Lake Union Wooden Boats

The Historic Ships Wharf features a collection of tall masts and weathered wooden hulls moored directly against the concrete bulkhead of South Lake Union. This is the home base for the Northwest Seaport, where maritime vessels survive by…

The Center for Wooden Boats sits on the edge of Lake Union, identifiable by the collection of classic wooden sailboats bobbing against the weathered wooden docks. Dick and Colleen Wagner started this place in the nineteen seventies when…

The Fairview Walkway clings to the eastern shore of Lake Union on a series of wooden pilings. This stretch of boardwalk grew from a collection of private boat moorings and industrial slips into a public connection between floating homes…

The Lake Union Drydock Company features a series of long, low, corrugated metal sheds that hug the shoreline, punctuated by the massive wooden hulls of vessels lifted high above the water on floating drydocks. Since nineteen nineteen, this…

The World’s Smallest Floating Homes Museum occupies a single, glass-fronted wooden display case mounted directly onto a dock railing along the Portage Bay shoreline. Inside, a rotating selection of miniature models and vintage photographs…

The Tenas Chuck Moorage features a distinctive, low-slung wooden pier structure extending over the waters of Elliott Bay. Its name translates from Chinook Jargon as small water, a term reflecting the sheltered nature of the cove where it…

Mallard Cove is a narrow, quiet inlet of water tucked against the western edge of Lake Washington. While much of the shoreline features massive estates and private docks, this strip remains a rare public access point where the cattails…