Center for Wooden Boats

Recently we were at Kenmore Air on Lake Union and while waiting for the weather to clear so we could fly on a seaplane, we wandered around the lake and visited the Center for Wooden Boats (CWB.) CWB has a small fleet of historic wooden boats that are available for rent and it offers classes in sailing among other activities.

Mike recently received some information about volunteer opportunities at CWB and on Saturday he attended a 3-hour volunteer orientation. He should be receiving his assignment shortly and he may end up working on boat restoration projects, helping out at events like the annual auction, manning the front desk at CWB or helping to get people on the water. And for every 3 hours of volunteer work he earns 1 hour of boat use time.

We’ll be learning more about CWB and I’ll post about it. One thing I just learned is that every Sunday there is a Free Public Sail! All you have to do is show up at CWB on Sunday morning, register and then be ready to sail at 2:00. I wish I’d known about this earlier – we would have been out on Lake Union in the summer when it was nice and sunny!