Puget Sound Amateur Boatbuilder Society - PSABS

[Meerkat]

An idea only at this time. There seems to be enough of us here and there. Maybe the Center For Wooden Boats could at least offer a meeting venue and be a shelter organization for such a group.

If enough people where interested in metro Seattle, one might even consider leasing a warehouse - they have to be a good deal cheaper now then they where before the tech bubble burst. I hear housing on Queen Anne has even dropped substantially - it's merely horrendous instead of beyond belief ;)

[ 09-23-2002, 03:46 PM: Message edited by: meerkat ]

[paladin]

posted 09-23-2002 02:06 PM
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An idea only at this time. There seems to be enough of us here and there. Maybe the Center For Wooden Boats could at least offer a meeting venue and be a shelter organization for such a group.

If enough people where interested in metro Seattle, one might even consider leasing a wharehouse - they have to be a good deal cheaper now then they where before the tech bubble burst. I hear housing on Queen Anne has even dropped substantially - it's merely horrendous instead of beyond belief

(wharehouse)

Either lose the "h" or change the "a" to an "o"...need spelling correction to ascertain the meaning of the paragraph... :D

[mmd]

In 1994 a group of boat nuts in Halifax had the same idea. We organized the Small Wooden Boat Society of Nova Scotia, registered it as a non-profit society, and negotiated a sweetheart deal with the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic to use their meeting room once a month (rent was to pass the hat to make a monthly donation to the Metro Food Bank) and if space was available we could use one of the building/storage sheds to build small boats as long as we let the public watch. It has been a blast - we have about sixty members, mostly from metro, but a few from as far away as San Fransico. Check out our website at www.swbans.org (http://www.swbans.org) The comeraderie has been well worth it; I encourage you to spearhead a similar organization in your area.

[Meerkat]

Originally posted by paladinsfo:
(wharehouse)

Either lose the "h" or change the "a" to an "o"...need spelling correction to ascertain the meaning of the paragraph... :D Huh? ;) (fixed)

[Kermit]

Meer--I wonder if the Lazy B (Boeing, for you folks not from around here) has space ( ;) ) now that they don't build airplanes near as much. :D

Actually, it sounds like a good idea. A run-down warehouse on the Ship Canal hard against a suitably tacky waterfront dive should suffice. Better yet, hows about you guys commuting to Whidbey's south end somewhere. But seriously, I wonder if CWB would be interested in such a venture at their Cama Beach facility? Not convenient for after-work messing about though. Okay, I give up. Back to you.

[Dave Fleming]

From out of the depths of my dim memory, I seem to recall that there was an amateur small craft society in the Puget Sound area some time back.
Just remember getting a flyer from them when living up there.

Does the omnipotent Port Authority have any say over the Canal and Lake?

[Meerkat]

Lake maybe, canal probably not - that's federal. US Army Corps of Engineers is going to regrade part of the canal bank west of the Montlake Bridge (by the UW stadium) later this fall so it won't fall in.

A run-down old shack with a resonably dry roof somewhere in Ballard sounds cool. smile.gif

There is a smallcraft sailing group (a local chapter of a national organization), but it's website seems to have only a list of boats and who owns them and I think they have about 1 organized on the water activity per year based on what I've seen on their website.

[ 09-24-2002, 06:20 PM: Message edited by: meerkat ]

[Jamie Hascall]

I hate to say it but a run down shack in Ballard is worth 100K now that being a sqvarehead is trendy ;) . That said, there is a lot of office space downtown now that the dot commers have run out of money. Maybe you can wangle a spot in the Columbia Tower. Personally, I'd try the industrial zones along the canal or in the South end.

Jamie

[Dave Fleming]

What's going on around the Duwamish south of the West Seattle Bridge?

[Meerkat]

There's a small marina, ramp and boatyard S. of the ?3rd St. Bridge? on the W. bank across from the old B-17 plant. Past there, the 'river' gets pretty thin and looks really ugly and polluted. Much of the banks on both sides that I'm familiar with are either Boing (boing, boing) property or residential. There is some sort of 'yardboat/tug' base opposite the Advanced Systems Lab (ASL, on the E. bank) on the W. bank.

Hmmm... there is a closed public park (looong time closed - the vegetation is above one's head) with waterfront just N of ASL (I contracted there) on the E. bank, and there's some sort of commercial operation just to the N of that on the same side. I wonder if we could garner enough interest to take on that site...

Didya know that the Duamish used to be the drainage for L. Washington before the ship canal? Now it's basically a tidal 'river'.

[ 09-24-2002, 07:29 PM: Message edited by: meerkat ]

[Meerkat]

Originally posted by Jamie Hascall:
I hate to say it but a run down shack in Ballard is worth 100K now that being a sqvarehead is trendy ;) . That said, there is a lot of office space downtown now that the dot commers have run out of money. Maybe you can wangle a spot in the Columbia Tower. Personally, I'd try the industrial zones along the canal or in the South end.

JamieI hear that prices on Queen Anne have dropped from "impossible" to "horrendous" since the bubble burst. Given that and the straights that Fisherman's Terminal is in, I wonder if there isn't something along the canal... or nearby it. We don't actually need water to build.

[Dave Fleming]

Actually I was thinking of north of the cement plant on the west side of the Duwamish around the foot of Boeing Hill.
Isn't Delta still down there?
I don't suppose anything is on the Canal west of MARCO?

[ 09-24-2002, 07:37 PM: Message edited by: Dave Fleming ]

[Meerkat]

Dave; I don't know what Delta is, but, now that you mention it, there is the cement plant not far S. of this marina I'm talking about. A fair amount of boat building was going on there the last time I was there.

[Meerkat]

Marina I'm thinking about is the Southpark Marina at 8604 Dallas S SEATTLE, WA 98108-4875 off the 16th St. Bridge (off of Marginal Way opposite Boeing Field - the corner where the former corporate headquarters building is).

[ 09-24-2002, 07:52 PM: Message edited by: meerkat ]

[Dave Fleming]

Delta Marine was a big builder of feeberglas 'limit seiners' and last I knew had switched over to 'yachits'. Never been in the place and I have no intention of seeking it out when next we visit *Gods Country*, syrene smell and me just don't get along at all.

[Meerkat]

Delta Marine Industries Inc
1608 S 96th St Seattle, WA 98108-5115
(206) 763-2383

Not even on the water according to the map.

[Dave Fleming]

Delta either moved or since I was never to the place it is further down.
Don't forget I have not been up to see Tugboat Dave since 1995 and did not do any snooping around West Seattle because he is over on Bainbridge Island in Winslow Harbor.
We lived in the 1960's in an apartment house at the top of Boeing Hill and Dave had his boat at the old Riverside Marina, long gone, IIRC.