Port Townsend's annual Wooden Boat Festival is a place where kids and adults alike experience the magic of getting on the water, the beauty of wooden boats, and the richness of our maritime culture

Come learn from the experts, gawk at all the beautifully crafted vessels, and swap stories with wooden boat aficionados. Bring your family and build a toy boat with the kids, watch them print t-shirts with real fish, and cruise Port Townsend Bay together on the boat Admiral Jack. Or grab a few friends and check out the variety of vendors, dig into some local eats, and dance the night away. Whatever your flavor—there’s something for everybody at Wooden Boat Festival.

Events:

- Family Fun
- Get On The Water
- Hands on
- Live Music
- Presentation & Demo
- Special Events
- Special Movie presentation
- Special presentation
- Popular

Schedule:

September 7, 2023

Thursday

- 8:00am:
Marine Diesel Engine Maintenance and Troubleshooting: a 6 hour workshop (Extra fee)
- Nigel Calder

- 5:00pm :
The Alternators
Alternators

- 6:00pm :
Midnight Train Blues Band
Midnight Train Blues Band

- 8:00pm :
Lowire

- 5:30pm :
Lifetime Achievement Awards

September 8, 2023

Friday

8:00am :
Boat Electrical Systems Design, Installation, and Troubleshooting: a 6 hour-workshop (Extra fee)
- Nigel Calder

9:00am :
Make Your Own Cheese Board

9:30am :
- 12 Multihulls Worth Building for the PNW
Peter Walford
- Adventure Racing! Heck if I know!
Lillian Kuehl
- Building a Traditional Sliding Rowing Seat
John McCormack
- Paddlewheeler Rides - FreeGyotaku Fish PrintingKids' Boatbuilding

10:00am :
- Liverpool Eye Splice
- Plug-in Boats: What You Need To Know To Get Started
Thomas Hruby
- Sail Inspection and Repair
Alison Wood
- Sharpening Chisels and Planes
Tim Lawson
- Steam Bending & Boatbuilding
Sean Kooman
- Liverpool Eye Splicer
- Boat Tour on Admiral Jack
- Left Coast Charters- Katie M
- Sound Experience - Adventuress Sails
- Try Corking a Boat
- Bumblebee Sailboat Rides - Free!
- Paddleboard Pool - Free

10:30am :
- Wood Turning: Make a Wooden Pen, Small Bowl or Small Project

11:00am :
- Finding AMA Futura: A New Solar Electric Long Range Boat
Capt Peter Wilcox
- Making Wooden Cleats
- Nautical Photography Tips and Tricks
Jeffrey Eichen
- SEASTR Adventure Racing and Inclusionary Watersports
Erica Lichty
- Wooden Boat Survey
Patrick Mahon
- Sail Maintenance & Repair
- Row & Sail a Longboat - Free

12:00pm :
- Underwater Tips
Mike Novak
- Jill & Kevin
Jill and Kevin
- Composting Toilets For Boats and The Environment
Geoffrey Trott
- Intro to Marine Corrosion
Kevin Ritz

12:30pm :
- Aquila Sails: Resourceful Amateurs Rebuild a 34 foot William Garden Cutter
Eben Shay & Richard Reeves
- R2AK Team Monkey Fist
Robert Hodge
- Calypso: Cruising by the Seat of our Pants
Dennis McGuire

1:00pm :
- Rick Allyn
Rick Allyn
- Changes in Culture and Behavior: Getting Greener in Marine Coatings
David Atwater
- Mortising with a Plunge Router
John McCormack
- Tapes on the Table
Korey Rubin
- The Foundrymans Craft
- Friday | 26’ and Under Race

2:00pm :
- Bobbi Nikles
- Building Camas Moon
Alex Zimmerman
- Chopping Rabbets
Tucker Piontek
- Small Boats to Send Kids Across Big Waters
Colin Angus
- Tenoning on the Table Saw
John McCormack
- The Inside Passage on 100% Solar Power
Alex Borton
- The World's Longest Paddle Race: An Average Dad Takes on the Yukon
Brian Harmon
- Three Strand Rope Splicing & Hands-on Grommet Making
- 40 Years in the Marine Trades: Our Teachers and Lessons
Ernie Baird - Diana Talley

3:00pm :
- Andy Koch's Bad Dog Blues Society
Andy Koch's Badd Dog Blues Society
- The Foundrymans Craft
- Wakespeed 101: Select, Install, and Configure your WS500 Advanced Alternator
Al Thomason

3:30pm :
- Sail Inventory and Handling
Erica Georgaklis
- Womens Adventure Panel

5:00pm :
- Jean Lenke & the Jean Therapy West Band
Jean Lenke & jean Therapy West

6:00pm :
- The Delta Rays
- The Delta Rays
Blazer Party

8:00pm :
- Joy in Mudville
Joy in Mudville

September 9, 2023

Saturday

8:00am :
- Saturday - Rowing Race

9:00am :
- Saturday - NW Schooner Cup

9:15am :
- Paddlewheeler Rides - Free

9:30am :
- The Healing Waters
Dean Burke
- History of the Steam Mostquito Fleet of the Salish Sea
Stewart Pugh
- Sailboat Standing Rigging
Lisa Vizzini
- Take me to the Water: Histories of the Black Pacific Project
Caroline Collins
- Gyotaku-Fish Printing
- Kids' Boatbuilding
- Make a Wooden Pen or Small Bowl

