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SATURDAY, MAY 15

10:00 am Opening Ceremonies with Town Crier Rich Riddell 10:00 am Island View Marimba Ensemble 10:45 am Fidalgo Elementary Choir 11:30 am An-O-Chords Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society 1:30 pm Shifty Sailors 2:30 pm Uncle Stinky the Magician 3:00 pm BatteryStreet Band 4:45 pm Lady A & the Baby Blues Funk Band Other Events 7:00 am Marine Swap Meet located at 9th and Q 8:00 am All Corvette car show located at 9th and Q 9:00 am Quick and Dirty boat building demonstration, south end of festival site 4:00 pm Quick and Dirty Rowing Demonstration

SUNDAY, MAY 16 10:45 am

Anacortes and Drum Line Anacortes High School Jazz Band 11:45 am DanceWorks 12:30 pm Everyday Jones 2:00 pm African All Stars 3:30 pm Rat City Brass Other Events 8:00 am Open Class Car Show – 9th and Q

The Anacortes Chamber of Commerce is proud to produce the Waterfront Festival each year.

We thank the many committee members and other volunteers that make this fantastic community event so special.

Vision Statement To be the most livable and economically vibrant waterfront community in the Pacific Northwest.

Mission Statement To proactively lead and thoughtfully serve and represent our members.

Ongoing events throughout the festival: • Free boat rides from the Anacortes Yacht Club • Free kids boat building sponsored by the Fidalgo Island Rotary • Quick and Dirty Boat Building Demonstration • Self-guided Walking Tour of a Working Waterfront - start at the Information Booth • Channel of Discovery - learn about the efforts of many local non-profits • Car Show Sponsored by the Majestic Glass Car Club • Paint tiles to be used in future port renovation with the Anacortes Community Youth Arts • Heritage Place - local historians will share stories of Anacortes • Radio-controlled boats near main stage and below in the water • Arts & Crafts Booths, marine-related booths, scrumptious and delectable food... and so much more!

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10:00a.m. to 6p.m. • Sat., May 15 10:00a.m. to 5p.m. • Sun., May 16

For more than 50 years, Shell Puget Sound Refinery has been supporting local community events, and we are proud to be a major sponsor of the 21st Annual Anacortes Waterfront Festival.

Come enjoy the live music, great local food, boat rides, games and activities for all ages at this year’s festival. Join us in celebrating the proud maritime heritage that makes this community such an incredible place to live and do business.

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Where:

The Cap Sante Boat Haven on Anacortes’ beautiful waterfront For more information on the Anacortes Waterfront Festival, call (360) 293-7911

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Waterfront Festival celebrates city’s maritime history

BY KIMBERLY JACOBSON American staff writer

The annual Anacortes Waterfront Festival is about having fun near and on the water. Visitors enjoy free boat rides, seek out treasures at a marine swap meet and vendor booths and marvel at the performance of radio-controlled boats.

Sponsored by the Anacortes Chamber of Commerce, the festival May 15-16 focuses on the maritime history of the city.

And this year you can hear about it firsthand from speakers like Wallie Funk, Bud Strom, Don McDugle, Pat Mondhan and Mark Nilson. The volunteers will offer a historical perspective of the waterfront at a booth near the boat hoist both Saturday and Sunday.

Watch the Quick and Dirty Boat Building demonstration, take a stroll along the waterfront with the walking tour, enjoy a free boat ride with the Anacortes and Fidalgo Bay yacht clubs or buy some trinkets at a marine-related booth — all at the friendly Cap Sante Boat Haven.

The marina’s esplanade, renovated recently, is part of the Port of Anacortes’ plan to increase public access. The port is also redeveloping the area. Kids can help with the project by painting tiles at the Anacortes Youth Arts booth at the festival, which is supported by the port and Johnny Picasso’s.

Tiles were previously incorporated in concrete benches at

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an outdoor room. More tiles are planned to be used in various community construction projects, like the Scott mill site, the O Avenue beach and possibly the Small Boat Center.

The festival — 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Saturday, May 15 and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, May 16 — is so jampacked with activities that many people attend both days to take it all in.

The festival also features boat building for youngsters, educational displays and a food court.

The Quick and Dirty Boat Building demonstration on Saturday pits teams of three against one another to see who can build a seaworthy boat in about six

hours. Teams are allowed to use only a specific list of supplies.

The boats will be paraded through the festival and launched around 4 that afternoon for a rowing demonstration — and to see if they float.

