The Vietnam Wooden Boat Foundation's (VNWBF) major near-term goal is to oversee the building of as many traditional and unique Vietnamese boats before the master craftsmen who built them are gone. We will document each project with video and written records and make them available to the public for education and the historical preservation of these boats.

Our mission statement can be viewed at Mission Overview.

The Vietnam Wooden Boat Foundation is a  501(c)(3) U.S. Non Profit Organization.  Your contributions are tax deductible!

We invite you to submit pictures of traditional Vietnamese wooden boats to display on this website, pictures which you may have taken during a trip to Vietnam or which may have been taken by relatives.  Ideally your pictures can be identified by the year and the city/town/village where they were taken. We will credit each photo submitted. 

We welcome photos from any era. This is a work in progress and we have a number of pictures yet to put on the site.  You may E-mail photos or mail them to the address below. We will mail back your photos if you wish after we have scanned them for the website. (Emailing or mailing the photos to us constitutes your permission to place them on the website.)

If you are interested in keeping abreast of  the Vietnam Wooden Boat Foundation's progress, please email us and we will place you on our email list.  Members automatically receive our online newsletters.

You are invited to join the Vietnam Wooden Boat Foundation!  Go to the Membership page.