Fiberglass need not apply. (Center for Wooden Boat in Seattle, Washington)

From: Sunset | Date: July 1, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

The Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle, WA, is a special wooden boat which boasts of 200 relics dating as early as the 1880s. Founder Dick Wagner hopes to expand their museum to include a unique boat resort.

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 ...

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