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I have been a longtime fan of the Center for Wooden Boats located at the South end of Lake Union in Seattle. Most likely, this admiration comes from my love of sailing in Puget Sound on a number of sailboats I have owned over the years. But I have a particular love of wood boats and like their sense of nostalgic history that they convey. This is also true of our visit to the Eastern Seaboard and the many wooden boats one can find there. The Center for Wooden Boats (CWB) officially got started in 1978 as a place where people could obtain hands-on experience with historic sailing craft through training classes, wood working, or just renting a boat for the day and sailing in Lake Union.
This particular boat, the Dora, is a fan-tailed launch and a recreation of the small, powered boats of the 1880s using steam or, as in this case, electricity. These small launches were the beginnings of the small boats that gave way to the power motors of today. The Dora was a group project of the Maritime Carpentry Program at Seattle Center Community College.
On this particular Thursday morning in early December, I was up early with the intent to visit the CWB to see what craft they had on hand that would catch my eye. The weather was sunny, and in the center, there usually was little to no wind, which allowed for nice images of small craft reflected in the water. The Dora was nicely moored against the floating offices of the CWB, producing a nice image of wood on wood. I was using my 70-300 Sony lens at 110 to produce a flatted look.
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