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2018 Hours and Ticket Prices HOURS Friday 9 AM – 6 PM Saturday 9 AM – 6 PM Sunday 9 AM – 5 PM Live music until midnight Friday and Saturday on the Main Stage. TICKET PRICES NWMC Members: Visit the Membership Desk at Main Gate for your free tickets! Non-Members: 12 & Under: FREE Adult:
1-day $20 3-day $40
Senior (65+): 1-day $15 3-day $30 Active Military: 1-day $15 3-day $30 Teen (13-19): 1-day $15 3-day $30
Your wristband gets you into all talks, demonstrations, boats, kids’ activities, on-thewater opportunities, races, exhibitors and music. SORRY, NO DOGS ALLOWED Thank you for understanding that due to safety concerns (for both humans and dogs), we DO NOT allow dogs on the Festival grounds, except for service dogs. Please make other arrangements for your canine companion! There are several day-boarding options available: Frog Mountain Pet Care: frogmountainpetcare. com, 360.385.2957 Lulu’s B&B for Dogs: lulusfordogs.com, 360.301.5151
Welcome to the 42nd
Wooden Boat Festival
Barb Trailer Festival Director
Heart is the energy and emotion that brings us here: it’s the drive that assembles countless tiny pieces into the Festival. This year, heart shows up with more big boats than we honestly thought could fit in the harbor, an incredibly diverse range of presentations from Polynesian boatbuilding to wayfinding, and exciting presentations like Women’s Offshore panel and the Yacht Designer panel.
As always, I am humbled by the quantity of creativity, laughter and sweat it takes to bring our Wooden Boat Festival to fruition. What goes on behind the scenes all year long sets the stage for the gorgeous spectacle that you see. Boaters pour their hearts into their vessels; presenters polish their talks; and the harbormaster choreographs marina layouts trying to fit in more and more boats. The Staff does everything from creating websites to building fences. Captains strategize to make all 50 functional areas of Festival come together seamlessly. Suddenly, it’s September: the entire Festival is assembled and becomes operational in just 32 hours. The amount of heart that goes into this weekend is extraordinary: heart makes the festival so special. Sometimes I wonder “If we add more polish and finesse, would we lose some of that heart?” There is something beautiful about the ice guy driving around delivering ice to the popup bars and food vendors that a simple (and expensive) refrigerated truck would alter. Even the ice guy is a metaphor for the heart of wooden boat tradition: It’s not the easiest way to accomplish the task, but easy isn’t always better. Wave to the ice guy when you see him on his rounds: it’s heart and tradition, after all.
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Stop reading this! Despite the title, whatever I have to say is actually pretty boring in comparison. Don’t get me wrong – even as an employee, I’m Wooden Boat Festival Fanboy #1; have been since I rowed a boat in from Anacortes as a wide-eyed twenty-four-year-old. I rounded the breakwater, shipped the oars, and was hit by the wave of euphoric, nautical celebration that engulfed me. I haven’t been able to shake it since. But really, stop reading this! Put this down and get to Point Hudson and get engulfed in it yourself! The point of the Wooden Boat Festival isn’t what I have to say about it. It’s about the experience you will have when you come: the boats, the craftsmanship, the community, the celebration. It’s the friends you bump into after years, or the ones you make after minutes, or beers, or the last lap around the buoys. This festival brings out the kind of passion that finds its way into the form and design of boats, as well as as the passion of the people that make and maintain them – their skills and dedication, the humble greatness that comes from a lifelong, wide-eyed pursuit of the kind of craftsmanship that is becoming rarer by the day…except for here, except for this weekend. This weekend the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival is your 42nd chance to connect with the craft and community that keeps our region’s wooden boat legacy afloat (and they can dance pretty good too.) Our Wooden Boat Festival has a space for you; revel hard, learn lots, bask in the craftsmanship, and allow space for the beginning of your own wide-eyed story. Happy festival! Stop reading! Jake Beattie Executive Director
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Get On the Water
RACES All WEEKEND LONG
FREE BOAT RIDES AT THE FESTIVAL
There are lots of fun, free ways to get out on the water at the Festival! Paddleboards and rowboats can be taken out from the the NWMC Beach. Free rides on the launch Martha J and longboat trips leave from the NE corner of the marina , and the Paddleboard Pool will be back on the Point!
All races are open to all boats in the Wooden Boat Festival! Friday | 26’ and Under Race Saturday | NW Schooner Cup Open to all small boats Skippers Meeting | 9 AM | NWMC beach Skippers Meeting | 1 PM | NWMC beach Regatta Start | 3 PM Race Start | 2:30 PM Awards | 6 PM (7 PM if boats sail longer) Main Stage Saturday | Rowing Race Sunday – Sail By Open to all human-powered watercraft 3 PM | Port Townsend Bay Paddleboards, Wherries, Dorys, Rowing shells, Don’t miss the event of the weekend, with more Kayaks, Longboats, than 300 boats on the bay! Outriggers, Dinghies and Gigs Best places to watch from Festival Grounds are Registration | 8 – 9 AM | NWMC beach the Balcony Wine Bar, the Wee Nip, Race Start | 10 AM and the NWMC Commons. Long & short courses
Tall Ships – Tour or Charter
Paddleboard Pool on the Point All ages can try out a paddleboard in the paddleboard pool on the Point. This is great for those who have never been on a paddleboard before. Sign up at the pool. Fri 10 – 6 Sat 10 – 6 Sun 10 – noon
Paddleboard & Rowboat Rides
Off the beach behind the NWMC
Try out a paddleboard or rowboat from the NWMC Beach. Sign up for these 30 minute rides at the Free Rides Booth adjacent to the beach behind the NWMC. Fri 11 – 3 Sat 10 – 4 Sun 10 – 2
Martha J Motorboat Rides
Longboat dock in the basin of marina, along Jefferson Street
Take a ride on the beautiful launch Martha J. Sign up at the NE corner of the marina. Boat leaves on the hour and half hour. Sign up early; these rides get booked up quickly. Fri 11 – 4 Sat 9:00 – 4:30 Sun 10 – 2
Row & Sail A Longboat
Longboat dock in basin of marina
Journey back in time aboard replicas of Captain George Vancouver’s boats from 1792. Work together as a crew to row and sail aboard these 26’ open boats with 8 rowing stations. Ages 12 and up. Signups start at 9 AM each morning at the longboat dock in the NE corner of the marina. The boats go out 3 times a day for approximately 1.5 hour trips Fri 11 – 4 Sat 9:00 – 4:30 Sun 10 – 4:30
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SAIL ON ADVENTURESS Location: NWMC Dock
SAIL ON SCHOONER ZODIAC Location: NWMC Dock
Step aboard the 1913 schooner Adventuress for a sail on Port Townsend Bay. Help raise the sails, sing sea shanties, and experience the joy of sailing a century-old tall ship operated by Sound Experience. Space is limited! For advance purchase of Adventuress tickets, go to www.soundexp.org, call 360-379-0438 or visit the ship at NWMC Dock.
Zodiac is a gaff-rigged schooner built in 1924; at 160’, she is the largest historic windjammer in the Pacific Northwest. Passengers help raise and maneuver the sails, take a turn on the ship’s wheel, and explore below decks. All Festival sails include buffet meals cooked fresh on board, plus full bar service. Visit schoonerzodiac.com or call 206-719-7622.
Friday, September 7 **Sails are half price on Friday only**
Friday, September 7
Free Dockside Tours | 9:00 - 9:45 AM Festival Sail | 10:30 AM–1:30 PM $32.50/adult | $17.50/18 and under Festival Sail | 2:30-5:30 PM $32.50/adult | $17.50/18 and under
Saturday, September 8 **15% off sails for Sound Experience Members** Festival Sail | 10:00 AM–1:00 PM $65/adult | $35/18 and under NW Schooner Cup Race | 2:00–6:00 PM $79/adult | $49/18 and under
Sunday, September 9 **15% off sails for Sound Experience Members**
Lunch Sail | 11:00 AM–1:00 PM $69/person Sunset Dinner Sail | 5:30–8:00 PM $69/person
Saturday, September 8 Brunch Sail | 10:00 AM–12:00 PM $69/person Schooner Race/Supper Sail 2:00–5:30 PM | $85/person
Sunday, September 9 Brunch Sail | 10:00 AM–12:00 PM $69/person Sail-By/Supper Sail | 2:00–5:30 PM $85/person
Festival Sail | 11:00 AM–2:00 PM $65/adult | $35/18 and under Festival Sail during Sail-By 2:00–5:00 PM | $65/adult $35/18 and under
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Fun and Activity Throughout the Festival Paddleboard Pool
Paint a fish t-shirt, build a Polynesian sailboat or a traditional sailboat. Try out the paddleboard pool, sail and row a longboat, go for a motorboat ride on the Martha J launch. Hunt for treasure, watch pirate plays, dance at the main stage, sing sea shanties, and learn about creatures under the sea! Wooden Boat Festival is for kids – fun, education, and inspiration surround the harbor full of wooden boats. Dreams are launched, and a lifetime of opportunity is all around you! Just inside the entrance to the Festival is a world of fun for pirates and mermaids of all ages AT Kids’ Cove. But there are fun activities for kids and families throughout the Festival grounds as well.
Storytelling
Kids’ Boatbuilding
Orca Tent, Face Painting, and more!
Kids’ Cove
Kids of all ages can design, build, rig, and sail away with their own small wooden boat. Pick a hull, a mast, and some sailcloth, help hold a nail, and share the joy of building a boat. The kids’ boatbuilding area has been a favorite for years and continues to be one! Special treat this year, Polynesian style boat building! Build one or both!
Fish Painting T-shirts Kids’ Cove
Come to Kids’ Cove, buy a t-shirt for $5, paint your fish, and print it on your t-shirt. Then hang your shirt on the line to dry while you tour the Festival, and stop back to pick it up on your way out. Offered in partnership with YMCA of Jefferson County.
On the Point
Try out our paddleboard pool on the Point! This is a safe, fun environment for giving paddleboarding a try.
Child Care During the Festival Offsite
Too much festival for your little ones? Firefly Preschool is open for you to drop off your children in a safe, convenient, educational environment! Saturday 5:00–9:000 PM. Reserve at 360.379.1129. Cost is $10/hour, with a 50% sibling discount. Conveniently located at 609 Taylor Street, Uptown Port Townsend.
Kids’ Cove
Children’s book authors, Jefferson County Library, and Port Townsend Library entertain kids with stories of the sea!
Kids’ Cove
“Passport to Adventure” Scavenger Hunt! Cupola House
Scavenger Hunt for kids of all ages, sponsored by the Jefferson County Marine Resources Committee (MRC). Pick up your Passport and map at the MRC booth at the head of the Point Hudson Marina, then ‘travel’ to specified Festival locations, learn something about the marine environment, and collect a stamp for your Passport. Visit all 8 sites and return to the MRC booth to collect a prize! It’s fun for the whole family and an interactive way to learn more about what you can do to take care of our marine ecosystems.
19th Annual North Star Stage Artist Row
One of the highlights of the Festival for years, this witty and charming play is directed by Port Townsend’s own Joey Pipia. Each year he and his playwright team, including daughter Sophie, conjure up the new adventures of Captain Cloud. The play never fails to entertain and amuse young and old – it’s a “don’t miss” for any age! Check the schedule for times.
Captain Pirate’s Treasure Hunt Cupola House
At high noon on Sunday, young pirates from near and far make their way to the Jolly Roger flag at the Cupola House. Anyone dressed like a pirate can join the hunt, scouring the grounds and beaches for the “X” that marks the spot of buried treasure. Sunday from noon–1 PM.
Boat Rides on Martha J End of the Marina
These free rides are very popular – sign up early! Signups start at 9 AM for morning rides and noon for afternoon rides. This is a great way to get out on the water and see the Festival.
Row and Sail a Longboat End of Marina
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of Captain George Vancouver’s ship’s longboat from 1792. Work together as crew to row and/or sail aboard these 26’ open boats with 8 rowing stations. Ages 12 and up. Signups start at 9 AM for longboat rides.
Kids’ Activities Schedule
Friday 10–5 Kids’ Boatbuilding – Kids’ Cove 10–5 Fish Painting T-shirts – Kids’ Cove 10-6 Paddleboard pool – The Point 11–4 Longboat Rides for 12 & over – End of the Marina 11–4 Martha J Boat Rides – End of the Marina Noon–9 All Family Music and Dancing – Main Stage 1 PM Storytelling – Kids’ Cove 7–10 Sea Shanty Circle – Marina Room Saturday 9–4:30 Longboat Rides for 12 & over – End of the Marina 9–4:30 Martha J Boat Rides – End of the Marina 10- 6 Paddleboard pool – The Point 10 AM Storytime- Kids’ Cove 10–5 Kids’ Boatbuilding – Kids’ Cove 10–5 Fish Painting T-shirts – Kids’ Cove 11–Noon Captain Cloud’s Latest Adventure – North Star Stage Noon–9 All Family Music and Dancing – Main Stage 1 Pirate Storytime – Kids’ Cove 3–4 Captain Cloud’s Latest Adventure – North Star Stage 7 Sea Shanty Circle – Marina Room Sunday 10–4:30 Longboat Rides for 12 & over – End of the Marina 10-2 Martha J Boat Rides – End of the Marina 10 AM Storytime- Kids’ Cove 10–4 Kids’ Boatbuilding – Kids’ Cove 10–4 Fish Painting T-shirts – Kids’ Cove Noon–1 Captain Pirate’s Treasure Hunt – Meet at the Cupola House Noon–5 All Family Music and Dancing – Main Stage 1–2 Captain Cloud’s Latest Adventure – North Star Stage 2 PM Storytime – Kids’ Cove Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader
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48° North joins the Northwest Maritime Center! We know, we know – we should have sent invitations to a big wedding and invited all of our friends, but as it happened, the Northwest Maritime Center and 48° North, the Northwest’s sailing magazine of record for 30-plus years, effectively eloped over the summer – and all of us at the altar are pretty moony-eyed about the whole thing. The Northwest Maritime Center exists to advance our region’s maritime culture, and after years of engaging with us as advertisers, covering our programs, and being inspired by and sponsoring the Race to Alaska, the owners of the magazine were looking to retire. Rather than continue to look for a buyer to carry the torch, Richard Hazelton and Michael Collins grew keen on the idea of the NWMC becoming the steward of their legacy. After a series of conversations that spanned months, and pints, and emails, 48° North now and forever exists as part of our family of efforts to engage the ever-growing number of people looking to the water as their source of inspiration and adventure. What does this mean for 48° North? The magazine has a solid future and the backbone of the NWMC to help it imagine its next 30 years of reporting and supporting our region’s sailing culture. What does this mean for the NWMC? We couldn’t be more humbled and inspired to take on the work of 48º North as part of our mission, and to build on the three decades of excellence we’re inheriting to advance the sailing scene of the PNW. Pinch us; we must be dreaming. Actually, don’t pinch us.
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Wooden Boat Festival 2018 Artist Jesse Joshua Watson The Wooden Boat Festival is a rich, historic annual event with many different facets. For this year’s poster image I wanted to emphasize a personal favorite, the Bar Harbor Mainstage. As someone who has been lucky enough to play music on that stage a number of times, I hoped to capture the exuberance of the musical part of the festival. Point Hudson is a working marina. It’s a diverse collection of boat makers, maritime businesses, and tourists. Sails are made here,with hands and sweat and years of experience. Teak and oak are transformed here, by wood whisperers, into vessels that navigate the globe. Strolling visitors from far and near are enlightened and awed by the heritage and bustling industry of the harbor. Saturday evening at the festival is the time we all come together. The orange glow of the dancing crowd in the festival lights contrasts with the ultramarine blues of a late summer evening in Port Townsend. That crowd is truly something special; folks of diverse ages and backgrounds come together to dance in the warmth of each other and in celebration of our heritage on the water. Jesse Joshua Watson lives with his wife and sons in Port Townsend. His art has been featured in magazines, books, and record covers and has been displayed in galleries and museums up and down the West Coast as well as in NYC, where Jesse won several awards from the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. In addition to writing and illustrating books, exhibiting fine art, and teaching art to kids, Jesse plays soccer religiously, music frequently, and surfs the chilly waters of the PNW as often as he can, which, as you probably guessed...is not nearly enough.
