2021 Show Opener & Welcome Tour
Join three of the creators of the Worldwide Classic Boat Show at 5 o’clock somewhere (eastern US time) to ring in the Worldwide Classic Boat Show.
Maynard Bray, Steve Stone, and Nate Rooks will explain the impetus for the Show and give a tour of how to navigate the site.
So,
– how do you search by Designers ?
– how do you search by their Designs ?
Hi Suzanne – Most boats have the designer in their title, so yo can search for them through the text box.
We realize there are myriad ways it would be nice to search for boats, and will be working on improving search over the next year.
Thank you just joining up.Glad you extended this.
Your presentation is either Not phone app friendly or I am challenged
Brilliant show, guys! I did not have enough free time to join you earlier so really pleased you’ve extended it!
Will the directories be on the OCH web site after the show is over?
Great job gentlemen
Bob Grahamslaw
Brilliant concept keep at it. Although this will be hard to top!
Thank you for extending the show! I’m just starting today and happy not to miss much. I hope you’ll leave the site up for a month or more. So much to see.
My thanks for continuously helping me live vicariously through you gentlemen and ladies of the sea!
Thanks Guys , for an old Aussie like me in Manly Qld Australia what you are doing is keeping my dream alive and most importantly inspiring newbies to the classic boat movement. I have been a passionate observer and boat owner for more than 50 years and worked in the industry for about 30years and now my son Adam is working in the trade his business here in Manly Qld is Bayside Bosun.
Keep up the good work and I hope you are all still finding the time too make a few shavings and some saw dust of your own, and more importantly using you boats.
Kindest regards
Brian Hunte
Thank you for creating this boat show! I started sailing as a youngster in and around Duluth, MN on Lake Superior and lakes of Minnesota and Wisconsin back in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s.
Way too much good stuff here to keep up with live. Fortunately I know what I will be watching for the next week or so!
You guys are awesome!
You have created the perfect platform for what I have always wanted. I always wanted to ask Maynard or any other OCH partner about one particular boat or design or another. We would drive you crazy with one request or another and you would be overwhelmed. Is it possible to have a so called dedicated forum to search out past designs by owner and or photos/videos?
Years ago I found the Chester Nedwidek trunk cruiser “Ethel” in the D.N. Goodchild /The Press at Toad Hall collection,
I have searched in vain for years in classifieds, events, forums and searches for just one 27’ “Ethel”to actually see and experience the boat in person.( I still don’t know if one was ever built)
I enlarged the plans to study, I built a 1” to 1’ scale left/right half model of the hull. I know that having a real actual “Ethel” in the water to see and talk to an owner, of the positives and negatives of the design and experiences would
put me in the building mode of such a pretty boat. I think many people would jump on a plane and go cross country just to see a particular design in real time. The connections made would be priceless and the result might be a few more “classic boats” built to older designs to carry on what you guys are doing.
Thank you for the opportunity to comment, and you guys are one of my best investments as a life time member of OCH 😉
Thanks again for all of your amazing talents.
Jim McG
The best 5 bucks I’ve spent since forever – Can feel a binge-watch coming on.
Excellent explanation of the site, Nate! Question: Will the site be available after the Show ends later this month? It would be shame to lose access to all the resources, etc., that been collected.
Hi Guys – enjoying the show – fingers getting a tad sore from clicking 🙂 Thanks also for the shout out to waitematawoodys.com
Good Luck.
Alan Houghton – Raindance – Auckland – New Zealand
Awesome concept, to make all things boats available for so many interested groups of folks, and keep it going and keep it getting better with input and buy-in from Festival-goers. Great work!
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Spectacular! Many thanks, and congratulations to all involved!
Amazing work. Thank you
Thanks so much for doing this! I know it was a lot of work to set this up.
FANTASTIC! I sit here with a huge grin on my face, thrilled with everything you’ve said and done to make this experience brilliant in so many ways it boggles belief. YES! What a joyous feast to indulge in!
I am enjoying looking at the boats! Is there a way to search “favorites”?
Thanks, Gentlemen.
