Wooden Boat Festival
September 6–8, 2024 | Port Townsend, WA
Northwest Maritime hosts the second-largest Wooden Boat Festival in the world every September. Thousands of people converge in Port Townsend for a three-day celebration of the beauty of wooden boats and the richness of our maritime culture. 300 boats on land and water, over 100 presentations, dozens of exhibitors, live music all day, every day—plus local food, beer, and wine. Join us!
Learn more at woodenboat.org
History of Wooden Boat Festival
What started as a wild idea—a vision of community and a lifestyle of “salt water hippies” centered on boats and the sea—sparked a national conversation among those involved in the then-nascent wooden boat revival. In 1978, more than 2,000 people from all corners of the US and several Canadian provinces traveled, some with their boats and tools, to the first nationally recognized Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend.