Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival

Every September Port Townsend hosts the Wooden Boat Festival (unless there is a raging pandemic of course!)

Boat makers show their wares. Owners let people board their vessels. It’s a boat street festival with people from all over the united states attending.

I was able to get this shot early before anyone had arrived. Processed in Topaz 2 to give it a painterly effect.

OOPS…

I wish I could have taken this 20 minutes sooner when the boat was 45 degrees sideways. He is not the first sailboat to not read the tide charts correctly and get beached. It was a BIG sailboat. If you zoom in you’ll see him at the left/back inspecting the boat. He did get released about 5 hours later and moved to deeper water.

The mountains and buildings in the far background are actually Vancouver Island, across the straight.