editor
Dear Editor:
A proposal was made
in the June 10th non
meeting of the TSCA in San Francisco, or
in the Council meeting following, that we
change the bylaws to eliminate the requirement for the TSCA general meeting to be
in June, to create the ability of the Council to schedule our annual meetings to coincide with one or another of the big
boating events that occur during the
spring-summer-fall boating season.
The eighty mile, five day San Francisco
Maritime National Historic Park’s
gunkholing trip into the Sacramento River
Delta was just such an attractive boating
event. Many TSCA members came. But
when the timing of the gunkhole cartrailer shuttle to the haul out changed to
morning from afternoon, sixteen people
didn’t attend our meeting.
And then there were weddings, birthdays, graduations, injuries, gas prices, and
so on, and nobody thought of proxies.
The Council meeting did happen, between live bodies, proxies, and a telephone
connection with somebody on the car
shuttle. Those minutes will be posted.
Cricket Evans, Mme Ex
Harry Broady sailing Nord Vinden in a recent Puget
Sound Chapter event.
Nord Vinden
For Sale
Harry Broady read about George Holmes
design of his canoe yawl Ethel in a book,
Sail and Oar by John Leather, and was
much taken by the article and the line
drawing. Hence Nord Vinden came to be.
She was built by William Clements
Boatbuilder at his shop in North Billerica,
MA in winter of 1987.
Her particulars are:
Length 13'-0"
Beam 4'-6"
Draft 6" — board down 24" (folding
centerboard)
Sail area 100 sqft. (main 80, mizzen
20)
Weight approximately 350 lbs.
Construction: 6mm sapele plywood epoxy fastened (plus copper rivets on 6" center for good looks)
Deck 1-1/4" strip-planked Santa Maria
wood with cover board
Spars, booms and yards Sitka Spruce,
Sails by Sail Right
Minutes of the
Council Meeting
of the TSCA
Minutes of the National
General Membership
Meeting of the TSCA.
June 10, 2007
June 10, 2007
San Francisco, CA
Members Present: Evans, President;
Lawson, Secretary; Clifford and Marian
Cain; Rucker, Geiger, Caldwell.
Proxies: Halverson, Schuldt, Dillion,
Allen, Covert, Greenwood, Swallow, J.
Rucker.
1. Call to Order, 1030
2. Election of Board Members: These
members will serve on the Board for the
coming term: Todd Bloch, Bob Pitt, and
Jim Swallow.
3. John Gardner Grant Funds. The issue of whether Association funds may be
transferred to the John Gardner Fund will
be presented to the membership through
the Ash Breeze.
Informational Items
3.1 The record of Council action for the
previous year is available on our website,
www.TSCA.net.
3.2 The Treasurer’s Report is also on
our web site.
3.3 Mr. Weiss’s comprehensive membership report is on the website.
3.4 Ash Breeze report is on the website.
3.5 John Gardner Grants Report. Mr.
Cockey’s report is in the mail.
4. Adjourned 11:00.
Respectfully submitted,
Jim Lawson, Secretary
Members Present: E. Evans, President;
C. Rucker, J. Weiss; T. Bloch (by telephone); C. Cain; R. Geiger. Proxies: B.
Covert (Rucker); J. Swallow (Geiger); C.
Meyers (Evans).
1. Call To Order. 11:00
2. Seating of new Council members.
Members of the new Council are: T. Bloch,
J. Swallow, and B. Pitt.
3. Richard Geiger was elected President,
Todd Bloch, Vice President. Secretary is
Elizabeth M. Evans. Charles Meyer will
continue as Treasurer.
4. President Geiger continued the meeting.
5. Old minutes were accepted as they
appear on our website, www.TSCA.net.
6. New Business
6.1 Ash Breeze: Mr. Weiss will make
extra copies available to boatshops, libraries, and other suitable venues.
6.2 Legislative Watch: a volunteer is
needed for this vital function.
6.3 General Meeting Location: the issue is whether we may move the General
Meeting location each year to involve
other chapters in hosting the meeting. Mr.
Cain suggested that the bylaws be
amended to allow such a change. Mr.
Rucker proposed that the annual meeting
could coincide with a major boat show.
Mr. Weiss will draft a proposal for the consideration of the membership.
6.4 Mr. Rucker detailed the plan for the
TSCA participation in the Newport
Wooden Boat Show, June 29–July 1. Expenses have escalated, and funds need to
be increased. The Council determined that
these needs be met.
7. Meeting adjourned 11:55.
Respectfully submitted,
Jim Lawson, Secretary
Vote By Email
2007 Annual Report
Membership,
Chapters
and WEB Site
Submitted by John Weiss
Membership
Current membership is down slightly
from a year ago, continuing a 3-year trend.
Though there is a decline from 2006-2007,
the increase in Sponsor members makes
up for them in total income. I have attached a chart showing the trends, but the
fidelity of the historic data is not great.
Only the last three years are taken from
consistent data. Starting in 2005 I stan-
dardized the way in which we account for
lapsed memberships and the method of
identifying and purging long-time delinquent members from the active roster.
The current membership numbers and
comparisons with last year are:
714 domestic and 21 foreign (down
from 717 and 25)
123 Sponsor members (up from 111)
46 complimentary/life (down from 47)
118 lapsed (Jul-Dec 06; up from 108)
Membership renewal fulfillment continues on a bi-monthly basis, and is a combined effort of Peter and Cricket Evans,
Roger Allen, and John Weiss. Roger has
responsibility for all members with Florida
addresses, and Peter is working with the
corporate sponsors. Every two months, renewal reminders are sent by the Membership Coordinators to all active members –
post cards to US and Canada addresses,
and first class to other foreign addresses.
Total mailings from July 06 through June
07 were 459 (down from 536 last year).
Part of the decrease in notices is due to
the fact that several chapters, notably the
Florida Gulf Coast Chapter, collect dues
from some or all of their members and
forward them to us without our having to
send individual notices. Several Corporate
Sponsor Members also sent dues directly
to Dan Drath along with ad copy for the
Ash Breeze. We are current in notifications
through June 07 expirations.
Additional “Final Notice” mailings
were sent in October 06 and February 07
to a total of 174 lapsed members, for a
total of 633 notices sent (down from 711).
Approximately 20% of those have renewed. Delinquent members from Jun 06
and prior have been removed from the
active roster. Applications are processed
by Treasurer Chuck Meyer, and updates
sent approximately twice monthly to John
Weiss. New membership cards (again, post
cards to US and Canada, first class otherwise) are sent from Seattle after each update. With responses from reminders plus
new membership applications, a total of
466 cards were sent between Jun 06 and
May 07 (down from 557). The updated
mailing list is also used for the Ash Breeze
mailing.
We have collected a total of 436 email
addresses (up from 410 last year) via renewal cards, but we have not yet instituted
a process for email renewal notices. This
is still on my “to do” list...Costs for printing and postage for Membership fulfillment totaled $314.31 in the past year,
down from $661.97. The big savings resulted from putting Council election ballots in the Ash Breeze. Next year, however,
we will see the effect of the recent postage
rate increase. Also, Florida members’ renewal expenses are covered by the Florida
Maritime Museum, which includes TSCA
membership in their museum membership.
