Wooden Boat Festival sail-by today [ *** GALLERY OF PHOTOS and NEW VIDEO *** ]

EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was updated Sunday, Sept. 11, with new video by by freelance multimedia reporters Nina Jurczynski and Jack Olmsted — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0phl4DNvnw. Other festival videos from Friday and Saturday can be accessed at http://bit.ly/mVcFxH.

PORT TOWNSEND — A sail-by of all the Wooden Boat Festival boats is set for 3 p.m. today at the Point Hudson Marina.

Boat lovers have one more day of the three-day festival to enjoy — from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today — tours of sailboats, demonstrations, talks, movies and myriad other activities.

Single-day tickets are $15, or $10 for Wooden Boat Foundation members, seniors and students at the gate.

300 boats

Nearly 300 boats — ranging from kayaks and Native American canoes to double-ended cutters, tall ships, classic powerboats, working vessels, one-of-a-kind designs, rowboats, shells, experimental designs and models — are in Port Townsend for the festival this year.

Dozens of boats are on land. Some are new. Some are restored, And some are being built while visitors watch.

Some 220 boats are in the marina for the weekend, while another 70 are displayed on land, said Kaci Cronkhite, director of the Wooden Boat Foundation.

She said the festival had record crowds Saturday and that there were no unforeseen problems “except we are running out of a lot of things.

“We ran out of wristbands on Saturday, and we had to go back to the old system of stamping hands.”

Presentations and demonstrations are planned today.

They include “Green Toilets” at 9:30 a.m. and Leif Terdal’s “Our Escape from Nazi-Occupied Norway” at 10:30 a.m.

On the water, the festival’s experiences include three-hour sails on the restored 98-year-old schooner Adventuress, at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Tickets, available through the nonprofit Sound Experience of Port Townsend, are $55 for adults or $25 for sailors 17 and younger, or $45 and $20 for Sound Experience members. The organization is selling tickets at its festival booth and at 206-353-6119.

The festival is the primary fundraiser for the Northwest Maritime Center and Wooden Boat Foundation and its educational programs at the maritime center and is expected to raise about $100,000 for that cause.

For complete information, visit www.WoodenBoat.org.

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