To watch a video of last year’s demonstration, visit www.youtube. com/watch?v=yHeyVgE95d4.

Attendees can also enjoy a walking tour of the working waterfront. It starts at the marina and heads south along the waterfront with stops along the way that have information about the refineries, fishing boats and eelgrass.

Many vendors have a marine theme.

Entertainment is presented 10 a.m. to 6:15 p.m. Saturday and 10:45 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

Highlights of the festival include: • An all Corvette car show Saturday and an open class car show Sunday.

• A marine swap meet 7 a.m. to noon Saturday. Find small used boats, fishing gear, motors, parts, nautical knickknacks and more.

• Model boat show hosted by Skagit R/C Ship Modelers and a radio controlled sailboat regatta.

• Boat building for kids at a Rotary Club booth.

• Trailered boats and some in the water.

Visit www.anacortes.org.

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From African pop to old school funkmanship, it’s all on stage

BY ELAINE Walker News editor

With local favorites in the morning and heavy Seattle talent later in the afternoons, the entertainment lineup at the 2010 Anacortes Waterfront Festival is packed with fun.

• Saturday starts with opening ceremonies led by Anacortes Town Crier Richard Ridell, followed immediately by the Island View Marimba Ensemble, then the Fidalgo Elementary Choir.

The schools are followed by the An-O-Chords, Anacortes’ 50voice men’s barbershop chorus.

Following the chorus are the salty songs of the Shifty Sailors, Uncle

Stinky the Magician and the Battery Street band.

Anchoring the afternoon is Lady A & the Baby Blues Funk Band, one of Seattle’s hottest bands. They blend old school funkmanship with jazz flavor, blues savvy and Motown fever.

• On Sunday, the Anacortes High School jazz band and drum line get things started at 10:45 a.m., followed by the talented young performers of Danceworks.

Everyday Jones takes the stage at 12:30. An independent acoustic duo from Seattle, this versatile pair make themselves sound like a roomful of players by creative live looping and sampling.

Alissa Jandt performs on djem- tional West African pop styles be African drum and percussion, such as hi-life, sucous, juju, calypand Jason Green performs acous- so and reggae. tic guitar and pedals. Both add Festival entertainment closvocals. es on a fun note with Rat Following Everyday Jones City Brass, an outfit that is African All Stars, a world uses its two trumpets, beat band featuring intertrombone, keyboard, national performers guitar, bass, drums and who settled in percussion to draw Seattle from heavily on Herb Ghana, Alpert’s Tijuana Liberia, Brass catalog.

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BY KIMBERLY JACOBSON American staff writer

Courtney Orrock and her team are confident their skills have improved in the Quick and Dirty Boat Building demonstration.

Last year the Nauti Girls ended up in the water.

“We capsized. We didn’t sink.

There’s a difference,” she said.

Orrock and college friends Jen Lieberstein and Janette Golomeic (they fly up from California just for the event) will give it

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event was a crowd favorite, with hundreds of people lining the dock cheering the teams on as they launched and paddled for the finish line.

“We want to have fun and we want people to take it in the spirit of fun,” said supreme judge Pat another go this year.

Barrett.

“We have some plans now that His advice for the teams we know what we’re in for,” she — bribe early and often said.

Fun is the name of the game for participants in the third annual competition.

Seven teams are signed up to build flashy boats — that hopefully float — in six hours.

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The competition, based off a similar event held during Tacoma’s Maritime Fest, pits teams of three against one another.

Teams are given the same basic Please see Quick, page 7

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materials. Building starts at 9 a.m.

Saturday and ends promptly at 3 p.m. A parade through the festival is at 4 p.m. followed by a race.

Indie rocker Karl Blau is putting together a band to spice up the parade, making it feel more like a New Orleans funeral march. “He’s actually going to write music for it so it should be interesting,� Barrett said.

Boats will be judged in categories like best looking, best use of material, originality, design, best use of the mystery material and people’s choice. All categories will carry equal weight. A bonus point is awarded for each piece

of plywood, lumber and tube of caulk not used by the teams.

Barrett said the mystery material hasn’t been determined. Last year it was a 12-inch piece of carbon fiber.

Anyone will have a chance to

be a judge this year — at least one position will be auctioned off at the Friday night kickoff dinner.

To determine the people’s choice award, you can buy raffle tickets for $1 each to put in buck-

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All proceeds go to the Small Boat Center.

Teams signed up include Core Builders, Strandberg Construction, Majestic Inn, Fiberglass Supply and Anacortes Construction Services.