Details of Membership Coordinators’
expenses are:
From Cricket Evans in Berkeley, CA:
Cardstock & printing & US Postal Service (postage) $47.00
From John Weiss in Seattle, WA:
US Postal Service (postage) $219.44
Card stock $47.87
Total $267.31
Chapters
We currently have 24 active chapters
and 4 inactive chapters (Maury River,
Oregon, Potomac, and Upper Chesapeake). In the past year we approved 1 new
chapter, CABBS (Cleveland Amateur
Boating & Boatbuilding Society). There
are currently 4 chapters organizing at the
Michigan Maritime Museum in South
Haven, the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake, Jones River, MA, and Austin, TX.
Previous efforts to organize chapters in St.
Louis, MO; Minneapolis; and Dallas-Fort
Worth have been abandoned by the organizers.
Web Site and Internet
The web site at www.tsca.net remains a
very visible means of information exchange and recruiting of new members
and chapters. The site is hosted by By-theSea.com, and a current backup copy of the
entire site is maintained by John Weiss.
Domain registration is paid through
March 2009. The hosting fee to By-theSea.com is $107 per year, and is the only
current expense. We were recently notified by the web host that we have exceeded
our current contracted web storage limit,
so the hosting expense will increase a bit
this coming year. I installed “hit counters”
on the National and Puget Sound Chapter
home pages. The National site has recorded approximately 11,200 discrete hits
in the past 12 months (30,800 total since
Sep 14, 2004), and the Puget Sound site
recorded 2,400 (7,300 total). The web site
has become the repository of many TSCA
archives, including the Constitution and
Bylaws, official meeting Minutes, back
copies of the Ash Breeze, an international
events calendar, and space for members’
writings and photo essays. The latest entry is an almost-complete account of the
sailing voyage of the Altura II from New
York to San Francisco in 1941. Author
Howard Benedict is a longtime TSCA
member, now living in Spain. The site is
updated regularly, as information is received, so send input to Webmaster John
Weiss via email to jrweiss@attglobal.net
at any time.
Six chapters now maintain their web
sites within the tsca.net domain: CROPC,
Delaware River, Florida Gulf Coast, John
Gardner, Puget Sound, and Sacramento.
SE Michigan is in the planning process.
The Floating the Apple, Friends of the
North Carolina Maritime Museum, Lone
Star, and South Street Seaport Museum
chapters maintain their own web sites in
other domains. TSCA also hosts 6 email
forums or discussion groups on Yahoo
Groups, with total of 288 participants.
One is a general, national forum; one
each is dedicated to the Delaware River,
Florida Gulf Coast, Puget Sound and SE
Michigan Chapters; and one is dedicated
to the national Council and Officers for
TSCA business, discussions, and voting.
All 6 forums are currently active. Current
policy is to allow interested members access to the Council forum on request to
the President; several former officers and
Council members still participate in discussions. All that is required to participate is a web browser and email address.
Information on joining these forums is
available on the web site – see the link to
“Email discussion forum” on the home
page. Any chapter that wants assistance
in building a web presence needs only to
contact John Weiss for assistance. Also,
he can set up an email discussion group
on request for any chapter, special event,
or other sub-group.
Case your ballot
by Email
Ash Breeze Report
Submitted by Dan Drath
General
· Four issues were published in the last
year.
· Production costs were $10,463.
· Cost estimate for the next year is
$10,600.
· By including the June ballot in as a
page in the Ash Breeze, we saved $118 in
printing and approximately $300 in first
class postage.
Mailing Permit
· We continue to use the mailing permit
of All-the-Answers in Providence. This is
a no-cost-to-us benefit of having ATA do
our labeling and mailing.
Editorial
· Reader response has increased in the
last year, comments both good and not so
good.
· It has become easier to get material.
Organizational
· At this time, the ad pages are nearly
all paid up and producing revenue. Pete
Evans has taken on the job of keeping the
ads and revenue in step.
· Hobey DeStaebler, Cricket Evans,
Charles Judson, Jim Lawson and John
Weiss have given great editorial and production support.
Recommendations
· Thought should be given to mailing a
few copies of the Ash Breeze to boat shops
around the country in a rolling list. There
would be little additional cost to such a
distribution.
· A volunteer is needed to prepare the
list of candidate boat shops.
· The distribution of free copies of the
Ash Breeze to individuals should be reviewed to see what we are accomplishing.
Reverse Card
Rowing Compass
Submitted by William Graham
After many calls from rowers, I have
asked Danforth Compass to make me reverse card rowing compasses. They will
be available through Rowing Sport,
Ipswich, MA 978 356-3623
Financial
Statement
June 1, 2006 to May 31, 2007
Submitted by
Charles H Meyer, Jr, Treasurer
KeyBank Opening Balance $0
Transfer fromChelsea Bank
$19,504
Income
June
2006
$3,986
Jul
$1,165
Aug
$733
Aug*
$400
Sep
$1,508
Oct
$964
Nov
$1,261
Dec
2007
$1,327
Jan
$620
Feb
$2,063
Mar
$694
Apr
$560
May
$1,404
Total Income
$16,685
Expense
June
2006
Jul
Aug
Sep
Sep*
Oct
Nov
Dec
2007
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Total Expense
$2,560
$800
$193
$2,875
$347
$0
$100
$0
$2,585
$176
$2,696
$30
$591
$12,953
Cash at Key Bank
$23,236
Chelsea Bank
CD
$10,106
Checking A/C
$200
Total Assets
$33,542
* per John Symons Records
Figures rounded to nearest dollar.
Florida Maritime
Museum Rebuilding Refugee Boat
Submitted by Doug Calhoun
The Florida Maritime Museum at
Cortez, FL, is currently rebuilding a boat
that six Cuban refugees used to reach the
Florida Keys in 1990.
The fifteen foot sail boat boat was found
in the grass flats on the Atlantic side of
Windley Key, FL. For the next sixteen
years it rested on land as lawn art for a
fishing cottage in Islamorada until the
owner, Janice Rice-Carillo, decided to
donate it to the Museum. Bob Pitt, Museum Boat Builder, and Paul Thomas,
President of the Florida Gulf Coast TSCA,
went down to get her. Those years had
taken such a toll on the boat that before
trailering her back to Cortez from the
Keys, Bob took several pictures of her. He
and Paul worried about how much of her
would survive the road trip, and they
wanted to have at least an image of her
original shape when they returned.
The deterioration the boat suffered open
to all nature had to offer has provided a
real challenge to the skill and the will of
the volunteers at the museum. Dry rot,
termites, and carpenter ants had attacked
a great deal of her. The entire bottom and
the adjacent planks, along with what remained of the keelson, the centerboard
trunk and the centerboard itself had to be
removed.
Taking the boat apart has been an important experience for the volunteers, and
they have used and added to their basic
boat building skills. More than that they
have gained a great deal of admiration for
the skills of the Cubans who built her.
Much of the wood appears to have been
taken from other uses, perhaps other boats,
perhaps docks or buildings. The frames
and planks were held together with several types of fasteners. Some of the different sized copper fasteners seem to have
been cut and made from wires placed in
some holder and a head hammered on
them. A few cut iron nails were used too
that could have been made for the boat or
adapted from a building or even furniture
and maybe from a horse’s hoof.
