Center for Wooden Boats
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Use American English Template:Infobox museum The Center for Wooden Boats (CWB) is a museum dedicated to preserving and documenting the maritime history of the Pacific Northwest area of the United States. CWB was founded by Dick Wagner in Seattle in the 1970s and has grown to include three sites; the South Lake Union campus in Lake Union Park, the Northlake Workshop & Warehouse at the north end of Lake Union, and The Center for Wooden Boats at Cama Beach State Park on Camano Island. As of October 2024, due to park infrastructure issues, the Cama Beach location is no longer in operation.
Collection
The CWB collection includes more than 170 vessels, mostly small sailboats and rowboats.<ref name="boats">Retrieved from http://www.cwb.org/ExploreBoats.htm Template:Webarchive.</ref> The boats are divided into a number of sections. The livery fleet includes daysailers, rowboats, and two pedal boats.Template:Citation needed
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See also
- Lake Union Park
- Lake Union
- List of maritime museums in the United States
- Myrtle Edwards Park (Other end of Broad Street)
References
External links
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- Pacific Northwest Maritime Heritage Council Online Search Tool, an online directory of maritime heritage attractions and organizations in the Pacific Northwest.
- Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) documentation, filed under Center for Wooden Boats, Seattle, King County, WA:
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