Orrock and her team didn’t have a strategy going in last year. “It was something that we could put together in six hours,� she said.

This year the team, now called Chickens of the Sea, is keeping its plans under wraps.

Orrock said they hope to do better than last year (not that hard to accomplish, she says). “It’s all about having a good time and raising money for the Small Boat Center,� she said.

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Pulling together to launch the

OARSS crew crafting historic gig

By Joan Pringle American staff writer

W

hen members of the Old Anacortes Rowing and Sailing Society put the last plank on the Island Star back in March, the occasion was celebrated as with all “whiskey planks” — whiskey all around.

The four-oared rowboat still had and has a way to go, but when completed, she’ll be one of only four such gigs like her.

The Island Star is based on a Whitehall rowboat, the American Star, built in the early 1800s and the two replicas constructed from her lines. She’ll have a 27-foot-3inch overall length, 47-inch beam, and weigh about 300 pounds.

Four men or women will handle one wooden oar each while a fifth will serve as coxswain. The boat will be an example of one rarely built in this day and age when most watercraft have at least one motor hanging off their sterns.

“I was smitten,” said OARSS member David Jackson when he first saw the boat in its beginning stages with Michele Pope in Fri-

day Harbor in 2004. The boat had the molds, keel and a few planks modestly put together.

The project was started in 2001 with grant money but fell apart a couple years later, Pope said. At the time OARSS wasn’t ready for it, she said.

“I remember thinking it was the wrong time for us,” Jackson said.

The boat was eventually deeded to Crew 81 of the Anacortes Venture Scout Troop with a $2,000 endowment and in time brought to Emerald Marine where it hung in the rafters for a couple years.

“It was uncertain if Crew 81 could complete it,” said OARSS member Torgy Torgersen. The young sailors offered to donate the boat to OARSS along with the endowment.

But the club had some trepidation.

“Some people were concerned that it was too much of a racing boat,” Torgersen said. “Others thought it was too different from the other gigs, and that it would

Phil Eley / OARSS

Phil Eley / OARSS

The Island Star, a replica of a Whitehall rowboat built in the early 1800s, fits perfectly the Old Anacortes Rowing and Sailing Society’s mission to construct, preserve and use handlaunched, non-powered, rowing and sailing craft. Members have been working on the boat since February and hope to launch it in July.

Clockwise from far left: • At the whiskey toast, Tim Vogal checks out the molds the planks were formed around.

• It took 3,000 rivets and roves to secure the stem-bent white oak frames to the hull using special tools.

• OARSS members check out the boat at Emerald Marine, an Anacortes boat restoration shop, where the work is being done.

• Clamps are used to hold support timbers for the planks as the frames are riveted in place.

Phil Eley / OARSS

Joan Pringle

take a whole new set of rowing skills.”

Still others questioned the seaworthiness of the craft and the outlay of the money.

But Jackson won them over, Torgersen said.

What also helped sway them was a ride in the Salish Star in Port Townsend in January. The Salish Star is the second replica of the American Star.

“I think once people rode in it, it was a done deal,” Torgersen said. “The overall impression of the seaworthiness of the Star was that it performed better than many members expected.

There were some issues of leg and footspace, but the boat builders in the club thought those elements could be circumvented during the building of the Island Star.”

“Overall, it was not a snap decision on the part of the club to take this project,” Torgersen said.

“Certainly, the history of the boat had a lot of emotional appeal to some of us.”

OARSS took on the project with an estimated cost to the club of about $10,000 that would go to Emerald Marine plus the cost of finishing materials. The work would be supplemented with volunteer labor provided by OARSS members, including Jackson, a professional boat builder.

The Island Star will be the third gig in the OARSS fleet. The others are the Glide and Erica, 21-foot captain’s gigs. The club also has the Ann C., a 21-foot wherry, the Bon Adventure, a 26foot rowing/sailing boat primarily Please see OARSS, page 10

Pulling together to launch the

OARSS crew crafting historic gig

By Joan Pringle American staff writer

W

hen members of the Old Anacortes Rowing and Sailing Society put the last plank on the Island Star back in March, the occasion was celebrated as with all “whiskey planks” — whiskey all around.

The four-oared rowboat still had and has a way to go, but when completed, she’ll be one of only four such gigs like her.

The Island Star is based on a Whitehall rowboat, the American Star, built in the early 1800s and the two replicas constructed from her lines. She’ll have a 27-foot-3inch overall length, 47-inch beam, and weigh about 300 pounds.

