Hey Eric, Guess what? A W. Coast Wood Kayak Builders' Rendezvous is planned for August 19-20 at Ft. Worden State Park in beautiful Port Townsend.

Planned demonstrations:

1.glassing

2.stripping

3.basic paddling techniques

4.rescue (assisited and unassisited)

5.paddle making

6.stitch-and-glue

7.skin-on-frame

8.hybrid - stripped/S&G

9.rolling 10.navigation 11.group paddle

Contact Joe Greenley if you have any questions.

There is also a new South Sound Wood Kayak Club, started by Mike Hanks and some of the other area kayak builders--they posted their first club trip report on the Trips BBS.

You could probably also arrange to meet a few folks at the Wood Boat show on L. Union over the 4th of July.

Meetings are already happening all around you!

shawn

> I've fininshed my first 'yak (a Pygmy Artic Tern) and am thinking of my
> next project. This bulletin board is great, but nothing beats good old
> fashioned face to face contact. Especially when you can actually examine
> someone else's boat.

> So,I would like to call for a WOODEN kayak round up for all in the Puget
> Sound Area.

> Curious about other designs? Want to show off that coat of varnish?
> Willing to let someone try out the product of your endless hours of labor
> and tell you how cool it is? Now's your chance. Yes, there is the Kayak
> Symposium in Pt. Townsend but that's not until summer. Carpe' Diem!

> Lake Union is central, usually calm, boasts the Wooden Boat Center at the
> South end and has an abundace of establishments that provide liquid
> refreshments. Let's hear it from the rest of you in the extended Puget
> Sound and Western Washington region. Weekday after work? Weekend? North
> end? South end? Speak up and then show up for a Lake Union Round Up.