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11th
Annual
Wooden Boat Show
&
Summer Solstice Festival
** June 20-22, 2008 **
Plan even further ahead:
WBS June 19-21, 2009
Celebrating the North,
Traditional Crafts
and
the Joy of Summer!
PLANS FOR
2008 ARE
COMING TOGETHER !!
The Wooden Boat Show and Summer Solstice Festival at North
House Folk School kicks off the season of light in the North.
The weekend includes programs, courses, speakers,
demonstrations, workshops, food, dancing, displays and endless
opportunities for great conversation.
Initial resources to help everyone
make plans for
the 2008 Wooden Boat Show include (click to download):
2008 Schedule of Events
Boat Display Information & Form
Boats To Tools Auction Form
Learn more about an important part
of the Wooden Boat Show:
The Boats to Tools Auction!
Additional resources will be
available soon!
Otherwise, take a look
back to get a glimpse
of what the event will have to offer

2007 Featured
Guest
Skip
Snaith
Skin-on-Frame Boat Builder, Researcher and
Revivalist
Skip has been a professional boat builder for over 35
years. With experience as a canoeist, kayaker and ocean
racer he has sailed, paddled and rowed a wide variety of
craft, and has built anything from a glued-lap Rushton
Canoe to a fiberglass trimaran. Snaith has been
traveling to native villages in Alaska since 1998 as a
skin boat teacher, student, researcher and revivalist,
spreading the ballistic nylon gospel wherever he goes.
His book, Umiak, An Illustrated Guide, has
inspired experiential boat builders like North House
Folk School’s own Mark Hansen and has been called a
“concise, straightforward, and handcrafted book…giv[ing]
the umiak some of the recognition - and reconstruction -
it deserves” (George B. Dyson, author of Baidarka).
**
learn
more about Skip and his efforts to nurture the revival
of skin-on-frame boat building - visit his
Kayak Way
web site
** during his visit Skip will teach a one day
Skin-On-Frame Small Boat
Design workshop on June 22
** Skip Snaith's' visit is funded in part by the Dr.
Donald Walker Memorial Fund.
Free Event
Member Supported & Volunteer Hosted
This special event was largely free and
open to the public thanks to the involvement and support
of many people. It is one of several
special events that we host
throughout the year, celebrating the North and our
educational mission. Strong membership support
makes this event and others like it possible (new
members are always welcome!) A team of
dedicated and spirited volunteers host the event (call
218-387-9762 if you'd like to help out at future events).
* * Featured Guests
- Skip Snaith
* * Boats to Tools Auction - an auction
with a cause,
learn more
* * Northern Craft Demos
- by North House instructors
* * Wooden Boat Slide Series
- schedule to be announced
* * Handcraft Workshops
- schedule to be announced
* * Wooden Boat Display - focusing on
traditional wooden craft
* * Festival Courses - scheduled before, during &
after the event
* * Summer Solstice Festival - featuring the Good
Harbor Hill Players
* * Delicious North Shore Cooking - a harbor-side
barbecue, the
Chowder Challenge, the Steam Bent Brunch (arrive hungry)
* * and So Much More! - the
weekend's offerings continue to evolve!
Wooden Boat Display 
All
Wooden Boats Hand-Built or Restored
Welcome!
Wooden boats of all types are displayed during the
event. Individual boat builders (both novice and
professional) are welcomed to display either wooden
boats or related items. North House boat building
alumni are especially encouraged to attend and be part
of the events Wooden Boat Parade!
Download the Details!!