While the ingenuity of Cubans in adapting other forms of transportation to or
building watercraft is well known, working on a restoration or a rebuilding of a
wooden boat actually used by Cubans to
reach the United States makes one aware
of their skill, ingenuity and ultimately
their daring.
The rebuilding is slow and the progress
will be reported from time to time.
The museum would be interested in receiving donations of other Cuban refugee
boats.
For additional information, contact the
author at calbooks@pcsonline.com
BoatU.S. Action Alert:
EPA Discharge Permit
for Recreational Boats
National Action Alert
For 34 years the federal Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) has exempted
discharges from recreational boats from
the Clean Water Act permit system. Regretfully, a recent court ruling cancelled
this permit exemption. EPA is required
by the court decision to develop and implement by September 30, 2008 a national
permit system for ALL vessels in the
United States for a variety of normal operational discharges.
The Recreational Boating Act of 2007
(H.R. 2550) has been introduced by Representatives Gene Taylor (D-Miss) and
Candice Miller (R-Mich) which would
protect recreational boats from being swept
into this unnecessary and expensive permitting system.
If the permit system becomes a reality,
you will be required to pay for a state permit for each of your boats. EPA will be
monitoring your deck runoff, grey water,
bilge water, engine cooling water, and the
use of copper bottom paints.
The original lawsuit that led to this court
decision sought to address ballast water
discharges from large ocean-going ships,
which can introduce damaging aquatic invasive species into U.S. waters. Keeping
our waterways clean and preventing the
spread of invasive species is of utmost imcontinued on page 18
Gardner Grant
Application
Name: Michigan Maritime Museum
Address: 260 Dyckman Ave., South
Haven, MI 49090
Phone: 269-637-8078
Web:
www.michigamaritimemuseum.org
Project Directors: Cobie Ball and
David Ludwig
Address: 260 Dyckman Ave., South
Haven, MI 49090
Phone: 269-637-8078
Email:
Cobie@michiganmaritimemuseum.org
and
David@michiganmaritimemuseum.org
Michigan Maritime Museum Organizational History: The Michigan Maritime Museum is a private, not-for-profit,
corporation with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status. Since its inception in 1976, the Michigan Maritime Museum has developed its
facilities and resources to meet the growing demand(s) for maritime research, preservation, and education in Michigan and
the surrounding Great Lakes region.
These developments have included the advancement of rich artifact and archival collections, strong commitments to
education, and a constant dedication to
high quality programs and services. No
institution in Michigan has attained the
same levels of expertise and infrastructure
necessary to achieve these far-reaching
goals of maritime preservation and education. The Maritime Museum is the only
institution that focuses on the complete
chronological history of Michigan’s maritime heritage.
Mission Statement: The core purpose
of the Michigan Maritime Museum is to
provide maritime education through research, collections, preservation, and the
preservation of Michigan’s Great Lakes
and waterways history and culture.
Vision Statement: The Michigan Maritime Museum seeks to be Michigan’s leading institution of maritime education,
research, and preservation—serving the
broadest audience.
Audience Served: The Michigan Mari-
time Museum serves approximately 1,000
members and between 10,000–50,000 visitors each year depending on events and
programming. Over the last few years,
visitors came from 48 states and twelve
countries, with over 75% coming from
beyond the immediate area. In 1998, the
Museum brought the American Sail Training Association (ASTA) Tall Ships Challenge to South Haven. This event attracted
over 250,000 people to the area, and
earned South Haven the ASTA “Tall Ship
Port of the Year” award. In 2001, the
Museum drew an audience from 25 states
when it hosted the national boat show of
the Brooklin, Maine, based WoodenBoat.
Building and operating Friends Good
Will, a historic replica tall ship, provides
the Museum an unprecedented opportunity to reach new and diverse audiences
by sailing to ports in Michigan, Illinois,
Indiana, Wisconsin, Ohio, New York,
Pennsylvania, and Canada to deliver quality educational programs.
Project Title: Documenting and Constructing a Traditional Au Sable River
Boat
Amount Requested: $1300
Project Description: The Au Sable
River Boat is a small craft indigenous to
the state of Michigan. The first written
account of the Au Sable River Boat was in
1879. Some theories of its origin are that
it was inspired by dugout canoes made by
local Native Americans or that it is derived from the lumber bateau. The craft
is named for the Au Sable River in the
northeastern quadrant of Michigan’s
Lower Peninsula. In the latter half of the
19th century, lumbermen used this shallow
river as a water highway. Old growth lumber, one and one-third billion feet of logs,
was harvested from the surrounding region and floated down the river. During
that lumber boom, Au Sable River boats
were used to carry tools and equipment
up and down the river. Powered primarily by use of poles, this shallow-water
craft was made of local white pine.
Though logging companies moved on, the
Au Sable River boat remained and found
new use as a recreational craft for fishermen along the Au Sable and Manistee rivers. Recreational use of the craft remains
its primary function to this day.
Over 125 years have passed since this
unique type of boat evolved. That the craft
is still in use today is evidence that its design has stood the test of time. Though
one can find the boat still being constructed, it is rare to find one made in the
truly historic manner with traditional
materials. It is the goal of the Michigan
Maritime Museum, through this project,
to research, document, and construct for
posterity a traditional Au Sable River boat
before the last remaining authentic examples of this subtype craft are gone.
Pursuant to this goal, the following steps
are proposed for this Gardner Grant application:
1) To photograph and take the lines off
at least one existing traditionally-constructed Au Sable River boat.
2) To loft the lines full size from the
offsets on a CAD machine; this work will
be performed by Tom Jarosch, a MMM
volunteer and professional naval architect.
3) To make station molds from the
loftings.
4) To construct the craft.
5) To finish (sand, paint and varnish)
the craft.
6) To build a cradle for exhibiting and
storing the craft.
The construction work will be completed on the campus of the Michigan
Maritime Museum where Museum visitors can observe and learn from the project
as it progresses.
7) A summary article will be submitted
to The Ash Breeze for publication in 2007.
8) Historic documentation and other
information about the Au Sable River boat
gathered for this project will be added to
the holdings at the Michigan Maritime
Museum’s Great Lakes Research Library
and will be available for public research.
Periodic progress reports will be submitted to the Gardner Grant Committee,
and a summary report will be filed at the
end of the project. A timeline will be filed
once the grant is made and supplemental
funding secured. Full acknowledgement
of the Gardner Grant funding will be made
in all publications.
Project Team: The Au Sable River
boat project will be under the direction
of Cobie Ball and David Ludwig,
Curator and Boat Shed Director,
respectively, of the Michigan Maritime
Museum.
Cobie Ball has worked in the museum
field for many years and has extensive
experience is project management and
historical research.
David Ludwig is an accomplished carpenter and builder. He has been the Boat
Shed Director since 2002. He has developed numerous boat building and restoration programs and assisted in the design
and construction of Friends Good Will, the
Museum’s 1811 replica tall ship.
