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Traditional Small Craft Association
Leisurely racing aboard an Abaco dinghy at the
2006 Florida Gulf Coast Small Craft Festival.
The
Traditional
Small
Craft
Association
P.O. Box 350
Mystic, CT 06355
Site updated 11/132008
Hot notes
(latest: October 9, 2008)
A Welcome to the World of Traditional
Small Craft -- TSCA History
TSCA
By-Laws (Revised Sep 10, 2007) -- National Meeting Minutes (latest:
Oct 05, 2008)
Organization --
Local Chapters (updated: Oct 06, 2008) --
E-mail Discussion Forum
Chapter Calendar Links --
Members' Writings
(last posting: Feb 23, 2008)
TSCA Wares --
The Ash Breeze (Journal of the
Association) (updated: Oct 9, 2008)
The TSCA John Gardner Grant
Program (updated: Apr 15, 2008)
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Events (updated: Nov 13, 2008)
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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.
Dues (for individual or family memberships) are $20.00 per year. We also have
Sponsor Member categories, designed for corporate entities (e.g., boat
shops, boatbuilders, boatbuilders' suppliers) as well as for individuals
desiring to support the organization at a higher level than basic membership.
Contact Dan Drath for more
information on sponsorship
privileges and rates. Note: Rates for display ads were reduced in
March, 2006!
The Traditional Small Craft Association, Inc., is a tax-exempt, non-profit
organization under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Dues and
contributions to TSCA are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
You are visitor number
 since Sep 14, 2004
A Welcome to the World of Traditional Small Craft
19th-century America saw the development of boats that rank as some of
the most beautiful, most efficient, and most perfectly adapted boats ever
conceived. Catboats, Whitehalls, wherries, peapods, dories, sharpies --
the list is seemingly endless and filled with wildly different designs and
uses that share one thing in common: they each represent a long line
of development that resulted in boats that were, and remain, virtually
unsurpassable for their intended purposes.
The Traditional Small Craft Association endeavors to appreciate these
boats for what they are -- not relics of the past or sterile objects of
Museum-quality venerability, but vessels that were designed to be used
profitably and with pleasure. While some of our members are professional or
amateur boat builders who appreciate the materials and methods that went into
the original construction of these boats, we happily embrace the use of new
materials and techniques as well. What sets many of the most popular modern
boats apart from the ones you will typically see at a TSCA gathering is that the
modern boat is more often driven by the demands of modern marketing and the
marketplace. They are often serious compromises, heavily influenced by the need
to appeal to the largest number of possible users. Our boats tend to be more
individualistic and more specifically suited to the actual purposes to which we
put them. They also tend to be smaller! The adage that "Bigger is Better" (or
in boating terms, "If it won't sleep six it's too small") is a fairly modern
concept.
The sense of history and tradition that surrounds these boats is certainly
one of the attractions. But, fundamentally, the average member of TSCA simply
enjoys the thrill of "messing about" in a boat that performs superbly and
without compromise, whether it's passage-making under oars, a sedate cruise
around the harbor, a romping sail back from the fishing grounds, or a quiet
paddle up a tidal estuary. If this kind of boating appeals to you, we would like
to invite you to contact your closest chapter of TSCA and, perhaps, find some
like-minded souls and a chance to enjoy some of the finest boats ever created.
-- Larry Feeney
TSCA History
The TSCA as an organization was first created as a response to a plan by the
Federal government to adopt a set of "safety" standards that would, in effect,
have declared traditional types such as peapods and dories "unseaworthy". This
seemed WRONG to people such as John Gardner and Pete Culler. They were told that
protest would be much more effective if they were speaking for an organization,
and so they went and built one. We'd like to think that the TSCA had a
significant part in the result, which was that the regulations were revised so
that traditional boats were permitted to continue to exist. FOR THE MOMENT. Who
knows when we'll need to take up the cudgels again? Having got by this crisis,
the organization turned to the long-term business of "passing the word" about
traditional types to the world in general, or at least that part of it which
might be interested. For futher information, see The
Ash Breeze Vol 17 No 3.
Hot notes!
The Ash Breeze Fall 2008 issue has been posted
The TSCA 2009 Annual Meeting has been scheduled for the
Philadelphia Wooden Boat Festival, June 20-21.
More information as we get it!
Congratulations to the new TSCA National
Officers!
New Officers, as of Oct 5, 2008:
President: John Weiss,
Puget Sound Chapter
Vice-President: Pete Mathews, Michigan Maritime Chapter
Secretary: Cricket Evans,
Sacramento Chapter
Treasurer: Chuck Meyer, Scajaquada Chapter
Incoming Editor, The Ash
Breeze: Mike Wick, Delaware River Chapter
New Chapters organizing
Cape Cod
Contact: Don Chapin
PO Box 634
Pocasset, MA 02559
774-392-1833 or
Don@Coastalrower.com
Eastern Shore
Contact: Mike Moore
5220 Wilson Road
Cambridge, MD 21613
410-916-3092 or estsca@mail.com
North Idaho
Contact: Joe Cathey
15922 W. Hollister Hills Drive
Hauser, ID 83854
caadnil@roadrunner.com
St. Augustine Lighthouse and Museum
Contact: Maury Keiser
329 Valverde Lane
St Augustine, FL 32086
904-797-1508 or
maurykeiser@bellsouth.net
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business, response time may be anywhere from 1 day to 2 weeks.
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Custom built small craft
4107 77th Pl NW
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360-659-5591
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Shirts & Totes
9101 Eton Road
Silver Spring, MD 20907
301-589-9391
1-877-Messing (877-637-7464)
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Marine Design,
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27 Soule Road
Chebeague Island, Maine 04017
Fax: +1.207.846.1083
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Windemere Boat
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132 Duncan Circle
Beaver, PA 15009
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Ipswich, MA 01938
978-356-3623
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Stephen Kessler - Boatbuilder
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503-816-9992
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Rich Passage
Boats, LLC
builder of the Minto sailing dinghy
Port Orchard, WA
360-769-3972
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Whitehall Rowing
& Sail
Box 1141 CSC
Victoria, BC V8W 2T6 Canada
800-663-7481 toll free
250-384-6574 office
250-384-6506 fax
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Grapeview Point Boat
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81 E. Grapeview Point Road
Allyn, WA 98524
360-277-9015
800-700-8059
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207-338-0009
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