Get plugged in today
Read more about our
featured guests and review the weekend's calendar of
events. Click on these PDF downloads:
**
Weekend
Schedule of Events
**
Detailed
Program Descriptions
**
Wooden Boat Show Display Registration
**
Boat
to Tools Auction Donation Registration
**
Steam Bent Brunch Reservation Form
If you are unable to open these forms North House will
happily send you forms by mail - please send your
request, name & address to
info@northhouse.org
or call North House at 218-387-9762
2007 Schedule of Events

Three Days Filled with Hands-On Opportunity
Thursday
** Thursday - Featured Events
All Day - 2-Hour
Sails on the Schooner Hjørdis (call for reservations)
- pre-event courses, follow link below
Friday
** Friday - Featured Events
All Day - pre-event
courses, follow link below
-
Skin On Frame Boat
Design with Skip Snaith
9-5 - All From One
Tree Demonstration
1-5 - Auction Check-In
5-7 - Opening Ceremony: The Wooden Boat
Harbor-Side BBQ
5-7 - Wooden Boat Display
5-7 - Live "On Campus" Radio - WTIP ‘Roadhouse’
Show
5:30 - On the Harbor Games
8-11 - Traditional Community Contra Dance w/Over
The Waterfall
Saturday
** Saturday - Featured Events
All Day - 2-Hour Sails on the Schooner Hjørdis (call
for reservations)
9-5 - All From One
Tree Demonstration
9-10 - Waterfront Wooden Boat Display
10-3 - Traditional Craft
Workshops (see below)
9-4 - Wooden Boat Speaker Series
11 -
Boats to Tools
SILENT Auction Begins
(click here to learn more)
12-1 - Lake Superior Chowder Challenge ($8
at the door)
1 - North Woods
Paddling and Poling Demonstration - Conovers
3 -
Boats to Tools
LIVE Auction Begins
(click here to learn more)
- find a new home for that old boat, raise funds for
North House
5 - Wooden Boat Show Film Festival
The Skiff of Renald and Thomas (57 minutes, by Bernard
Gosselin)
8 - Summer Solstice Pageant with the Good Harbor
Hill Players
*** Also underway in Grand Marais
Sivertson Gallery Solstice Gathering - 4-6pm,
June 23
Sunday
** Sunday - Featured Events
9:00 - Wooden Boat
Parade On The Harbor
11 - Steam Bent
Brunch:
for members, instructors, friends
and boat builders (limited seating, $12/person), call
218-387-9762 for reservations or use use form included
above
1 - 10th
Anniversary Acknowledgement, Annual Membership Gathering
and Featured
Wooden Boat Show Slideshow Presentation
Adventures In The Skin Trade with Skip
Snaith,
download full description above
2:30 - Closing Event: Wooden Boat Pie & Ice Cream Social
Festival
Courses
A wide array of boatbuilding,
sailing and traditional craft courses
are scheduled as part of the
festival, pre-registration is required - please
call 218-387-9762 for more details
** visit the
course listing by date page (June 19-26, 2007)
Wooden Boat Speaker Series
Download event schedule
(above)
for complete details
All From One Tree Demonstrations
Download event schedule
(above)
for complete details
All From One Tree aims to draw attention to the source
material of many
northern craftspeople - the birch tree. This dynamic project
underscores
North House Folk School’s process of craft in an effort to
celebrate ten
years of programming traditional northern craft.
Demonstrations - June 22-24
Exhibition - Sept 28-30
Traditional Craft
Workshops
Download event schedule
(above) for complete details
Photo Gallery
Take a look at images from prior years
A picture is worth 1000 words - the following images capture some of the excitement
at the 2004, 2005 and 2006 events and hint at the possibilities for this year:
Please click to enlarge
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A
Look Back
A Look Back
Without question, one of the highlights of the the
Wooden Boat Show event are the special guests we welcome
to campus each years
Garrett/Alexandra Conover
For 26 years Alexandra and Garrett have been
professional canoe and snowshoe guides based in
Willimantic, Maine. Garrett is the author of Beyond the
Paddle. Together, they co-authored, the Snow Walker's
Companion. Now in it's third edition the book continues
to serve as the leading guide on extended winter travel.
The Conover’s method of travel reflects traditions
refined by generations of wilderness guides. In 1999, Outside Magazine profiled Alexandra
and Garrett along with five others under the heading of
"The Great Ones: 20th Century Heroes for a New
Millennium." Together, they live in their permanent
wall-tent home on the Big Wilson Stream. Learn
more about their
2006 Winter
Walk in northern Maine.
In 2005,
Becky Mason, "Canada's First Lady of the Wooden
Canoe" was our special guest. Becky has journeyed in canoes for as long as
she can remember and learned to paddle before she could
walk. She acquired her paddling skills and her love for
canoes from her father the late Bill Mason, the author
and filmmaker of the "Path of the Paddle" series. To learn more about
visit the Red Canoe
web site.
In 2004, Joanie & Gary McGuffin from Canada shared their
passion with North House for three full days. Their
experience paddling in the north, stunning wilderness
photography, and compelling program made the event even
more memorable.
In 2003, three special guests: ,
Jerry Stelmok (canoe builder & author), Deborah
Sussex (professional photographer) and
Joe Seliga (canoe builder) - pictured below left to
right. The three cooperated on the book The Art of
the Canoe with Joe Seliga (copies available through
the North House school store).
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