Wooden Boat Building School: Port Townsend Field Trip, Part Two

In the beginning of February we took a field trip to Port Townsend to visit the NW Maritime Center and Point Hudson. The NW Maritime Center is hosting the school's Contemporary Wood Composite program this year. We toured the facility, including the shop and library, with Scott Jones the boat shop manager for the NW Maritime Center.

NW Maritime Center & The Wooden Boat Foundation

The Wooden Boat Foundation was founded in 1978, after the first and highly successful Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival. More than 2,000 people from all corners of the US and several Canadian provinces traveled, some with their boats and tools, to the first nationally recognized Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend.

The most popular and largest program continues to be the internationally renowned Wooden Boat Festival, but this small non-profit also offers an eclectic and well stocked Maritime Library, a high quality Wooden Boat Chandlery and active Boat Shop. All are open to the public year round in the historic Point Hudson district of downtown Port Townsend.

In January, 2008, the NW Maritime Center construction began and the buildings opened at Festival 2009! The facilities connect the Victorian historic downtown with the maritime heritage and modern marine trades activity of Point Hudson.

http://nwmaritime.org/

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