PORT TOWNSEND — An image of the salty sea town that once defined Port Townsend comes to life for the 27th annual Wooden Boat Festival today.
History book tales of masts dominating the skyline of the Port Townsend waterfront, dinghies bringing hearty sailors to shore and shipwrights hard at work on getting tall ships fit to sail become reality as hundreds of boats and mariners flock to the event.
Already, the schooner Adventuress, based in Port Townsend, and the brigantine Lady Washington, based in Aberdeen, have made their way into port to the delight of spectators on shore.
Festival Director Kaci Cronkhite says this year’s four-day festival, typically Port Townsend’s biggest draw of the year, may shape up to be the largest yet.
Ticket information is available on-line at www.woodenboat.org or by calling 360-344-3463.
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The rest of the story appears in Thursday’s Peninsula Daily News.
