WoodenBoat Show News
June 2007 Second Edition
Ladies and Gentlemen: start your engines. It’s almost time to drive to Mystic Seaport for the greatest WoodenBoat Show on earth! Visit the show website to read about all the excitement we're packing into just three days on June 29, 30 & July 1!
Brilliant Past, Brighter Future
Happy 75th to Mystic Seaport's Schooner Brilliant
The schooner Brilliant, the 61.5-foot, teak-and-oak jewel of Mystic Seaport's fleet, first launched in 1932, will be at the docks throughout this year's show. After undergoing her first major refit in 53 years, she is looking better than ever just in time to celebrate her 75th birthday. The boat has logged 160,000 miles at sea, the equivalent of six times around the globe, with almost 10,000 teen and adult students as crew. Be sure to stop by to wish her well for another 75 years.
Rocking the Boat in the Bronx, New York
Developing and Educating Inner City Youth
Boatbuilding students and apprentices from Rocking the Boat’s programs will show off their work at the show. They will bring several boats they built or restored including a 17-foot Rangeley Lakes Boat, a Melonseed Skiff, and a Whitehall. Throughout the weekend they will provide active boatbuilding skills demonstrations such as oar and mast hoop-making.
Looking for a Beautiful Old Cat Boat?
Check This One Out!
Matchless, being offered for sale by her tenth owner, Peter Haney, is over 100 years old. This well maintained 26-foot catboat was originally built in 1906 by W.W. Phinney at his shop on Monument Beach, Massachusetts, just a mile from where she is moored today on the Pocasset River. His daughter named her after she beat one of C. C. Hanley’s boats on her maiden race. Matchless now sports modern running and standing rigging as well as a new full batten sail. Last year her deck was rebuilt and sheathed with Dynel and epoxy.
Boatbuilding on the Green
Watch Teams Build Boats
Several small boats will be built on-site during the show. Volunteers from Race Rock Regatta will build Phil Bolger’s 12-foot Teal design. Buy a lottery ticket and you’ll have a chance to win the finished craft. Proceeds benefit Race Rock Regatta’s youth programs. Sponsored by Van de Stadt Timber / Bruynzeel.
Five teams will build Alexandria (VA) Seaport Foundation’s newly designed 16-foot Challenge Wherry. This event is sponsored by WoodenBoat Publications and MAS Adhesives.
Featured Exhibitors
Enjoy the Work of These Fine Craftsmen
Timm Schleiff Boatbuilder
Be sure to check out the newly built replica of Coquina, Nat Herreshoff’s 1889 design for his personal 16'8" cat-ketch. Tim Schleiff faithfully adhered to the original design to construct a beautiful boat that combines traditional lapstrake construction with modern epoxy adhesives, laminated stem and knees, steam-bent ribs, sitka spruce spars, and custom cast bronze hardware.
Guillemot Kayaks
There is a quality about a finely crafted wooden kayak that is hard to describe. The sweep of the sheer and the smooth arc of the deck draw the hand as well as the eye. Nick Schade has been designing and building high quality, high performance sea kayaks under the Guillemot Kayaks name since 1986. His boats have paddled the bold coast of Maine and exhibited in the American Craft Museum. One is even in the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art. One of his smallest vessels is shown near the bottom of this page and a detail photo appears at the top.
Elegance with Practicality for Those Hot Spots
Sit On It!
Finally! A sit-on-top with style — Traditional sea kayaks are elegant and sleek but their cockpits exclude a lot of people who paddle where it's hot and almost anybody who doesn't want to be confined in an enclosed cockpit. If you've been wanting something light and beautiful that you could build yourself, you are in luck as Chesapeake Light Craft is now offering the Sea Island Sport in response to hundreds of requests for an attractive stitch-and-glue sit-on-top. The Sea Island Sport is 15'6" long and features a pleasing shape, attractive from every angle. Stop by to take a look for yourself.
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