Replay was great. I really appreciate the site tour. VERY helpful. Also nice to put faces to a few names at OCH.
Woke up this morning in Wales (UK) to rain and half a gale so made a cuppa tea and went back to bed to watch the recorded intro. Well done on the show, great idea and great response from around the world. Hopefully this can become an ongoing community.
OK, this is crazy fun! My planned work week is now shot to h.e.-doublehockeysticks…
Thank you!
This is fabulous. Thank you so much for taking the time and effort for making this happen It’s a wonderful thing …. so gratifying
WOW!!! A great concept, brilliantly executed. I believe what you have started here is just the beginning. It is really a new dimension to traditional boat shows. KISS.
Great job guys. I looked though half the boats on “display” this morning and watched the recording from your “live” piece this evening. Looking forward to spending more time throughout the next few days. Thanks.
Thanks so much for putting this together. This fills a hole in many hearts for folks who have been shut out of the boatbuilding community due to the Covid Pandemic
Very uplifting, generous and heart felt first presentation. Being so isolated all these months, this already had me feelin’ abit tearful with gratitude for all of you have done for us here, and I do think this will prove a huge success and a whole new, and hugely valuable resource for all of us who love wooden or classic boats!!!!
More than happy to support you in anyway I can and really look forward to being able to shake your hands personally again, perhaps at our next Port Townsend Woodenboat Festival, or our new Salish 100, as soon as we can reopen those events!!!! Best wished to all of you, your businesses, and your family, in the meantime!!!
Kirk Gresham
Looking good guys well done.
Have you thought about a tab for “Where is” …. boat is currently located. So we can track down boats we have lost contact with??? Just a thought.
Have to admit – It has been a long day so I was just going to quick check in. This is pretty COOL! – I need to get Oakcliff (school? museum? fleet) and Hunt Lawrence’s fleet up here. Thanks for putting it all together.
Yes the Hunt fleet is needed, Maynard and I are hoping to see them sail in soon!
Really enjoying this!
Thanks for setting this up. A nice event especially that the Australian Wooden Boat Festival has been cancelled this year.
Thanks so much for doing this show. Makes me feel like Im almost back in Maine. I’ll tune in again tomorrow.
A successful shakedown cruise – Thank You for putting this together!
Thank you for all you are doing. Great way to see everything boats.
Thanks for making this happen. great job so far. Thanks Maynard for the slider, I have had boats rolling by all afternoon. Writing from Netarts Bay, Oregon. Rain and hail here today, great day to travel the show with you virtually.
Thank you so much!
Awesome job guys! If we can’t go sailing now, well, at least we can watch all these classics sail by. Thanks for pulling this virtual boat show together.
I would like to see icon’s that provide sources for bareboat/ wooden boat cruises.
Hi Bryce – Great idea! We’ll keep that in mind to include. If you know of any great ones, feel free to put them in “Suppliers & Resources”
Great job A~Team!
hi
can you search by country?
Classic charters? That would be great!
You guys are doing great with the live program! No apologies needed! This is a first time and we hope you continue!!
Love what Maynard just said about all the boats!
Great to hear and see Maynard since we don’t cross paths at Riverside now (Covid).
Tuning in from New York City. Thanks for doing this!
Thank you for this inspiration. I’m including Classic Boats in a new series of paintings. Yea!!
Hurrah! So nice to see (and hear!) all three of you!
Hurrah!
Hurrah! So nice to see and hear all three of you!
YAY!!! Sound on! Party on! Do pants still have to stay on?
Yes!
Yes, can hear! Thanks!
Yes!
I hear you, but don’t see you
wooohoooo, there you are!!!
Now I see and hear you
To take the liberty to quote Robert Burns to explain this video hiccup….
But Mousie, thou art no thy lane,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best-laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men
Gang aft agley,
An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,
For promis’d joy!
Ah, well, tis not to be ‘right now’, but certainly will be ‘right’ soon enough!
‘Ay laddie…. patience be the virtue!
Watching from Ayrshire the home of Burns. That made me laugh!🏴
I’ve been here since the start of the opening, but can’t get any sound. Guess I’ll catch the recording.
