Photos of My Port Townsend

This polished air intake gives a different view of the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival. This is a Reflection Friday photo.

Stitch and glue plywood kayaks are an interesting breed. They look traditional but are actually very high tech. They employ a combination of thin marine grade plywood with fiberglass and epoxy. The resulting boat is very light, about half the weight of a basic plastic kayak. Pygmy Boats, based in Port Townsend is one maker [...]

Port Townsend’s Wooden Boat Festival was a lot of fun this year. Some of the participants not only dressed up their boats but took personal presentation to a new level. I particularly enjoyed this woman’s pirate get-up.

The 34th annual Wooden Boat Festival is on this weekend in Port Townsend. A number of boaters sail or motor up for the show, as you can see in the background. The Festival takes over the east end of town, from the Northwest Maritime Center, pictured here through all of Point Hudson.

I’ve realized that I’m not much of a journalist. I went downtown to photograph a Concerts on the Dock performance of the Delta Rays. I did enjoy the music but when it came to posting a photo, I had to put up the better picture, rather than the one that recorded the concert. BTW, the [...]

Port Townsend hosts more than it’s share of festivals and events. With Fort Worden Conference Center, Centrum and the Northwest Maritime Center between them hosting something almost every weekend of the summer, we have tourists here every weekend attending something. With all the focus on visitors, it’s nice to have an event that is hosted by [...]

Tomorrow is the opening night of Key City Public Theater’s Theater in the Park production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The play will be performed in Port Townsend’s Chetzemoka Park. Last weekend I had the opportunity to see a high budget staging of Vancouver’s Bard on the Beach’s version of Much Ado About Nothing. As I expected [...]