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Article: Fiberglass need not apply. (Center for Wooden Boat in Seattle, Washington)
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- Sunset
- Article date:
- July 1, 1996
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1996 Sunset Publishing Corp. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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This is a salmon boat," Dick Wagner says. "From the 1880s, the oldest we have. Here's a Columbia River One. Built for the Lower Columbia, where there are lots of sandbars. Shallow draft, but with a keel."
We are admiring the vessels at the Center for Wooden Boats, which berths on Waterway Number Four on Lake Union. That's in Seattle, which probably should go without saying. If you were going to put a Center for Wooden Boats anywhere, you would put it in Seattle: with the possible exception of Imperial Venice it is the most boat-obsessed city in the history of the world. As for Wagner, the center's founder, he has a sailor's ruddy complexion and cherubic features, and ...
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... ... toward the sky. By early Saturday afternoon, it towered above the South Lake Union area. More than 200 people, and at least three dogs, gathered at The Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle to participate in one of the highest honors for Native Americans ...
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