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Volunteer of the Year:
MICHAEL ROSSER
This is Michael’s 10th year of volunteering for WBF. He started by handing out packets to boaters on the dock, worked on the dock safety crew for 6 years, and now He’s one of the main volunteer managers helping with the massive setup and teardown process. Each year Michael puts in over 100 hours of his time during the week of Festival. He not only contributes his time: his Sequim based handyman service company donates bee traps, and has also upgraded much of our Bar Harbor lighting to LED, making it more efficient and easier to install. Michael’s generosity is overshadowed only by his dedication. While he loves volunteering and helping his community, nothing makes Michael Rosser happier than his daughter Ashley, Port Townsend’s 2018 Rhody Festival Queen. Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader
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Lifetime Achievement Awards ★★★
MARTY LOKEN
BOB PERRY
Marty Loken says he’s best known as “an out-of-control collector of project boats.” Marty dedicates his life to getting people and boats out on the water and he’s mastered this feat countless times over his 75 years. Over 200 boats owe their restored and renewed lives to his craftsmanship and vision: he’s built dozens more boats from scratch. At his shop in Nordland, WA, he makes sure that worthy older wooden boats stay on the water. Marty and his wife Marijiann (Mo) Moss say the place is known as “the boat farm”… a sort of halfway house for good old boats that need to be saved. In just the last year Marty built a 16-foot Oxford Wherry and restored four classic boats while serving as Associate Editor of Small Craft Advisor magazine and Editor of Duckworks Magazine: this is what he calls “semi-retirement.” Marty’s love of water and boats began almost before he can remember. It’s been said he must have been “born in a boat.” His first rocking horse was actually a boat with handles. Marty grew up in the Scandinavian neighborhood of Ballard, WA, surrounded by fishermen, boats, and water. His father and grandfather designed and built boats; Marty built his first boat at age ten, and another one a few months later. In high school he developed an interest in writing and was soon launched on a ten-year general reporter job with The Seattle Times. Family connections led him to Alaska where he spent almost a decade editing regional magazines, writing books, and honing photography skills. Marty’s love of photography (still a passion) led him to create a image management business, which he tranplanted to Seattle in 1980. This successful venture was sold to Getty Images of London in 1994 and Marty “retired” from Getty in 1997. Boats became a livelihood in 1997, when Marty took his wooden boat building and restoration skills to work after purchasing Seattle’s Wooden Boat Shop retail store and launching The Restoration Shop, specializing in full restoration of customers’ vintage boats. Two years later the business moved to Whidbey Island. Marty met Mo at the Whidbey Island Writers Conference shortly thereafter: four years later they together moved boats, shop and all to Marrowstone Island. Retirement began anew for Marty in December, 2013, when he shifted to restoration of his own boats, rather than those of customers. He now had time to turn back to writing, photography and public service as well, to the great benefit of the maritime and local community. Marty organized the annual Pocket Yacht Palooza in Port Townsend, the largest gathering of small boats on the West Coast. He had served on the board of The Center for Wooden Boats (and is a lifetime member), now volunteers for the Wooden Boat Festival, and has served in numerous leadership roles for classic boat and professional publications and organizations. Marty has loved to row and take on boating adventures since childhood and most recently was an inaugural SEVENTY48 racer aboard a Colin Angus Oxford Wherry as TEAM GEEZER. Keep an eye out at the Wooden Boat Festival for FOTO, the 1953-designed raised deck outboard cruiser Marty recently restored, Marty and Mo enjoy FOTO’s role as the official Photo Boat of Small Craft Advisor magazine, based in Port Townsend. Restored to glory and active use, as all good old boats deserve, Marty’s boats are a legacy of lifetime achievement.
“You have made my boyhood dream come true,” says Bob Perry. Grateful to his teachers, for opportunities, and for the sailors who cherish his work, Bob designs yachts that are grateful for water and wind. Robert H. Perry was born in Ohio and spent his childhood in his mother’s native Australia. At age twelve, he joined his parents on a month long voyage by Liberty ship back to the States. That experience aboard shaped Bob’s future career and plunged his imagination into ships and the sea. By eighth grade, in Seattle, Bob was immersed in the study and practice of sailing. He decided to become a yacht designer while still in high school. An introduction and lunch with Bill Garden, when Bob was just fifteen, set the course. Bob attended Seattle University and moved directly into design work shortly thereafter. Through his 20s Bob worked under a number of master designers in Seattle and Boston, finally opening his own office on Shilshole Bay in Seattle in the early 1970s. The Valiant 40 began production in Bellingham in 1973; the yacht was a runaway success and an instant classic−eventually over 200 were built. Owners were (and still are) thrilled with a versatile ocean cruiser that quickly proved fast, comfortable, safe, and capable of both circumnavigation and performance racing. Bob’s third client wanted to build CT54 boats in Taiwan, so beginning in the late 1970s Bob began a cooperative design/build relationship with the Taiwanese maritime industry. This partnership lasted for over two decades and produced hundreds of his yachts. The Valiant 40 was quickly followed by the Islander 38, Tayana 37, and Baba 30; design after design−many hundreds, eventually−flowed from Bob’s desk and changed the face of sailing in the Pacific Northwest and around the globe. Today it’s said that there are more of Bob Perry’s designs cruising the world than those of any other designer. Bob is certainly not retired. He’s still designing new boats of all kinds, and provides fee-based consultations for serious boat shoppers. One recent innovative racer was built at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in Port Hadlock: the Perry Sliver Class Daysailer 62´ Francis Lee, launched in 2014, proved a head-turner and dominant racer. Bob enjoys crewing this successful new design; scratch that−Bob likes to drive her any time he’s aboard, which is often, thanks to a twenty year friendship with her owner. Bob and his wife live in a beach cottage on the North Sound and he enjoys time on the water in his Boston Whaler. He’s still in favor of sailing well to weather and grateful that his career has brought him so much pleasure. He designs in order to put water and wind to their best use: “It’s not magic. Just physics.” This year’s Wooden Boat Festival judging team acknowledges Bob Perry’s lifetime achievement with gratitude for keeping so many of us fast, comfortable, and safe.
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Travel with us to the Australian Wooden Boat Festival February 2–11, 2019
Visit one of the largest wooden boat festivals in the world featuring a mile of waterfront with over 500 vessels with our Festival Director, Barb Trailer and Harbormaster, Daniel Evans. Learn more online: nwmartime.org/travel or come to Wooden Boat Festivals of the World Open House
4-5 pm, Saturday, Sept. 8 in the Hospitality Suite
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Visiting Wooden Boat Festivals Around the World (aka Finding Our BFF Down Under) Imagine taking our beloved Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival, doubling the number of boats, stretching it to a mile of waterfront, giving all the people Aussie accents, and turning it upside down – in February. In that image, you’ll find yourself in Hobart, Tasmania, in their still summery autumn at the Australian Wooden Boat Festival – the largest “purely” wooden boat gathering in the world.
enBoat campus in Brooklin, Maine, and Mystic Seaport in Connecticut.
Three years later it was my turn to be gobsmacked! I attended the event during a visit with family in Melbourne. The capacious docks in the city center (think Victoria Harbor x 3), the sight of no less than 8 tall ships (some from Holland plus Together, these two events are – in wooden meccas of the world,” stopped to visit Port the authentic replica of HMS Endeavour) boat world – the biggest and best. Having Townsend. We were his first stop in Amer- sailing up the expansive Derwent River traveled to both for a decade, I can attest ica. As we toured Point Hudson, dozens of with a thousand other boats (when you we’re “best mates,” “BFFs,” soul mates, and marine trades businesses, the NW School count all the “punts”), and the undeniably genetically linked, not only in our Pacific of Wooden Boatbuilding, and met many of familiar and symbiotic passion of the boat saltiness, but through skills and tradithe people who infuse our event with such owners, families, and builders (like here), tions that lead back two hundred years to passion and skill, he was gobsmacked! He immediately bonded me to the place, the Europe. graciously invited us across the Pacific and country, and the people. gave us a poster. We tacked it up prominently in the montage of inspiration that I first heard about the AWBF in 2004 Fast forward 15 years. Both events have also helped to insulate the back offices at when one of three founding directors, evolved in exponential ways. Both anchor Cupola House, and sent him off with all Andy Gamlin, who was on a government their entire region’s economy, providing our best wishes to his next stops; Woodfunded research trip to “the wooden boat thousands of jobs, spawning hundreds of 14 ‹ 42nd WOODEN BOAT FESTIVAL
world-class product, business, education, and non-profit collaborations, and serving as a nexus for generations of makers that create our proud, unique, and sustainable communities. For the first time ever, America was chosen as the featured guest country at AWBF. Who will represent us? Long-time participants of PTWBF, of course! We may be on opposite sides of the Pacific, the hemispheres, and the International Date Line, but whether you’re in PT or OZ, you’ll recognize us by our common surname – Wooden Boat Festival. With all the salt, sawdust, sass, sails, and spirit those sibilant words can stir, I hope you’ll join the family and attend both events this coming year. \ by Kaci Cronkhite, author of Finding PAX, former WBF director, and wooden boat ‘tragic’ forever
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at Memorial Field Adjacent to the Festival. Support Public Parks! Park for Parks is a Jefferson County Parks and Recreation Fundraiser. All proceeds benefit our extensive parks and recreation system which includes 21 local and regional parks and a major community recreation program. Rest assured your Park for Parks contribution will be put to excellent use! We thank you once again for your support, we hope you enjoy our safe, quiet, and convenient parking and have a wonderful Wooden Boat Festival. — Hours —
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Documentary about trans-Atlantic solo sail 21 years in making Northwest premiere at Wooden Boat Festival
A year after Robert Manry sailed solo across the Atlantic in 1965, in a 13-and-a-half-foot boat, he would write about his adventure in a book named for his vessel, “Tinkerbelle.”
“There is no dream so big that you can’t fit it inside of a tiny boat.” •
Steve Wystrach was so inspired by this book, and by Manry’s example, he not only undertook a solo sailing voyage of his own in 1997, from Los Angeles to Hawaii, but he wound up spending the next 21 years assembling a documentary about Manry’s voyage.
Steve Wystrach Documentary maker “Manry at Sea”
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“As I was outfitting my boat in 1997, I was rereading my favorite books about small boat voyages, one of which was ‘Tinkerbelle,’” Wystrach said. “At the end of that book was an extensive information section for other sailors, including a complete list of equipment Manry had on his voyage.” One line item in that appendix was a 16-millimeter movie camera, and since Wystrach had extensive career experience as a film editor and film archivist, he could not help but wonder what had happened to Manry’s film. Manry himself had died in 1971, and it took years for Wystrach to succeed in making contact with Manry’s family. “I finally tracked down his brother, and he had the film, just sitting in a cardboard box in his house,” Wystrach said. “The brother told me, ‘I was just going to throw this box out next spring, so if you’d like it, you can have it.” Wystrach paid for Manry’s brother to ship the film, and through him, made contact with Manry’s sister, who “fortunately for me, turned out to be a bit of a packrat.” Wystrach’s further contacts with Manry’s family yielded home movies, film slides, news footage from
ry’s voyage is not just to hold onto one’s childhood dreams, but also to take concrete steps to make those dreams real.
In 1965, Cleveland native Robert Manry sailed from Falmouth, Massachusetts, to Falmouth, Cornwall, England, in a 13-and-a-half-foot boat named “Tinkerbelle.” Courtesy photo
newspapers were chasing any clue to track him down.”
WEWS-TV in Manry’s hometown of Cleveland, and even a roll of home-movie footage from the cook onboard a freighter stopping and overlooking Manly as he sailed in Tinkerbelle. Along the way, whenever he had the time and the funds to do so, Wystrach conducted interviews with not only Manry’s relatives, but also his colleagues at the Cleveland Plain Dealer, where Manly worked, as well as employees of WEWS-TV. “It ebbed and flowed, when I was able to hire crews and shoot the interviews,” Wystrach said. Wystrach pointed out his documentary, “Manry at Sea,” covered more than just the “adventure” of his voyage, but also followed the race going on in the news media at the time.
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Robert Manry
Wystrach explained Manry’s coworkers at the Cleveland Plain Dealer saw an opportunity to sell more papers by following their employee’s progress across the Atlantic Ocean, but the Plain Dealer’s competition sought to scoop them by pinpointing his latest whereabouts on their own. “So here he is, out at sea and having the time of his life,” Wystrach said. “And, meanwhile, these competing
Wystrach has been gratified by the positive response his documentary has received, starting with its inaugural screening in Manry’s native Cleveland, during the Cleveland International Film Festival this spring, followed by stops at film festivals in Madrid and Palm Springs, and invitations to film festivals in Buffalo and Warsaw. “The Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend will be this film’s Northwest premiere,” Wystrach said, who noted it would air in Bali that same month. “I’m very happy that audiences seem to have been engaged and entertained, and that they’ve regarded it as more than just an adventure.” For Wystrach, the lesson of Man-
“He still had a job and a family and a home in the suburbs, with a mortgage, but he methodically moved ahead,” Wystrach said. “As I was putting together this film over the years, there were times I fell into doldrums, but I thought, ‘Hell, if he could sail across the Atlantic, I can do this.’” Wystrach is especially gratified by the number of viewers who seem to have taken that message to heart. “After some of the screenings, I’ve had people come up to me and say that Manry’s voyage made them realize they needed to pay more attention to what they really wanted to do because they had to do what was inside of them,” Wystrach said. “There is no dream so big that you can’t fit it inside of a tiny boat.” After “Manry at Sea” airs at the Wooden Boat Festival Sept. 8, Wystrach plans to answer questions from the audience, and will have DVDs and Blu-rays available for purchase.
\ Kirk Boxleitner
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Northwest Passage: The Next Thing The most valuable lesson I learned during my 2017 R2AK is how deeply important it is to challenge myself outdoors. That is where I belong. It feels like home. I am ready to go further. Each step we take in life is training for the one after. The Next Thing. Next year, 2019, I plan to paddle the Northwest Passage. My goal is to paddle from Tuktoyaktuk to Pond Inlet on Baffin Island. I will paddle a custom-built carbon fiber expedition/ race SUP built by Joe Bark. I will travel very light, as quickly as possible, with a minimal safety net. There is no point heading out the door to see what you are capable of…while weighing yourself down with a crushing burden of unnecessary gear. My entries in 2017 and 2018 R2AK gifted me the opportunity to test skills I’ve been honing
since before I have memory. I was small when I was sent along down this path. I learned a lot about endurance, and I developed a strong sense of my own horizons during R2AK. I was excited/relieved/proud that my stripped down approach to the race worked as well as it did. Yet, I was left feeling like I wanted more; that I have further to go, more to learn. My chief strategy for dealing with physical/emotional/psychological/ spiritual crises involved extremely disciplined focus on my breath, my stroke, and the countless
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details of my environment…raindrops and the patterns they made, localized breezes and what was causing them, the shapes in the clouds, the Ravens, the Whales, Fish, Seals, Otters, Bears, and Trees. I would blur my vision and allow the water shapes/ovoids to work their magic, all while also focusing on my breath. The miles simply melted away. I felt a deep sense of joy and satisfaction in the overpowering sense that I was safely enveloped by the whole of time and the paddlers who came before me. I slipped easily between worlds. That trip changed my life in fundamental ways. I came home, and found that home wasn’t where I’d left it. My ‘real life’ had become like an old pair of shoes that had become too small to wear any longer, even painful. I have a dear friend, Mary Henrikson. She is an artist. Her work brings tears to my
eyes. Mary has an eye for the ephemeral and fleeting moments by which we measure the worth of our lives. I met Mary the night I finished the 2017 R2AK. I knew instantly, the moment she walked in, we would be friends. I signed the first autograph of my life for her, and she later returned the favor by signing her latest book for me. We talked about the paper-thin veils between worlds. She handed me one of her cards. It bore a miniature version of one of her paintings. Depicted were the sky, the land, and the sea. The three blurred together like a melting ice cream cone. I understood instantly that she knew the depth of what I had just experienced. I am seeking the answer to one very simple question. How
much can I do…with how little? I adore the simplicity, speed, purity of movement, and the raw physicality of long-distance SUP. There is nothing more satisfying than moving with great speed and precision, with a light load. Perhaps, I’ll finally get the answer to my question. Perhaps not. I aim to find out. My whole life I have nursed a strong attraction to the Northwest Passage. My assumption was that I would sail through it one day. Toward the end of my R2AK I realized – in a moment of painfully blinding clarity – that I must paddle it. I must. It brought tears to these eyes, like Mary’s art does. “What will Mary hand me this time?” I wonder. \ By Karl Kruger
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Lata Returned: Living Polynesian Boatbuilding Traditions come to Festival
Kids’ Boatbuilding in Kids’ Cove
Kids of all ages can design, build, rig, and sail away with their own small wooden boat. Special treat this year, Polynesian style boat building!
Sustaining & Sustainable Sailing The last remaining Te Puke, a Polynesian wooden voyaging vessel, was lost in 1963. Colonizers and missionaries forbade the practice of traditional seafaring arts for generations. The outer Solomon Islands, isolated by geography, and rich only in customs and oral history, were in dire peril of losing the knowledge and know-how of their aging elders. But “Lata,” the voyaging ancestor who built the first Te Puke, inspired one islander to prevent the impending loss of identity vital to the happiness and health of his culture. Taumako, the largest of the Duff Islands, in the far northeast of the far-flung Santa Cruz Group in the southeast Solomon Islands, was the birthplace of Lata. Peoples all over our Pacific Ocean hold beliefs of similar voyaging ancestors, many with similar names. Taumako’s undeveloped terrain still grows the quality natural resources necessary to built powerful and reliable oceangoing wooden boats. Some 40 years after their last craft broke up, the people of Taumako, along with anthropologist/voyager Marianne “Mimi” George and a host of supporters revived their traditional skills to launch a newly crafted Te Puke named Vaka Taumako, in August of 1998. Now, almost exactly 20 years later, the Polynesian boatbuilding renaissance comes to the Wooden Boat Festival. We are extremely honored to welcome Dr. Mimi George to the festival; she will introduce us to Lata and the heart of these seafaring peoples. On Friday at 2:30pm 20 ‹ 42nd WOODEN BOAT FESTIVAL
and Sunday at 10:45, she brings to the Adventure Stage the film We, the Voyagers: A Film by Polynesians Practicing Ancient Arts. Mimi and others have established a foundation to perpetuate the revival of Polynesian voyaging and seamanship. Know any other culture hereabouts that’s engaged in similar passions? Perhaps you already have voyaging in your heart: come and
learn just what it takes to find and revitalize the knowledge of a boatbuilding and seagoing culture on the other side of our shared ocean.
