Center for Wooden Boats

The Center offers an opportunity to experience the dimensions of an earlier time, to put your hands on the oars of a graceful pulling boat or the tiller of a traditional wooden catboat. With help from master craftsmen, you can learn to steambend an oak frame, cast an oarlock, sew a canvas ditty bag, splice a line or caulk a seam. The Center for Wooden Boats is a hands on maritime museum. Its purpose is to preserve our rich, vital and varied small craft heritage by preserving both the artifacts and the time-tested maritime skills. Our aim is to provide an educational adventure, through participation, in our small craft heritage.

To provide a gathering place where maritime history comes alive through direct experience and our small craft heritage is enjoyed, preserved, and passed along to future
generations. -Mission Statement, The Center for Wooden Boats.

The Center for Wooden Boats
1010 Valley Street, Seattle, WA 98109-4468
Tel: 206-382-2628 Fax: 206-382-2699
E-mail: cwb@cwb.org
Website: www.cwb.org