WoodenBoat Show Newsletter
Early Spring 2007
Everything is really coming together for this year’s WoodenBoat Show that is taking place at the nation’s largest and most comprehensive maritime museum! Make your plans to attend now!
Show Boats of Interest
Don’t Miss These Beauties & a Hundred More!
- Making her debut at the show is the beautiful 56- foot “Spirit of Tradition” sloop Anna, designed by Sparkman & Stephens and built by Brooklin Boat Yard.
- Solipsys, a 46-foot launch will drop off and pick guests from the beach utilizing a jet drive, swim platform and stowaway gang plank. She will be shown by Pease Boatworks of Chatham, Massachusetts.
Everyone Loves Smoke & Hot Metal!
Learn Casting Techniques and Other Skills
Boat builders, whether professional or amateur, are often in need of special bronze fittings that are either not available or must be cast at great expense. Sam Johnson will demonstrate how to build an inexpensive furnace, make a proper mold, and pour some interesting pieces of boat hardware.
Learn how to make your own purpose-specific boatbuilding tools from Harry Bryan, a popular teacher at the WoodenBoat School and a co-author of the Apprentice’s Workbench section of WoodenBoat magazine. These demonstrations and many more will be offered throughout the run of the show.
Special Friday Evening Event
Pay Tribute to Phil Bolger
Join us at Mystic Seaport for a tribute dinner honoring legendary yacht designer Philip Bolger. Phil’s first design was published in a 1952 edition of Yachting magazine and has more than 700 designs to date! WoodenBoat magazine will honor him at this year’s show. Each $30 ticket includes dinner, wine, beer, and presentations. Image of Phil is from Small Boat Journal, issue #66, April/May 1989
Bring your Bolger designed boat to the show! We are accepting the 12 best to be displayed on land, at no charge. Submit a photo of the Bolger boat you would like to display as part of our tribute to Phil via email to .
Featured Exhibitors
Visit Essex Credit Corporation & Metal Polish Pros
Essex Credit Corporation, a national leader in the pleasure boating and recreational vehicle lending market, recently announced the reintroduction of its unique financing program for collectors of antique and classic runabouts and cruisers. As an industry leader in origination of direct loans for pleasure boats, Essex Credit is a national lender that offers loans tailored for the unique needs of vintage boat collectors. Stop by their booth for a quote.
If you have anything that you would like to clean, polish and protect in one easy application, then you want to purchase some Prism Polish from the folks at Metal Polish Pros. Prism also deoxidizes fiberglass and painted surfaces and removes cloudiness from Plexiglas, Eisenglass, and Lexan.
The Show’s First Film Series
View Select Videos and Photography
A very exciting film series is being planned to run throughout the boat show. Treasured film footage for yachting enthusiasts from Mystic Seaport’s vast collection such as Yachting in the (19)30’s, The Art of the Boat: Photographs from the Rosenfeld Collection, and Irving Johnson, High Seas Adventurer will be shown. Benjamin Mendlowitz will present his favorite photographs from 25 years on the water with his camera. These are just a few of the highlights of the three-day program.
WoodenBoat Staff Picks
Read More Reasons to Attend the Show
“To me, skills demonstrations have always been the heart of any wooden boat show. Every time I’ve gone to a boat festival — which is a lot of them — I’ve had a chance to learn something important from someone who knows. I’m especially excited about our lineup this year. We’ll have fourteen sessions covering everything from casting bronze hardware for small boats, to a Dutch craftsman making traditional blocks, to the techniques of wood-and-epoxy boatbuilding. Presenters from Mystic Seaport’s duPont Preservation Shipyard, will cover a range of skills from cutting bevels on an enormous bandsaw to boat caulking, steam-bending wood, splicing wire rigging, understanding diesel engines, and making three- strand rope. Here’s your chance to see work done, ask questions, and go back home even more determined than ever to start your own project” – Tom Jackson, Senior Editor, WoodenBoat
“Looking for a ‘Slice of Heaven’? There is no better place to go than Mystic Pizza. Not only is the pizza great but, the movie ‘Mystic Pizza’ starring Julia Roberts was filmed there.” – Patty Hutchinson, Circulation Dept.
Mystic Seaport Offerings
See and Do it All!
You will definitely need that two-day admission ticket to see all the attractions and exhibits at Mystic Seaport and the WoodenBoat Show. You can: Board extraordinary wooden boats — tall, small & historic — Explore exhibits, collections & a historic shipyard — Experience restoration and shipbuilding demonstrations — Enjoy the nation’s foremost maritime art gallery, and much more.
Visit Mystic Seaport’s website to plan your visit...
Make Your Reservations for Accommodations SOON!
This will be a very busy weekend in Mystic, so book your lodging. We suggest visiting the following websites:
There are lodging options of every category and price range in the area.