Video: 2024 Wooden Boat Festival

Our friends and colleagues at Northwest Maritime once again did an amazing job putting on the Wooden Boat Festival! If you weren't able to attend, or did attend and want a fun look back at the festivities, check out this…

Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival Kicking Off Today!

With the backdrop of the Olympic Mountains and the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the fellowship of PNW wooden boat fanatics flooded Port Townsend on Friday. Come join the fun this weekend! Hosted by the Northwest Maritime Center…

Women Boatbuilders from Around the World to Gather at the Wooden Boat Festival 

Year after year, the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival evolves, yet in many ways, it feels like reconnecting with a dear friend, and the inventive opportunities and unique stories within the wooden boat community continue…

Wooden Boat Festival Sails Into Port Townsend Sept. 8-10

Every year hundreds of wooden boats of all shapes and sizes gather in Washington’s most beautiful Victorian seaport for North America’s largest wooden boat festival. This year's festival, September 8-10, 2023, will feature…

Nigel Calder Returns to Wooden Boat Festival

Every September, the Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend offers a huge variety of informative seminars given by boating professionals on a range of topics — this year is no different! Renowned boat systems expert Nigel…

Wooden Boat Festival 2022: A River of Stories

I’ve always thought of the Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend as a broad, winding river full of stories and adventures. Each time I attend, I jump in with a destination in mind, but once in the current, I’m pulled along…

Wooden Boat Festival Weekend is Here!

One of our favorite boating events of the year kicks off today in Port Townsend and runs through Sunday — the Wooden Boat Festival! The Wooden Boat Festival is the largest wooden boat festival in North America — a place…

Famed Voyager Lin Pardey Set to Give Workshops at WBF

Accomplished cruising, author and two-time circumnavigator Lin Pardey is giving workshops at the Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend on Sept. 8 and 9.

Tough Decision Made to Cancel the 2021 Wooden Boat Festival

Despite the best efforts to put on a safe and fun Wooden Boat Festival this year, the difficult decision was made to cancel the event. In this rapidly shifting world of COVID-19, the Wooden Boat Foundation and Northwest…

In-person Wooden Boat Festival On Track for September

Hope is in the air for an in-person Wooden Boat Festival come September. Of all the events that got canceled in the past year due to Covid-19, the Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend was one of the most disappointing for…