Plans Announced for 30th Annual Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival

30th Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival Exhibitor Applications & Festival Tickets available!

Ahoy boaters, builders, exhibitors and friends... Applications for the 30th Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend are now available online or by email.

Tickets for this year's Wooden Boat Festival Symposium (September 7, from 9-4 in Port Townsend) are now available online at http://www.woodenboat.org. The Symposium will feature 4 major yacht restorations with presentations by the shipwrights and owners. The specific boats will be announced on our website in May.

Festival General Admission tickets are also available. Matt Murphy and

Tom Jackson from WoodenBoat Magazine will talk about their latest books

during the Festival. Sponsors Edensaw Woods, Festool and System Three will each expand their demonstrations and talks in the Woodworking, Boatbuilding and Tool Demonstration areas. Local and regional experts Carol Hasse, Sam Devlin, Brion Toss and nearly 70 exhibitors and educational organizations will present talks and demonstrations throughout the weekend.

"Big" boats: Virginia V, Adventuress, Lynx, Lady Washington and Sea Wolf, a restored Mine Sweeper that now offers advance seamanship courses in partnership with the Wooden Boat Foundation & Northwest Maritime Center. A range of smaller boats, including Pygmy Kayaks, Bartender Boats, Vietnamese reed boats, models and entries pariticipating in the 2nd Annual Shipyard Raid - an international rowing and sailing race for small craft, will fill the harbor.

This year's festival theme is "Pulling Together - The Spirit of the Crew". Gae Pilon, Port Townsend artist know for her art-inlaid spinnakers as well as her illustrations in the Chapman Book of Knots (written by Brion Toss) created this year's Festival Art. Posters will

be available in late May.

For information on the Festival, see our website www.woodenboat.org, or

call the Wooden Boat Festival Office at 360-344-3436.