Well Here in Texas is been snowing and freezing for a week so Im gonna grab a tall glass of bourbon and warm right up tp this for the next few days and take my hat off to you for doing this . Thanks Wyatt
Where in Tx?
Good plan Wyatt, I am late joining after watching Bath beat Gloucester at rugby in the UK and i downed a bottle of wine to help ease the tension!
No sound. Love to chat with Mr. Bray about his Gulfstream 30–my family had one when I was a teen–named Magic, ex-Memory. Lovely boat. Miss it a lot. On to other vessels, and a great show already…but no sound to go with my beer.
Hi John, I believe your family’s GS-30 used to belong to Don and Angie Robinson and, if so, I sailed and raced aboard her a lot. My wife and I even were with D&A when they first viewed that boat after Bob Bavier put her on the market. That experience convinced me to grab Loon as soon as I heard about her.
Hello Maynard, Thanks for your note. Yes, I recall the Robinson name attached to Magic, as well as Bob Bavier. I believe my dad (David F. Hoy) sat for a lunch with Bob Bavier in NYC ages back to go over racing strategies. He had to sell the boat in about 1977, but he still has gadgets, boat-dedicated ditty bags (some of which I sewed) and photos. Dad is still bouncing around, now in Camden, Maine, and my boat is in his barn. I rediscovered the transported GS30 ex-Magic, about-to-become Zerlina, in Portland (I am in Freeport, Maine in the winter) after it suddenly turned up in the hands of a schoolteaching colleague’s partner–a great story. She (not a boaty person) said out of the blue, “John, what do you know about ‘Sparkman and Stephens’? It was the same boat. By 2012 or so, restored to some extent by carpenter Fred Clark and then sailed for a set of years, occasionally up to Rockland and larger PenBay. I had a chance to sail the boat about 2015 just for a toot from South Portland into Casco Bay–I took pics, of course. Last I saw the boat, it was on the hard in South Portland with planks removed–and with other work to do–I took pics, of course. I sail a 1969 Sailstar/Bristol 24 out of Bayside, Northport, Maine in the summer, but I also have a lovely, polished Swampscott surf dory which simply does not get enough use–I am still figgerin’ the gunter rig….! And a set of my own strip kayaks–out of eastern hemlock, primarily. And a Six-Hour Canoe, built with my son, who years after that last summer graduated to a Catalina 320. Love the photos of your Loon–I definitely recognize the boat–though the solid fuel stove and charley noble seem shoved over on the wrong side…..a wonderful sailer, that is for sure. Thanks for the show, and keep up the excellent work. Clearly, the Boat Show is meeting a very real, human need right now.
22:30 my time. Getting’ late!🤣🏴
Sorry Guys but still no sound
It’s OK. I thought I was late to join in but now I’m early. No worries!!
That’s the spirit! LOL
Gotta love it….They said keep your pants on…I’d just gotten out of the shower and was putting my pants on…..I enjoyed looking at all the listings for museums and am now plotting a road trip as soon as it is safe..
While we’re waiting, How do I post my own post, and not as a reply?
I was wondering this also:-)
If you scroll to the bottom of the page you can post your own comment!
thx. was just going to post same having found it!
Aye aye
Just talking heads no sound.
Pushed to Vimeo site. Need Vimeo a count.
No sound – Please start over
No sound at 5:08. Does anyone have audio?
These guys are boat guys, not IT guys. We need to give them a moment,
No audio 5:14
No audio either.
I can see them talking, although the audio is not broadcasting
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start again please speakers
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I’ve got video but no sound!
They are working on the problem, thanks for your patience.
Same here.
Me too
Any tips on sound? Are those of you watching able to hear?
no sound here either
I’m not hearing the sound?
Lost the chat now too. At least we had each other for company there!🤣🏴
Me neither
hello, no sound…
Anyone else having sound problems?
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yep! Hey, Scotland!!
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It’s 5 o’clock somewhere has never rang more true!! Cheers!
