Habitat Restoration & Citizen Science aboard Adventuress in 2012

Message from Megan, aka the Education and Outreach CoordinatorPhoto by Jempe CenterThe winter months are a great time to reflect on the past sailing season, and start planning for future sailing seasons.  With the amazing insight of our Education …

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Third Friday Speaker in January: Scott Rohrer

Filed under: Boats, Events, General Information, Members, Miscellaneous, Programs, Volunteers Tagged: boatbuilding, education, Events, free, Gallery, heritiage, Maritime, Seattle, SLU, Talk, third friday speaker, wooden boats

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Volunteer Orientation Scheduled at Historical Seaport

The Grays Harbor Historical Seaport Authority is calling for volunteers to help with several projects at its Grays Harbor facilities, including a planned move in 2012 to its new Seaport Landing facility on the Chehalis River, as well as important maint…

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The Night Before Christmas…On Eagle Harbor

Bainbridge Island historian Gerald Elfendahl shared his nautical reinterpretation of the classic Chirstmas poem with CWB’s founder, Dick Wagner. The Illustration is by Gregg Onewein. T’was the night before Christmas, on west Puget Sound, Ea…

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The Spirit of Volunteerism at CWB

The generous spirit of the holiday season lives year-round at The Center for Wooden Boats. So many of CWB’s public programs are inspired and brought to life by incredible volunteers. One standout is the volunteer team that maintains CWB’s 1907-buil…

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Logs delivered for Lady Washington planking

We took delivery this week of these three logs, which the Spar Shop will turn into new planking for the Lady Washington over the next few weeks. We’ll install the planking this summer. The picture shows the logs in front of our headquarters in Aberdeen…

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Dick and Colleen Wagner Honored with Clean Water Award

The 2011 award of the Seattle based Healthy Oceans Pacific Network and Water Circles Pacific was received by CWB’s founders, Dick and Colleen Wagner, on Nov. 11. This was an annual event of talks, ceremonies and discussions. The award plaque, present…

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Share Your CWB Story

“You can always see people here working on restoring a boat…or taking classes to learn about how to restore boats…or even teenage kids doing sailing/boat camps in the summer. It’s pretty awesome that this slice of history is bei…

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Captain Joshua’s Maintenance & Restoration Update

Volunteer Work WeekendsAdventuress’ maintenance season is underway!  With both new and returning friends and volunteers, we held a fun and successful Volunteer Winter Work Weekend on December 3 and 4th at Historic Ships Wharf in Seattle.  Wit…

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Lady Washington under escort near Long Beach

Lindsey Hoffman, a deckhand on the San Pedro-based brigantine Exy Johnson, sent us this photo of Lady Washington nearing the marina at Long Beach on Dec. 1. The photo was taken aboard Exy’s sister ship, Irving Johnson, as she escorted Lady Washington. …

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