2012 Sailing Calendar Released

Next year's sailing calendar was released from the Port Townsend Sailing Association's central home office. To download your copy of next year's scheduled fun on the Bay and surrounding waters, click the link below. 2012 PTSA and Regional Sailing Schedule-1.pdf.

MARTHA, Making Wood Look Good…Again!

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SLIVER Build at Boat School Coming Along

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Those whacky, dinghy dudes!

R Boats at the 2011 WBF

Now there are four. A fourth R Boat has joined PIRATE, ALOHA and LADY VAN, welcome ACE to her first Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival. Thanks to Lin Parks for these great pictures.

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A bevy of first-time boats to check out at Wooden Boat Festival

The schooner Pacific Grace, background, dwarfs the 30-foot schooner Talisker of Skye near Victoria, B.C. Photo by Mark Kaarremaa

Story by Deborah Bach at Three Sheets Northwest

The man knew exactly what type of boat he wanted.

He approached with plans in hand, asking Dale Nordlund to build him a 30-foot schooner.

“He [...]