Jake and Josh have done it again with R2AK promo videos that I love to watch over and over again. During festival, I had to watch the ‘Throw-down’ video for a good laugh before beginning my Wooden Boat Festival day. Immediately following this one is the ‘Will You Be Ready” video, once again featuring the talented, Zack Carver’s video creativity. Check them out, laugh and share. I love this town. I cannot think of any other place that could have come up with an idea like this, keep the vibe in all its serious reality/whacky humor, and …a straight face. Watch R2AK Throw Down and Are you ready?
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2015 Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival
It is Festival time again! The 39th Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival from September 11 – 13th. That is next weekend! YOWZA!
We hope you have made your plans to come! PT Watercraft will be there together with WEST SYSTEM EPOXY. Bring your epoxy questions for their very knowledgeable team to answer. These guys are amazing.
We will have a PT 11 on display and one available for test rows. There should be several at the festival with their mother ships and a recently (almost) completed PT Skiff (“Mojo”) will be at the docks this year. This boat promises to be a beauty judging by the few photos we have seen.
Due to the festival, preparing for it and attending, we are not going to in office much. If you do have questions, email info @ptwatercraft.com (no space) and we will reply as soon as we can.
I hope we see you there!
AEB
Shipwright Regatta 2015
February 28 2015 was a beautiful sunny and breezy Saturday, and it was the occasion of the annual Shipwrights Regatta in Port Townsend. Russell and I are not racers but this seemed like a good excuse to get out on the water. We entered the PT 11 thinking there would be a host of dinghies in the fleet as is often the case in Port Townsend. Well, we turned out to be the only actual dinghy! Our 11 footer was the most “water-line challenged” in the fleet. Next up in size were 505 Olympic class racing dinghies, then 6 Thunderbirds, and lots of racing and cruising yachts of a wide variety.
When the horn sounded for the start, we were first across the ‘line’, together with the ‘cruising class’. We made the course around the bay twice and crossed the finish line just over 2 minutes behind the last large boat. Yes, we finished last which, after-all, was pretty much a given at the start! It was a lot of fun and nobody was ever left far behind as even we were able to stay close to the fleet and boats with 10 times our sail area and 3 or more times our waterline.
A great thing about this town and this sailing community and regattas like this one is the fun loving spirit and a trophy of some kind for almost everyone. We won the Boat Hook, as the boat that ‘could have used a little pull’… or one less crew, perhaps.. but we were tickled with our “win” and had a blast out on the water. I was having so much fun, cold as I was, that a childish grin was frozen on my face.
My fingers were too cold and stiff to work the Gopro camera very well but what I got is HERE, wet lens and all.
Other pictures of the day can be seen on the Port Townsend Sailing Association website. We are seen under the results and Annual Awards as “Lil B”.
😉 Ashlyn
Boat designer/builder talks about building a gypsy wagon
Building a ‘roulotte’ in France
I am including this post because I think it is interesting and…
it involves my family doing something pretty amazing. My mother, who lives in France, woke up one morning and decided she wanted to travel around the country in a horse drawn gypsy wagon. A long time sailor herself, this will be her ‘boat ashore’. Not one to do anything half way in spite of a shoe string budget, she has made major progress toward realizing her dream from scratch in little over a year.
BSD-Batwing (™) sail creator and founder of Balogh Sail Design, MARK BALOGH,
is a big part of the project. Here he writes about building a roulotte (“gypsy wagon”) using multihull design as a reference point. There are other posts with pictures of the construction and material choices or Click here to start from the beginning! on Totibleu.wordpress.com.
Suzanne has been raising the money for the project in small doses, with her paintings and donations from inspired friends. Her blog is rich with humanity, color, and the unfolding story of the project happening in the scenic country side of France. The project has also become a statement about slowing down in a world that seems to have forgotten how to look up and see the beauty around us.
PTW – AB 😉
Race to Alaska update-Winter 2015
The buzz continues… in fact, the buzz, bang, humm, crank, tweak….of shop machines and brain gears, can be heard behind closed doors!
Boats are being built! Locally, team Turnpoint Design is working on a catamaran. A Bieker designed proa is in the works, and Edensaw Woods is sponsoring a team, also building a catamaran. Sail, peddle drives, rowing stations, and combinations there-of are being carefully considered and applied to these boats. What is most exciting about this race is that, given the prevailing conditions on the course, designers and athletes are challenged to make the most of their ‘sail/human powered’ boats. A creative force has been awakened and the fact that there are so few rules and filters on what types of boats can enter, we are likely to see all from kayaks to large racing yachts.
Current specs on registered participants HERE.
Small Craft Advisor Magazine, has an interesting feature discussion in the current issue. They asked the opinions of a number of respected characters about specific pros and cons regarding the Race to Alaska. As a sponsor, they also host a forum for the Race to Alaska, among several others on several websites.