S’truth! LOL
Hey That’s an Aussie saying
HI KACI!!! Can’t wait for your talk! No doubt, it will definitely have sound!
Oh boy, no sound, good animation though…..
This is a superb event! Congratulations on a resoundingly successful boat show!
Congratulations Crew! Great job. I’m going to hunker down and check it out this evening with a nice cold beverage!
Kudos to the entire OCH Crew!
Just completed my first pass through the ‘fleet’, and I feel honored to have my little boat ‘Whisp’R’ amongst all these beautiful craft.
I was even able to shoot an email ‘heads-up’ to my boats’ designer, Steve Redmond; I thought he might like to see his design on these pages.
Once again, great work ya’all, great ‘venue’ and hope this is the first of many to come!
Great job guys! I am looking forward to going through all the boats on offer. One thing – I don’t see the Gartside yawl La Vie En Rose listed. I’m sure Dave Lesser submitted the boat and was accepted. Be a pity not to have her on display
Thanks, Alex – She’ll be getting released with another batch of boats tomorrow! We had to stop reviewing and get the Show live…
Thanks Nate. Thought it might be something like that,
Hey Steve! Thank you so much along with the OCH crew, for this awesome event to happen!
Well, you have really hit the mark!
This is even better than I imagined.
Congratulations on a wonderful presentation.
The trouble is, I may never leave my laptop’s side this week!
Thanks again for a great show!
Thank You So Much for making this happen. It is a delight to see awesome boats and people from around the world. Looking forward to taking it all in.
Can I send a direct link to just my profile to my non boating friends for them to view without them having to purchase a show ticket?
Of course, they may want to purchase a ticket once they see what all the Worldwide Classic Boat Show has to offer.
Hi Vince,
Thanks for checking. Entries in the show are only visible to ticketholders.
Great and unique concept, executed and delivered with style.
Gives me hope and inspiration in the time of madness.
Well done to all involved and thank you!
Great idea folks….so big it’s almost overwhelming. Looking forward to the spending a lot of time here
This is really an amazing achievement. I second the idea of this having an ongoing life. Thank you for all the work involved.
Hi Ken – More on that soon. The boats are only going to be available during the dates of the Show, but the world map with all the organizations is going to live on!
Wonderful event! Thank you so much for all of this. I’ve just spent two hours soaking up some delightful images. Please help: Where do we go to find the boats we’ve liked (by clicking on their heart)?
Doug – they’ll be in your profile under “FAVORITES”
The OffCenterHarbor’s harbor page is well marked, thankfully. Once on anchor it’s been more than fun messin’ around with things like the link to the South Georgia Museum. I visited there in 2000 to visit the wildlife, only to find the museum and it’s rather amazing collection, including Shackelton’s boat (photos on request). It’s going to be one of the most interesting websites and a challenge to see it all in a week. Any chance you’ll make this a permanent exhibition?
Great to attend this event and the website is so easy and user friendly. If we missed one of the live events, will it be possible to “relive” any of them afterwards? If so, under which platform: You Tube, OCH?
Peter – For sure! They will be available ASAP as a video on the same page where they were streamed.
You guys are amazing and so prompt with your responses. This is going to be a busy week cruising on the laptop.
Wow! This going to be so much fun. Thanks for the care and creativity! We’re honored to have Red Head in the Show! So many extraordinary boats. Bravo.
You folks at Off Center Harbor keep bringing the innovation! Well done! Excited to see this event!
Honored to have dear SJOGIN in the show. Just started exploring and astounded at the variety. Fine work all.
Hi Russ!
Looks FANTASTIC!! Thank you guys for the ‘virtual’ dream & now ‘live’ engagement with beautiful boats from all over the world!! Great Job!!
Thanks so much for all your hard work!!!!
Logged in and ready to go on website. How do I access the live event?
Click on “Live Events” in the menu bar and select which day you’d like. We’re still spiffing that section up a bit.
Hi Shirley – You can head to the homepage and start exploring the map, boats, and organizations!
Looking forward to seeing you guys! Good luck with the show and thanks SO much for pulling us all together.
Me too.