Center for Wooden Boats (Lake Union)

The Center for Wooden Boats is a nonprofit maritime museum and educational center located on Seattle's Lake Union that preserves and operates a collection of traditional small wooden craft. It offers hands-on public boat rentals, interpretive exhibits, boatbuilding demonstrations, and instructional classes in rowing, sailing, and wooden-boat maintenance. The center maintains historic boats and runs programs aimed at keeping traditional maritime skills and local small-craft heritage accessible to the public.