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Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival Sept. 6-8, 2013!

The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is co-sponsoring this year’s Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend, Washington. We will launch our wood composite, stripped planked, cold molded hull day sailor, Sentinel 24! Our 20′ tent will include visual displays, boat models, small craft and activities for kids. Instructors will be giving presentations and demonstrations as well. The Wooden Boat…

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Lance Lee presents at Northwest Maritime Center

The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding and the Northwest Maritime Center in Port Townsend, Washington present experiential educator and international boatbuilder Lance Lee. Mr. Lee will speak on “Joseph Conrad and the Tremolino” at 6:30 pm Sunday, August 17, 2014 at the Northwest Maritime Center’s Maritime Meeting Room (MMR). Mr. Lee is noted for his re-creations of historic watercraft,…

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Local Girl Scouts learn how to build boats!

Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding staff taught 70 Girl Scouts how to build boats at a July 23, 2013 summer camp in Sequim, Washington! They learned about the boat school from Executive Director Pete Leenhouts, careers related to boat school skills from Director of Education Pamela Roberts, and the parts of a boat (transom, thwart, planks, carvel and lapstrake)…

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Martha wins Swiftsure Inshore Classic

Ferrari of the schooners’ also offers race-based sail training By Robin Dudley of the Leader Form follows function – it’s one of the reasons sailboats are so aesthetically pleasing. Design details are there to do something, not just look pretty. And one of the prettiest boats around keeps busy winning races as well as teaching kids and adults about…

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CedarRoot Folk School Workshops: June 14-August 31, 2013

You can enhance your educational experience in the Jefferson County, Port Hadlock and Port Townsend, Washington area by attending CedarRoot Folk School workshops.:: PO Box 135 :: Nordland, WA 98358 ::  cedarrootschool@gmail.com Masonry Stove Come learn the elegant design of eastern European high thermal mass stoves.   These fuel efficient stoves are designed to radiate heat back into a…

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Thursday, June 13 at 6 pm – we launch the Whitehalls! Join us at the Boat School!

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) asked the Boat School to build three traditionally-built Whitehalls as replicas of the boats used by John Wesley Powell and his group of explorers during their first-ever descent of the Colorado River in 1869. The BBC will film a reenactment of the voyage later in 2013. The School is building one 16-foot Whitehall, the…

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Summer Boatbuilding Workshops – 2013

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Pete Leenhouts, Director Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding Phone: (360) 385-4948 Fax: (360) 385-5089 Email: info@nwswb.edu Website: www.nwswb.edu Boat School Offers Wide Range of Workshops During 2013 Port Hadlock, WA, May 15th, 2013. The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is hosting a wide variety of informal workshops during 2013. The School, now in its 32nd…

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Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival

Port Townsend, WA – Wooden Boat Festival 9:00 am – 7:00 pm 431 Water Street, Port Townsend, WA 98368 Port Townsend’s Wooden Boat Festival is the most education-packed and inspiring wooden boat event in the world. Featuring more than 300 wooden vessels, dozens of indoor and outdoor presentations and demonstrations, a who’s who of wooden boat experts and thousands…

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Wooden Boat Festival

Madisonville, Louisiana, USA Please join us on October 12 & 13 for the 2013 Wooden Boat Festival and celebrate the unique maritime history and culture of Louisiana. From canoes to pirogues, bateaux and steamboats, Louisiana’s unique maritime history and culture, it’s all here at the Wooden Boat Festival.   Festival Website

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Baltimore Wooden Boat Festival

May 24-26, 2013: Baltimore, Ireland Baltimore Wooden Boat Festival – a celebration of the traditional timber sailing boats of Ireland. The Festival runs from Fri 24th -Sun 26th May 2013 – with more events and more boats. We invite sailors and boat-lovers from near and far to join us in Baltimore in May for a weekend of sailing, talking,…

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