RiversWest Links

Links of Interest

Other Boating Organizations

The Center for Wooden Boats, Seattle. To provide a gathering place where maritime history comes alive through direct experience and our small craft heritage is enjoyed, preserved, and passed along to future generations. -Mission Statement, The Center for Wooden Boats
The Traditional Small Craft Association, Inc., is a nonprofit, tax-exempt educational organization which works to preserve and continue the living traditions, skills, lore, and legends surrounding working and pleasure watercraft whose origins predate the marine gasoline engine. It encourages the design, construction, and use of these boats, and it embraces contemporary variants and adaptations of traditional designs.

Mystic Seaport - The Museum of America and the Sea To some it's a fun family destination with spectacular tall ships. To others, it's our nations leading maritime museum. And to still others, it's an important education an research center. In fact it's all three - a quintessential New England experience offering visitors of all ages a unique interactive link to our seafaring past.

The Western Oregon Messabout List: A place to share information about informal Western Oregon gatherings of sail, human, electric and low powered small boats, and those who love them, particularly within an area convenient for residents of Oregon's upper Willamette Valley. We also discuss our other boating adventures, boatbuilding projects and dreams.

WOODENBOAT MAGAZINE. The keepers of the flame. A must for anyone interested in boats.
Messing about In Boats Online. Check this out, then subscribe to the hard copy magazine.
Viking Boats and Magazine, Östhammar, Sweden

TYVEK SAILS, how to make your own sails on the cheep.
LIGHTHOUSE MARINE. From Bob Wise who lives aboard his Bolger designed boat: "Lighthouse is the biggest used & new chandlery in the Caribbean. Being in the US Virgin Islands, shipping gear to the US is easy, as well as cheap. I'm sure we can save Common Sense builders money on their fit-outs. Also, having built so many Common Sense & Bolger boats, I won't try and and sell them what they don't need."
WEST MARINE. A good place for boat hardware and other expensive trinkets.

MARK ROSENSTEIN'S SAILING PAGE. The place for anything about sailboats and boating
John's Nautical and Boatbuilding Page Good info for boatbuilders. Also, if you have the fortitude check out John's Mother of all Nautical Links page.
AboarD Boats & Yachts Market Ltd. , an interesting boat related site.
The boatbuilding.community, a great place on the web for boatbuilders
Visit and join the All Volunteer Yacht Club. An award winning boating site, offering online fun and a monthly E-Zine with nautical jokes, boating articles and much more!

Center for Wooden Boats
Center for Wooden Boats
Hotline - Six-Hour Canoe Building Challenge
Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding
Philadelphia's Promise
Resources for Human Development Newsletter
Urban Boat Buildings - Boat Building and Boat Instruction
Yahoo! Groups : riverswest
Welcome to James Wharram catamarans - the home of Polynesian catamaran designs
FairMetal Boats Featuring Ganley Boat Plans