List of Volunteers Needed for Projects and Items Needed To Help Achieve the Foundation Goals

You can help the foundation achieve it goals by contributing funding or volunteering. These projects can be done from anywhere and would provide enjoyment for those volunteering.

Volunteers to Travel With Other Foundation Members to Vietnam to Document Wooden boat building. Volunteer travelers will each pay their own trip costs.  We expect the trips would be exciting and rewarding.   Foundation members will receive the first invitations to book the trip when firm dates are announced (see Membership details ). 

Projects which need volunteer help or funding:

1. Produce detail plans/drawings for selected Vietnamese wooden boat types from photos. The intent is then to make scale models which can be produced in Vietnam and used for display, for education, and to sell to collectors to raise monies for the foundation.

2. Produce one or more scale model of each type from drawings produced from paragraph 1. The entity in Vietnam which will “mass produce” the models will need a sample to work from. They would unlikely be unable to work directly from western-style boat drawings. Once they develop their own templates/jigs they can reproduce to high standards using their own methods.

3. Translate materials from foreign languages to English. Currently we have one major book in French, Voiliers d'Indochine by J. B. Pietri. Saigon, 1943, which has been translated into English so that it may be studied more widely. This book is considered the classic book on traditional Vietnamese (and other Indochinese country's) coastal craft. We also hope there are Vietnamese language books/articles which we can obtain that will add to our information base. Volunteer translators would be welcome or funding to accomplish this would be welcome as well.  Another important book to translate into English is "Bois et Bateux du Vietnam" (Wood and Boats from Vietnam) by Francoise Aubaile-Sallenave published in 1987.

Materials/items needed by the Foundation to promote/achieve the foundation goals (or funding to achieve the same):

1. An original printing copy of  "Junk Blue Book - A Handbook of Junks of South Vietnam" published by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (A.R.P.A.) 1962.

2. Books/other written media or audio/visual media on Vietnamese/Indochinese/Chinese traditional boats/junks.  The foundation has a number of books on these subjects. Extra copies allow others to borrow/research.

3. Pictures or engravings of traditional Vietnamese boats to display on website and at the foundations' displays.

Email: Vietnam Wooden Boat Foundation                                                          

John Doney, President

Mail:

Vietnam Wooden Boat Foundation
412 Logan St
Port Townsend, WA 98368