Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival

I'm a few days late blogging about the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival, which was last weekend. It was my first time there and it was a lot of fun.

There were hundreds of wooden boats, from tall ships and steamers to canoes and kayaks and even gorgeous wooden paddleboards.
 

If you want to build a ship,

don't drum up the men to gather wood,

divide the work and give orders.

Instead, teach them to yearn

for the vast and endless sea..."
- Antoine de Saint Exupery

 

Many of the boats sported colorful flower arrangements, and the picturesque town of Port Townsend was filled with bright hanging flower baskets.

 

"There is nothing -- absolutely nothing --

 half so much worth doing

as simply messing about in boats."
          - Spoken by Ratty to Mole in Wind in the Willows

 a children's book by Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932)

 

Wooden kayaks against the brilliant blue sky.

Have a colorful day