America’s Cup Live Broadcasts This Weekend If you have the time and interest you can tune in to the live broadcasts of the America's Cup series races from Venice this weekend. Quite a treat to hear the familiar "Guys, we got a cluster f**k here" spoken by a highly paid athlete in an Australian accent.
It's an amazing sight with the Cup catamarans racing in the narrow confines of the bay in front of lovely and historic Venice.
You can find the races at http://www.youtube.com/AmericasCup.
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 Lady Van -1929 from www.ladyvan.com We hope to have the R-boats in Port Townsend for this June’s Classic Mariners Regatta.
R-Boat racing started on the West Coast in 1912 and was very active up until 1940. Most major Yacht clubs had at least one in their stall and they raced for the Seattle Lipton Cup, the Isherwood Trophy, and others, with Seattle Yacht Club’s R-Boat, Sir Tom, dominating the fleet for over 14 years. The fleet racing died on the West Coast after WWII and was not seen again until our own Wooden Boat Festival in 2010. There are now three completed, restored, R-Boats active in the PNW: Pirate, Aloha, and Lady Van. A fourth, Ace, is almost ready to sail again. Below is a brief history of each of them.
continue reading » The R-Boats Are Coming
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CALLING ALL WOODEN BOAT OWNERS
Port Townsend Sailing Association is reviving wooden boat racing on the Bay this year with the First Annual Sirens Wooden Boat Series. Working in partnership with the Wooden Boat Foundation/NW Maritime Center, there will be 6 races this spring and summer open only to our amazing fleet of wood hulled sailboats. The races will be held on:
 Time for PT's wonderful wooden boat fleet to be back sailing together on the Bay. Saturday April 2 at noon
Saturday May 7 at approx. 1:30 following the Opening Day Sail Pass
Saturday June 5- 2 races in the afternoon as part of the Classic Mariners Regatta
Sunday June 6-1 race in the afternoon as part of the Classic Mariners Regatta
Saturday July 23 at noon
Sirens is sponsoring the race and feeding the Race Committee. The races will sail past the waterfront on at least one leg of the race course, so be sure to wave at the balcony clientele at the restaurant as you go by.
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Meteor, still ahead of her time
When the doors to Sea Marine opened for the Wooden Boat Festival, there was Meteor.
The revolutionary 38-foot Meteor was designed and built in 1938 by the Jensen family, owners of Seattle’s Jensen Motorboat Company, for themselves. With double-planked hull and triple-planked superstructure, she has a beautifully [...]
Pirate, Aloha and Lady Van take a light wind start
The first West Coast fleet race for R-Class yachts in 70 years took place on Port Townsend Bay on Friday, September 11th. In light air and a building flood they struggled out to the Pt Hudson buoy, spinnaker reached back along town to [...]
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