Other members of the project team are
members of the Museum’s Small Craft
Care Club. These individuals include:
Pete Mathews is a longtime WoodenBoat School instructor, a canoe builder and
restorer, and a paddling enthusiast. He is
an expert on marine paints, having recently retired from Interlux Paints. He has
authored several articles on traditional
small craft. An expert photographer, Pete
specializes in maritime scenes.
Sandy Bryson is the author of several
Ash Breeze articles, a builder of several
small craft, was a participant in the Skaneateles #5 boat documentation project
(supported by a recent Gardner Grant),
Secretary/Treasurer of the Pine Lake
TSCA, and is an educator.
Tom Jarosch, BSE Naval Architecture
and Marine Engineering, MSE Industrial
and Operations Engineering, University
of Michigan, Registered Professional Engineer. Tom has built several small craft,
was a participant in the Skaneateles #5
boat documentation project , was an assistant instructor in “Sailor Girl” construction classes, and serves as President of the
Pine Lake TSCA.
Dick Dodson has been repairing and
building wooden boats (sailboats,
powerboats and canoes) for 40 years.
Frank James is a hobbyist woodworker
and a restorer of antique wooden boats.
He was a paid member of both the Michigan Maritime Museum’s Evelyn S fish tug
restoration team and the Friends Good
Will historic below-decks reconstruction
team.
Impact:
1) Documentation of an indigenous and
historic Michigan watercraft
2) Preservation of technical knowledge
of the Au Sable River boat through construction of an example of this unique and
historic Michigan watercraft
3) Addition of an accurate reproduction of an indigenous and historic Michigan watercraft to the small craft collection
of the Michigan Maritime Museum, the
official maritime museum of the state of
Michigan
4)
Increased and broadened
boatbuilding skills of Michigan Maritime
Museum volunteers
5) Increased public awareness of
Michigan’s small watercraft history
through observation by Museum visitors
of the Au Sable River boat construction
underway on Museum grounds
6) Future uses of the Au Sable River
boat at the Museum include periodic inwater demonstrations, inclusion in temporary exhibits in Museum gallery, display
at the Museum’s Collections/Library facility, on-loan travel to other cultural institutions, and focused public
programming.
Evaluation/Documentation:
1) Resources to be consulted by the
project team to guide them in the documentation and construction design of the
Au Sable River boat include:
· Primary and secondary source materials at the Museum’s Great Lakes Research
Library
· Primary and secondary source materials at other cultural and historic institutions which may include the Michigan
State University Museum.
· Gary Willaby and Jay Stephens, modern builders of Au Sable River boats
· Historic examples of Au Sable River
boats owned by the DNR .
2) A summary article will be submitted
to The Ash Breeze for publication in 2007.
3) Historic documentation and other
information about the Au Sable River boat
gathered for this project will be added to
the holdings at the Michigan Maritime
Museum’s Great Lakes Research Library
and will be available for public research.
4) Full acknowledgement of the Gardner Grant will be made in all publications.
Budget:
Expected Income Source:
Gardner Grant $1300
Michigan Maritime Museum $525
A funding grant of $1300 from the John
Gardner Program will enable the Michigan Maritime Museum to proceed with
this project. Without this grant, the project
will not be possible.
NC Maritime Museum
Fall In The WaterMeet
The 2007 Fall In-the-Water Meet will
be held at the new dock facilities at Olde
Beaufort Seaport on September 15. Come
join in this celebration of small craft and
check out the new facilities. The museum
will have the fleet of spritsail skiffs there
for TSCA members to sail and, if conditions warrant, take visitors for boat rides.
All small craft are welcome and we hope
to have quite a collection of boats on hand!
A pig pickin’ is planned and everyone
is welcome to attend. $10/pp ($5/pp for
current TSCA members).
Friends office 252-728-1638
Kisses, one of the 30 largest yachts in
the world, visits Friday Harbor, WA. She
is 175 feet, registered in George Town,
Grand Cayman Islands and powered by
two 1,360-hp diesel engines.
Emily Joan is 15 feet over all. Her home
port is Friday Harbor. The experience of
a morning row around Brown Island is
priceless.
Gardner Grant
Update
Submitted by Pete Mathews
On June 4th 2006, the Gardner Grant
committee generously granted $900 to the
Michigan Maritime Museum Chapter.
This grant was for the documentation and
construction of an Au Sable River Boat. It
came at a time when the chapter was just
forming so it came both as an act of faith
by the committee and as a means of coalescing the group around the project.
The original plan had been to take the
lines off an early Au Sable River Boat on
display at the Wolf Lake Fish Hatchery
outside Kalamazoo, Michigan. It turns out
this boat had been moved to the Carl Smith
Hunting and Fishing museum in Cadillac,
Michigan. It was then loaned to a historical society and so was not available to us.
Some time ago I had taken the lines off a
modern reproduction of a 1930s era boat
that could have been used, but fate, as if
often does, intervened. While on a fishing trip to the area I stopped at The Fly
Factory in Grayling, Michigan. I knew
they had an original (circa 1915) Au Sable
River Boat on display. In talking to Steve
Southard, the owner, about the history of
the boat I mentioned the idea of documenting the boats and, if possible, acquiring
one for the museum, knowing he wasn’t
going to give up his. To my surprise Steve
said “Aw s—t Pete, come with me.” He
led me out behind a storage building, and
there, sitting on two equally old and decrepit saw horses, was an Au Sable River
Boat, or what was left of one. (see photos)
It was uncovered, but not sitting there full
of water. The holes in the bottom had let
any water run out. It was painted “Redwood” red inside and out. It was believed
the boat had been built by Arthur E.
Wakely in 1912 or 1913. At the end of it’s
useful life as a fishing boat it had landed
at the Redwood Motel in Grayling Michigan. There it had been used as a planter
in the front yard, hence the redwood paint
and holes in the bottom, well, some of
them anyway. Some have said what a horrible thing to do to a boat like that. It seems
to me that it was a good thing. If it hadn’t
become a planter it would have rotted away
behind someone’s shed and been lost forever.
Without too much discussion, Steve offered to donate the boat to the museum,
an offer that was hastily accepted. So it
fell to me to move this 94 year old “artifact,” recently upgraded from relic, a
couple of hundred miles from Grayling to
South Haven without further damaging it.
Moving a decrepit boat 24 feet long by 3
feet wide weighing nearly 400 pounds
proved to be a challenge in logistics. A
local trailer dealer with a pontoon boat
trailer was convinced to make a trailer
available for the trip; it proved to be the
perfect solution. A bit of cribbing was
added to the boat to stabilize it for this
voyage which was longer and faster than
any it was ever designed for. It survived
the journey admirably.
Once back in South Haven, the boat was
installed in the Collections Center at the
Center Street Location of the museum with
the rest of the small craft collection. Here
the Chapter gave it a thorough inspection,
removed the cribbing, old leaves, animal
feces and other typical adornments old
neglected boats acquire. We then proceeded to document all the information we
could about the boat, including taking the
lines off. These were then given to member Tom Jarosch who plugged them into a
fancy computer program he has access to
and came up with corrected table of offsets, albeit not in the form we’re used to
seeing them in. With these in hand, and
Tom to interpret, we made a full size three
dimensional lofting of the boat. From this
we picked up the necessary form shapes,
angles for the ends and dimensions of the
stems (plural because a boat built in the
early twentieth century was double ended,
though not symmetrical, today they have
a small transom, which can, though rarely
does, carry a small outboard.) Using a box
type strong-back we set up the forms and
started scarfing boards.