10:00am :
- Changes in Culture and Behavior: Getting Greener in Marine Coatings
David Atwater
- Good Fiberglassing Techniques
Bruce Blatchley
- How to Buy or Sell Your Boat
Rob Sanderson
- Sharpening Chisels and Planes
- Synthetic Fiber Standing Rigging
Ian Weedman & Jen Bates
- Sail Maintenance & Repair
- Synthetic Fiber Standing Rigging
- How to Stitch and Glue
Matthew Weaver
- Boat Tours on Admiral Jack
- Row & Sail a Longboat - Free
- Left Coast Charters - Katie M
- Make Your Own Cheese Board
- Bumblebee Sailboat Rides - Free
- Paddleboard Pool - Free
- Sound Experience - Adventuress

11:00am :
- Building Adventuress' Hollow Spruce Topmast Rig
Esther Whitemore & Daniel Hawkins
- Demystifying Foils
- Sailing into our 70s
Kaci Cronkhite
- Seeking Synchronicity: A Solo Kayak Journey Up the Inside Passage
Susan Conrad
- The State of the Sound
Ahren Stromming
- Cruising to Alaska: The Dream Trip
Mark Bunzel
- Marine Weather in Electronic Charting Systems
Dave Wilkinson

12:00pm :
- The Shifty Sailors
The Shifty Sailors
- Cold Molding & Boatbuilding
Sean Kooman
- Decarbonization Awards
Capt Peter Wilcox
- Schooner Adventuress' Fiber Topmast Rig
Ian Weedman & Jen Bates

12:30pm :
- Offshore Readiness
Lisa Vizzini
- The Compass: Traditional Navigation in the Age of Electronics
Robert Bergstrom
- Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain
Margaret Wilson
- Wood Boat, Whales and Winning the Race to Alaska!
Jeanne Goussev

1:00pm :
- Pint & Dale
William Pint & Felicia Dale
- Adventure Sketching
Maria Coryell-Martin
- Electric Propulsion on Stand Up Paddleboards
Dan Mahar
- Outboard Maintenance
Tyler Johnson

2:00pm :
- Trading up- Navigating Career Transitions to Build a Meaningful Life in the Maritime Trades
Kaci Cronkhite
- Strikes a Bell
Strikes a Bell
- Nautical Photography Tips and Tricks from Click to Print
Jeffrey Eichen
- New Techniques in Stitch and Glue Boatbuilding
Sam Devlin
- The Magic of Silica Gel
Chuck Laguna
- Wakespeed 101: Select, Install, & Configure your WS500 Advanced Alternator Regulator
Al Thomason
- Three Strand Rope Splicing & Hands-on Grommet Making
- Varnishing Tips and Tricks
Joni Blanchard

2:30pm :
- Schooner Cup

3:00pm :
- Pint & Dale
William Pint & Felicia Dale
- Stories of Orcas, Overnighters, and other Adventures in the PNW
Greg Kroleski
- Wood Screws Nuance: Tips and Tricks for Fastening
Korey Rubin

3:30pm :
- "Shanghaied" A New Historical Fiction
Jon Howe
- Yacht Designer Panel
Sam Devlin

4:00pm :
- Capt Matt & Tugboat
Capt Matt
Dovetail Workwear Show

5:00pm :
- Bread & Gravy
Bread & Gravy

6:30pm :
- A Most Beautiful Thing
Arshay Cooper

8:00pm :
- Uncle Funk & the Dope 6
Uncle Funk And The Dope 6

September 10, 2023

Sunday

9:00am :
Sunday - Row, Row, Row Your Boat Rally

9:15am :
Paddlewheeler Rides - Free

9:30am :
- Make your own cheese board to take home
- Challenges and Fun of Cruising to SE Alaska
Elsie Hulsizer
- Mapping the World: Making Travel Safe for Us
Todd Clayton
- Provisioning for the Race to Alaska
Robert Hodge
- Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain
Margaret Wilson
- Gyotaku Fish Printing
- Kids' Boatbuilding

10:00am :
- Intro to Marine Electrical
Kevin Ritz
- Sharpening Chisels and Planes
Tim Lawson
- Bell Tolls
- Boat Tours on Admiral Jack
- Hands On Epoxy
Matthew Weaver
- Bumblebee Sailboat Rides - Free
- Paddleboard Pool - Free
- Left Coast Charters - Katie M
- Sound Experience - AdventuressRow & Sail a Longboat - Free

10:30am :
- "Shanghaied" A New Historical Fiction
Jon Howe

11:00am :
- Building Community Training for the SEVENTY48: Is the Adventure the Race?
Rebecca Berger, Mary Fortman and Holly Rassmusen
- Good Laminating Techniques
Bruce Blatchley
- The Artistry of China Cloud and Queer Reverence on the Salish Sea
Eden Murray
- The Magic of Silica Gel
Chuck Laguna
- Kid's Pirate Parade

11:30am :
- How to Cross the Bar like a Pro
Charles Loos

12:00pm :
- Wind Power and the Revival of Sail in Maritime Shipping
Mark Zion
- Wooden Boat Survey
Patrick Mahon
- Woodworking Jigs
Tucker Piontek
- Sing-along with "The Salish Sea with Billy B"
The Salish Sea with Billy B

12:30pm :
- Salt on the Wind: The Sailing Life of Allen and Sharie Farrell
Dan Rubin
- Wood Boats on the Big Muddy
Greg Hatten
- Interview with Veteran Justin Cronin: Adventure Sailing for - Healing
Joe Cline

1:00pm :
- Kozmopolis
Kozmopolis
- Outboard Repair

2:00pm :
- Three Strand Rope Splicing & Hands-on Grommet Making
- Sing Out the Boats
Safe Harbor Shanty Group

3:00pm :
- Sail By

Date: September 7 - 10, 2023

Location: Northwest Maritime Center - 431 Water Street Port Townsend, WA 98368

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