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

Sunset | July 1, 1996| | Copyright

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. ...

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