The original boats had been built of
White or “cork” pine. This was the primary wood being harvested in North Central Michigan at the time. It was found to
check badly when soaked then taken out
of the water and allowed to dry. Around
1900, Arthur E. Wakely found a source
for “Swamp Cypress” for one dollar a
board and switched to using that as a build-
ing material. While just as heavy as the
pine, it didn’t check as badly. So our decision was to build in Cypress as this is a
replica of the 1912 Wakley boat. There is
a lumber dealer in Michigan who sells
cypress, but only in lengths up to 16 feet.
Importing custom cut 24 foot lengths from
Louisiana wasn’t financially feasible, even
with the generous grant from TSCA. So
scarfing was necessary. The boat is to be
painted so this won’t cause any historical
problems to the viewers.
The stems (oak) were set up at the proper
angles and the bottom boards were
mounted and trimmed to shape. The boats
are built dory-style with two 12” boards
running lengthwise and held together with
cleats on the inside. We were able to dry
bend the ends where they rise to meet the
bottom of the stems. These boats have a
significant amount of rocker at either end
to allow them to work in the river current
without swinging around wildly in the
fairly swift currents of the Au Sable. The
sides proved to be a little more problematic. While they, again dory-style, form a
natural upward sweep when they are bent
to the stems, there is some twisting that
takes place. We found we had to use some
hot water to get them to lie fair on the
stems. These boats have a fish well in the
forward end that doubles as the seat for
the fisherman or “sport.” The front and
rear bulkheads of this well were installed
prior to putting the sides on so they could
be used as additional “station molds.”
The inside was next. The forward deck
was installed along with the seat in the
stern for the “pusher” as the guide was
called. The covers were put on the fishwell and a double sawn frame was installed. The original boat has two broad
metal partial frames roughly amidships to
help hold the boat’s shape. These have
been eliminated and replaced with a second set of double sawn frames. All the
Wakely boats of that era looked at have
two sets of double sawn frames. We feel
this is more authentic.
At this point all that remains is to finish the fish well by cutting slots in the
bulkheads to allow the sport to drop the
fish in without getting up, installing “fish
checkers,” (a wooden go, no-go gauge that
measures 7", 10" and 12") on the bulkheads, caulking and paying off the bot-
1912 A. E. Wakely Au Sable River Boat,
as found.
Fresh off the form.
Ready of lift off the form.
Tom Jarosch trimming the side planks
to the bottom.
tom (with tar) and paint. Each end is
sheathed in copper to prevent damage
from hitting sweepers, gravel and the
bank. This will be installed just before
painting. It will painted the traditional
green on the outside and gray on the inside. The paint will be porch and deck
enamel, also traditional.
We expect to have this completed within
the next month or two at the most, allowing us to launch the boat this summer,
within a year of the start of the project. So
the project has gone well and been very
well received by everyone who has seen
it, staff and visitors alike.
We will follow up with another report,
with photos of the completed boat, when
the project is completed, later this year.
About the Author
Pete Mathews is the Secretary of the
Michigan Maritime Museum Chapter. He
can be reached at:
canoenut@bciwildblue.com
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San Francisco
GunkholeYear 13
By Bill Doll
This year the San Francisco Maritime
National Historical Park completed the
thirteenth Gunkhole and what was unique
about this year’s cruise into the Sacramento River Delta was its being held in
conjunction with the national TSCA meeting held at the museum. The folks who
attended the meeting came as far as CT,
Seattle, WA and the Mendocino, CA, Lost
Coast chapter of the TSCA. The events
included a tour of the Museum’s Small
Craft Department’s historic watercraft
storage facility, a sail on the historic scow
schooner Alma and dinner at the Sunday
Bulkheads installed in fishwell/seat.
Preparing to install rub rails.
night kick off and orientation dinner for
the Gunkhole. The TSCA members had a
great opportunity to see the participants
of all 25 traditional small boats sailing for
a week-long adventure into the Sacramento River waterways.
The fve day row/sail event started from
the Historic Hyde Street Pier and navigated
some 80 miles across San Francisco, San
Pablo and Suisun Bays, stopping at marinas and wildlife refuges along the way.
This program challenges the small boat
mariner to develop their small boat seamanship skills in northern California’s
wild and windy waterways.
About the Author
Bill Doll is the curator of the Small Craft
Department, San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park at Hyde Street Pier.
A portion of the Gunkhole fleet sails past the “reserve fleet” in Suisun Bay. This
rusting collection of maritime history must be renovated in order to pass the inspections
required before it can be towed to the scrap yard. We have really made it hard on
ourselves. Caption by the Editor. Richard Geiger photo.
BoatU.S.
Foundation Seeks
Local Help with
Fishing Line
Recycling Program
Establishing a
Nationwide
Monofilament Recycling
Program
Submitted by Susan Shingledecker
Thanks to a grant from the National
Fish and Wildlife Foundation and the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the BoatU.S. Foundation for
Boating Safety and Clean Water hopes to
reduce the amount of monofilament fishing line in the water by enlisting individuals or local fishing and boating groups to
install, monitor and periodically empty
recycling bins and return their contents
to a recycler.
“Discarded fishing line can last for hundreds of years, harming marine life and
damaging boat propulsion systems,” said
BoatU.S. Foundation Environmental Program Director Susan Shingledecker.
“We’re looking to provide groups who
have access to popular fishing spots,
launch ramps or marinas, a free pre-made
PVC monofilament bin and signage suitable for mounting outdoors. In return, all
we ask is that you agree to keep an eye on
the bin, keep track of how many containers get filled and when full, return the
collected line to the recycler, Berkley Conservation.”
There are a limited number of bins, and
bin locations will be determined by geographic area and demonstrated demand for
monofilament recycling. For more information,
please
contact
CleanWater@BoatUS.com or visit:
http://www.BoatUS.com/foundation/
Monofilament/
The BoatU.S. Foundation for Boating
Safety and Clean Water is a national
501(c)(3) nonprofit education and re-
search organization primarily funded by
the voluntary contributions of the 650,000
members of BoatU.S. The Foundation
operates more than a dozen programs including the only accredited, free, online
general boating safety course, a low-cost
EPIRB rental program, the “Help Stop the
Drops” national clean fueling campaign,
a free kid’s Life Jacket Loaner Program,
and has awarded hundreds of thousands
of dollars in grants for nonprofit groups
for boating safety and environmental
projects.
Daisy R
By Richard Geiger
Daisy R is a gaff-rigged yawl built in
Venice, CA by my father and launched in
1931 when he was 19. She was a bit of a
miniature Seabird yawl. He normally
painted the bottom and varnished the
masts by careening her in the slip.
She was just 18' long, perhaps 7' beam.
Waterline about 16'. Although my father
started with a plan from a magazine, he
lost track of it and adapted the boat in his
own way. I believe the original design was
for an daysailer and centerboarder. He put
the cabin on it and added a plank keel.