Four men or women will handle one wooden oar each while a fifth will serve as coxswain. The boat will be an example of one rarely built in this day and age when most watercraft have at least one motor hanging off their sterns.

“I was smitten,” said OARSS member David Jackson when he first saw the boat in its beginning stages with Michele Pope in Fri-

day Harbor in 2004. The boat had the molds, keel and a few planks modestly put together.

The project was started in 2001 with grant money but fell apart a couple years later, Pope said. At the time OARSS wasn’t ready for it, she said.

“I remember thinking it was the wrong time for us,” Jackson said.

The boat was eventually deeded to Crew 81 of the Anacortes Venture Scout Troop with a $2,000 endowment and in time brought to Emerald Marine where it hung in the rafters for a couple years.

“It was uncertain if Crew 81 could complete it,” said OARSS member Torgy Torgersen. The young sailors offered to donate the boat to OARSS along with the endowment.

But the club had some trepidation.

“Some people were concerned that it was too much of a racing boat,” Torgersen said. “Others thought it was too different from the other gigs, and that it would

Phil Eley / OARSS

Phil Eley / OARSS

The Island Star, a replica of a Whitehall rowboat built in the early 1800s, fits perfectly the Old Anacortes Rowing and Sailing Society’s mission to construct, preserve and use handlaunched, non-powered, rowing and sailing craft. Members have been working on the boat since February and hope to launch it in July.

Clockwise from far left: • At the whiskey toast, Tim Vogal checks out the molds the planks were formed around.

• It took 3,000 rivets and roves to secure the stem-bent white oak frames to the hull using special tools.

• OARSS members check out the boat at Emerald Marine, an Anacortes boat restoration shop, where the work is being done.

• Clamps are used to hold support timbers for the planks as the frames are riveted in place.

Phil Eley / OARSS

Joan Pringle

take a whole new set of rowing skills.”

Still others questioned the seaworthiness of the craft and the outlay of the money.

But Jackson won them over, Torgersen said.

What also helped sway them was a ride in the Salish Star in Port Townsend in January. The Salish Star is the second replica of the American Star.

“I think once people rode in it, it was a done deal,” Torgersen said. “The overall impression of the seaworthiness of the Star was that it performed better than many members expected.

There were some issues of leg and footspace, but the boat builders in the club thought those elements could be circumvented during the building of the Island Star.”

“Overall, it was not a snap decision on the part of the club to take this project,” Torgersen said.

“Certainly, the history of the boat had a lot of emotional appeal to some of us.”

OARSS took on the project with an estimated cost to the club of about $10,000 that would go to Emerald Marine plus the cost of finishing materials. The work would be supplemented with volunteer labor provided by OARSS members, including Jackson, a professional boat builder.

The Island Star will be the third gig in the OARSS fleet. The others are the Glide and Erica, 21-foot captain’s gigs. The club also has the Ann C., a 21-foot wherry, the Bon Adventure, a 26foot rowing/sailing boat primarily Please see OARSS, page 10

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used by the Sea Scouts, and two one-person sliding seat row boats.

According to its bylaws, the purpose of the group is “to encourage the construction, preservation and use of handlaunched, non-powered, rowing and sailing craft and related facilities, and to serve as a conduit for the exchange of professional information.”

The club will have an educational booth set up at the Anacortes Waterfront Festival in the Channel of Discovery to explain who they are and what they do.

Emerald Marine owner Andy Stewart said he and his partner James McMullen took on the Island Star project because it was an opportunity to build a very beautiful boat in a manner not often done — something that takes high craftsmanship.

With use of the Anacortes restoration shop’s work space and tools, work on the Island Star began at the end of February.

One of the first tasks was to remove the original planks because of bad wood, and to purchase new or, as it turned out, old wood.

The replacement planks came from sawn red cedar that had been stored for 25 to 50 years, depending on which boater’s story you want to believe. All agree, however, that the wood is flawless with a narrow straight grain.

The boards originally belonged to George Pocock, part of a dynasty of boat builders that

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OARSS members David Jackson, left, and Torgy Torgersen discuss the next steps in building the Island Star after attaching the frames to the hull and making sure the whole structure is balanced.

came from England and founded Pocock Racing Shells in Seattle in 1911. The business built shells for college racing crews, including many for the University of Washington.

The wood changed hands and ended up at the Port Townsend Maritime Center. OARSS purchased it to continue the work on the Island Star.

