The 41st Annual Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend, Washington

Following our charter season in southeast Alaska, we participated in the 41st Annual Wooden Boat Festival, which took place in Port Townsend, Washington September 8-10.   Prior to the festival, the Ursa Major was selected as the Northwest Maritime Center’s “Sunday Sail-By Vessel”, which allowed us to take members and donors of the Northwest Maritime Center aboard the Ursa Major for a cruise during the annual Sunday Sail-By Parade.  Many of the photos below were taken during the Sunday Sail-By Parade, where wooden vessels of all shapes, makes, and sizes took a spin in the waters off Port Townsend.  The entire Festival was an amazing maritime event, and a wonderful celebration of wooden vessels of all types, and we were honored to be a part of it.

The Ursa Major on the main dock at the Festival.

A few of our Festival neighbors.

Our neighbors off the stern of the Ursa Major.

The Sunday Sail-By Parade aboard the Ursa Major.

The Sunday Sail-By Parade aboard the Ursa Major. The historic wooden halibut schooner “F/V Tordenskjold” is motoring by in the background.

The historic wooden halibut schooner “F/V Northern”, which is being lovingly restored in Poulsbo, Washington as a private vessel.

The historic sailing vessel “S/V Adventuress” with full sails raised during the Sunday Sail-By Parade.

And what would the Sunday Sail-By Parade be without pirates?