TWO SAILING vESSELS = RACE
The Polynesian translation of the universal equation of sailing comes to life in this year’s presentation by veteran world cruisers Philip DiNuovo and Leslie Linkkila. The seldom-visited Ninigo Islands are a group of 31 tiny islands set in 7 atolls that are part of the Manus Province of Papua New Guinea. The Ninigo group features healthy lagoons that make for stunning anchorages set alongside pretty villages. The Seimat people who live there are warm, wonderful people with a still-flourishing sailing canoe culture that allows them to sustainably live on little except pluck, hard work, and love. This is the story of the people, their amazing canted rectangular-boom lugsail single-outrigger sailing canoes, and the culturally rich and highly competitive event dubbed The Great Ninigo Islands Canoe Race. Philip and Leslie will share stories of their cruising adventures and tell us how they undertook direct support for the sailing communities of the Ninigo Islands.
LAKA SAILS THE WORLD
Most of us realize that the Solomon Islands share Polynesian ancestry and boatbuilding culture with a vast net-
work of ocean/island communities. Lata is part of Hawaiian sailing, too; he/she is “Laka.” Like the Solomon Islanders, Hawaiian peoples were stripped of their seafaring practices by colonizers, with near-catastrophic consequences to the health of the hearts of their communities. In the words of the Polynesian Voyaging Society, Hōkūle’a, the now famed Hawaiian voyaging canoe, “began as a dream of reviving the legacy of exploration, courage, and ingenuity that brought the first Polynesians to the archipelago of Hawaii.” ‘Cultural extinction felt dangerously close to many Hawaiians when artist Herb Kane dreamed of rebuilding a double-hulled sailing canoe similar to the ones that his ancestors sailed.” 600 years had passed since the last of these canoes had been seen. Since she was first built and launched in the 1970s, Hōkūle’a has proved more than a voyaging canoe – she “represents the common desire shared by the people of Hawaii, the Pacific, and the World to protect our most cherished values and places from disappearing.” Long a supporter and leader in the Port Townsend boatbuilding community, our friend Captain Steven Soltysik returns to lead us to the story of Hokule`a: A 3-year Voyage Around the World on Saturday afternoon’s Adventure Stage. \
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HIGHLIGHTS | MAP | SCHEDULE
Parking downtown anywhere near the Festival is extremely limited; please consider one of these options:
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GETTING TO THE FESTIVAL
WALK Walk or have someone drop you off downtown. RIDE YOUR BIKE Park your bike at Bike Harbor, just outside the Main Gate. Bikes are NOT allowed inside the Festival grounds. PARK AT PARK-AND-RIDE NEAR SAFEWAY Shuttles run all day Friday-Sunday from the Haines Place Park-and-Ride (adjacent to Safeway grocery store along the main highway) and Festival. COST: $1 for all day pass HOURS: FRIDAY & SATURDAY 8:15 am - 8:45 pm NEW! SUNDAY 8:30 am - 5:15 pm PAID PARKING AT MEMORIAL FIELD All proceeds support the maintenance and operation of Jefferson County Memorial Athletic Field through Jefferson County Parks & Recreation. ALL VEHICLES MUST EXIT EACH NIGHT. GATES LOCKED AT 10 PM. COST: Friday $15 Saturday $25 Sunday $15 HOURS: Friday 7 am - 10 pm Saturday 7 am - 10 pm Sunday 8 am - 10 pm
FESTIVAL HQ Stop by the Festival HQ, located at the base of the Point Hudson Marina near the Exhibitor Gate, for: • Medical Tent for first aid or to report missing persons • Lost and Found • Answers to your Festival questions • Last-minute changes and additions to daily schedule • Wristband purchase The Wooden Boat Festival is staffed by hundreds of volunteers who are here to help. All shirts are named: MEDICAL, STAFF, Volunteers are CREW, Presenters are FACULTY, Board Members are BOARD.
ACCOMMODATIONS Accommodations can be hard to find for the Wooden Boat Festival weekend! There are two excellent online directories for finding available lodging: PTguide: ptguide.com EnjoyPT: enjoypt.com Book now for next year’s Festival: Sept 6-8, 2019
FESTIVAL HOURS
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NIGEL CALDER | FEMALE OFFSHORE PANEL 42ND FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS A renowned sailor & author, a Festival first ever panel of offshore women sailors, and Felicity Ann—inspiring a new generation. FELICITY ANN The first
NIGEL CALDER Nigel has written several books but is best known for his book Boatowner’s Mechanical and Electrical Manual, and his book Marine Diesel Engines, both considered the definitive works in their field and a must-have on every cruising vessel. He has written over 200 magazine articles and a handful of cruising guides. His extensive experience and clarity in explaining how complicated systems work make him one of the most popular speakers around the world.
OFFSHORE PANEL
TALK Solving the Energy Equation SAT 2:30-3:30 TECHNICAL STAGE
This year’s panel includes 3 world and 3 Pacific circumnavigators: Nancy Erley, Behan Gifford, Pam Walls (world) and Leslie Linkkila, Wendy Hinman, Carol Hasse (Pacific). Years of experience range from 1977-present. All own boats. All are Captains or in senior leadership roles onboard. Some sailed with other women, some with men, and some had children onboard. All survived fear, financial challenge, storms, and the oh-so-steep learning curve. They did it! Join us for an inspiring, informed discussion and bring your questions! Moderated by Kaci Cronkhite.
TALK Do-It-Yourself Diesel Engine Survey SUN 9:30-10:30 ADVENTURE STAGE
TALK WOMEN’S OFFSHORE PANEL SAT 3:45-5:00 ADVENTURE STAGE
TALK Can You Trust Your Charts? SAT 9:30-10:30 DISCOVERY STAGE
women to cross any major ocean solo! In 1952 Ann Davison made history in the mighty little boat Felicity Ann. Totally restored by the Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building and Community Boat Project, Felicity Ann will be used by the Community Boat Project as an onthe-water training platform for women, youth, and the community, to encourage women and others to consider a career in the marine trades. Shelly Randall of Port Townsend is FELICITY ANN’s “Storykeeper” and has been researching the boat’s history since August 2017. TALK HOW FELICITY ANN SAILED INTO WOMEN’S HISTORY SUN 9:30-10:30 TECHNICAL STAGE
BOOK SIGNINGS: FINDING PAX
One Womanʼs Journey for the Love of Her Wooden Boat “Nothing less than a love story for a wooden boat.” - Tom Jackson, Senior Editor, WoodenBoat “A love affair, a quest, and adventure.” - Lin Pardey, sailor, author of Storm Tactics Handbook “Inspiring, honest, and will take its place among the modern wooden boat classics.” - Dale McKinnon, wilderness rower AUTHOR SIGNING KACI CRONKHITE FRI - SUN 11:00 am-12:00 MERCHANDISE TENT 22 ‹ 42nd WOODEN BOAT FESTIVAL
AUTHOR SIGNING NIGEL CALDER SAT 11:00 am-12:00 MERCHANDISE TENT
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DANCE
DRINK EAT
THURSDAY
5:30 pm | STEVE GRANDINETTI 6:30 pm | TONY & THE ROUNDABOUT QUINTET 8:30 pm | HAPPENSTANCE
FRIDAY
12:00 pm | MIKE & VAL JAMES 1:00 pm | HOWLY SLIM 2:00 pm | ABAKIS 3:00 pm | JIM BASNIGHT 4:00 pm | PIES ON THE RUN 5:00 pm | JIM BASNIGHT 6:05 pm | JOY IN MUDVILLE 8:30 pm | DELTA RAYS
SATURDAY
11:00 am | BERTRAM LEVY 12:00 pm | THE WHATEVERLY BROTHERS 1:00 pm | ANIKA PEARL 2:00 pm | PINT AND DALE 3:00 pm | TANIA OPLAND 4:00 pm | PINT AND DALE 5:00 pm | COMBO CHORO 6:10 pm | LOWIRE 8:30 pm | UNCLE FUNK & THE DOPE 6
SUNDAY
11:00 am | JOE EURO 12:00 pm | TIME AND TIDE 1:00 pm | JACK AND JOE 2:00 PM | JAKE ARCHER
KIDS’ COVE STORYHOUR FRIDAY, SEPT 7
1:00 pm Author Martha Ashenfelter
SATURDAY, SEPT 8
10:00 am Port Townsend Library 1:00 pm Author Ellen O’Shea
SUNDAY, SEPT 9
10:00 am Author Hannah Vianno 2:00 pm Author Josh Colvin
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BALCONY BAR
This venue features a spectacular view of the Port Townsend Bay. Located on the deck of the Northwest Maritime Center, up the stairs from the Main Gate. Friday & Saturday: 12:00 pm - 8:00 pm Sunday: 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
BAR HARBOR
Home of the Main Stage, this is a traditional beer tent with live music all day and big nighttime dances on Friday and Saturday. Located at the base of the Marina next to the Food Court. Thursday: 5:00 - 11:00 pm Friday - Saturday: 10:00 am - midnight Sunday: 10:00 am - 5pm
WEE NIP MERCHANT SALOON
This little watering hole is located right on the water, with a spectacular view of the boats coming and going. You’ll find it at the very end of the Point. Closed Thursday. Fri-Sun: “When we get there, ‘til we close”
FOOD ON THE POINT
JAVA GYPSY | PT’s favorite mobile coffee MO-CHILLI BBQ | delicious barbecue
FOOD IN THE FOOD COURT
BANGKOK BISTRO | tasty Thai food FLUTTER BY PIZZA PIE | local pizza KOKOPELLI GRILL | fish and chips IN SEASON CATERING | best salmon! LOPEZ ISLAND ICE CREAM: a Festival favorite PAELLA HOUSE | local organic paella! REVOLUTION TACOS | fresh street tacos THE GREEN CUP | organic coffee and teas THE SEAFOOD SPOT | crab cakes & chowder
SNACKS AROUND FESTIVAL EXCELLENT KETTLE CORN | several flavors LITTLE O’S! | mini donuts OLYMPIC CORN BOOTH | fresh hot corn! PIKE PLACE NUTS | tasty hot nuts
GIVEAWAYS & CONTESTS GIVEAWAY! LEE VALLEY/VERITAS GIVEAWAY Stop by the Lee Valley booth in the NWMC Boatshop and enter the raffle to win $100 gift certificates for free tools! Drawings held daily. You do not have to be present to win!
WIN PRIZES! DUCKWORKS DUCK HUNT Find a yellow rubber duck on the Festival grounds and return it to Duckworks Boat Builder’s Supply Booth. $1,000 worth of prizes given away over the weekend. New ducks will be hidden daily!
ALL AGES FUN! PASSPORT TO ADVENTURE SCAVENGER HUNT “Passports” can be picked up at the WSU Extension/ Marine Resources Committee tables Friday and Saturday until 4:00 pm. Return to the starting point to collect a prize! 42nd WOODEN BOAT FESTIVAL › 23
EXHIBITORS
SAIL LOFT Features Sail Loft Stage Massage Tent Exhibitors Island Marine Instruments H&C Marine Puget Soundkeeper Alliance Sail Cargo RACES 48º North Race to Alaska SEVENTY48
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MARIN ROOM
NORTH DOCK BOAT
BOAT YARD STAGE
CENTER DOCK
RIDES
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WOODEN BOAT WAY
EXHIBITOR GATE
SAIL LOFT
SAIL LOFT STAGE
RAC
HANDICAP PARKING
Monroe Street PAID PARKING MEMORIAL FIELD
WOODEN BOAT WAY Features Authors’ Tent Exhibitors 3D Wood Maps Benetti Optics Elizabeth Person Art & Design Grays Harbor Historical Society Mistura Timepieces Rescue Tape Orca Network Port Townsend School of the Arts Port Townsend Marine Trades Sea Air Creations Seattle Central College Wood Technology
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ARTIST ROW
Bar Harbor Mainstage
WoodenBoat Magazine KIDS COVE Kids’ Boatbuilding Polynesian Boatbuilding T-shirt Fish Painting Story Time TRADES Marine Thrift Port Townsend Marine Trades Grays Harbor Historical Seaport
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FESTIVAL HQ Food and Drink Bar Harbor Corn Booth Little O’s Excellent Kettle Korn Features Boat Yard Stage Exhibitors Festival Merchandise Information Tent Jefferson County Marine Resources Medical Tent NW Water Wellness SEA Marine Volunteer Check-In Volunteer Lounge WSU Extension Office
Food Court
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ARTIST ROW Exhibitors Creature Comforts Crispin’s Import Gallery WA Department of Fish and Wildlife PT Marine Science Center Sheepskin and Alpaca Apparel
NORTH STAR STAGE
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THE POINT Food and Drink Java Gypsy Fiddlehead Ice Cream MoChilli BBQ Wee Nip Bar Features Paddleboard Pool Edensaw Boatbuilding Challenge Woodworking Stage Exhibitors Airhead Composting Toilet Chesapeake Light Craft Doyle Sails Electric Paddle Fiberglass Supply Greener Valley Trading H2OUT Kea Kayaks MAS Epoxies Port Townsend School of Woodworking Redfish Kayaks Skidmore Fine Beeswax Products Systems Three West System Epoxy
COMMONS Food and drink Balcony Bar Features Free boat rides Charter Rides Exhibitors Bartender Boats Clean Boating Foundation Duckworks Boat Builder’s Supply Good Story Paddle Boards Paddleshell Sail Cargo Small Craft Advisor Magazine Washington Sea Grant Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader
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THE POINT Wee Nip Bar
WOODWORKING STAGE
LINEAR DOCK
BOATBUILDING STAGE
WOODEN BOAT WAY
CES
H2O
SOUTH DOCK
THE COMMONS BOAT
BOATSHOP > TRADES MAIN GATE BIKE PARKING F ZO NE
DRO P OF
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BUS & SHUTTLE STOP
Exhibitors Lee Valley Tools Southshore Boatworks
NWMC DOCK
Balcony Bar
KIDS’ COVE
BOATSHOP Features & Live Demos The Artful Sailor Ships in Bottle Ships Wheel Carving Furniture Making Plankton Sculptures
RIDES
Adventuress
MAIN GATE Features Boatbuilding Stage (outdoors) Pilothouse Tours (above boatshop) Explorer Stage (above boatshop) Adventure Stage (above coffee shop) Technical Stage (above coffee shop) Exhibitors LaClaires Cutlery Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding Marine Systems
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INDOOR STAGES (ABOVE BOATSHOP)
EXPLORER STAGE DISCOVERY STAGE (ABOVE COFFEE SHOP)
ADVENTURE STAGE TECHNICAL STAGE
CITY DOCK
UNION WHARF
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EVENTS
ON THE WATER
STAGE
BOATBUILDING
STAGE
WOODWORKING
STAGE
BOATYARD
LOFT
SAIL
STAGE
EXPLORER
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DISCOVERY
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TECHNICAL
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ADVENTURE
LOCATION
DAN MATTSON Sand Less and Sail More: Boatbuilding Hacks
AARON BARNETT Clean Boating: Pollution Prevention
BRUCE TIPTON Measuring Without Numbers - Lofting
BILL HAIMES Care and Feeding of the Magnetic Compass
DAVID PATTERSON, BETH & CODY HARRIS Adventures in Anchoring
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
PETER WALFORD & JOHN GREEN Multihulls! Racers and Cruisers
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
BEHAN & JAMIE GIFFORD 10 Years Around the World
10:45 am -11:45 am
11:30 am -12:15 pm
JAY SMITH Norse Boat Building Techniques
BOB FRANK Bottom Paint on Wooden Boats
SEAN KOOMEN Steam Bending
JIM TOLPIN Choosing and Using Hand Saws
10:30 am -11:15 am
ABEL DANCES Joining Deck Beams to Gunnels
TIM LAWSON Sharpening
KEVIN RITZ Basic Boat Electrical Systems
12:30 pm -1:15 pm
ABEL DANCES Shaping at the Stern
12:30 pm -1:15 pm
LELAND GIBSON Carvel Planking Techniques
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
MATTHEW STRAUGHN-MORS MORTICE AND TENONS
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
STEWART PUGH Care & Feeding of Your Outboard
GEOFF TROTT Composting Toilets
11:30 am -12:15 pm
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
9:30 am - 10:15 am
10:30 am -11:15 am
9:30 am -10:15 am
MATTHEW WEAVER Hands on! Try Stitch and Glue
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
LELAND GIBSON Ask a Shipwright Q & A
3:30 pm - 4:15 pm
2:30 pm & 3:30 pm Kayak Rolling Demos
2:30 pm 26’ & under Race Start
BRUCE BLATCHLEY Working with Epoxy & Fiberglass
2:30 pm - 3:15 pm
STEVE EASTWOOD SMOOTHING WITH PLANES
2:30 pm - 3:15 pm
DOUGLAS BROOKS Japanese Boatbuilding Techniques
ROOM
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SHANTEYS
SEA
7:00 pm 10:00 pm
CAROL HASSEN & PT SAILS 40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION! ALL WELCOME!
