The Wooden Boat Festival In Pictures
Phototgrapher Joel Rogers brings us memories of years past. Click on a picture to see the slide show.
Brion Toss: Once in Ten Thousand Years
It started late last week when my husband and I saw the news about a young graduate student who had solved a decades-old mathematical...
WA360: The Race to Alaska Comes Home
By Ross Anderson
Try this for a business plan: Invite people to pay $550 each to enter a race that requires them to row, paddle...
On the Hard: Sea Lass
Requiem for a Brown Owl
By Joel Rogers and Peter Bruckner
Sea Lass - what a wonderful name for a boat. It combines the classic ship's...
On the Hard: The Lady Washington
From Classic Yachts to Fish Packers: Their Stories
The Lady Washington, Washington State's Ship
Approaching the Port of Port Townsend's Boat Haven Marina, it was easy...
Boys – and Girls – In the Boat
Port Townsend’s Legacy of Wooden Rowing Shells
In 1998 the phone rang at the Cupola House, then home of the Wooden Boat Foundation, and was...
On the Hard: Pelican
From Classic Yachts to Fish Packers: Their Stories
Pelican: In the World of Wooden Boats
The one-time research vessel Pelican was hauled out at Port Townsend's...
What Puget Sound Pilots Want You to Know
It may sound counterintuitive, but when a big ship leaves the high seas and enters the restricted waters of Puget Sound, it is entering...
Kelley Watson’s PT Crew Is Outward Bound
Like countless graduates everywhere, Port Townsend’s commencement this week is liable to be laced with maritime clichés. They will be setting sail, charting a...
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So Long, Pygmy Kayaks
More than three decades ago, when guys like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were building technology companies that would change the world, another Ivy...
How I found Port Townsend
By Allison Arthur
Telling stories, changing stories
All I remember is that it was hot and I wanted to get home and off U.S. Highway...
The Loudest Jets in the Quietest Park
In the summer of 2014, the U.S. Navy established an Electronic Warfare Range on large swathes of Washington's Olympic National Forest and in airspace...
The Philosophical Gardener: Seasonality
We have had a rather dark and stormy autumn here in the rainshadow; a good deal of the autumn color has been torn from...
The Good News: Puget Sound Herring
Spring on Puget Sound is about gardens bursting with tulips and daffodils, white sails set against glistening blue seas, and massive, shimmering schools of...
