A Foundation Trip to Vietnam is planned for 2008!

A trip to Vietnam is scheduled for March 6-21, 2008 and will visit a number of wooden boatbuilding venues and operating wooden boats throughout Vietnam. The trip core will be about 14-16 days in duration, with options for additional activities following the core trip.  Please email if you are interested in further details.

A 2nd Woven Bamboo Boat Added to Foundation's Collection!

A 20' woven bamboo "canoe" will be added to the foundation's collection soon, a boat to be contributed by Mr. Cory Freedman of Skinboats, Inc. located in Anacortes, WA. It is a very interesting boat type reflecting the diversity of bamboo boats built by the Vietnamese. The boat got a lot of interest at the 31st Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival in September 2007.

Mailing address change for the foundation has changed to:

412 Logan St.

Port Townsend, WA 98368

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Foundation Featured in several Vietnamese national newspapers in December 2005 and January 2006, one in Vietnamese, one in French. Take a look: Tuoi Tre Online and Courrier du Vietnam. ____________________________________________

Vietnam Wooden Boat Foundation publishes English translation of J B Pietri's Voiliers d'Indochine. The book "Sailboats of Indochina" was superbly translated by Ms. Stephanie Dumont of France. This classic work originally published in Saigon in 1943 has long awaited translation into English (and Vietnamese as well). The book's initial printing is available in paperback through Lulu Publishing (www.lulu.com). The book has 284 pp including 70 B&W detailed drawings of boats and boat rigging/sails, etc. You can see a preview of the first 80 pages of the book at the Lulu website. The text page numbering follows the sequence used by Pietri. Note!!: You can now order a copy of the book from the Vietnam Wooden Boat Foundation signed in the Preface section by the foundations president, for only $28, postage paid in the U.S. (Media Mail). Order through the "Items for Sale" section.

While single colors were used in most of Pietri's original book drawings, the illustrations in this printing are all in B&W. A later hardcopy library reference version is planned which will be in color. Shown here are the front and back cover of the book (click on the thumbnail pictures to see a full page picture).