PARTY
BLAZER
R2AK
6:00 pm
Evening
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
MICHAEL EFFLER & ERIN LEADER Jewel in the Rough or Wrecking Yard?
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm
LEE CHESNEAU Clouds & What They Mean to a Boater
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm
DANIEL JORAM Intro. to Timezero by Nobeltech
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm
TEAM SAIL LIKE A GIRL Winning R2AK 2018
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm
MIMI GEORGE We, the Voyagers: A Film by Polynesians
4:00 pm
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
3:00 pm
WORKING SAIL LOFT OPEN HOUSE | WORKING SAIL LOFT OPEN HOUSE | WORKING SAIL LOFT OPEN HOUSE
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
10:45 am -11:45 am
9:30 am - 10:30 am
10:45 am -11:45 am
WENDY HINMAN Tips and Tricks for Extended Cruising
JAY BENFORD & FRIENDS Yacht Designer Panel
PAM WALL Cool Products No One Knows About
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
LESLIE LINKKILA & PHILIP DINUOVO World’s Fastest Trad. Sailing Canoes
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
10:45 am - 11:45 am
DAVID WILKINSON Your Daily Weather Briefing: Essential Data for Decisions
MARK BUNZEL Planning a Successful Cruise to Alaska
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
2:00 pm
NANCY ERLEY Sailboat as a Teacher
1:00 pm
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
12:00 pm
GREG HATTEN Celebrating 50 Years of WIld & Scenic Rivers
11:00 am
10:45 am - 11:45 am
10:00 am
ELSIE HULSIZER Challenges of Cruising the W. Coast of Vancouver Is.
9:00 am
September 7 • FRIDAY
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EVENTS
ON THE WATER
STAGE
BOATBUILDING
STAGE
WOODWORKING
STAGE
BOATYARD
LOFT
SAIL
STAGE
EXPLORER
STAGE
DISCOVERY
STAGE
TECHNICAL
STAGE
ADVENTURE
LOCATION
TAD ROBERTS Stability and Stabilization
10:45 am -11:45 am
PETER WILCOX Decarbonizing Our Vessels & the Inside Passage
NIGEL CALDER Can You Trust Your Charts?
9:30 am - 10:30 am
BILL HAIMES Care & Feeding of the Magnetic Compass
BRUCE BLATCHLEY Epoxy & Fiberglass
JODY BOYLE Caulking
10:00 am Rowing Race
10:30 am - 11:15 am
WALT TRISDALE Introduction to Hydraulics
11:30 am - 12:15 pm
STEVE EASTWOOD Smoothing with Planes
9:30 am - 10:15 am
11:30 am -1 2:15 pm
RAPHAEL BERRIOS Green Woodworking
KEVIN RITZ Marine Corrosion
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
MATTHEW STRAUGHN-MORSE Dovetails
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
EDENSAW Q&A Boat Lumber, Hardware & Tools
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
TIM LAWSON Sharpening
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
GEOFF TROTT Composting Toilets
STEWART PUGH Care and Feeding of Your Outboard Engine
MATTHEW WEAVER Hands on! Try Fiberglass with Epoxy
10:30 am - 11:15 am
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
PT FOUNDRY Marine Hardware
3:00 pm NW Schooner Cup
STUART WEIBEL Replacing a Marine Diesel Engine
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm
DOUGLAS BROOKS Traditional Japanese Boatbuilding
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm
MARK BUNZEL RICK RANDALL The Latesta in iPad Owning Classic Navigation Apps Woodenand Power Cruiser
2:30 1:15 pm pm -- 3:30 2:15 pm pm
KACI CRONKHITE Women & Water Offshore Panel
3:45 pm - 5:00 pm
4:00 pm
3:30 pm Kayak Rolling Demo
2:30 pm - 3:15 pm
JIM TOLPIN Fundamentals of Layout
2:30 pm - 3:15 pm
JONI BLANCHARD Varnishing Tips and Tricks
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
RICK NOAHRANDALL TODRAS Owning Demystifying a Classic Wooden FoilsPower Cruiser
1:15 pm - 3:30 2:30 2:15 pm
DENNIS ARMSTRONG The Secrets of the Thump Mat
BRUCE TIPTON Wooden Spars
RICH PINDELL When Good Fuel Goes Bad
LESLIE LINKKILA & PHILIP DINUOVO Do You Copy? Radios Aboard
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
NIGEL CALDER RICK RANDALL Solving Energy Owningthe a Classic Equation Wooden Power Cruiser
2:30 1:15 pm pm -- 3:30 2:15 pm pm
ALISON WOOD Sail Handwork: Rings, Slides & Leather
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
3:00 pm
STEVEN SOLTYSIK Hokule’a: A 3-year Voyage Around the World
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
TONY GROVE Boat Interiors
LISA VIZZINI Commons Mistakes & Misconceptions Regarding Rigging
10:00 am - 11:30 am
CAROL HASSE Essentials of Sailmaking
10:00 am - 11:30 am
10:45 am -11:45 am
9:30 am - 10:30 am
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
KARL KRUGER Planning to Paddle the NW Passage Summer 2019
PAM WALL & BEHAN GIFFORD Cruising Families
ELSIE HULSIZER Adventure Cruising in SE Alaska
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
10:45 am -11:45 am
9:30 am - 10:30 am
LEE CHESNEAU Introduction to Charts, Wind & Wave Concepts
NANCY ERLEY Sailboat as a Teacher
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
2:00 pm
GREG HATTEN Celebrating 50 Years of Wild & Scenic Rivers
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
1:00 pm
WENDY HINMAN Sea Trials: Around the World with Duct Tape & Bailing Wire
12:00 pm
10:45 am -11:45 am
11:00 am
NATE ROOKS SEVENTY48: Building & Racing My Ultimate Rowboat
10:00 am
9:30 am - 10:30 am
9:00 am
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7:00 pm 10:00 pm
BAR HAROBR
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SUITE
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Open House
4:00 pm 5:00 pm
of a Dream
In the Wake
Manry at Sea:
7:00 pm
Evening
September 8 • SATURDAY
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EVENTS
STAGE
BOATBUILDING
STAGE
WOODWORKING
STAGE
BOATYARD
LOFT
SAIL
STAGE
EXPLORER
STAGE
DISCOVERY
STAGE
TECHNICAL
STAGE
ADVENTURE
LOCATION
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
JOHN BLACK Strip Built Small Boats
10:45 am -11:45 am
LESLIE LINKKILA & PHILIP DINUOVO Sewing While Cruising
9:30 am - 10:15 am
BILL HAIMES Caring for Your Marine Sextant
2:00 pm
SEAN RANKINS Small Boat Rigging & Sails
JEFF HAMMOND Chopping Rabbets
10:00 am Bell Tolls
10:30 am - 11:15 am
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
12:30 pm Edensaw Boatbuilding Challenge Launch & Awards
RYAN CHADWICK Laminating with Veneers
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
MATTHEW STRAUGHN-MORSE Dovetails
11:30am Kayak Rolling Demo
WALT TRISDALE Diesel Engine Maintenance
11:30 am - 12:15 pm
JIM TOLPIN Choosing & Using Hand Planes
TIM LAWSON Sharpening
9:30 am - 10:15 am
11:30 am - 12:15 pm
MARIA CORYELLMARTIN Adventure Sketching
GEOFF TROTT Composting Toilets
10:30 am - 11:15 am
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
10:45 am -11:45 am
SAIL LOFT CLOSED SUNDAY | SAIL LOFT CLOSED SUNDAY | SAIL LOFT CLOSED SUNDAY
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
DENNIS ARMSTRONG Building Rope Fenders
ROBERT HODGE Failing in R2AK’s 1st Leg: My Story
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
DAN MIMMACK Voyage of the Charrisma
9:30 am - 10:30 am
TEAM OARACLE Rowing and Paddling all the Way to Alaska, Twice
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
MARTY LOKEN Small Boats, Big Adventures
SHELLY RANDALL How the Felicity Ann Sailed into Women’s History
PAM WALL Outfitting for Blue Water Cruising
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
TAD ROBERTS What is Good Design?
10:45 am - 11:45 am
9:30 am - 10:30 am
BEHAN & JAMIE GIFFORD Storms, Pirates & Other Disasters
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
1:00 pm
10:45 am -11:45 am
MIMI GEORGE We, the Voyagers: A Film by Polynesians
12:00 pm
KACI CRONKHITE Finding PAX: How to Find and Write Your Boat’s Story
10:45 am - 11:45 am
11:00 am
NIGEL CALDER Do-it-Yourself Diesel Engine Survey
10:00 am
9:30 am - 10:30 am
9:00 am
SAIL BY
3:00 pm
SAIL BY
3:00 pm
SAIL BY
3:00 pm
SAIL BY
3:00 pm
3:00 pm
September 9 • SUNDAY
SHIP’S WHEEL BUILDING Southshore Boatworks Bob Fuller will be building a custom ship’s wheel throughout the weekend. Come see a master craftsman as he explains the process and builds the wheel before your very eyes.
SHIPS IN A BOTTLE Jeff Simmons will reveal his craft with daily demos from 10 to 12 and 1 to 3!
ARTFUL SAILOR DEMOS Emiliano Marino, author of The Artful Sailor and the Ditty Bag Apprenticeship, will do demonstrations every day at 9 am, 12 pm and 3 pm.
BOATSHOP LIVE DEMOS
EDENSAW BOATBUILDING CHALLENGE Watch teams build boats over the weekend to win the “best boat” and $1500 prize. Boats will parade through festival grounds to the beach at the Maritime Center on Sunday at noon, and then launch and race back into harbor for the awards ceremony, which begins immediately after the last boat arrives at the harbor’s boat launch.
KIDS’ COVE Fun for kids of all ages! Kids’ boat building, fish painting on t-shirts, puppet theater, face painting, storytelling and more!
PADDLEBOARD POOL Back by popular demand! Come try out a paddleboard in this popular, fun feature! Sponsored by Fisheries Supply.
PILOTHOUSE TOURS Come check out the state-of-theart ship simulator. Open Friday and Saturday noon to 4 pm, and Sunday noon to 3 pm. Meet at the top of the stairs at the Northwest Maritime Center.
AUTHORS’ TENT Published Festival presenters will be at the Authors’ Tent! Come say ‘hello’ and have them sign your book.
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Sail Like a Girl Seven women, one Melges 32 sailboat, 750 miles to Alaska. Oceans that turn into rivers, skies that turn into storms; when the wind dies, we pedal and row, fighting for each mile to Ketchikan. The Race to Alaska (R2AK) is an unsupported adventure race between wind- and human-powered craft embracing the spirit of small boats and true adventure all the way up the Inside Passage. Our team, Sail Like a Girl, raced a 14-year-old Melges 32 – a Ferrari of sorts: we spent hundreds of hours modifying her to go off-roading. She proved to be a tough girl with the same grit and determination the women on this crew possessed. On the trek to Ketchikan we experienced wild swings of wind and weather, demonstrating the multiple personalities of Mother Nature at her finest. For the first few days after leaving Victoria, light wind in scorching 84 degree heat demanded hours upon hours of human propulsion on our two propeller powered bikes rigged to the back of the boat. When all
was said and done, we estimate the team biked 75+ hours during our 6 day, 13 hour and 17 minute journey north to Ketchikan. Johnstone Strait brought the first big wind; within moments we went from biking in two knots of breeze in hopes of reaching a nearby wind line, to realizing we needed to quickly get back into the boat because what appeared to be a small gust was about to slam us with 35-40 knots of wind. We reefed. We double-reefed. We dropped and lashed the mainsail to the boom. With the storm jib alone, we pushed on, surfing at 7 knots of speed.
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On day 5 we encountered Lucifer the Log: this thing measured over 20 feet long and 20 inches wide. We met on a moonless night while flying our Code Zero in 6 knots of light air. The collision stopped us in our tracks! In that dark, remote time and place we felt anchors in our stomachs and fear in our hearts. Not knowing the extent of the damage, we dropped our headsail, and limped along until morning could give us a clearer picture. After confirming the boat wasn’t taking on water and that our steering was unaffected, we hoisted sails and went offshore to take the shortest distance to the finish. The waves were short and steep out there, and we were taking quite a beating. Sleeping in the bow, I could feel in my bones the crash each wave delivered – as if the boat was an extension of my own body. Without knowing whether or not our hull or keel was damaged from the log strike, I had to make the call to tack in and take the waves on our port side rather than our bow. This meant
adding 30 miles to our race. With no cell service for tracking, we were certain the previous night’s run-in had cost us the lead. We pushed the boat gently at first, and then more and more as we felt her push herself. 24 hours later as we approached Prince Rupert, Anna received a text from her son. “Mom, you are in the lead!” Surely this was an old message just now coming through. Wait, check Race Tracker! Once the page loaded, it confirmed we were indeed still in first place. Anna, Aimee and I celebrated, waking the other four to let them know the news. With shock and a new vigor, we hopped on the bikes that night and happily pushed on – all the way to Ketchikan and to a first-place win! My reflections: The teamwork we experienced is unmatched by any other in my adult life. Supporting each other and the boat were our top priorities all the way north. Our
pre-race agreement of “Safety First, Speed Second” was put to the test and we were able to follow through. Finding people who share the hunger and drive this team demonstrated, paired with a ‘never quit’ attitude is humbling and wonderful. Seeing the inner warrior in myself is surprising, and seeing it in the women around me is beautiful. Achieving something this difficult is more fulfilling than anything I could achieve day to day. My personal growth in sailing, leading as a skipper, working with a team, and facing fear has been tremendous. Find a challenge for yourself. With all of your being, throw yourself in, plan, over-plan, check your plan, find the right people to share it with, and tackle it voraciously. To all of our family, friends and community that supported us: we are grateful to you from the bottoms of our hearts. \ By Jeanne Assael Goussev, Skipper, Team Sail Like A Girl
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Seventy48:
Building and Racing My Ultimate Rowboat
With 68 miles down and two to go, the final dose of Aleve kicked in and the screaming from within my legs mellowed to a mournful groan. The water between Port Townsend Canal and the eponymous town was glassy, reflecting the sharp morning sun and leaving no excuse to do anything other than put the oars in and pull. After roughly 12,000 strokes, I pulled up to the public dock in the 20-foot wooden rowboat I had finished building just two weeks prior. I rung the bell and snagged my #11 from the red deli-line counter, finishing the inaugural Seventy48 race in 14 hours and 9 minutes. Quick backstory: Years of dreaming about building a wooden boat and rowing the Inside Passage with my brother had turned into Team Bunny Whaler - R2AK 2016, when we took an open 17-foot Boston Whaler sailing dinghy all the way to Ketchikan. That incredible adventure changed me personally, but also led to a new career and opened doors to a world of boating opportunities and connections beyond belief. After two years of being asked, “Will you do R2AK again?” the announcement of Seventy48 felt
like a gift addressed directly to me. A 70-mile, human-powered race through my home waters sounded like a great way to reawaken the vestiges of my once-high-level rowing engine, and would surely require less planning and time away from home… or so I thought. In what I can only describe as a lightning-strike confluence of good fortune, a multi-faceted plan flashed in my head to bring together several amazing boating entities: • Build a sliding-seat version of Clint Chase’s Drake Raceboat (I’d
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rowed and filmed the first 18-foot version at PTWBF 2017). • Build it at the Center for Wooden boats (my favorite place in Seattle). • Race it in Seventy48. • Film the whole shebang for Off Center Harbor videos. Any hangups or a “no” from anyone and the project could not have happened; certainly not on the schedule that it did. Astonishingly, everyone shared my excitement and said, “We’ll make it work!” I began building in earnest in February. The next three months were a blur of excitement, frustration, and education. I relished the opportunity to improve my dormant woodworking skills, but learning on the fly meant doing many steps twice or more. Luckily, the detailed, computer-designed kit from PT’s Turn Point Design meant that it all fit together despite my mistakes. As May approached and the race loomed, it became clear that a few hours a day in the shop would not suffice, and the last
several weeks of the build required 8-12 hours a day working on the boat. Just over two weeks before the race, I bolted the late-addition carbon fiber riggers onto the freshly epoxied hull and realized she was ready to launch. With family, champagne, and smiles, Codojual hit the water, named in honor of Betty Lowman Carey’s Bijaboji and for my family – Cooper, Don, Julia, and Alex. Amazingly, the boat and rig were so close to right that after just a few sea trials and adjustments she was completely dialed in. She has the feel of a big-boy racing shell: sensitive and fast, but with the ability to carry over a hundred pounds of gear! After a week of rowing around Lakes Union and Washington, my training culminated with another long-time goal – a row around Bainbridge, the island where I grew up. With my brother following in a dinghy, I covered the 28 miles in 5 ½ hours, supporting my suspicion that Codojual and I were going to have a blast in Seventy48.
