Pocket yacht show sails to Port Townsend May 19
Port Townsend’s Northwest Maritime Center will be the site of the first annual Pocket Yacht Palooza, a one-day boat show organized by the Port Townsend Pocket Yachters club to celebrate traditional smaller rowing and sailing boats.
The show, free to the public, is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 19. (This is also Rhododendron Festival Grand Parade day).
The Pocket Yacht Palooza features boats belonging to several Puget Sound-area groups, including the Port Townsend Pocket Yachters and the Puget Sound chapter of the Traditional Small Craft Association. Boats from the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in Port Hadlock and the Northwest Maritime Center’s boatshop are also to be displayed.
Organizers are appealing to the general public, hoping that owners of other smaller rowing or sailing craft in the 10- to 23-foot range will agree to participate in the event.
“We’re eager to celebrate a wide variety of smaller boats, whether built of wood or fiberglass, and we know there are hundreds of interesting trailerable boats on the Olympic Peninsula, so we’d like to hear from owners who might be willing to display their small craft during the Pocket Yacht Palooza,” said Marty Loken, one of the organizers.