The wood lengths are 5/16 of an inch thick and really brittle, Jackson said. But he added that it’s light “and this boat is going to be fast.”

So fast that OARSS has already challenged the Salish Star crew to a boat race during the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival in September.

“Here in Anacortes we’re excited about a friendly rivalry,” Stewart said. “We’ll get in our boats and meet in the water.”

It will be similar to the event that made the American Star famous in 1824. Soon after it was built by two brothers in Brooklyn, N.Y., the four-oared gig beat the Dart, a British boat, in a race Stewart described as equivalent to the Super Bowl with $1,000 in prize money going to the winners.

Some months later, the boat was given to General Lafayette, who helped the Americans win the Revolutionary War — a move that was a poke in the eye to the British, Stewart said. It was still in France when John Gardener, an educator and boat builder, found it in an empty carriage house in the late 1960s. Gardener realized the importance of the boat as one of the oldest surviving small craft of its type.

“All these indigenous craft died out like a language,” Stewart said.

Gardener and J. Revell Carr, curator of the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut, recorded the lines off the boat and drew up plans that were eventually published in “Wooden Boats to Build and Use” by Gardener.

The first replica of the boat named General Lafayette was completed in 1975 after it was commissioned by the museum and built by Gardener.

Using Gardener’s plans with a few modifications, the Salish Star came next. It was commissioned by the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Foundation and completed by the Point Hudson Boat Shop in 1996.

All three designs for the American Star, General Lafayette and Salish Star have been tweaked and then tweaked some more for the OARSS boat, Jackson said.

The Island Star has more planking — eight planks on each side compared to six on the American Star — to give it more room and make it rounder, Jackson said. More space will be between the thwarts or seats and modifications to the bow and stern will make it faster. Different from the Salish Star, the Island Star’s coxswain seat will have a back with the name of the boat arched across it.

Unfortunately the seat will not be heated and will not have coffee mug holders as some of the members asked for at the whiskey plank ceremony ... after the whiskey had been passed around.

Jackson first heard of the whisPlease see OARSS, page 11

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key plank tradition in 1972 when he was working on a boat with a group of builders.

“A whiskey bottle came out on the table and we didn’t work for the rest of the afternoon,” Jackson said.

The tradition stems from the last plank placed on a boat that’s built starting with the frame, Stewart said. The planks are attached side by side from the top and bottom of the frame with the last plank slipping in the middle, resulting in the near completion of the boat.

Four-oared rowing boats, however, are built with overlapping planks arranged around

Phil Eley / OARSS

A jar of copper roves sits on the hull of the Island Star. About 3,000 roves and rivets or square copper nails went into attaching the boat’s floor timbers to the hull.

wood molds — in the case of the Island Star, the same molds used to build the Salish Star — fol-

lowed by positioning of the frames or ribs on the inside.

There’s no actual whiskey plank on the Island Star, Jackson said. “But we needed one here.”

The occasion allowed OARSS members to see the progression of the boat and to help turn it right side up in order for the ribbing to go in.

When asked what else was to be done, Stewart said “Oh, everything.”

The ribbing work alone meant attaching 3,000 roves (tiny metal circles) to rivets (square copper nails).

The roves are driven onto the rivets against the planks using special tools.

Also needed to be done was

11 putting in the grown crook floor timbers, which Jackson had been saving for a special purpose, inner and outer gunwales, breasthook, quarter knees, thwarts, stretchers for the rowers’ feet and either thole pins or old style locks for the oars. A mast will also be added to the original design so the boat can be sailed.

“We have a great cadre of volunteers,” Jackson said. “It’s like elves helping us.”

The goal is to launch the boat around July, Stewart said.

Whether the boat will be fast enough to beat the Salish Star is yet to be determined, Jackson said.

“Part of it depends on the heart of our crew and we have a very hearted crew,” he said.

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Kids can get creative with boats, tiles

BY KIMBERLY JACOBSON American staff writer

Keep little hands busy with a visit to the festival’s craft booths.

Kids can paint a tile with Anacortes Youth Arts to be used in community construction projects or take home their own construction project after stopping by the Fidalgo Island Rotary Club’s boat building booth.

For 18 years, kids have been picking out wooden hulls to put together with sailcloth to make their own one-of-a-kind wooden boat.

It’s a festival favorite, with

many kids making a boat every year. “The kids not only get to use their creativity to build the boat of their dreams, but they also get the chance to test how seaworthy their boats are in the pond,� said Chris Long, Fidalgo Island Rotary member.