And what an incredible time! Like R2AK, the race was both harder and more fun than I expected. The scene of hundreds of small craft on Puget Sound with a Mt. Rainier backdrop was stunning. I went out faster than planned, racing a game rower in an open water shell up Colvos Passage before settling into a lumpy and windy night with the goal of just making forward progress without worrying about speed. The 5 dark hours were a moonless meditation, chasing after and running from bobbing navigation lights. Feeling the sun pierce over Whidbey Island, exhausted but so grateful to be rowing my boat, was exactly what I’d been looking for. Completing the many parts of this project and sharing exhaustion, amazement, and respect with the other Seventy48 racers was a dizzying, humbling elation. It’s something I don’t expect to experience often, but will be searching for until I do. In the meantime, I’ll be out rowing the boat I built. \ By Nate Rooks
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2018 Festival Faculty Mats... Things to Do with Line That Is Too Good to Throw Away SAT 1:30-3:00 Sail Loft
The Secrets of the Thump Mat SUN 1:15-2:15 DISCOVERY STAGE
Dennis Armstrong – Dennis Armstrong is the owner and operator of the Knotted Line, a company dedicated to the preservation of the knotting tradition. In business for 37 years, the Knotted Line builds rope fenders for small craft. Dennis is a member of the International Guild of Knot Tyers.
door making, carving, and tool making; Raphael Berrios brings a wide array of experience to the Port Townsend School of Woodworking.
Ways of Learning: An Apprentice Boatbuilder in Japan
Building a Strip Built Kayak
Demonstration: Traditional Japanese Boatbuilding
SUN 12:00-1:00 Explorer stage
John Black - John is a three time trans-Atlantic sailor who built his kayak when he moved from the coast to Tennessee, giving up sailing for kayaking. He is a master cabinet maker and was selected by the U.S. Senate Curators to build reproductions of Henry Clay’s and Daniel Webster’s desks.
Clean Boating: Varnishing Pollution Prevention for Tips and Tricks Recreational Boaters SAT 2:30-4:15 FRI 12:00-1:00 Explorer stage
Aaron Barnett - As Washington Sea Grant’s boating program specialist, Aaron Barnett works with boat owners, marina operators, and port managers to keep Washington’s waters safe for people and wildlife. From his base at the Northwest Maritime Center in Port Townsend, Aaron manages Pumpout Washington, a collaboration with the Washington State Parks Clean Vessel Program, to keep onboard sewage out of local waterways. He also works with marinas to install pump-out stations, with more than 150 now located throughout the state.
Yacht Designers Panel FRI 12:00-1:00 Technical stage
Jay Benford - Jay Benford has been doing yacht design work since 1962. He apprenticed with John Atkin in Connecticut, worked for several boat building operations, and opened his own yacht design office in 1969. After living and cruising in the Pacific Northwest for 18 years, he has spent the last 30 years on the Chesapeake Bay. His design work is largely for cruising boats, both sail and power, with a large percentage of them used as liveaboards. Recently he has been blessed with another part-time job: helping care for his youngest granddaughter.
Green Woodworking
SAT 10:30-11:30 WOODWORKING STAGE
Raphael Berrios - With professional experience in cabinet making, finish carpentry, and visual arts; and personal exploration in window and
BOATYARD STAGE
Joni Blanchard - Joni has been varnishing, oiling, and painting boats here in Port Townsend for 27 years. Three years ago, she authored the book Tricks, Cheating & Chingaderos – A Collection Of Knowledge And Tips For Varnishing/Painting Wooden Boats.
Working with Epoxy and Fiberglass FRI 2:30-3:15 BOATBUILDING STAGE SAT 10:30-11:15 BOATBUILDING STAGE
Bruce Blatchley - Bruce is a graduate of, and instructor at, the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding. After graduation, he honed his skills as a shipwright and teacher around the Salish Sea and was recruited by the Boat Building Facility in Taichang, China.
Caulking
SAT 9:30-10:15 BOATBUILDING STAGE
Jody Boyle - In 1998, Jody started his woodworking career in the wood shop at the Martha’s Vineyard Shipyard, while also building custom furniture and cabinetry. In 2003 he graduated from the Arques School in Sausalito, studying traditional boat design and construction. For the following 11 years, he was co-owner of a boat shop on the Sausalito waterfront, building and repairing wooden boats. He moved to the Pacific Northwest in 2014 and began teaching at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in June of 2015.
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SAT 3:45-4:45 Discovery stage
FRI 2:30-3:30 BOATYARD STAGE
Douglas Brooks - Douglas Brooks is a boatbuilder, writer and researcher specializing in traditional wooden boats. Since 1996 he has been documenting traditional Japanese boatbuilding, working alongside seven craftsmen building eight types of boats. He is the sole apprentice for six of his seven teachers. His work has been honored by the Japanese Ministry of Culture, and he was awarded the 2014 Rare Craft Fellowship from the American Craft Council. He has authored four books on Japanese boatbuilding and writes for Woodenboat Magazine, Classic Boat, and other publications.
Planning a Successful Cruise to Alaska FRI 1:15-2:15 ADVENTURE STAGE
The Latest in iPad Navigation and Apps SAT 3:45-5:00 Technical Stage
Mark Bunzel - Mark Bunzel is the owner of Fine Edge Publishing, and is publisher and editor of the Waggoner Cruising Guide. He is a long time boater, pilot, writer, photographer, USCG licensed Master, scuba diver, cyclist, Wooden Boat Festival veteran, and much more.
Can You Trust Your Charts? SAT 9:30-10:30 Discovery stage
Solving the Energy Equation SAT 2:30-3:30 TECHNICAL STAGE
Do-It-Yourself Diesel Engine Survey SUN 9:30-10:30 ADVENTURE STAGE
Nigel Calder - Nigel Calder is best known for his Boatowner’s Mechanical And Electrical Manual And Marine Diesel Engines, both considered definitive works. In addition to hundreds of magazine articles, he has also authored A Cruising Guide To The Northwest.
Laminating with Veneers
SUN 12:30-1:15 BoatBuilding Stage
Ryan Chadwick - Ryan Chadwick is an instructor at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding.
Clouds & What They Mean to a Boater FRI 3:45-4:45 DISCOVERY STAGE
Introduction to Wind & Wave Concepts & Charts SAT 9:30-10:30 TECHNICAL STAGE
Lee Chesneau - Lee Chesneau is a senior marine meteorologist, lecturer, and a graduate from one of the elite universities offering degrees in meteorology, the University of Wisconsin (Madison). His B.S. Degree in Meteorology was Lee’s ticket to a distinguished and extensive career with NOAA’s National Weather Service (NWS), NOAA Satellite Service (NESDIS), and more.
Adventure Sketching SUN 12:00-1:00 BOATYARD STAGE
Maria Coryell-Martin – Maria is an artist working in the tradition of traveling artists as naturalists and educators. Since 2005, she has focused on painting polar and glaciated regions, often collaborating with scientific teams. She develops her work into studio paintings for exhibits as well as presentations and workshops for audiences of all ages to cultivate observation, scientific inquiry, and environmental awareness.
Finding PAX: How to Find and Write Your Boat’s Story SUN 9:30-10 :30 DISCOVERY STAGE
Women’s Offshore Panel SAT 3:45-5:00 ADVENTURE STAGE
Kaci Cronkhite - Kaci Cronkhite is a life-long traveler and writer. She explored for a decade in Alaska, a decade on oceans, a decade at the helm of the Wooden Boat Festival, and has just published her first book. Stop by Pax during the Festival or visit her website (kacicronkhite.com) to catch up.
Joining Deck Beams to Gunnels FRI 10:30-11:15 Woodworking Stage
Shaping at the Stem
FRI 12:30-1:15 Woodworking stage
Abel Dances - With over 20 years
of experience in carpentry and hand tools, Abel now leads the Foundations of Woodworking Intensive at the Port Townsend School of Woodworking.
Smoothing with Planes FRI 2:30-3:15 Woodworking Stage SAT 11:30-12:15 WOODWORKING STAGE
Steve Eastwood - Steve Eastwood is an instructor at the Port Townsend School of Woodworking.
Sailboat as a Teacher FRI 12:00-1:00 ADVENTURE STAGE SAT 1:15-2:15 ADVENTURE STAGE
Nancy Erley - Nancy Erley is a sail instructor, circumnavigator, and founder of Tethys Offshore Sailing for Women. Nancy is an advocate for women’s sailing and is an internationally acclaimed speaker. She made two voyages around the world in her boat, Tethys, during which she provided hands-on ocean-sailing experience to more than 50 women.
Bottom Paint on Wooden Boats
FRI 10:30-11:15 BOATBUILDING STAGE
Bob Frank - Bob Frank is the owner of Admiral Ship Supply in Port Townsend.
We, the Voyagers: A Film by Polynesians Practicing Ancient Arts FRI 2:30-3:30 ADVENTURE STAGE
We, the Voyagers: A Film by Polynesians Practicing Ancient Arts SUN 10:45-11:45 ADVENTURE STAGE
Mimi George - Marianne “Mimi” George, Ph.D, is a remote-ocean sailor and cultural anthropologist who supports the revival of ancient voyaging practices. Since 1979 Mimi has documented the articulation of spiritual power by ancient voyagers of Papua New Guinea: the experience of a small, mixed-gender group in prolonged isolation while wintering over a sailboat in Antarctic sea-ice to do scientific projects; the voyaging connections of sea-hunters and herders on both sides of Bering Straits; and the training of Polynesian youth in building voyaging canoes and navigating using only ancient materials, designs, and methods. Among the arts that have been forgotten by others are weather modification and the use of ancestral lights that show
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the way to land. Mimi describes how the practice of ancient voyaging arts brings sustainability, resiliency, and happiness to practitioners, and how women and children are key practitioners in the voyaging life.
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Leland Gibson - Leland Gibson is an instructor at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding.
10 Years Around the World: A Family Circumnavigation
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Storms, Pirates, and Other Disasters at Sea: Addressing the Biggest Pre-Cruising Fears sun 12:00-1:00 aDventure stage
Behan Gifford - Behan and Jamie Gifford circumnavigated the world aboard their Stevens 47, Totem, while raising three children. They set off from the Pacific Northwest in 2008 and have since visited 48 countries and territories from Mexico to Madagascar and Martinique, and continue to cruise in the eastern Pacific. Jamie is a sailmaker and recovering racing sailor with 100,000+ miles of diverse experience on the water. Behan found sailing the perfect vehicle to satisfy her wanderlust, and is a co-author of Voyaging With Kids, the de facto guide to cruising with children. Together they provide coach and mentor services to help people realize their cruising dreams.
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Tony Grove - After completing a four-year boatbuilding apprenticeship in British Columbia, Tony honed his skills as a shipwright, specializing in wooden boat restoration, construction, and boat interior building, and has worked for various companies and private clients.
Chopping Rabbets
sun 9:30-10:30 BoatBuiLDing stage
Joining with our friends and neighbors to CELEBRATE Happy Wooden Boat Festival!
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Carol Hasse & Port Townsend Sails 40th Anniversary Celebration – All Are Welcome! FRI 4:00-6:00 Sail Loft
The Essentials of Sailmaking SAT 10:00-11:30 Sail Loft
Carol Hasse - Carol Hasse is a sailmaker, sailor, writer, sail instructor, and founder and owner of Port Townsend Sails. One of the original Wooden Boat Festival organizers, Carol has a deep love of wooden boats. She has sailed over 50,000 miles offshore in a number of the world’s waters.
Celebrating 50 Years of Wild & Scenic Rivers SAT 12:00-1:00 ADVENTURE STAGE
Greg Hatten - Greg Hatten has been running treacherous rivers in the Pacific Northwest for years, always in a handcrafted wooden drift boat. Nothing is quite as stunning as a beautiful wood boat in the middle of a Class IV; over the years, Greg and his crew of river runners have amassed quite a collection of HD video and high resolution pictures from the Colorado, Rogue, McKenzie, Deschutes, Snake, Owyhee, John Day, and many other rivers. In addition to an active blog about wooden boat adventures, Greg has published several articles about river running that have appeared in respected publications such as Woodenboat Magazine, Small Boat, Gray’s Sporting Journal, Overland Journal, and Salmon Steelhead Journal.
Care and Feeding of the Magnetic Compass FRI 9:30-10:30 EXPLORER STAGE
Caring for Your Marine Sextant SUN 9:30-10:30 EXPLORER STAGE
Bill Haimes - A Wooden Boat Festival veteran, Bill Haimes is a former naval officer who learned the compass adjusting trade aboard warships in the late ‘60s. He operated a sail training program for the US Navy and has cruised and raced a variety of boats, including a 50’ wooden sailboat. Currently he keeps us on course by adjusting our compasses and being the expert.
Tips and Tricks for Extended Cruising FRI 1:15-2:15 DISCOVERY STAGE
Sea Trials
SAT 10:45-11:45 ADVENTURE STAGE
Wendy Hinman - Wendy Hinman
has been sailing for more than 40 years. She taught sailing in the Chesapeake Bay and has cruised and raced in venues around the globe in all sorts of boats as skipper and crew, sometimes winning. She spent seven years at sea, sailing 34,000 miles aboard her 31’ cutter.
Failing in R2AK’s First Leg: My Story SUN 1:15-2:15 TECHNICAL stage
Robert Hodge - Robert Hodge raced in the first legs of the 2016 and 2017 Race to Alaska. He dinghy cruises the Puget Sound and beyond with a sock monkey for crew.
Adventure Cruising in SE Alaska SAT 10:45-11:45 TECHNICAL STAGE
“modern-classic” approach to boat styling and boat function, combining the classic elements of grace, simplicity and practicality with the strength and performance offered by modern analysis methods, modern materials, and modern construction techniques. Although Michael lived in Port Townsend for many years, his home is now in Arizona, where the sun does shine.
Steam Bending
FRI 9:30-10:15 BoatBuilding Stage
Sean Koomen - A 2004 graduate of the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding, Sean Koomen has taught there since 2011. Outside of the school, he has worked on and led restorations on several large yacht projects.
Planning to Paddle The Challenges of Cruising the West Coast the Northwest Passage Summer 2019 of Vancouver Island FRI 1:45-11:45 DISCOVERY STAGE
Elsie Hulsizer - Author of Voyages To Windward: Sailing Adventures On Vancouver Islands’s West Coast And Glaciers, Bears And Totems: Sailing In Search Of The Real Southeast Alaska, Elsie Hulsizer is an environmental professional with a degree in oceanography and a certificate in fine art photography. Hulsizer and her husband own an Annapolis 44’ sloop, which they have sailed extensively in Northwest waters. Between sailing adventures, Hulsizer serves on the Board of Trustees of Seattle’s Center for Wooden Boats.
Introduction to Timezero by Nobeltec FRI 3:45-4:45 TECHNICAL STAGE
Daniel Joram - Daniel Joram is the West Coast Sales Manager for Nobeltec. He has worked in the marine industry for over 20 years, from operation to repair, with a good amount of that time spent on traditional vessels. Together with his partner, he takes care of Ariel Of Victoria, the 58’ ketch out of Seattle, where they call home.
Yacht Designer Panel FRI 12:00-1:00 TECHNICAL stage
Michael Kasten - Yacht designer Michael Kasten learned yacht design by building boats, independent study, working with talented yacht designers, and creating his own designs. Although the majority of Kasten’s designs are intended for construction in steel and aluminum, he has also had the opportunity to design several large plank-on-frame wooden boats ranging from 100’ to 150’ on deck length and up to 650 metric tons displacement. Kasten’s design focus is on a
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SAT 1:15-2:15 TECHNICAL STAGE
Karl Kruger - SUP legend Karl Kruger, who completed the 750 grueling miles of the Race to Alaska in 2017 on a stand-up paddleboard, will talk about his next big adventure.
The World’s Fastest Traditional Sailing Canoes FRI 1:15-2:15 TECHNICAL stage
Do You Copy? Radios Aboard Cruising Yachts SAT 2:30-3:30 discovery stage
Sew What? Sewing While Cruising SUN 10:45-11:45 explorer stage
Leslie Linkkila and Philip DiNuovo - Philip DiNuovo and Leslie Linkkila fell in love with cruising in 1991. In 2003, they shed demanding corporate careers and set sail from Kingston, Washington on an open-ended voyage aboard Carina, their Mason 33 cutter. They closed the circle on their Pacific wanderings at Point Wilson in September 2017 after logging over 41,200 nautical miles in 14 years. With hundreds of friends made in dozens of different countries, their love of this unique and challenging lifestyle has never diminished. In 2016 they launched and executed a humanitarian project for the Seimat people of Ninigo Islands, Papua New Guinea, bringing in hundreds of pounds of equipment and supplies in support of their traditional canoe culture. They have written dozens of articles for Good Old Boat, Ocean Navigator, Cruising Helmsman, Cruising World, and numerous other publications.
Sharpening
FRI 9:30-10:15 Woodworking Stage
Sharpening
SAT 1:30-2:15 Woodworking stage
Sharpening
SUN 10:30- 11:15 Woodworking stage
Tim Lawson - Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Port Townsend School of Woodworking, Tim Lawson teaches furniture-making, hand-tool skills, and demonstrates sharpening techniques.
