Lowtide
Driscoll S&S, Weatherly celebrated her
first festival. Schooners Adventuress,
Merrie Ellen, Mycia, Zodiac and Cap St.
James took people for sails all weekend
from the waterfront docks while
fishing vessel Carol M sold fresh, whole
Albacore!
The People
Attendance reached an all-time high,
over 33,000, an increase of 10% including
record walk-ons on the Keystone Ferry,
a 37% jump in people arriving by bus
and nearly 200 boats anchored on Port
Townsend's waterfront. Demonstration
and presentation stages were packed
with people, as educational content
expanded yet again. At the Boatyard
Stage, people learned everything
from varnish techniques to the very
latest on corrosion prevention. At
the Woodworking stage, shipwrights
Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival steamed bent planks, built a kayak,
showed how to make a Dutchman, while
Celebrates its Working Waterfront
others demonstrated tool uses from
by Kaci Cronkhite
carving nameboards to saving fingers
with the SawStop or using handplanes.
Work and play are sometimes hard to The Boats Inside venues were filled to capacity all
distinguish in Port Townsend. That's the Nearly 6,200 linear feet of wooden day everyday, as the brand new NWMC
goal of our working waterfront. When boats (168 boats) packed the marina and & WBF classrooms were not quite ready
we play, we're happy and when we get another 100 boats (from a Buzzard's Bay for occupancy. The Green Technology
paid for something we love doing, use 25, Calkins Classic speedboats to canoes, stage featured ongoing talks and Q&A
our talents to make others happy, and get kayaks and kits), were on display with sessions with some of the region's top
to be part of a generous community, life is owners and builders eager to answer faculty from The Maritime Center for
at its best. For more than thirty years, the questions. There were some unusual Excellence at Skagit Valley College,
“wooden boat community” has held this boats such as eleven electric boats, four from industry specialists and from
vision and grown. Port Townsend's ideal running on biodiesel, a cardboard boat commercial exhibitors including Airhead
venue, its central location in a maritime and several "community" boatbuilding Composting Toilets, Epaint, American
region famous for boatbuilding and designs. Rope & Tar and Rescue Tape.
now, the grand opening of the Wooden While the boat he built and was Nigel Calder's talk about Hybrid
Boat Foundation & Northwest Maritime bringing to Festival got stuck on a Engines and the latest in Battery
Center facilities. The Center, joining loading dock in Chicago, the builder, Technology overflowed with attendees
the historic downtown waterfront with Luis Peaze, was warmly welcomed as the nightly. Nigel will be back next year with
the Point Hudson marina, all helped to most distant international participant. plans to expand the topic to a series of
bring boats, people and "work" to this Edwardian motor yacht Lotus celebrated seminars held at the NWMC the week
record-breaking year. her 100th birthday while the restored before Festival 2010.
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