Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival 2013

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Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival 2013 Aerial Video

One of the wooden boating events on my bucket list is the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival. Previously we have only seen still photos on the WBF & in WoodenBoat magazine. Now we have aerial video footage of the event shot using one of the small drone battery powered helicopters , not much bigger than a laptop computer. Watch the video to get a birds eye view of the event.

Not quite the Waitemata – but very cool wooden boats

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Not quite the Waitemata but this video of the Classic Yacht Association USA /Pacific Northwest Fleet’s traditional kick-off to the boating season is a great parade of gorgeous motoryachts. Of particular interest to me is the new PNW Fleet Commodore, Jessica Freeman, seen onbard aboard her Flagship, PEACEFUL, leading the fleet.

I have followed the ‘rolling renovation’ of PEACEFUL for several years (seasons) on the WoodenBoat forum. Link below
http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthread.php?110427-Restoration-of-a-1939-Richardson&highlight=Peaceful

Classic Launch Old Movie Footage – Pacific

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Some ‘old’ home movie footage, of Pacific, note the varnished cabin top, we like that 🙂
Supplied by Nathan Herbert

Update from Grant Burrell

This movie is taken around 1960 before the wheel house cabin was extended and the stern cabin had canvas sides. The cabin was never varnished but my Grand Father painted an imitation fake painted wood grain, It did look good, worked well on a swing mooring but the dark paint dried the timber when on the marina.

CYA Riverhead Launch Cruise – Parade of 26 Classic Boats

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CYA Riverhead Launch Cruise – Parade of Boats

Thanks to the camera skills of Jason Prew on Whistleblower, we have a ‘drive-by’ of the fleet off Lucas Creek on-route to the Riverhead Hotel.

Old Boy on an Old Boat on the River

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Old Boat – Old Boy Movie
A great mini movie of an old boy on his boat cruising the Mississippi River, Saint Paul, Minnesota
click the link to play

I love his comment “Is boating for everybody? I do not think so, its for people willing to slow down & go with the flow”