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Nominated for: BEST Museum
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.
Be sure to get there Sunday MORNING (opens at 10 am) to sign up for free boat rides. The available slots fill up fast!
Vote: BEST Family Outing
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History is a LOT more interesting when you can use it for personal pleasure and relaxation. Vote for CWB? Yeah, maybe. Join CWB and take the family out on Lake Union in squeaky, lovely old boats? ABSOLUTELY!
Vote: BEST Museum
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The only museum around where you can use the exhibits. Check out the 4th of July Wooden Boat Festival June 30-July 4 or come down any Sunday for free boat rides (registration begins at 10 am; rids at 2 pm). Take a class, build a boat, send the kids to learn to sail (adult classes too). CWB has it all!
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Queen Anne Healing Arts on September 27, 2011
Love watching the canoes being carved the best!!!
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3county L. on September 20, 2011
Best live action museum arround. Showing how preservation and use can come together requires a remarkable ballance and the Center for Wooden Boats has it.
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