All ballast was inside. Daisy R was named
after his mother, Daisy Roy Geiger.
The photo of her careened (back cover)
was taken in 1967 at the Long Beach
Marina. At this point Daisy R had spent
My parents with their first four kids at
Catalina, in 1949. I’m the boy amongst
my three older sisters. The picture sailing,
I think, was from the 1930s. Daisy R
anchored, is in Little Geiger Cove,
Catalina Island.
Daisy R on launching day in 1931, in
San Pedro.
Somewhere off the Southern Californian
coast bound for Catalina Island ,c.1949.
36 years cruising to Catalina Island and
the Channel Islands off Santa Barbara,
covering thousands of coastal miles. This
was one of the last years she was sailed
before being laid up ashore.
My father was George L. Geiger, and
two coves at Catalina Island are named
after him: Little Geiger Cove and Big
Geiger Cove. We had six kids in our family, so eight of us regularly sailed to Catalina in this very small boat.
The original Seabird Yawl was 26' x 8'
A Boatbuilding
Story
By Dave Lucas
I was 27 and my brother Charlie was
29 in 1975 and we wanted a big sailboat
to party and take wild women out in. We
hung out at the Tampa Sailing Squadron
and sailed a lot with the “old guys” who
had big boats. We wanted a big boat fast
and didn’t have any money. This didn’t
stop my brother; he can do the impossible.
We picked out a simple, shallow draft hull
from Howard Chapelle’s American Small
Sailing Craft and started building. The
only considerations in construction were
cheap and quick. These are the only plans
we had to start with and this is the boat
we ended up with eleven months later. It
turned out to be the perfect shallow water
boat. It had no plumbing, inboard engine,
electrical system, kitchen, bathroom or
debt. It did have a huge interior with lots
of cushions and play space. We just took
the things you would take on a camping
trip. It was fast and fun, turned out to be
the party boat for the whole squadron.
Helen and I took our honeymoon in it.
Named it Helen Marie. The moral to the
story is keep it simple and fun if you’re
looking for a boat to go sailing in. Next is
a melon seed model that Ted Cook made,
maybe he’ll make it available in a kit. It
looks like it was made from the plans that
Howard is using for his 20 footer. The
Birdwatcher 2 coming along, got to be in
36 foot Skipjack Messenger built in Maryland about 1900 to be a fast poacher.
Skipjack Helen Marie from Messenger’s hull plan. A young Dave Lucas at the helm
with Helen Marie looking out of the cabin. This boat was a good all around sailor and
extremely fast on a broad reach with the board up.
Ted Cook’s model melonseed. Building this two foot boat
would teach you a lot about building the real thing.
Howard Heimbrock is building a 20 footer on a frame that
looks exactly like this. It should, it’s from the same plans. There
are also eight 15.5 ft melonseed hulls completed from this plan.
This log was found
blown under the fence
of the Aeolian Yacht Club in
Alameda, CA Ed.
The Helen Marie as a bare hull. She was
1/2 inch plywood over 2x6 yellow pine
frames. The distinctive skipjack shape is
easy to recognize and easy to build.
Log of the Court of
Inquiry Regarding the
Loss of an unamed
Sea Scout Vessel
Submitted by Cricket Evans
Dave Lucas in his Laylah. The second
of the eight boats. A really good little boat.
the water before the snow flies. Chapelle’s
20 footer is ready to fair and glass. I love
the perfect stem profile. Jose is starting
on his foam mast. We think it will work.
When it does you can expect to see a lot
more just like it. My shop also sports a
home made band saw. Howard came up
with it from somewhere and it actually
works.
H.R. 2550 contineued from page 11
portance to the future of boating. But taking a complex permitting system designed
for industrial dischargers and applying it
to recreational boats will not yield significant environmental benefits and it will
come at a very high cost.
Please ask your elected federal representatives to support H.R. 2550. As you send
your emails to your Members of Congress,
please
copy
BoatU.S.
at
GovtAffairs@BoatUS.com. EPA’s email
is ow-docket@epa.gov, and your email
needs to have a subject line with “Docket
ID No. OW-2007-0483.”
Background and History of vessels
and personnel
Unit Skipper: 3 years of sailing experience—council license.
Vessel: Operating 21’ Islander sloop
with outboard motor—no installed lighting system—no radio—1 flashlight—no
charts—2 adults on board—2 crew—4
p.o.b. total.
Junior Skipper : 17 years old—1 year
experience on junior license—Able for 3
months—no night sailing experience.
Night sailing is discouraged by the council. General day experience only—5 persons on board total, no adult on board.
Vessel Lost: 26’ Columbia MkII sloop
with outboard motor — history of engine
trouble, motor not dependable — running
lights and interior lights inoperable —
rudder post leaking, causing crew to bail
periodically — no bilge pump installed —
no radio.
Facts as discovered by the Court:
0900
The unit operating the 2 vessels set forth
above, sailed from the harbor at Antioch
on Friday morning into the beginning of
a flood tide and winds 25 knots and westerly.
1100
Moored briefly at the Pittsburg marina
for fuel.
Approx 1200
Underway—wind still 25 knots westerly—seas about 4-5 feet. Islander 21 lost
jib halyard in Suisun Bay.
1900
Both boats moored at Benicia Marina
to recover halyard and to take on fuel and
water—7 hours total time to cover 10
miles of Suisun Bay (fatigue factor beginning to build up). Benicia Marina too ex-
pensive to stay ($20) The decision was
made to push on to the Vallejo Marina
(free). [An additional 8 statute miles—half
against the flood, then, once in the Napa
River, with the flood. Ed.] ETA 2100-2130
Vallejo.
1920
Underway for Vallejo—flood tide in
Carquinez Straits—wind 25-30, plus
gusts. Tide tables not consulted before departure. Boats reduced to small jib and
reefed main.
2030
Sunset off Port Costa—boats lost sight
of each other.
2100
Columbia 26 passed under Carquinez
Bridge—port tack and passed Maritime
Academy to starboard about 300 yards—
navigator below eating a sandwich at this
time. (detail—court brought out that the
sandwich was a “Tuna Surprise.”) the
navigator was asked about the course by a
concerned helmsman. The navigator told
the helmsman, “you’re ok keep going.”
and continued eating “Tuna Surprise.”
Approx 2120
Junior skipper and helmsman observed
cliffs 50 yards to starboard and breakwater and (sic) 50 yards ahead—tacked immediately to starboard tack and tried to
restart engine—headed seaward.
Approx 2130
Vessel struck pilings of the Old Vallejo
Lighthouse at about 5.5 to 6 knots and
came to a sudden stop, throwing everyone
off their feet and causing minor injuries,
(bruises and cuts). Vessel out of control—
dropped the main and drifted towards
cliffs.
1-1/2 to 2 minutes later:
People below reported that the floorboards were being pushed out of place due
to the rush of water coming into the hull,
2 minutes later the water was well over
the bunks. Skipper sounded distress signals on horn and prepared to abandon
ship—flares under water—D.C. equipment under water—fire extinguisher
knocked down from racks—hard to locate
anything below, because of mislaid flashlights and personal gear floating around
cabin. Skipper sent a crew-member to
launch the dinghy. (dinghy was lashed
down.) Knots were too tight and wet. None
was wearing a knife, (“It’s in my gear.”)
