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The friendliest tavern in the Pacific Northwest is located in the historic district of Port Hadlock, Washington where organic farmers and wooden boatbuilders come together!

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The Traditional Small Craft Association, Inc., is a nonprofit, tax-exempt educational organization which works to preserve and continue the living traditions, skills, lore, and legends surrounding working and pleasure watercraft whose origins predate the marine gasoline engine. It encourages the design, construction, and use of these boats, and it embraces contemporary variants and adaptations of traditional designs.

http://www.tsca.net/puget/

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Sound Experience is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization providing hands-on environmental education and leadership experiences for youth and adults. On exciting voyages aboard the historic schooner Adventuress, participants learn about the majesty and vulnerability of our region’s definitive resource, Puget Sound.

http://soundexp.org

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The Schooner Martha Foundation offers sail training programs for youth and adults, sailing in and around the San Juan Islands, Puget Sound, and Canadian waters.

http://www.schoonermartha.org

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Schooner Alcyone offers youth and adult sail training for hands-on fun while you learn and participate in sailing adventures.

http://www.schooneralcyone.com

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We provide top quality gear and professional instruction for all of our kayak Rentals, Tours and Lessons.

http://www.ptoutdoors.com

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Port Townsend Paper Corporation produces Kraft pulp, paper, containerboard and specialty products by blending virgin and recycled fibers in our mill headquarters in Port Townsend.

http://www.ptpc.com

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Complete list of Washington State ferry schedules, including Port Townsend-Whidbey Island, Kingston-Edmonds, Bainbridge Island-Seattle, and Port Angeles-Victoria.

http://ferrywa.com

Our school is located in the unique ecological biome of the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State, where you can explore a multitude of recreational opportunities – hiking in the Olympics, sailing in a Tallship, kayaking the San Juan Islands, eating in the extraordinary restaurants of Port Townsend and the surrounding area – take a ferry from Seattle and come to visit!

Check out the links below for more ideas!

37th Annual Wooden Boat Festival – September 6-8, 2013

Port Townsend’s Wooden Boat Festival is the most education-packed and inspiring wooden boat event in the world. Featuring more than 300 wooden vessels, dozens of indoor and outdoor presentations and demonstrations, a who’s who of wooden boat experts and thousands of wooden boat enthusiasts, there’s something to do, someone to meet, or a boat to board at every turn. Expanded a little each year, the festival honors its traditions while inviting energetic debate and demonstration about the latest innovations in boatbuilding, equipment, skills, and adventure.

For the most up to date info, ‘Like’ the Wooden Boat Foundation Facebook page, email us (Festival Directors Barb Trailer and Carrie Andrews: [email protected]), or check in here at the website as we get closer and closer to the event!

http://woodenboat.org/festival/

The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is a sponsor of the festival –

join us there!

http://www.thewoodenboatshow.com/

36th Annual Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival

The 37th Annual Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival will be Thursday, July 4th, through Sunday, July 7th. All your favorite activities will be back, and we’re planning a few special new ones, too!

Festival Registration for 2013 will open in the Spring. If you have Sponsorship questions, please contact Dan Leach at [email protected]. For all other Festival inquiries, please contact Aislinn Palmer at [email protected].

June 15 & 16, 2013

Harbour Pub Marina

Saturday 10-5

Sunday 10-4

Free Admission

http://www.biwbf.info/2013-festival/

Save the date, June 15 & 16, 2013 for the Bainbridge Island Wooden Boat Festival. This year we’ll have some new and different boats for you to enjoy and the organizing committee is working hard to make the event even better than the first one. The event is being held again this year at the Harbour Marina next to the Harbour Pub.

The hours have been extended on Sunday to allow that much more viewing for the public. We’ll have live music again and I’m told we’ll have interesting weather again this year. So spread the word and be sure and make your plans to come by and share stories with our fabulous group of characters.

Bob Schoonmaker
BIWBF Chair

Therese Mersereau is the grandmother of student Heidi Groh. Terri passed away this week and Heidi came by the office to share memories of her grandmother with us and share her grandmother’s history as a female jazz artist. You can hear her playing on the short video above. You can read about her life at the following link:

http://www.dailyastorian.com/obituaries/20150217/obituary-therese-ellen-spencer-mersereau

Thanks for sharing with us, Heidi. We are sorry for your loss.

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Port Townsend Foundry is a custom and production nonferrous foundry. We are able to produce a wide range of products using only the best materials available today.

Since 1983, we have built our reputation on hard work and customer satisfaction. Although the road has not always been paved in gold or smooth as one would hope, we have managed to flourish with the ongoing support of customers and employees.

We are not affiliated with any other companies and don’t supply any offshore products. We are proud to use the words “Made in The USA.”

Our main product line is marine hardware for sail, power and commercial vessels of all sizes. Castings are produced in silicon (everdure), manganese, aluminum-bronze, white bronze and aluminum alloys. Items range from deck hardware, mast fittings to rudder pintles and gudgeons. We are sure you will like the number of things to choose from.

Our next line is public oriented products. These are the things you see on city streets or your neighborhood parks etc.

Our custom line might be the most exciting to those who need something a little different from off-the-shelf parts. Engine components, antique replacements, one offs, research and development. Talk to us — we love to think with you.

Industrial hardware is for paper and saw mills and house movers.

Architectural castings are both structural and ornamental.

http://www.porttownsendfoundry.com/index.htm

May 11-12, 2013