Anacortes Waterfront Festival 2023

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Welcome to the Waterfront Festival

A celebration of boats and maritime life is what the annual Anacortes Waterfront Festival is all about.

The free festival, hosted by the Anacortes Chamber of Commerce, runs 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at Cap Sante Marina.

The event features boatbuilding for kids, free boat rides for all, games, live music, food and vendors. Several

hands-on activities are offered for children.

A Channel of Discovery will feature a pirate ship and information about marine wildlife and the environment.

A car show will display classic vehicles nearby.

A reproduction historic ship will also dock here for the festival, giving people a chance to get on and look around.

Eat, play and enjoy the days.

The Waterfront Festival offers hands-on activities for all ages, food, live music and vendors.

Schedule of events

10:05 a.m. – Town Crier

10:05 a.m. – Layla King singing the National Anthem

10:15 a.m. – Students and Lisa Grace of LGMusic Studio

11:15 a.m. – Shifty Sailors

12:25 p.m. – Michele D'Amour and the Love Dealers

1:50 p.m. – The Fentons

3:15 p.m. – The Side Project

5 p.m. – Quick and Dirty Boatbuilding Demonstration Sunday

10 a.m. – Anacortes High School senior quartet singing the National Anthem

10:10 a.m. – Anacortes Music Project presents The Colonel

11:20 a.m. – Anacortes Music Project presents Collins Beach

12:45 p.m. – A'Town Big Band

2:15 p.m. – Cozmic Sauce

3:45 p.m. – The Atlantics

Lady Washington to visit dock

A reproduction of a historic ship is sailing into Anacortes just in time for the Waterfront Festival.

The Lady Washington, from the Grays Harbor Historic Seaport, was built in 1989 but is a full-scale version of the original Lady Washington.

The pre-Revolutionary War original took a trading voyage around Cape Horn and in 1788 was the first American vessel to dock on the West Coast of North America, according to the historical sea-

port's website.

The boat traveled all over the world in its time.

At the Waterfront Festival, people will have the chance to board the ship and take a look around. There are also opportunities to purchase tickets to go on sails.

The ship will be in town from June 1-4. Dockside tours are at 1-3 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Information: historicalseaport.org

Sailors explore the Lady Washington during a 2014 visit.

Club offers kids chance to build boats

There is a longtime annual tradition for Anacortes children of building doll-sized boats at the Anacortes Waterfront Festival and then fl oating them in a pool to check their seaworthiness.

The Fidalgo Island Rotary Club starts early, working with area businesses to cut hulls out for more than 1,000 small wooden boats.

Last year, the club handed out 1,300 hulls and actually had 400 left over. Leftovers are uncommon, but wind and rain greatly reduced crowds on the second day of last year’s festival.

Each youngster fi rst picks up a hull.

Then they gather in a building area, often with parents in tow, to nail fi xtures and decorations to their boats, which include the mast, a sail, corks and other decorations.

Once built, they can test their newly created vessels in the nearby pool.

The booth is always one of the biggest draws of the festival.

Donations toward next year’s supplies are happily accepted.

Visitors to the Fidalgo Island Rotary Club booth have the chance to pick out decorations for their wooden boat, put them together and then launch them nearby.

Teams build boats they hope float

The annual Quick and Dirty Boatbuilding Demonstration is one of the biggest draws of the Waterfront Festival, especially for adults.

The little kids come to build miniature boats. The grownups come to watch other adults build much bigger boats by hand and then try to race

them.

Inevitably, not all prove to be seaworthy.

It’s not only good fun, but also a way to raise money for local charities.

The contest challenges teams to build the best boat they can using only six hours and a limited number of supplies.

Then, the teams launch in the marina and see which vessel can make it to the end of the dock and back ... without capsizing, sinking or falling apart.

Some sail cleanly across the fi nish line; others have been known to make it a few feet.

Teams will build the boats from

9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and then decorate them from 3-5 p.m. A parade of the boats from the stage down to the water will start at 5 p.m., followed closely by the demonstration on the water.

Awards include Best Design, Best Use of Mystery Material and Wettest Feet.

Visitors can donate to different teams to earn them a People’s Choice Award.

Yes, it’s an award where the votes

are money. The winning team will donate its earnings to a nonprofi t of its choice.

The others will donate half of the money to their chosen nonprofi t and half to the Waterfront Alliance.

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After six hours of building with limited materials, teams must move their boats to the end of the marina and back. Generally, not everyone makes it the entire way.

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Yacht club offers free boat rides

There may be 17,000 residents on Fidalgo Island, but a lot of them never get a chance to ride a boat.

The odds improve each year during Anacortes Waterfront Festival. Anacortes

Yacht Club members host free rides on their boats during both days of the festival, with options for both power and

sailboats.

But the spots fill up fast.

Visitors should look for the yacht club near the entrance to the marina to sign up for a time slot.

Boat riders should wear closed-toe shoes and must sign a waiver before heading out. There are age limits.

Rides are typically about 45 minutes.

The Anacortes Yacht Club offers free rides both days of the festival.

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