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WoodenBoat is an American magazine written for owners, admirers, builders, and designers of wooden boats. The company's headquarters is located in Brooklin, Maine.It was founded in September 1974 by Jon Wilson, a former boatbuilder.
The Center for Wooden Boats (CWB) is a museum dedicated to preserving and documenting the maritime history of the Pacific Northwest area of the United States. CWB was founded by Dick Wagner in Seattle in the 1970s and has grown to include three sites; the South Lake Union campus in Lake Union Park, the Northlake Workshop & Warehouse at the north end of Lake Union, and The Center for Wooden ...
The Spaulding Marine Center in Sausalito (2007) The working boatyard at Spaulding Marine Center Spaulding boatyard at night. The Spaulding Marine Center, (formally the Spaulding Wooden Boat Center), in Sausalito, California, is a living museum where one can go back in time to experience the days when craftsmen and sailors used traditional skills to build, sail or row classic wooden boats on ...
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Penn Yan Boat Company, which produced a wide range of wooden and fiberglass powerboats, sailboats, canoes and rowboats, [1] was founded in 1921 by German-native Charles A. Herrman. [2] It derived its name from the location of its headquarters, Penn Yan, New York . [ 2 ]
Thompson Hiawatha model canoe. The Thompson Brothers Boat Manufacturing Company of Peshtigo, Wisconsin was a manufacturer of pleasure boats and canoes.Founded by brothers Peter and Christ Thompson in 1904, [1] the company became prominent in the field and built boats for nearly one hundred years. [2]
Cold moulding is a composite method of wooden boat building that uses two or more layers of thin wood, called veneers, oriented in different directions, resulting in a strong monocoque structure, similar to a fibreglass hull but substantially lighter. Sometimes composed of a base layer of strip planking followed by multiple veneers.
The Center was started by Dr. John Montague, [1] a professor in Buffalo State College's Design Department in 1989. [2]In 2007 Montague retired from the University, turned the popular boat-building classes into a not-for-profit corporation called the Buffalo Maritime Center, and moved it to a downtown location. [2]