36th Annual Wooden Boat Festival
September 7-9, 2012
About the Festival: Port Townsend's Wooden Boat Festival is the most education-packed and inspiring wooden boat event in the world. Featuring more than 300 wooden vessels, hundreds of indoor and outdoor presentations and demonstrations, a who's who of wooden boat experts and thousands of wooden boat enthusiasts, there's something to do, someone to meet or a boat to board at every turn. Expanded a little each year, the festival honors its traditions while inviting energetic debate and demonstration about the latest innovations in boatbuilding, equipment, skills and adventure.
For the most up to date info, 'Like' the Wooden Boat Foundation Facebook page, email us, or check in here at the website as we get closer and closer to the event!
Keep up with the current list of Festival Boats, our schedule of Faculty presenters, music, kids activies, sailing and racing options click here.
See last year's 2011 Festival Program here, courtesy of the Port Townsend Leader.
Festival tickets
- One-Day Tickets - $15 (or $10 for seniors over 65 and teens)
- Multi-Day Tickets (Fri-Sun) - $30 (or $20
for seniors and teens)
Tickets can soon be purchased online or at the
Main Gate on 9/7 beginning at 8:30am. Online tickets are confirmed by an e-receipt that you bring to the Main Gate upon arrival or store in your smart phone. Skip the lines and by early!
Ticket donation covers access to all Festival boats, all daytime presentations
and demonstrations, exhibitors, music performance, kids' activities and
food vendors is included in the price. More than "admission fee", this
is a donation to our programs year round!
Festival guide
This year's complete Festival Program will be available online the week before the event or in the August 29 issue of the Port Townsend & Jeffco Leader
newspaper. Exhibitors, presenters, music and most schedule details are
available by late July. If you have a specific question or inquiry by
topic and you're not finding it in the site, contact Festival Directors Barb Trailer and Carrie Andrews: festival at woodenboat.org.
Quick links
Quick links: FAQs (directions, accommodations, and more); volunteer (it's never too early or too late!)
Festival news & events
all news/events »
Preview and print complete Festival Guides
A printed schedule is available at the WBF Office and Main Gate entrance a few weeks before and until they run out and in the Port Townsend Leader newspaper the week before the festival. An online interactive version of the 2010 Festival Guide and past festival programs are stored online in Festival archive.
2012 Schedule at a glance
- 9/06/12, Thu 5:30pm-10:00pm
Music & Bar Harbor - open to the public - 9/07/12, Fri 9:00am-7:00pm
Free music after 7:00pm
Point Hudson Marina Festival Grounds
After hours music until midnight - 9/8/12, Sat 9:00am-7:00pm
Free music after 7:00pm
Point Hudson Marina Festival Grounds
After hours music until midnight - 9/9/12, Sun 9:00am-5:00pm
Point Hudson Marina Festival Grounds
Sail-by of all Festival boats at 3:00pm
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