Let me know if you know of any links
which should be included here. I'd especially like to know when your ACBS chapter
goes online. As a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization, we do not feel it is
appropriate to link to businesses.
Let me know when your chapter establishes a website. webmaster@acbs-pnw.org |
Marque Sites
Lyman Owner's Association
Owens
Chris-Craft Club
Garwood
Glasspar G-3
Century
Feathercraft/Aluminum Boats
Simmons Sea Skiff
Matthews
Thompson
V-Drive Club Classic muscle boats of
the 50s and 60s.
Dunphy
Mullins
Fiberglassics Early fiberglass boats
of the 50s and 60s. Highly recommended.
Fiberglassics-Northwest Chapter
Thames Vintage Boat Club-British
boats
A site featuring Barbour boats.
Switzercraft
Scandanavian Boats....not in English but great pictures
A locally built boat, the Sande Ace
General Classic Boat Sites
Woody Boater Antique and Classic Boat news.
The Classic Yacht Association is a club
for classic power cruisers. And there is a Pacific Northwest
chapter site
Woodies on the Web is an excellent collection
of images and information about classic boating by Kent O. Smith, Jr. of the Chesapeake
Bay & Adirondack Chapters of the ACBS.
The Tahoe Concours d'Elegance establishes the standard for antique runabout shows.
The Tahoe Yacht Club which hosts the show now has a web
site.
Don't miss John Kohnen's excellent nautical link
list
Like John Kohnens's site above, Stuart Wier's Great
Encouragement to Boatwrights is another web veteran. It has a lot of general
boatbuilding information. Mostly for smaller boats, but any would-be builder should
find useful topic there. Look toward the bottom of the linked page.
Canoe and Boat Building for the Amateur
The seminal 19th century work by W.P. Stephens. Online in its entirety.
Thames Vintage Boat Club Traditonal
Boat links (world-wide)
The incredible journey of the crew of the Endurance
in the Antarctic almost a century ago.
TradBoat. A general resource based in
the UK. "Traditional Boats and Classic Boats both Power and Sail. Gaff Rig,
Square Rig, Class Associations, One Designs. Maritime Museums, Models and Motor
Boats. Here you will find something useful on every topic"
Australian Wooden Power boats...mostly
race boats.
Boat Racing
In our group
there are quite a number of people interested in hydroplane
racing. This site gives coverage to the race circuit. Here's the American
Powerboat Association; it's the governing authority for powerboat racing
in this country. Here's the site of the American
Powerboat Historical Society. You also might be interested in the Hydroplane
and Raceboat Museum. Here's a site for outboard
racing in the Seattle area.
Small Craft
Some ACBS chapters, particularly in the Northeast, emphasize small craft. The
Wooden Canoe Heritage Association has an excellent site for traditionally built
canoes.
The Traditional Small Craft Association was formed
about twenty-five years ago to celebrate our small boat heritage. There is also
a chapter in the Northwest.
Maritime Museums
The Antique Boat Museum has one of the finest
collections of watercraft in the nation. Particularly fascinating are the wonderful
small craft of the Thousand Island region. Many historic power raceboats are in
the collection.
The Iowa Great Lakes Maritime Museum
contains the archives of the late Bob Speltz, as well as a variety of wooden boats
with emphasis on midwestern builders.
Columbia Maritime Museum One of the finest maritime
museums in the country is located in Astoria, Oregon. A fair number of small craft.
Maritime Museum of the Netherlands Though
largely in Dutch, there is an overview in English
Mary Rose The Mary Rose is an English
warship which sank in the early 16th century. It was raised and is the center of
this museum
Canadian Canoe Museum Both native and
non-native canoe types are featured here.
New Hampshire Antique & Classic Boat Museum
Mystic Seaport The finest
maritime museum in the country.
Lake Champlain Maritime Museum
Adirondack Museum This upstate New York
area saw the rise of many very fine small craft.
Mariners' Museum Contains the Chris-Craft archives.
With your hull number you can obtain information about your boat.
Index of North American Maritime Museums
There are many, many maritime museums in this country. They are all here.
The National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, England.
One of the finest maritime museums in the world.
The Kalakala A '30s era art deco
ferry.
Lowells Boat Shop A boatshop which
began in the late 1700s; now a museum
Here's a world-wide maritime
museum guide.
Michigan Maritime Museum
Canal Boating
In the nineteenth century, Europe was interlaced with a network of canals. Then
they were used for the transport of freight; now they are often used for pleasure
boating. Here's a European canal site.
This one is from British Waterways, a public body "responsible for maintaining and
developing the waterways and their heritage for everyone to enjoy." There's a good
link page for further exploration.
Runabout
Scrapboat
I've come across some sites with images of owner's boats. If you find more let
me know.
Blake Fleming wants to show the restoration of his 1954
Chris Craft Corsair Berkshire TV has several classic boats on
their site. Steven Gray has set up
a page for his 1959
17' Chris.
Engine/Motorhead Section
The Antique Outboard Motor club has a site devoted to....guess
what?
Harry's Old Engines
OldMarineEngine.Com
Contains excellent resource for smaller inboards. Also has a discussion group
for a broad range of marine engines.
Marine
Engine Discussion Group including ads.
One of the largest steamboat organizations in this country is the Northwest
Steam Society. Excellent steam-related links.
Club Classified Ads
Bob Speltz/Land o' Lakes
Classic Yacht Association
Other
Even
in the unconventional crowd of traditional boaters, steamboat fans stand out.
They have been known to drop an engine and boiler in almost any old tub, even
(gasp) a fiberglass one. For them, a hull is simply a place to float
an engine while they massage and tinker with it. The International
Steamboat Society is a site you might want to check out.
Thinking about going out in the boat? How's the weather on Lake Washington? A
camera at the University of Washington is pointed toward Lake Washington; it
is updated every few minutes, 24 hours a day. It gives wind speed as well. No need
to go outside; after all, it might be raining. Also, here's a site
which gives images of freeway conditions, some of which are shots of Lake Washington.
So, if you live in the area, you can use it to check the lake conditions, too. If
you live somewhere else, well, too bad. Here's a live view which you can control
from the Space Needle.
OK--you seem like a pretty
broad-minded person. Who knows, maybe you've even been out in a sailboat a time
or two. If so, maybe you'd like to look at Mark
Rosenstein's Sailing Pages. There's lots of links to waterborne recreation
and things nautical. In particular interest are a lot of historical maritime
links.
(Rant mode
on.) I just can't understand people who will spend tens or even hundreds
of thousands of dollars on their boat and not take the time to learn how to
tie knots which may protect their investment against damage. I once went to
the San Juans on a customer's boat; (Name withheld to protect the guilty.)
I soon learned that he didn't know how to tie any knots except maybe his shoes.
He should have looked at this excellent site: the
Ropers Knots Page, You might also look at the newsgroup rec.crafts.knots
This one seems to be
a combination gun and boat club. They've
got some big boats. But gray seems such a boring color.
Decorating your boat
for the big festivities? You wouldn't want to do a clumsy job dressing ship
with signal
flags. Check it out; it'll save you ever so much embarrassment at the yacht
club.
Don't forget the boat building newsgroup. Try rec.boats.building on your news
server. Rants, raves-all you could want in a newsgroup!
The US Power Squadron has an on-line boat-handling test and other information.
And here's a few words from the Northwest's very own Coast Guard 13th
Regional District!