The booth will be open Saturday and Sunday.

A bucket will be set out for donations that the club uses for various community projects.

The club provides about 1,500 hulls made from board ends donated by Sierra Pacific

Industries on Highway 20 and Louws Truss out of Ferndale.

The wood goes to Anacortes High School, where Scott Dickison’s woodworking students cut out the hulls in varying sizes close to a foot long.

The material for sails comes from leftover spinnaker cloth from UK-Halsey Sailmakers.

Dowels and glue are donated

by Sebo’s Hardware.

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Once the boats are built, the kids can test them out on a pond the Rotarians set up near the building area.

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Take a cruise with free boat rides Take a cruise in the waters around Fidalgo Island with free boat rides courtesy of two yacht clubs.

This is the sixth year Anacortes Yacht Club has offered rides at the festival. It asked others to join and several boats are expected from the Flounder Bay Yacht Club.

“We’re expanding it this year,” said Phil Case, Anacortes Yacht Club vice commodore. “It seems like it should be more than a yacht club supporting it, it should be a yachting event.”

Last year, the Anacortes Yacht Club operated 14 boats each day, both power and sail, and gave rides to about 1,000 people.

“Some boats carried as few as

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two passengers and some carried as many as eight or 10,” Case said.

As of late April, 12 boats had already signed up to offer roughly one-hour rides.

“We’re shooting for another 12 at least,” Case said.

Wear sturdy shoes and dress for the weather — it is usually cooler on the water. Life jackets are provided.

Boats will leave both days of the festival from C and D docks at Cap Sante Boat Haven. A registration booth will be at the top of the ramp.

“We like boating and we don’t mind sharing our love of the sea,” Case said. “They enjoy your boat and that is sort of a reward in itself.”

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You can get your fix of little boats at the festival — a model show hosted

by Skagit R/C Ship Modelers is Saturday and radiocontrolled sailboats from Anacortes R/C Sailors will be on parade Sunday.

“We’re going to get them on the water one way or another,” said Larry Stiles with Anacortes R/C Sailors.

The sailboats are sanctioned by the American Model Yacht Association, which has about 25 classes, he said. Boats from the largest class, Sol-

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ing 1-meter models, will be featured at the festival.

They are modeled after an Olympic sailing boat. Sizes range from 36 to 39 inches.

Boats come in kits, which cost about $140.

“They come in a bag of plastic parts like a model airplane,” he said.

They include everything but the electronics, which cost about $200.

He said it takes about a month to put together.

“It’s an excellent entrylevel boat,” Stiles said.

Several other styles will also be on display Sunday.

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Car shows roll into festival The All Corvette Car Show and Custom Classic Car Show will roll into town again this year for the Anacortes Waterfront Festival.

Cars will be parked along Ninth Street and Q Avenue northwest of the Cap Sante Boat Haven May 15 and 16. The event, presented by the Majestic Glass

Check out booths of all kinds Ve n d o r b o o t h s offer a variety of products for sale from arts and crafts to commercial offerings like canopy chairs, compact fishing poles, crab pots and kitchen accessories.

The Channel of Discovery is where most of the educational booths are.

Some educational activities for youngsters will be in the children’s area.

Yo u c a n a l s o check out a nearby dunk tank that raises money for Youth Dynamics and the Anacortes Boys & Girls Club.

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Anacortes American • Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Corvette Club, goes on rain or shine.

Saturday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. is Corvette time. Last year about 130 Corvettes showed up because of the good weather. Trophies and dash plaques will go to the best vehicles.

The Open Class Car Show with hot rods, custom and classic cars and trucks is 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Sunday. First-, second- and thirdplace trophies will be awarded along with trophies for best of show, best engine and best paint.

The fee to enter a car is $15 with registration at 8 a.m. each day. The show is free to spectators.

Door prizes will be given away to show participants about every 15 minutes each day.

Participants and spectators can take part in the 50/50 raffle.

Tickets are $1 with a drawing held around 2:30 p.m. each day.

Entrants must be present to win.

Winners take home half the pot while the other half goes to the club to be donated along with

the rest of the proceeds from the show.

In the past, the club has contributed funds to area food banks, guide dog organizations and other charities.

The Majestic Glass Corvette Club has members in six Western Washington counties.

For more information, call Dave Overton, show coordinator and owner of Corvette Alley in Anacortes, at 299-9303 or club president Linda and treasurer Doug Gilbert at (360) 424-6918.

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