Jewel in the Rough or Wrecking Yard? How to Decide FRI 3:45- 4:45 Explorer STAGE
Erin Leader & Micheal Effler Growing up in the Northwest, Erin’s summers were spent on or in the water; fishing, skiing, sailing, rowing and swimming. She says she couldn’t have asked for a better childhood. Erin had always appreciated the beauty of wooden boats, but that appreciation became a passion when she met Michael Effler.
Adventures in Anchoring
FRI 2:30-3:30 Explorer stage
David Patterson - David is a retired 67-year-old who has been sailing in the San Juan and Gulf Islands since 2012. An intermediate sailor, he took up sailing in 2007 and has since cruised nine months a year since 2012. He challenges himself to cruise as much as possible under sail.
When Good Fuels Go Bad
SAT 12:00-1:00 Explorer stage
Richard Pindell - Founder of H2Out, Inc. in 2009, Rich Pindell was inspired to create products that use the technology NASA utilized during the Apollo missions to keep moisture damage out of the spacecraft. The first product line developed was the H2Out AVD (Air Vent Dryer) 2 & 3 – for sailboats, yachts and commercial fishing vessels to prevent tank and engine failure from water contamination.
Care and Feeding of Your Outboard Engine FRI 1:15-2:15 BOATYARD STAGE
Small Boats, Big Adventures
Care and Feeding of Your Outboard Engine
SUN 10:45-11:45 TECHNICAL STAGE
Marty Loken - Marty Loken has enjoyed a lifetime of boatbuilding, restoration, beach-camping and cruising in Northwest waters, with an emphasis on smaller boats. A founding member of the Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle, Marty has been a volunteer at the Wooden Boat Festival for many years.
Sand Less and Sail More: Boat Building Hacks for the Weekend Warrior FRI 1:15-2:15 Explorer stage
Dan Mattson - Dan grew up enjoying the Columbia River and San Juan Islands on his family’s fine wooden power boats (Richardson, Tollycraft, Chris Craft, and more). He built his first wooden boat – an 8’ pram – in high school. After a long respite of 25 years, he combined his passion for wooden boats with today’s technology to produce the world’s first podcast dedicated to wooden boats: Hooked On Wooden Boats.
The Voyage of Charrisma
SUN 12:00-1:00 Discovery STAGE
Capt. Dan Mimmack - Captain Dan Mimmack is a 64-year-old lifelong mariner who has lived in Alaska, Washington, and California. He is currently the skipper of the children’s pirate ship Wind Spirit, a scaled down, 22’ three-masted, fully-rigged frigate.
SAT 12:00- 1:00 BOATYARD STAGE
Stewart Pugh - Stu maintains the fleet of outboards for the Northwest Maritime Center. He has repaired almost every type of marine engine, from small trolling kickers to Navy nuclear reactors. He now teaches outboard motor and inflatable boat repair through the NWMC and Washington Sea Grant. He has closed his Port Townsend outboard shop after many years – except for teaching outboard repair and building robots.
How Ann Davison and Felicity Ann Sailed Into Women’s History SUN 9:30-10:30 TECHNICAL STAGE
Shelly Randall - Shelly Randall of Port Townsend is Felicity Ann’s storykeeper and has been researching the boat’s history since the Community Boat Project became her steward in August 2017. Shelly has been on the staff of the Northwest Maritime Center, spent two seasons as an educator aboard tall ships: the schooner Soundwaters in the Long Island Sound and the schooner Adventuress in the Puget Sound. These days, she is teaching her son to sail.
Small Boat Rigging and Sails
SUN 10:30-11:15 BoatBuilding Stage
Sean Rankins - Sean grew up
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in southern California, boating and fishing in his dad’s classic wooden boats. After college, Sean began sailing and became a sailmaker apprentice at North Sails in San Diego. Now a sailmaker for over 40 years, he crafts custom sails from his loft in Port Hadlock, WA. He enjoys working with his hands and getting out on the water every chance he gets. Among other boats, Sean and his wife, Inger, own a 26’ Danish Spidsgatter 38-meter class, Cito, and a 20’ Norwegian Spissgatter keelboat, Havhesten.
Stability and Stabilization
sat 10:45-11:45 Discovery stage
What Is Good Design? sun 10:45-11:45 Discovery stage
Tad Roberts - Growing up in a family of boatbuilders, architect/ builders, artists, and sailors, it was only natural that Tad would start drawing boats at a young age. After a decade working on tugs, fish boats, and cruising and racing sailboats, he began professional practice in 1984. In 2001 he opened his own studio on Gabriola Island, BC, where he develops modern power and sail boats with strong ties to traditional styling values. Tad was the 2016 winner of the Wooden Boat Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award in Design.
SEVENTY48: Building and Racing My Ultimate Rowboat sat 9:30-10:30 aDventure stage
Nate Rooks - Nate grew up on boats in the Puget Sound, learning to sail on Port Madison, driving motorboats in the San Juan Islands, and finding a passion for rowing on Eagle Harbor. After rowing and then coaching rowing in California for 12 years, he completed the 2016 Race to Alaska with his brother on a 17’ dinghy. Nate recently completed the inaugural SEVENTY48 in 2018 on a wooden rowboat he built himself.
Basic Boat Electrical Systems
Fri 12:30-1:15 BoatBuiLDing stage
Marine Corrosion
sat 12:30-1:15 BoatBuiLDing stage
Kevin Ritz - Kevin Ritz is an ABYC Certified Master Marine Technician, currently holding six ABYC certifications, and has been an ABYC Certification Instructor of Marine Electrical and Corrosion for the last three years, as well as the ABYC Pacific Regional Representative for the last six years. In 2005, Kevin started working with Electro-Guard Inc., a top-rated
marine corrosion control company. He makes technical and educational presentations across the country for the U.S. Coast Guard, law enforcement agencies, first responder groups, marine surveyor organizations, and recreational boat enthusiasts.
Norse Boatbuilding Techniques Fri 11:30-12:15 BoatBuiLDing stage
Jay Smith-Aspoya - Jay apprenticed to master builders in Norway and the Faroe Islands and has specialized in Nordic lapstrake construction for over 30 years (see Woodenboat #234). He owns Aspoya Boats yard in Anacortes, WA. His main focus, however, is on traditional Scandinavian designs, including prams, faerings, Folkboats, and, currently, a 56’ replica of a Viking ship. Jay teaches boatbuilding in his own shop and has lectured at the Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle and the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding.
Hokule`a: A 3-year Voyage Around the World sat 2:30-3:30 aDventure stage
Steven Soltysik - Captain Steven Soltysik was the Wooden Boat Foundation Shop Supervisor/Educator during the summers of 2006, 2007, and 2008. He has completed numerous ocean crossings: the Pacific, Caribbean, and North and South Atlantic. Steven is presently a part time maritime teacher on the island of Hawaii where he represents the Polynesian Voyaging Society with lessons about the World Wide Voyage of the Hawaiian Sailing Canoe: Hokule`a. Steven was invited to participate on three of the “legs.” He spent six weeks as an educator in New Zealand; and was crew aboard the escort boat, Gershon, from Natal, Brazil to St. John, Virgin Islands; and from Florida through the Panama Canal to Balboa, Panama. He is a licensed USCG Captain for 35 year and holds a lifetime teaching credential.
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Fri 3:45-4:45 aDventure stage
Team Sail Like a Girl - Comprised of seven women leading busy lives as working mothers and businesswomen, Team Sail Like a Girl won the 2018 Race to Alaska, becoming the first all-women team to do so.
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Bruce Tipton - Bruce is a longtime boatbuilder, sparmaker, and woodworker. His knowledge of wooden spars covers peeled trees to the octagonal birdsmouth hollow.
Demistifying Foils sat 2:30-3:30 exPLorer stage
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Introduction to Hydraulics
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for many years. He has worked on engines in mines, oil fields, logging, Alaskan canneries, Alaskan commercial fishing boats, Antarctica, and the Arctic. He has been working on boats for most of the last 20 years – from 10-horse-power sail boats to 2000-horse-power tugs. Now, he is in Port Townsend doing re-powers, repairs, welding and fabricating, and systems work and design.
Walt Trisdale - Walt attended diesel engine school in Texas and worked for Detroit Diesel
Lisa vizzini - Lisa Vizzini began sailing as a teen on Stars and Solings in Marina Del Rey, CA. In 1978 she moved to Port Townsend to learn sail-making skills at Port Townsend Sails with Carol Hasse and Nora Petrich. Lisa has fished for salmon, operated a troll-buying station for 12 years in
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Pam Wall - Pam Wall is well known for outfitting world cruisers, consulting on prospective routes for sailing, sailing instruction, and as a seminar speaker who encourages and educates on the cruising lifestyle. Along with her husband, Andy, and two young children, Samantha and Jamie, Pam has sailed around the world on their custom-made Freya 39, KANDARIK. Pam’s boat was built at home and then took her family around the world and later back and forth across the Atlantic to Europe three times. Pam worked for West Marine for over 20 years as their Outfitting Manager and Cruising Consultant. Currently, Pam is working for the well known sailboat and powerboat designer, Steve Dashew.
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Peter Walford - A lifelong multihuller, Peter has spent 45 years as a racer, cruiser, builder, offshore sailor, and liveaboarder. He has been part of the birth and development of the field and owns Lotus, one of the legendary Farrier 9 meter racer/cruisers, built in balsa/epoxy, which is on the dock at this year’s Festival. Peter has fitted Lotus with perhaps the most effective and beautifully wood-finished interior that you will find in any F-boat today, made from the lightest of materials so as not to spoil its performance.
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Stuart Weibel - Stuart Weibel is master and slave to S/V RIPPLE, an Atkins designed tops’l cutter built by the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in 1994. Weibel has sailed RIPPLE extensively along the Inside Passage, going as far north as Glacier Bay, Alaska in 2015, the Broughtons in 2016, and will circumnavigate Vancouver Island in the summer of 2017. Like most wooden boat enthusiasts, Weibel finds as much satisfaction in working on his boat as he does voyaging in her.
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Capt. Peter Wilcox - Capt. Peter Wilcox is a Portland architect, licensed Master Mariner, wooden boatbuilder, and, until recently, was president of Columbia Riverkeeper. Peter has been exploring the Inside Passage by handbuilt kayak, skiff, and sailboat since 1985. His 36’ gaff motorsailer, AMA NATURA, was built at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding, and is powered, heated, and cooks with 100% reclaimed source-certified biodiesel, while using only bio-based lubricants. In 2016 Peter launched the Inside Passage Decarbonization Project to make it possible for those who choose to do so to voyage petroleum-free in the Inside Passage, and to replace all fossil fuels there with locally made, waste-based green biofuels within 20 years.
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Dave Wilkinson - Dave holds a MS in Atmospheric Science from Oregon State, is an ASA instructor, and has sailed in Mexico, the Caribbean, New Zealand and the Northwest.
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2018 Festival Boats Admiral’s Barge Unknown
Admiral’s Barge is Port Madison Pram #57, overhauled in 2014 with extensive repairs and refurbishing. She recently homeported in Diamond Point after decades of sailing Lake Washington and the Puget Sound. She regularly sails Discovery Bay and has a Holsclaw tilt-trailer and British Seagull outboard.
Ariel of Victoria 1980
Built from local wood on Vancouver Island near Nanaimo between 1972-1980, Ariel Of Victoria recently finished a second restoration phase (2015-2017, new decks and cabin), following a preliminary hull restoration (20092010).
Arroyo 1938
Built on Lake Union for Marcus Mayer, Arroyo has raced in local yacht races including Swiftsure Lightship race. She originally launched as KATE, and won the 1949 Swiftsure Lightship race as AVOLANTE.
Blossom 1973
Blossom is a family cruising sloop. With her small, round portlights and strong sheer, she is reminiscent of later Ed monk powerboat cruisers. Most of BLOSSOM’s history is a mystery; come celebrate her 80th year and share your story!
Betsy D 1977
Bout is a 38-sq-m sloop designed by M.S.J. Hansen and built by Thomsen Boatyard in Kalundborg, Denmark. She underwent a total restoration in 2018 by Robert D’Arcy and Doug Jones at the Northwest Maritime Center in Port Townsend.
Bright Star 2006
Bright Start is a Tolman Alaskan Skiff, Jumbo 24, stitch-and-glue cabin cruiser built by the owners on their back porch and customized for cruising and fishing. With a Cummins diesel I/O, she cruises at 18 knots with good fuel economy. Carpenter II is a replica of L. Francis Herreshoff’s 1929 original, which was the tender for the 43’ motor/sail yacht, WALRUS. She is a ketch-rigged sail/ oar vessel with an original lug main, which has been changed to mast reefing.
Ceridwen 1993
Built by owner Matt McCleary, Ceridwen was lofted in 1982 with help from John and Kevin Magner. She made her maiden voyage to Port Hadlock, WA in 1996, which is now her home port.
Chesuki 1986
Bibi 1964
Black Opal 1973
Black Opal is a Classic Grand Banks “Woody.” One of the last wooden boats built, she has been restored to excellent condition and was featured in PASSAGES magazine. 40 ‹ 42nd WOODEN BOAT FESTIVAL
Deluge is a shallow-draft, high-performance cat ketch cruiser built from a B&B Yacht Designs plywood kit in a back alley of Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood.
Duke 1947
Built in Tacoma, Duke has fished Alaska, California, and Oregon. She was converted to a liveaboard in the 1990s, and is a perfect example of the northwest salmon trollers of her era.
Eager Beaver 2013
Carpenter II 2007
Betsy D is known for 33 years of service at Seattle’s Center for Wooden Boats. The owners fell in love with her speed and simplicity while working as CWB employees, and traded a Port Madison Pram for her. Bibi is a hard-chined, plywood centerboard sloop of hobbyist Ludvik Zbigniewicz’s design. He designed her to withstand the fierce prairie winds and steep chop on Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Daddy’s Third is a 26’ St. Pierre dory, powered by two electric trolling motors and solar panels.
Deluge 2018
Bout 1939
Bella La Vita For Sale 1969
This Grand Banks 32 sedan has proven to be nearly perfect for the cruising couple. Dependable, economical, and luxuriously slow, she has carried her current owners throughout Puget Sound, theSan Juan Islands, and Canada.
Daddy’s Third 2012
power and thrill under sail!
Chesuki’s cedar lapstrake hull is strong and heavy enough to carry her through the waves smoothly. Her large gunter-rigged main is a challenge to set correctly, but rewarding in its
Cito 1936
Built and designed in Denmark, Cito is a 26’ fractional rigged sloop with oak keelson and frames; European larch planking; mahogany house, coamings, and interior; spruce spars; and displacement of 5 tons.
Eager Beaver is a customized 23’ Simmons Sea Skiff. She is all wood, mostly MDO, and has an added hardtop over the helm area. The handrail on the hardtop roof is one of a kind. The beaver carving on the transom follows native coastal design.
El Mistico 1927
The bridge deck cruiser El Mistico, was built by the Ballard Marine Railway on the Thearle and Nordstrom design. She resides in a newly beautified boathouse at the Oakland Bay Marina in Shelton, Washington.
Ellida 1930
Ellida was the last cutter rig built by Philip Rhodes in Seattle, Washington.
Emily Ruth 2015
Emily Ruth is a Somes Sound 12-1/2 that was derived from the famous H-12. She is glued lapstrake with a lead keel and centerboard. She sails like a dream! Bainbridge Island, Washington.
Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader
Endangered Species 1997
Single Handed Transpac race.
Endangered Species is a custom cold-molded race boat designed and built by iconic northwest boat builder/sailor John Guzzwell to compete in the
Epic 2016
Epic is designed for voyaging with teens in the Puget Sound. She was built by high school students and mentors at the Community Boat Project.
Fable 1976
Fable is an 18’ gaff rigged sloop built in Pt. Hudson to sail Port Townsend Bay and the Northern Islands. She was designed with, for, and is still owned by a woman musician for solo sailing.
Festina Lente For Sale 2016
Festina Lente is a stable and seaworthy boat that is rowed when waters are too rough for a rowing scull. She is the first cedar strip version built of the popular Annapolis Tandem Wherry, and perfectly exemplifies taking a classic boat design and applying custom features to keep the weight manageable while balancing a variety of complementary woods to produce an efficient and beautiful boat.
Felicity Ann 1939
Felicity Ann carried Ann Davison across the Atlantic Ocean in 1952, the first crossing fo any major ocean by a woman solo. The boat was rebuilt by the Northwest School of Wooden BoatBuilding in 2017, and was finished by the Community Boat Project in 2018.
Fire-Drake 2016
A self-designed and built lug yawl, FireDrake is a rigged open sail and oar boat intended for Salish Sea and Inside Passage cruising. She completed the Inside Passage over two summers in 2016 and 2017.
Flying Eagle 1963
Flying Eagle was launched by Vinal Beal on the Moosabec Reach of Beals Island Maine. These Beals Islanders were the best working forms ever constructed and the fastest watercraft of their time. They remain a visual inspiration!
Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader
Forget-me-not 2015
Bartender boats were designed for the rough waters over sandbars at the mouth of the mighty Columbia River. ForgetMe-Not is a cruiser in yacht dress built by students and graduates of the Northwest School of Wooden BoatBuilding.