Dinghy went down with the vessel.
2 plus minutes:
Skipper ordered all hands into
lifejackets. Noone had learned their emergency duties on the W.Q.S. Bill, so the
D.C. Team fell apart early from shock and
inability to locate equipment.
3.5 plus minutes:
Water begins to flow out of cabin into
cockpit.
4.0 minutes:
Islander 21 is alongside, the word is
passed to abandon ship. Vessel sank before anyone could abandon her. All hands
were thrown into 50 degrees waters and
2+ knots of tide, 5 ft seas, 30 knots of wind,
and by now it was dark. As the boat went
under 1 person’s foot was caught temporarily under the cabin top handrail, another person was caught in the mainsheet
and another was almost caught below rescuing personal gear. The Islander 21
drifted away, out of control momentarily.
4.5 plus minutes:
Islander 21 began recovering crew
members from the water. Total of 9 people
on the 21ft sloop The vessel was grossly
overloaded for the sea conditions at this
point. They moored at Mare Island Coast
Guard Station—hypothermia relief and
reports / called parents / council and
sheriff’s dept. Left boat with mast sticking out and with Sea Scout flag flying.
Great P.R. for Sea Scouts.
Sunday:
Two other units did preliminary dives
and recovered all loose gear except for
dinghy which was missing and motor and
did salvage survey. (Does anyone really
know about the pizza parlor hold up?)
Marine salvors from Rio Vista called to
scene. Salvage boat sunk enroute by rough
weather, one life lost. No other salvage
firms will touch wreck at this time. Marine Service Company of Benicia called,
tried to raise boat using a crane barge to
pull on the mast. The shrouds broke—mast
went down, they gave up. Several attempts
to put together another salvage team failed.
Contributing fact and findings:
1. Faulty basic judgement to leave
Benicia in the face of adverse tides—high
winds—dark—pilot inexperienced—
nonfunctioning lights—outboard engine
unreliable and no radio communications.
2. Navigator negligent, no navigational
plot, not paying attention, inexperienced.
3. Damage control team ineffective, no
W.Q.S. bill, no D.C. Kit, no posted flashlights.
4. Vessel condition—interior lights inoperable, depth sounder inoperable, motor not reliable, rudder post leaking at the
hull, no bilge pump fitted.
5. Skipper and pilot inexperienced—no
night sailing experience, did not insist on
crew performance.
6. Ship training program—no meetings,
all on the water, very little or no technical
training, no night training, no navigation
training, no D.C. training, the crew members felt that the advancement program
was too easy and not enforced.
Penalties:
Skipper of unit : Standard license revoked, must take test after 90 days.
Junior pilot: Junior license revoked, can
retake the test after 90 days. May not take
the test for standard license until 19 years
old (wait of about 18 months)
Navigator: No penalty! Should have
been hung by his—thumbs, for continuing his dinner and not checking the chart
and ascertaining position of the vessel.
Total cost in lost time of all participating and in the value of the lost vessel estimated at $9,500 and if the Coast Guard
or the Corps of Engineers determine the
vessel to be a hazard to navigation it could
cost an additional $2,800 to have wreck
moved commercially.
Recommendations:
The Constellation quarterdeck in reviewing the above findings has made the
following recommendations.
1. Night sail training
2. Radio on all vessels
3. Night navigation training
4. Knives for all hands
5. Stow ALL survival equipment
topside.
6. Knife taped to dinghy lashings
7. Flashlights posted—2 topside
8. Improve testing for council license
9. Improve training program
10. Begin inspection program for all
vessels not coming under Coast Guard
certification.
BoatU.S.
Cooperating Group
Agreement
Submitted by JohnWeiss
TSCA has just renewed with BoatU.S.
for another year.
The primary benefit to TSCA members
is a 50% discount on their individual annual BoatU.S. dues. A Speaker Bureau is
also available to chapters. We are eligible
to apply for various grants, and there are
a few other benfits.
More info on the BoatU.S. web site and
at:
h t t p : / / w w w. t s c a . n e t / p d f /
BoatUSCoOpBrochure.pdf
For reference, our group number is
GA84393B; use that on your BoatU.S.
application/renewal for the dues discount.
Donations to the
John Gardner Fund
The Maine Community Foundation
holds the assets for and administers the
captial of the TSCA John Gardner Fund.
Direct donations can be made to “TSCA
John Gardner Fund” and sent to:
Maine Community Foundation
Attn: Ellen Pope / TSCA Fund
245 Main Street
Ellsworth, ME 04605
Maine Community Foundation Facts
Founded in 1983.
Home to more than 800 charitable
funds.
Stewards $200 million in assets.
Received over $30 million in contributions in 2006.
Awarded a total of $18 million in grants
and scholarships in 2006.
Offices in Ellsworth and Portland, with
home-based staff in various regions of
Maine.
Ranks among the top 10% of community foundations for total assets and gifts
received.
Donations to the TSCA John Gardner
Fund are fully tax deductible.
Acorns and
Rich Kolin
An email from Larry Fenney
Great to hear from Rich. For those who
don’t know him, Rich is undoubtedly one
of our most knowledgable and experienced
boatbuilders—a great designer, builder
and writer. Rich can probably tell more
by looking at the lines of the Acorn for a
few minutes than I am likely to be able to
tell after having built one and now used it
for 13 years. But he did ask, so here are
some miscellaneous comments.
First, the various Acorn designs are actually quite different. I do not think
Oughtred was the one to lump them together under the names Acorn 10, Acorn
12 and Acorn 15—I was told that was
WoodenBoat’s doing. If you compare the
lines and dimensions of the 10 and the 12
for example, you will see that they are
pretty different. The 10 actually has more
beam than the 12, for example. True, they
are all vaguely Whitehall in origin and all
glued-lap construction. But, contrary to
what the name implies, I do not think one
should think of the Acorn 10 as simply a
slightly smaller Acorn 12.
I built the Acorn 12 as my first boat,
relying entirely on the instructions which
came with the plans. I found her a very
good first project, certainly more challenging than some, but Oughtred’s instructions
were excellent even for a complete novice. I figured I had enough challenges as
it was, so I did not skimp on materials:
Honduras mahogany for keel, skeg, gunwales, stem and transom; Sitka spruce for
thwarts and knees, Port Orford cedar for
sternsheets, floors and floorboards. I figured it took me more or less 200 hours of
labor, spread out over a number of months.
I followed the instruction pretty much stepby-step and resisted the common error of
first-time builders to start tinkering with
the design to make it “easier” or “better.”
Enjoyed it all very much.
Originally I built her purely for rowing—skipped the sailing apparatus. Once
I got involved with TSCA, however, I became envious of my colleagues who had
sailing rigs for their boats of similar size
so one winter I built the sailing rig, rud-
der and a leeboard. I must say, however,
that I have never found her very satisfactory as a sailboat (nothing like as handy
as Catherine, one of Rich’s designs which
I have fond memories of, sailing around
Bellingham harbor and bay on Labor Day.)
