Chine bLog » education and boats http://www.chineblog.com Messing about in wooden, traditional, and tradition-inspired boats Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:55:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Another skin-on-frame resource: The Berkshire Boat Building School http://www.chineblog.com/2009/10/another-skin-on-frame-resource-the-berkshire-boat-building-school/ http://www.chineblog.com/2009/10/another-skin-on-frame-resource-the-berkshire-boat-building-school/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:11:28 +0000 Tim Shaw http://www.chineblog.com/?p=861 Just a quick note to call out another skin-on-frame resource: The Berkshire Boat Building School. They seem to build a couple nice-looking canoes and rowing boats and offer kits and classes. Worth checking out further.

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My very first finding at the Center for Wooden Boats, even before my Cape Ann dory sail and my close-up with Haida dugout canoes, was the biggest surprise. I walked into the Center and was immediately confronted by a few folks working away on some skin-on-frame Aleut baidarkas. It sure looked like a [...] Related posts:

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From our friends at Paddling.net comes this interesting tidbit: under the auspices of Wilderness Classroom Organization (WCO), two kayakers, Dave Freeman and Amy Voytilla, are circumnavigating Lake Superior in order to draw attention to its myriad assets and challenges. Paddling.net will apparently be running stories from the trip; the first one, with an [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://www.chineblog.com/2006/09/the-lake-superior-project-two-kayakers-take-on-gitche-gumee/feed/ 0 Alexandria Seaport Foundation http://www.chineblog.com/2005/12/alexandria-seaport-foundation/ http://www.chineblog.com/2005/12/alexandria-seaport-foundation/#comments Wed, 28 Dec 2005 02:15:00 +0000 Tim Shaw http://www.chineblog.com/archives/16-guid.html

If anyone is looking for a great wooden boat-oriented non-profit to support, I would encourage you to look into the Alexandria Seaport Foundation, based here in Alexandria, VA. While it does many things, its core mission is using boat building to bring hope into troubled young lives. The organization’s purpose:

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My inaugural blog posting gives a nice shout-out to the only logical choice: WoodenBoat Publications. Of course the core publication, WoodenBoat Magazine, is a gem, always my favorite read. But the really cool thing is the larger organization.

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