Foto 2006
This camp-cruiser is the official Photo Boat for Small Craft Advisor magazine, published in Port Townsend (Foto owner Marty Loken is Associate Editor). The raised-deck design harkens back to a 1928 Weston Farmer design.
Four Seas 2018
Four Seas is a John Welsford designed Penguin, built by Keith Smith in Moscow, Idaho. The wooden blocks, bronze hardware, and sails are all homemade. She is intended to be a trailer sailer.
Francis Lee 2014
Designed by Bob Perry and built by the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding, Francis Lee is a Perry Sliver Class Daysailer, designed and built for the joy of sailing. She has comfortable, modest accommodations.
Freedom For Sale 1938
Freedom is Alden design #676 and Herreshoff build 1431. She was launched at the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. She is the last pre-WWII ocean racing yacht built by HMC.
Ginger 1998
Ginger is an electric-powered, raised-deck cruiser with a range of 50 miles-further with genset and sail. She sleeps 2 and seats 5. The original hull was designed and built by Pat Spurlock to serve as a plug, out of which came the mold for the Elliott Bay Steamlaunch.
Glencannon 1974
Bartenders are known throughout rough-watered regions of the world for their able sea-keeping abilities. The owner spent 8 years converting Glencannon from a rough-andready fish boat to a sweet and able pocket cruiser.
Gooselodge II For Sale 2003
Gooselodge II is a Devlin Surf Runner 25 design, built with stitch and glue. She has a 160-hp diesel sterndrive engine, running at a top speed of 26 knots and an economical cruise speed of 18 knots.
Gracious Lady 1951
Gracious Lady was built in New England post WWII and has been used to travel from New York to her latest home in Port Angeles, Washington.
Haida For Sale 1965
Haida is a classic S&S design (#1738), one of the last with a full keel. She’s a well-balanced joy to sail with a copper-riveted, double-planked mahogany hull. She raced in Puget Sound in the ‘60s, and has traveled to California, Mexico, and Hawaii.
Havhesten 1945
Havhesten is a 19’ open fractional rigged sloop keelboat.
Heather 1937
Heather is a canoe stern cutter built in Auckland, NZ. She completed a circumnavigation before sailing to Port Townsend in the late ‘70s. The owners completed a minor restoration in 2015, and enjoy cruising the Salish Sea.
Hiyu 2011
Hiyu is a 10.5’ lapstrake decked canoe built to Harry Bryan’s Fiddlehead design. He intended the boat to be paddled like a kayak. Instead, the builder fabricated a pedal drive, so it operates under pedal power.
Holiday 1946
Holiday has been family-owned since she launched in July 1946. The current owner’s grandfather, Rex Bartlett, commissioned Ed Monk Sr. to design her, and she was built on Seattle’s Lake Union by the Edison Technical School. She has been maintained in her original configuration and is moored in Ebey Slough at Marysville.
Ibis 1988
Ibis is a perfect Northwest cruiser for two. She is powered by a 44-hp Yanmar diesel and cruises at 8 knots. Home-ported in a boathouse at Portland Yacht Club, the owners trailer her north biannually.
Indian 1992
This beautifully built and maintained William Garden design cutter was built on Bainbridge Island by Andy Goodwin. She has a bright mast, boom, wood decks, and trim, with some contrasting painted cabins, and wood interior. She was purchased by Sam and Pam Fry in 2017.
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Integrity 1993
Integrity is a 35’ twin-diesel ‘Fantail’ Cruising Yacht, designed and built by Sam Devlin. She has a well-thought-out combination of aesthetic traditional lines, modern construction methods, and advanced – yet practical for the cruiser – technology throughout.
Island Spirit 2000
Island Spirit is a 22’ Surf Scoter designed by Sam Devlin and built by Jim Griffing. She recently had a bow rail added and had her hull and decks repainted by the crew at Devlin Boats.
Jean Alden 2000
Jean Alden was built by her owner in his garage in Palo Alto, California, from 1997 to 2000. Starting with Phil Bolger’s 12’ Bobcat, he scaled her up to 14’, changed the bow profile, added a small cabin, and copied the sail plan from a Crosby catboat.
Josephine 1934
Josephine is a retired salmon-troller-converted commercial fishing boat celebrating her 84th year in fine fettle. A John Deere diesel is in her bowels, and she makes a fine character platform and cruising pal to her owners.
Joshua 1982
Joshua is a historical replica of The Spray, the boat in which Joshua Slocum completed the first solo-navigation of the world in 1895. Elliott built the hull and deck and Harpster completed it.
Katie 2004
The small gaff rigged topsail sloop, Katie, was designed, built, and finished to recreate the look, feeling, and sailing experience of an earlier time.
Kotimana 2018
This Dark Harbor 17 1/2 was built by the Northwest School of Wooden BoatBuilding Large Craft Classes of 2017 and 2018.
La Boheme 1938
La Boheme is an Atkin Eric. Modeled after turn-of-the century Norwegian rescue boats, the Eric is said to be “The best boat for the worst weather.” She is stout, sea kindly, gracious down below, and great fun to sail. 42 ‹ 42nd WOODEN BOAT FESTIVAL
Lady Dianne 1966
Lady Dianne is a custom-built Monk Coho built for the then-VP of Shell Oil in McQueen yard in BC. She now resides in covered moorage in Pleasant Harbor, WA.
Lauren Nadine 1969
Lauren Nadine is a fine example of Grand Banks workmanship. After 49 years she is still plying the waters under her original power and has maintained most of her original fit and finish. Come see why the owners love her!
Laurie T 1959
Laurie T is Bill Garden’s 1955 design #280. She was built in Pete Teller’s Seattle backyard and named for his wife. Still nearly original, she cruises the Pacific Northwest extensively and lands many a seafood dinner in her cockpit.
Lazy Jack 2006
Lazy Jack is a Chesapeake Bay style power skiff designed by Karl Stambaugh, based on Howard Chapelle’s 1940s Camp Skiff. She is powered by a 9.9hp outboard.
Leslie Jean 2006
Leslie Jean is a 15’ Whitehall that is a combination of many designs. The lines were mostly taken from an article in National Fisherman Magazine from 1954 and 1977, written by John Gardner. She was a learning project that took 10 years to complete.
Lil Attitude Adjustment 2018
Lil Attitude Adjustment is a 28’ 6” Great Alaskan built for comfortable cruising as well as fishing the waters of the Northwest. She is built with wood, fiberglass, and epoxy.
Lil’ B 2014
A joy to row and sail, the PT11 Nesting Dinghy is a refined plywood kit boat from Port Townsend Watercraft. The PT11 received a 5 star rating on Off Center Harbor’s best dinghy list! Visit the owners in the West System tent.
Los Angeles Olympics Monotype 1932
Self-built by brothers Peter and Eric Hazell in Sisters, OR in 20162017, this 12’ catboat is a replica of a 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, single-crewed racer (Snowbird). She is built with western red cedar planked on sawn and steam-bent white oak frames with mahogany stem, keel and transom.
Lugus 1999
Lugus completed a major centerline rebuild in 2011. The open cockpit sports a removable cabin that makes it more of a camp cruiser. The gaff rigged sails and traditional rigging give it a classic look. This little boat has seen big seas!
Mack the Boat 1950
Mack The Boat is a kit boat sold by Chris Craft as their “Fishing Skiff” model. Found in disrepair near Portland in 2017, she was restored in Port Townsend. MACK is used as a local fishing and crabbing boat.
Malle 1936
Malle is a spidsgatter, 30-sq-m class, built in Denmark. Last year, a major repair of the backbone was performed at the Wooden Boat Foundation Boat Shop. Recent improvements include conversion to an Elco electric propulsion system.
Marian II 1928
Marian II was built at Lake Union Drydock Company in Seattle. A classic Lake Union Dreamboat, she has been re-powered with a Diesel engine. She wa the first boat to initiate the tradition of boating to UW football games.
Marianita 2015
Marianita is a modern take on the classic canoe yawl. Drawn by Iain Oughtred as a trailerable coastal cruiser, her construction is glued-lapstrake and marine-grade plywood suitable for the home builder.
Marion Jean For Sale 2018
This is a 20.5’ Bartender, traditionally built as plywood on frame. The hull frame construction is nearing completion and includes the frames, building jig, stem, sternpost, keelson, breasthooks, chine logs, and sheer clamp.
Lorraine 1959
Lorraine is a Nordic Folkboat built in Denmark, imported for racing in San Francisco Bay, and then trucked to the Northwest for cruising. Her current owner bought her in 1979. She is a wonderful Salish Sea day sailer/cruiser – a true joy to sail.
Martha 1907
Boat Yard in San Francisco.
Built for San Francisco Yacht Club Commodore J. R. Hanify, and named after his wife, Martha Fitzmaurice Hanify, Martha is a B.B. Crowninshield design built at W. F. Stone
Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader
Min Dejlige Pika 2017
Nevermore 1981
Min Dejlige Pika is a 19’ 10” Caledonia Yawl built by Daren Lindley and Nick Luchterhand in 6 months. Her all-bright finish is boiled linseed oil and Stockholm pine tar. She sails happily with 10 people and has cruised from Portland to Astoria.
Nil Desperandum 2011
Miss Manners is a completely restored, cold-molded, cherry red, bright-finished mahogany Jet 14. The Jet 14 is a decked version of the 1936 Prince of Wales Cup victor, the International 14 (Alarm),
Miss Mile a Minute 2014
Miss Mile A Minute is a home-built outboard speedboat with cold-molded, batten-seam construction, and planked in mahogany and maple. She is powered by a highly-modified 1961 Mercury 800 short shaft. She has a top speed of 60 mph.
Miss Rebecca 2000
Miss Rebecca is hull #1 of Arch Davis’ Jack Tar design. The owner built her using plywood/epoxy construction, and she was launched in 2000 with full refit in 2017. The owners have fished and cruised her in California and the Pacific Northwest.
With its gaff rig, pointy bowsprit, and mahogany-rimmed oval portlights, NIL Desperandum reads as a thoroughly traditional little cruiser – perhaps of the late 19th or early 20th century. Her plywood/fiberglass composite hull is thoroughly modern.
Nimbus 1959
Nimbus is a Folkboat built in Denmark of mahogany over oak. She was first registered in Victoria, BC, in 1960, and has been around the Pacific Northwest since then.
Noddy 2012
Noddy is an 11’ 11” John Welsford SCAMP with a balanced lug, cuddy cabin, water-ballasted off-center centerboard; she is a mini micro-cruiser. She was built from plywood by her owner at the Northwest Maritime Center in 2012-2013. She is propelled by a 100 sq-ft lugsail and oars.
Nordic Folkboat Sale Pending 2018
Misty Dawn II 2017
This Chesapeake Light Craft PocketShip was built from a kit. The gaff-rigged sloop is easy to trailer, sets up in minutes, and is a joy to sail.
This Nordic Folkboat was built by the Northwest School of Wooden BoatBuilding Large Craft Classes of 2016, 2017, and 2018.
Nymph of Lorne For Sale 1963 Mojo 2015
Mojo is a PT Skiff with a fuel-efficient center console runabout that can carry a load and has a good turn of speed with only 20 hp.
Mona-C 2004
Mona-C is a Grand Banks Dory used on San Francisco Bay and Tomales Bay.
Neenah 1960
Nymph was built by McGruer & Co. in Scotland. She spent her first 15 years sailing in Scotland, then sailed to BC via the Atlantic, the Canal, and Hawaii. A recent book provides details about her construction, McGruer & Co., and her 4 sisters.
Odyssey 2018
Odyssey is the rowing version of an 18’ 6” traditional lapstrake Marblehead Gunning Dory, as described in the drawings of John Gardner’s THE DORY BOOK.
Neenah is a SeaCoaster lapstrake runabout, hand-built by the Thompson brothers of Peshtigo, Wisconsin. She was restored Pacific Northwest. after 30+ years of storage in a local barn. She also sports Johnson’s first 90-hp motor, the Golden Meteor. Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader
Olo is a copy of a Keith Steele McKenzie River drift boat, modified with sealed compartments and a self-bailing rowing station.
Orion 1934
Miss Manners 1957
designed by Uffa Fox.
Olo 2013
Celebrating her 25th anniversary as part of the Wooden Boat Festival, Nevermore remains a stunningly beautiful classic schooner constructed of the finest woods of the great Pacific Northwest forests.
Old Lace 1955
Old Lace is a true classic wooden motor yacht built by Pine Castle Boat & Construction Company and transported by train from Florida to the
Orion has proven many times over the speed and seaworthiness of Olin Stephens’ designs. From winning races to filming rare whales and voyaging with teens, ORION has had an active and storied 84 years.
Orion For Sale 1948
Launched in San Diego in 1948, Orion underwent a large restoration by Baird Boat Works of Port Townsend, WA in 2006. She is as competitive today as she was 60 years ago. Very minimal systems, but she makes up for it with volumes of class. Sailing in its purest distilled form.
Orn II 2018
Orn II was designed for serious off-shore salmon and tuna fishing. It is a homebuilt Tolman Jumbo Skiff with a removable back bulkhead. Full amenities have been added to the cabin for RVing.
Pacific 1970
Pacific was built to longline for halibut in the North Pacific. She has also trolled for salmon and tuna. The halibut fishermen of BC regarded her as one of the best of her type.
Pacific Grace 1999
Built at the S.A.L.T.S. Heritage Shipyard in Victoria, the PACIFIC GRACE slipped her lines on May 31, 2001 to embark on her maiden voyage. Since then she has been sail training with youth in the South Pacific, Asia, and the Pacific Northwest.
Pacific Swift 1986
Pacific Swift was built as a working exhibit in Vancouver, BC. She has sailed over 200,000 nautical miles offshore and on the coast, serving over 800 trainees per year.
Pacifica 1947
Pacifica was built by the Nevins yard in City Island, New York, launched for Avard Fuller of Fuller Brush Comp. She was designed with one of the first extruded Pacifica masts in America. PACIFICA has sailed over 175,000 ocean miles. ... More on page 44▼
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PassageMaker For Sale 2017
Passagemaker is a daysail boat with two rowing positions. Structural modifications (ribs) were made to the original design to better support the fore and aft decks, metal skid plates were added to skid runners and keel, and an access hatch was added to the fore deck.
Patamar 1937
This bridgedeck cruiser was homebuilt by a Boeing engineer for use in the Salish Sea. She has cedar over oak frames with a teak cabin, and has a Yanmar diesel engine.
PAX 1936
Pax is a 28’ double ender – the only Danish “45m2” spidsgatter in North America. Find her remarkable journey from Denmark to California, Canada, and Port Townsend in owner/author Kaci Cronkhite’s acclaimed book, Finding Pax. Signed copies at the Wooden Boat Festival!
Penguin 1992
Penguin is a 19’ Bartender and a unique, double-ended planing boat designed by George Calkins. She is plywood on mahogany frame construction. In 2005, she was restored and received the additions of a small doghouse, raised windshield, and self-bailing cockpit.
Pia 1938
Pia is 80 years old this year. She is a splendid, small cruiser, fast and capable.
Que Sera 1964
Que Sera is hull #11 of a limited production run of 19 K43 Sloops built by Kettenburg Marine, San Diego, in the mid-1960s. The owners purchased her in 1985 and lived aboard for 10 years, cruising the West Coast of Mexico, the Society Islands, Hawaii, and the Pacific Northwest.
R&D 1962
R&D is one of only twelve 48’ crew boats built by Grandy. She was commissioned by the navy to ferry crews to and the Bangor and Bremerton shipyards during the Cold War; however, due to Seattle growth of fast ferry system, she never saw active service and was turned out to surplus.
Rascal 2013
epoxy with us!
Rascal is a beautiful row/sailing dinghy sold as a kit from Port Townsend Watercraft. Visit her at the Festival in the West System Epoxy tent. Come compare it to the nesting PT11, and talk
Raven 2016
Raven is a Swampscott Dory whose flat, narrow bottom makes her easy to row and pull onto the beach. Her flared, rounded sides provide reserve stability for fun sailing.
Raven 1974
Raven is a 30’ heavily-built, hard-chine, lobster-boatstyle diesel cruiser. Oneof-a-kind in the Pacific Northwest, she was recently repurchased by her prior owner and repowered in 2017 by Haven Boat Works.
Red 2003
Pleiades Unknown
Built in the 1910s or ‘20s, all history is lost. Originally yellow cedar on oak frames, she was completely rebuilt in 1979-1987 by Kay, Peter, and friends.
Pocahontas 1880
Pocohontas is a 14’ carvel plank Whitehall built in Rye, New York, in about 1880 as tender to the 1881 America cup challenger sloop, Pocohontas. She is currently being restored by Northwest Maritime Center volunteers.
Providence 1903
Built by N. Neilsen & Son in Denmark, Providence is the oldest working ship on the BC coast. She is still working after 115 years in sail cargo and Charter in the Salish Sea. 44 ‹ 42nd WOODEN BOAT FESTIVAL
Red is a 27’ trailer sailer, designed by her owner and built for cruising in Northwest and Alaskan waters. She has made five trips to Alaska. The story of her design, building, launching and travels is featured in the June 2018 issue of Woodenboat magazine.
Ripple 1994
The first of three Atkins Gary Thomas gaff cutters built by the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in the 1990s, Ripple ranges the Salish Sea and has carried her current owner as far north as Glacier Bay, Alaska.
