Sea Fever: Wooden Boat Building, by Dan Houston
October 6, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.
$5 includes low country boil on the docks.
Dan Houston will display a few of his beautiful hand-built boats and provide a demonstration of a steam box, used to steam and bend planks. He will discuss his lifelong passion for boats, as well as boat building techniques such as lofting and the table of offsets. Mr. Houston has published articles on boat building in Messing About in Boats and is the author of Sea Stories and Other Tall Tales. He spent four years in the Coast Guard, worked for years in the forest products and wood preserving industry, and ran several small businesses before retiring to Pt. Washington, Florida. He is also a US Coast Guard Licensed Captain, holding a 100-ton Master's license with a commercial towing endorsement.
Mr. Houston grew up on the Flint River near Albany, Georgia, and acquired "boat disease" at an early age. When he was 14, Dan and his best friend left the family farm on the Flint River and made several week to ten day trips in a 13-foot skiff to Apalachicola and on to Panama City, camping along the river and on St. George and Shell Islands. He has had a hand in building more than ten wooden boats.
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