WOODEN BOAT SHOW
& SUMMER SOLSTICE FESTIVAL
June 21-23, 2013

It's the biggest celebration of the year! Try your hand at a workshop or course;
be inspired by the stories of boat builders, sailors and travelers; and plan your next adventure. It's a fun, family-oriented educational event--curiosity is welcome. 
Grab a paddle and journey North!

Event Overview (PDF)

Festival Highlights                                                                                  
- Harbor Side Wooden Boat Display: See the boats, meet the builders
  Download more info on displaying YOUR boat here
- Boats-to-Tools Auction: Donate, bid, buy! Click here
- Wooden Boat Speaker Series: Listen, be inspired! Click here
- Craft Demonstrators: Celebrate craft! Click here
- Lake Superior Chowder Experience: Don't miss this North Shore culinary event!
- Steam Bent Brunch: Reserve your spot! Click here
- Mini Courses: 5 inspiring possibilities! See below
- Solstice Pageant: Life-size puppets, stories and laughs on Sat at 8 pm

Course Offerings
Featured event coursework surround the entire Wooden Boat Show & Summer Solstice Festival weekend.  To review all of the courses in calendar format follow this link to see all the June 2013 calendar of courses.

Event Mini Courses, June 22
10 am:
- Fly Fishing: An Intro to MN Trout Lakes Mini Course
- Wood-Fired Artisan Bread Baking Mini Course
- Songs & Stories: Great Lakes Maritime History Mini Course

3pm: 
- Wood-Fired Artisan Bread Baking Mini Course
- Tell Me a Story: How to Tell Stories Together Mini Course

Starting Wednesday, June 19
- Spinning Fibers on a Wheel - 2 days
- Raku Pottery Experience - 1 day
- Scandinavian Style Flat Plane Figure Carving - 3 days
- Shoemaking: 9th Century German Turn Shoe - 3 days

Starting Thursday, June 20
- Craft of Sail - 1 day

Starting Friday, June 21
- Ropework: Knot Tying Workshop - 1 day
- Fiber Exploration for Spinners - 1 day

Starting Monday, June 24
- Sausages for the Summer Grill - 1 day
- Scandinavian Style Flat-Plane Carving: Continuation - 3 days
- Selbuvotter Mittens: The Classic Norwegian Mitten - 2 days
- Traditional Blacksmithing Joinery Techniques - 3 days