Riptide 1927
A bridge-deck cruiser and a member of the Classic Yacht Association, Riptide has cruised all over the Salish Sea and as far north as Alaska in her 91 years afloat.
Riptide 1939
Built in Bayonne, New Jersey, Riptide is a prime example of the fine motor yachts produced by ELCO. She is unique in that she has been berthed in all 4 corners of the United States.
Romany Rye 1964
Romany Rye is a sweet 36’ Herreshoff ketch. As far as the owners know, only 4 or 5 of this design were ever built. They have sailed and worked on her for 12 happy years.
Saravan Unknown
Saravan was built in 1938 as a harbour tug and did wartime service in Victoria Harbour during WWII.
Sawaya 1989
Sawaya (Coast Miwok for “pelican”) is hull #3 of the Pacific Pelican class, a 15’ adaptation of the popular 12’ San Francisco Pelican. She was launched with many owner/builder design enhancements.
Schatzi 1976
Schatzi is a 22’ Bartender built true to George Calkins’ sea-worthy, double-end, planing design. Her name means, ‘A Little Darling,’ which she truly is. She has wonderful, sweeping lines and proportions. After 40 years and 5 owners, she is still going strong.
SCOUT 2009
Designed by John Carlson and built by Sam Devlin, Scout is a 23’ raised-deck cruiser, powered by a 90hp outboard with a cruising speed of 16-20 mph. She has camping accommodations for two in a spacious, compact cabin with a sink and wood stove.
Sea Dream 1968
Sea Dream is a lovingly restored and customized Hugh Angleman ketch. Please join her owners’ presentations at this year’s Festival! (Erin Leader and Michael Effler). They also welcome you aboard to celebrate Sea Dream’s 50th birthday with them.
Segue 2011
Segue’s design is based on a mini 6.5 ocean racer, but the rig is more moderate for cruising. She includes an asymmetrical spinnaker on a 6’ bowsprit. The hull is constructed of 6mm okoume marine plywood. She has sleeping accommodations for four. Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader
Suellen Late 1930s
Selkie 2000
Port Townsend designer/boatbuilder Ed Louchard designed Selkie with the changing currents and winds of the Puget Sound in mind. She sails fast in light wind, accelerates quickly, and is very stable.
elegant bronze stanchions.
Ship of Fools 1950
Ship Of Fools performs well in exploring lakes and bays throughout the area and is a great fishing and crabbing boat. She was recently the star of a student’s project at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding, and received several repairs and upgrades.
for Scaled Composites.
Sofia 1961
Sofia is a 38.5’ North Sea Trawler designed and modified by William Garden and launched in 1968 from Sechelt, BC. She is constructed from Alaskan cedar over oak with fir and mahogany decks.
Stella 2015
Stella is a 17’ Whitehall rowing skiff, handcrafted from western red cedar and Sitka spruce using Gougeon clear finish and composite technology by Joseph D. Titlow. Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader
SUNBOW is a cruising multihull designed for long, ocean and coastal voyages. It was built in the Mojave Desert while builder Richard White worked
Susan Joanne 2013
Susan Joanne is Sam Devlin’s Onyx design sailboat. She is 28’ long, 8’6” on the beam, and displaces 7,600 pounds. She is wood epoxy matrix construction and has a 30-hp Yanmar diesel engine. She sleeps four, and has a small galley and enclosed head.
Skal til Bit 2017
Skye was built by William and Elaine Eppick over 8 years and launched in Port Townsend. Her hull is strip-planked Port Orford cedar, with steam-bent white oak frames, Douglas fir mast, and galvanized standing rigging, parceled and served.
Top Hat 2018
This motor launch was built by the Northwest School of Wooden BoatBuilding Contemporary Program of 2017 and 2018.
Trine 1941
Sunbow 2002
Sir Isaac was specifically designed and constructed as a double-handed offshore vessel.
Skye 1989
Tomte is a 70-year-old BC work boat. Built as a logging camp tender, she spent most of her working life trolling for salmon and as a prawner. The present owners are in the midst of a thorough rebuild and conversion.
Commissioned by Sir Peter Johnson to compete as an offshore racer according to Royal Ocean Racing Club rules, Summertime Of Wight raced in 1966 and 1967, and was sold after the rules changed.
Sir Isaac 1984
Skal Til Bit is a 19’ Bartender stretched by one frame spacing to 20’4”. The hull and deck are built from okoume marine ply, and the rest is an assortment of wood left over from other boat projects. All exterior surfaces are 6-oz glassed set in epoxy with Perfection marine paint.
Tomte 1946
Summertime of Wight 1965
Silvabans 1986
A traditional British cutter of the 1840s, Silvabans stands out with an extremely raked mast and a big, steved bowsprit rigged to haul up out of the way. Her large gaff main, staysail, and jib sewn by her owners, with cream-colored cloth, really get her flying!
M/V Suellen is an Ed Monk Sr. design built by a Blanchard Boat Co. shipwright for his own use, and since restored to her original condition. She is a gem with a mahogany house, full-length planks, and
Symra For Sale 1941
the interior layout.
Symra is an Alden cutter design that appeared in the Dec ‘36 issue of Yachting Magazine. The original owner had Ed Monk Sr. create drawings from plans received from Alden. The curator of Alden records has certified Symra as Alden design #636. Monk modified
The Gold Cup Mid 1970s
The Gold Cup outboard hydroplane has been restored as a tribute to the drivers, designers, builders, owners, and crews who dreamed of and achieved Gold Cup glory racing Unlimited Hydroplanes.
The Sande 1948
The Sande is a cedar strip skiff built in Belfair, WA. The owner has enjoyed many family cruising and fishing trips in her, powered by a variety of vintage outboards.
Theia 1981
Theia is a modified 30’ Gary Thomas designed by William Atkin. She was built in the San Francisco Bay area and was completely restored by Tom Tucker of Tucker Yacht Design.
launched in 2007.
Trine is the ninth of twenty 40sq-m Spidsgatter racer-cruisers built between 1938 and 1947 in Norway. She was rebuilt by the previous and current owner over a 15 year period and then re-
Tullamore 1997
Built at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding, Tullamore is a shining testament to the genius of William Atkin and the skill of the school’s shipwrights and students. She is easily handled by one or two in any conditions, and is a joy to sail.
TUMBLEHOME 1989
Tumblehome is a laminated cedar, canoe-stern cruising sloop with a spruce, rotating wing spar.
TwoBits 1932
Twobits was built as an open leiter boat meant to transfer supplies from a larger ship to Indian villages up and down the coast from Seattle to Alaska. She was converted to a tugboat in 1953.
Unda For Sale 1949
Unda is a 40’ double-ended cruising ketch, custom designed in 1938 by Aage Utzon. She was built after WWII by Egon Nielsen in Nakskov, Denmark.
Velella 1979
Velella was designed by Tom Wylie of San Francisco and built in the cold-molded style, making her stiff, light, and fast; yet comfortable and capable as a long-distance cruiser.
Virginia Cary 1973
Virginia Cary is a Grand Banks 36 from the last year they were built in wood. Very stable, she is an excellent sea boat. Bellevue, Washington. ... More on page 46▼ 42nd WOODEN BOAT FESTIVAL › 45
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Wilbur Larch 2014
Vito Dumas 1933
Built as Irupe near Buenos Aires, Vito Dumas spent the first half of her life in the Rio de la Plata.
Wilbur Larch is a Harrier design by Antonio Dias, built by the owner. The design is meant for rowing, sailing, and general messing about.
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Wind Spirit 1985
Have you ever seen a fully rigged replica of a 17th century frigate in 22’? Welcome to Wind Spirit, built and operated for children of all ages, all of whom are welcome to come aboard and play pirate.
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Whisper 1957 Protect Eelgrass and Shellfi sh EELGRASS & SHELLFISH A Sparkman and Stevens “Pilot”
Help protect eelgrass habitats from anchor damage. Respect Voluntary No-anchor Zones in Port Townsend, Port Hadlock & Mystery Bay.
Voluntary No-Anchor Zones protect eelgrass and series Whisper is mahogshellfish bedssloop, --home and habitat for juvenile salmon, crab, andplanked forage fish. Look the nearshore marker any overforoak frames. buoys in Port Townsend, Port Hadlock and Mystery Bay.
With a 52’ mast, she is very capable of sailing the Salish Sea and Puget Sound.
Whitney 2018
Voluntary No-Anchor Zones
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Whitney is a CLC Expedition Wherry with Support for this project provided by the EPA, Puget Sound Partnership overlay & Northwest Straits Commission, withdeck assistance from Port of PT and Marine Surveys & Assessments. of western red cedar from Mt. Whitney Lumber Company.
Willets Brothers Canoe 1956
Willets Brothers Canoe was purchased brand new by the current owner’s father. She is all original, never restored, and has almost every original accessory – with some never used, still in Willets handmade bags. She is a stunning boat that gathers crowds.
Windsong 1964
Windsong is a live-aboard, owned twice by the current owners, originally in the ‘80s. The owners and boat found their way back together eight years ago and enjoy being near easy San Juan sailing waters.
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Wood Duck 1927
Wood Duck is a gaff rigged sail conversion of the original Poulsbo boat with the inboard, air-cooled engine preserved.
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Wynken 2001
Wynken is a sweet clinker-built, 12’ wooden row boat that will accommodate an outboard motor. She has two rowing stations and a beam of 4’ 2”.
Zelma A 2018
1909 Vintage Houseboat
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Zelma A is a sharpie built in Port Townsend by Bill and Glen Eppick. Her design is that of a New Haven sharpie, which was used for the East Coast oyster fisheries during the mid-19th century.
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Thank you!
We have so many sponsors, volunteers, and supporters that share and value this event. Because of you, the Wooden Boat Festival truly feels like a community labor of love. From all of us here at the Wooden Boat Festival, Wooden Boat Foundation, and the Northwest Maritime Center, we thank you! Thank you, Sponsors!
Our major sponsors this year are First Federal Savings and Loan, Wilder Auto, and the City of Port Townsend. We thank you for your generous support. We could not produce the Festival without the additional in-kind and financial contributions from these sponsors: 48° North, Art Shots, Best Coast Canvas, Carl’s Building Supply, Edensaw Woods, Fisheries Supply, Goodman Sanitation, Harbors Magazine, Jefferson Healthcare, KPTZ, Lee Valley Tools, Mt. Townsend Creamery, New Day Fisheries, Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building, Northwest Water Wellness, Olympus.net, Platt Irwin Law Firm, Port Townsend Brewing Co., Port Townsend and Jefferson County Leader, Port Townsend School of Massage, Port Townsend School of Woodworking, Port Townsend Winery, Rainshadow Properties, SEA Marine, Sirens Pub, Small Craft Advisor, Sunrise Coffee, UnCruise Adventures, TowBoatUS, Waggoner Cruising Guide, and WoodenBoat Magazine
Thank you, Boat Owners!
We wouldn’t have the Festival without the boats and boat owners. Your dedication to your boats is honored here!
We appreciate those who spend all summer working on their boats, those who spend all summer playing on their boats, and everyone in between. Because of your love and care of your beautiful vessels, we have something to celebrate – this is your party! Thanks for coming and sharing your passion and joy with us.
Thank you, Point Hudson Neighbors!
The Artful Sailor, Andrews Bookkeeping Service, Brion Toss Yacht Rigging, Commander’s Beach House, Doc’s Marina Grill, Gathering Place, Hanson of Port Townsend, Hudson Point Café, Marine Surveys & Assessments, Mark Kielty Belt Buckles, Port Townsend Sails, Puget Sound Express, Pygmy Boats, Rainshadow Properties, Rat Island Rowing & Sculling Club, Schooner Martha Foundation, Shanghai Restaurant, SEA Marine, U.S. Customs, WA Dept. of Fish & Wildlife
Thank you, Festival Captains, Staff and Volunteers! We have a collection of colorful characters, the best of the best, who help make this weekend what it is. They do it with laughter, thoughtfulness, humility and beer. This is an amazing team—some of these crew captains
2018 Staff NWMC Back row from left: Lisa French, Susanna Sharp, Regis Hastings, Eileen Johnson, Catherine Laparoti, Xoe Huffman, Jeff Hogue, Nancy Israel, Jake Beattie, Brandon Hampton, Heidi Eisenhower, Peter Santerre, Robin Mills, Riley McGrath, Anika Colvin, Sonja Frojen, Kris Dey, Chrissy McClean. Front Row: Caroline Ruth, Anna Waters, Kerry Hastings, Angela Hewiston, Barb Trailer, Len Maranan Goldstein. Not pictured: Hallie Kopald, Daniel Evans, Susanna Sharp, Shirley Reynolds, Tonia Burkett. and volunteers have been doing this for decades, and their dedication is humbling and inspiring. The Wooden Boat Festival continues to grow and be refined by all of our ideas and thoughtfulness, and it’s a joy to be a part of such a dedicated team! Many thanks to: AV Support, Joel Goldstein; Balcony Wine Bar, Jeff Graham and Gene Buzzard; Bar Harbor, Beth O’Neal, Andi Niesen; Bar Harbor
Setup, Michael Rosser; Bell Tolls, Carol Hasse: Boatshop, Riley McGrath; Chandlery/Retail, Anna Waters; Data Diva, Carolyn Hunt; Docks, Greg Paulson and Lanny Turey; Donor Events, Lisa French and Len Maranan-Goldstein; Edensaw Boatbuilding Challenge,Scott Jones; Electrical, Bill McGrath; Facilities, Jeff Hogue; Food Court, Gerry Kress; Free Small Boat Rides, Chuck Henry; Green Team, Eileen Johnston; Greeters, John Mottola; Grounds, Jacob Talamante; Harbormaster, Daniel Evans; Information HQ, Catherine Leporati; Kids’ Boatbuilding, Peg Hunter; Main Gate, Garry Wohlgemuth; Medical Team, Jordan Pollack; Membership, Susanna Sharp, Music, Neville Pearsall; North Star Stage & Pirate Treasure, Joey Pipia; Paddleboard Pool Setup, Mike Scott and Robert Glynn; Operations, Shawna Talamante; Presenter Coordinator, Ace Spragg; Races, Myron Gauger; Setup/Teardown, Mike Loriz, Marty Crowley and Jacob Talamante; Traffic & Parking, Patrick Johnson and Lenny Greenbaum; Trailer Boat Concierge, Marty Loken; Volunteer Coordinator, Angela Hewitson; Volunteer Photographer, Carole Huelsberg; Wee Nip, Fred Esson; Will Call, Joyce Mottola.
Thank you, Staff of NWMC!
Captains
Back row from left: Jacob and Shawna Talamente, Mike Scott, Chuck Henry, Joel Goldstein, Jeff Graham, Gene Buzzard, Myron Gauger, Caroline Hunt, Bill McGrath, Mike Loritz, Garry Wolgemuth, Hallie Kopald, Patrick Johnson, Robert Glynn. Front row from left: Barb Trailer, Jordan Pollack, Angela Hewiston, Marty Loken, Beth O’Neal, Marty Crowley, Peg Hunter, Carole Huelsberg, Michael Rosser. Not pictured: Greg Paulson, Lanny Turely, Scott Jones, Lisa Witt Widner, Gerry Kress, John and Joyce Mottola, Daniel Evans, Catherine Leporati, Eileen Johnson, Pete Santerre, Susanna Sharp, Neville Pearsall, Joey Pipia, Ace Spragg, Kim Carver, Lenny Greenbaum, Fred Esson.
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We have the privilege of working all year long with some of the brightest and most fun “can-do” people around, and we’re grateful for all the extra things they do both up front and behind the scenes to help make the Wooden Boat Festival happen.
Thank you, Jake Beattie, Tonia Burkett, Anika Colvin, Kris Day, Heidi Eisenhour, Daniel Evans, Lisa French, Sonia Frojen, Kerry Gallagher, Jeffrey Graham, Brandon Hampton, Angela Hewitson, Jeffrey Hogue, Xoe Huffman, Nancy Isreal, Eileen Johnston, Regis Jues, Hallie Kopaldi, Catherine Leporati, Lenore Maranan Goldstein, Christen McLean, Riley McMath, Robin Mills, Shirley Reynolds, Caroline Ruth, Peter Santerre, Susanna Sharp, Barb Trailer, Anna Waters, and Jack Wheeler.
Thank you, NWMC Board!
Steve Oliver, President; Kris Morris, Vice President; David King, Treasurer; Kim Aldrich, John Anderson, Andrew Biel, Mark Bunzel, Jan Davis, Jeff Davis, Joe Finnie, Peter Geerlofs, Blaise Holly, Patrick Irwin, Gary Kennedy, Neil McCurdy, Ron Moller, Stuart Mork, Lynn Terwoerds, and Debbi Vanselow; Carlyn Stark and Jim Whittaker, Board Members Emeritus.
Thank you, Community Partners!
Thanks to the Port Townsend Marine Science Center, YMCA, Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce, Main Street, Jefferson Transit, Jefferson County Parks & Recreation, Port Townsend School of Arts, Port of Port Townsend, Port Townsend Police Department and the City of Port Townsend. Most of all, thank you to the hundreds of volunteers who help put on the biggest festival in town!
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