In fairness, this might be due to 1) the after-the-fact sailing inspiration, including
the leeboard; 2) the “kill” of the skipper;
3) the relative lightness (90 lbs or so) of
the boat; or 4)...? In any event, I have
generally found that tacking her requires
a fair amount of wind and the good graces
of the Almighty. Neither of which are
dependably present, at least for me.
As a rowboat, however, I have found her
a delight. She has great acceleration
(again, possibly due to lightness) and
moves very smoothly and quickly. Thanks
to TSCA, I have had the opportunity to
row quite a few designs and I’ve yet to
find one I would rather have for the pure
joy of rowing. Very sweet.
In addition to the glued laps, all the
structural members are laminated, so there
is a fair amount of epoxy work involved
which, at the time, I did not find irksome
but I admit to having less tolerance for it
in recent years. Not my favorite part of
the process.
Anemone has lived outside, uncovered,
for all of her life and she has withstood
that kind of abuse rather remarkably. I’ve
had no structural problems, delaminations
or anything like that--just the normal paint
and varnish maintenance. Since I live on
the lakefront, I have used her a lot over
the years, particularly in the beginning.
She undoubtedly has hundreds of miles on
her.
I guess that’s about what occurs to me.
Oh, I do find her very appealing visually,
with the cute little wineglass transom and
the sweet laps.
Larry Fenney
Puget Sound Chapter
National
Endowment for
Humanities Grants
September 5 is the deadline for the museum, libraries and special project planning grants from the National Endowment
for the Humanities. For Details, see
www.neh.gov
Schooner
C. A. Thayer
From the newsletter of the
Association for Great Lakes
Maritime History
The 112-year-old West Coast schooner
C. A. Thayer has been returned to the San
Francisco Maritime National Historic
Park, after a three-year restoration project
that cost almost $14 million. The project
involved replacing about 85% of the ship’s
original timber.
During the restoration process, over
375,000 square feet of lumber, mostly
douglas fir, was used. To preserve the authenticity of the 156-foot sailing ship,
original type fastenings were used including square section spikes, steel rod drift
bolts and wooden tree nails.
The Thayer was built in Eureka, CA in
1895 and carried lumber from Washington to California until 1912. It was later
refitted for cod fishing in the Bering Sea
off Alaska and, in 1950, completed one of
the last commercial voyages of an American sailing ship.
National Park officials have decided to
restore the Thayer to how she looked as a
lumber hauler. Prior to the start of the restoration project, the ship’s hull had been
extensively deteriorated and was constantly taking on water. The cause of most
of the damage, according to the museum’s
curatorial staff, was over 100 years of fresh
water rain that led to rot throughout the
historic sailing ship.
Mackinaw Boat
Replica
The Great Lakes Boatbuilding Co would
like to sell a museum-quality, 19-foot replica of a Mackinaw boat to a museum or
historical association that would place the
boat on display and preserve it.
Mackinaw boats were popular on the
upper Great Lakes in the late 1890s. The
two-masted vessels were used for fishing,
hauling cargo and short passenger runs.
The asking price is $25,000. For more details, contact Great Lakes Boatbuilding
Co., South Haven, MI 269-637-6805
Small Craft Events
Cleveland Amateur
Boatbuilding and Boating
Society
September 8: Sandusky Bay,
Sandusky, OH. Our 40th anniversary
messabout and boat display. Dinner,
good friends and good memories
September 29: La Due Reservoir
Messabout – Auburn Corners, OH.
October: River Trip Messabout,
Upper Cuyahoga River near Hiram,
OH. Canoes, kayaks, pirogues, skiffs.
Your Board of Governors discussed
and decided to try an expanded summer event schedule to give all members more opportunities to attend a
messabout. Some of these events will
be near public places which will give
CABBS an opportunity to attract prospective members. More details on this
later. Meanwhile make your plans and
mark you calendar for a very active
summer on the water.
For more information contact:
Jim Stumpf 440-888-2036
or Hank Vincenti 330-467-6601
Center for Wooden Boats
Third Friday Speaker Series Every
3rd Friday, 7 PM: CWB Boathouse
September 16 & 17: Varnishing
Workshop with Dave Thacker. Fee.
September 6, 13, 20 & 27:Traditional
Woodworking, Build it yourself, with
John Belli
October 13 & 14: Bronze Casting
with Sam Johnson
October 29, 21, 27 & 28: Family Boat
Building at Camano Island State Park
Center for Wooden Boats
1010 Valley Street
Seattle, WA 98109-4468
Tel: 206-382-2628
Fax: 206-382-2699
Email: cwb@cwb.org
Puget Sound Chapter
Sacramento Chapter
September 29: Curry and Oars, Lake
Forest Park Civic Club — John Weiss,
206-368-7354. See the maps.
TBA: Annual Meeting, Center for
Wooden Boats.
October 6-7: Bolinas Lagoon Row
and Campout, Pete Evans
October 27: Redwood City Row, Al
Lutz
November 3: Delta Meadows Row,
Lynn Delapp
November 24: Wet Turkey Row, Jim
Lawson
January 1, 2008: Hair of the Dog:
Tomales Bay, Lee Caldwell
January 5: Annual Planning Meeting,
Aeolian YC, Pete Evans
25th Annual
Antique & Classic Boat Festival
Saturday, August 25, 11A-5P
Sunday, August 26, 11A-3P
Hawthorne Cove Marina, White Street,
Salem, MA
Featuring: sailboats, powerboats,
handpowered craft. Exhibits, artists,
crafts, entertainment, blessing of the
fleet
For information and boat entry:
617-666-8530
www.boatfestival.org
Défi International des Jeunes
Marins
July 24-31, 2008: Quebec, PQ, Canada
International Challenge of Seamanship, and gathering of Bantry Bay gigs
This Rendezvous will be held in the
framework of the celebrations surrounding the 400th anniversary of the
city, founded by Samuel de Champlain
in 1608.
For more information, download the
847 KB PDF or contact Flavie Major
at flavie_major@hotmail.com
Lost Coast
September 29–30: Lake Mendocino
Row and Campout
October 20: Albion River Messabout.
Launching at 11AM. Potluck and BBQ
November 24: Annual meeting, Worlds
End boathouse
December 15: Lake Cleone row, 11AM
launch
For more information:
dlagios@smace.org
www.tsca.net/Sacramento
Working Waterfront Museum,
Tacoma, WA
September 15-16, 2007: A Festival,
Dock Street, Thea Foss Waterway and
Port of Tacoma.
Events:
Dragon Boat Races
Quick & Dirty Boat Building
Tacoma Rail Train Rides
Puget Sound Dock Dogs
Salmon Bake & Beer Garden
Sea Scouts Boat Rides
Wine Garden
Port Harbor Tours
Tour de Port Bike Tour
Downeast Chapter
August 23 – 26, 2007: 2007 Small
Reach Regatta
Sponsored by WoodenBoat Magazine
and the Downeast Chapter of the
TSCA To be held at WoodenBoat,
Brooklin, ME
Tom Jackson, 207–359–4651
tom@woodenboat.com, or
David Wyman, 207–326–9406
david@dwymanpe.com
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