For more information contact:
Shane Bishop
The Center for Wooden Boats at Cama Beach
1880 SW Camano Drive
Camano Island, WA 98282
360-387-9361 / www.cwb.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Alert … Media Alert … Media Alert
The Center for Wooden Boats at Cama Beach State Park
is The Center for Mother’s Day Weekend Free Boat Rides
You know all your mom really wants is a little of your time, but a free boat ride and live
music doesn’t hurt.
(Camano Island, WA; May 1, 2013) Are you looking for that perfect, last minute, gift
for Mother’s Day? We’ve got you covered with the 12th Annual Mother's Day Saturday
Sail at The Center for Wooden Boats at Cama Beach State Park. It is what she really
wants, spending some of your time together with her on Saturday May 11th on the
beautiful shores of Saratoga Passage. You, your mom and the rest of the family will have
fun viewing classic wooden boats, building toy boats, taking a free boat ride together, and
enjoying live music.
Join The Center for Wooden Boats, Washington State Parks and The Cama Beach
Foundation for our 12th Annual Mothers’ Day Weekend (Saturday) Sail.
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Mother's Day Saturday Sail
The Center for Wooden Boats at Cama Beach State Park
Saturday, May 11, 2013
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
FREE
Visitors to CWB’s Cama Beach location on May 11th will be able to hitch a ride on
Cama’s livery powerboats out to larger vessels, where they will sail or motor back in
time. As always, youth and families can build adventuresome, tiny ships together using
hand tools and wooden hulls CWB cuts out from scrap wood.
Mother’s Day weekend visitors will also be treated to a live performance by “Willow and
the Embers”, a Northwest trio that has just completed a tour in support of their new
album, “Radio Sky”. Willow Scrivner, Bob Congleton and Kevin Wood have created an
album music reviewers at MyNorthwest.com call, “…a soulful, sometimes haunting
collection of songs culled from a lifetime of putting down roots in small town after small
town.” It should be a fun addition to a CWB event that is becoming a Northwest
Tradition.
Other onshore programs will be offered by Washington State Parks.
We are expecting to welcome the following vessels to this year’s event.
Joshua: Replica of Joshua Slocum’s famous boat Spray. The famed Nova Scotia born
captain inspired generations of sailors when he became the first person to solo
circumnavigate the globe and wrote the book “Sailing Alone Around the World” about
his adventures in 1900.
Lavengro: Originally built as the Helen in 1926, Lavengro was built on the lines of the
Biloxi shrimp and oyster schooners of the early 1900s in Back Bay, Biloxi. She is
operated by the Northwest Schooner Society.
Apache: This mysterious and stunning boat will make her third appearance at Cama
Beach’s signature spring event.
Admirable: It wouldn’t quite be Mother’s Day without a visit from CWB’s own Bristol
Bay Gillnetter, Admirable. At over a hundred years old she is the last known of the
sailing gillnetters from Bristol Bay still in operation.
The Umiaq: CWB’s first Umiaq is a skin on frame boat of the type that have been
produced by people living in Arctic latitudes for centuries. Traditionally they are ‘skin on
frame,’ literally sealskin covering a wood framework tied together with strips of hide or
other line. CWB’s Umiaq was built by craftsmen and volunteers and is covered with
dacron rather than sealskin.
Spirit: We all need some…A Cape Anne dory built in Olympia years ago, she’ll need
an adventurous crew!
Special thanks to the event sponsors, including Cama Beach State Park, The Cama Beach
Foundation and The Stanwood Camano News.
About The Center for Wooden Boats
The Center for Wooden Boats, founded in 1976, provides a gathering place where
maritime history comes alive through direct experience and our small craft heritage is
enjoyed, preserved, and passed along to future generations. CWB engages visitors in
whole body learning by putting the historic boats, oars and paddles, sails and tools in the
hands of people who visit.
Note to editors: For more information about what is happening at CWB visit our website,
www.cwb.org and check in at our blog, Bearings, at https://cwbblog.wordpress.com/ .
For additional assistance and information about radio and television recording at CWB,
journalists should contact Dan Leach at [email protected] or 206-382-2628. Photos and
logos are available in electronic format upon request
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