My belated Impressions of Port Townsend.... photo Impressions that is...

[RodB]

In September I went to the 33rd Annual Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend ... and met some very nice people... and as a Photographer, I took lots of pics.... Back then a few threads were started with some of the pics I had also taken ... so ... I kinda got busy and forgot about it... leaving my folder of images on my desktop since then...

I recently looked thru the images and thought I'd post some images of the boat show along with other interesting subjects ... Overall, I met a lot of really nice folks that I hope to see again in the years to come.... Nice folks along with some good music every night... it was a great time.



A portion of the harbor over the deck of one of my all time favorite boats... the BB25...

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/porttown-72.jpg

Another interesting subject...

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/babestndcomp-72.jpg

A pic from the marina about two miles from the boat show...

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/sparrowlaunch-72.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/cutegalincrowd-72.jpg

And of course, I had to show the BB25 from the other side...

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/bb25profile-72.jpg

And the Woodenboat School...

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/WoodenboatSchool-72.jpg

Continued.... R

[RodB]

One of the booth merchants I bought the caulking tube plugs from...
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/polishbabe2-72.jpg

An artist...

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/artistpainting-72.jpg

Atkin's Gary Thomas... a very sweet design...

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/Garythomastopsides-72.jpg

Another from the local Marina...

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/deadeyescloseuprigged-72.jpg


http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/redrower-72.jpg


http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/beckycloseup-72.jpg



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[RodB]

Another local Marina shot...

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/tillerhandlecloseup-72.jpg

A couple of really nice ladies that I met at the show...

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/Steph-Beckybwcloseupniceccd2-72.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/SCHJAYG2.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/WBSboattabernacle-72.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/blondniceatwbs-72.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/blockonline-72.jpg

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[RodB]

Continuing on...

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/greatfacebshow-72.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/gluedplylap-72.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/oarboatcloseup-72.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/babeincrowdwalking-72.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/rowinggroup-72.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/steamdrivenlaunch-72.jpg

continued..... R

[RodB]

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/schoonerscrossing-72.jpg

Another great smile...

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/langeriegirl-72.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/bowspritunderlinesattached-72.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/babeondockswbs-72.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/gluedplylapboatschool-72.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/Stephsfriendsailing-72.jpg


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[RodB]

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/schandbowsprit-72.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/stephsfriend-72.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/woodboatinshopwbs-72.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/schoonerbrhull-72.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/wideangcrew-72.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/acyclione72.jpg
Con't R

[RodB]

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/stephshillouetteschooner-72.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/cutieatwbs-72.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/harbor-72.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/schsailin-72.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/spagetti-72.jpg

Thats all folks.... till I get to the few I have left...


RodB

[snow(Alan H)]

Thats sold me - I will be there

[GregW]

Great pictures. I appreciate the close-ups of the rigging detail, the deadeyes etc. I hope you don't mind if I saved a few.

[Paul Pless]

Wow Rod... that is lovely.

Have you ever thought of working in photography?;)

[michigangeorge]

Rod, excellent taste in boats AND women! Can you tell us anything about the unfinished cat/ketch?

[George Ray]

Wonderful mix of lovely images. Wonder what the title would be on the print version, a coffee table book. .....
"Form & Function"

[AstoriaDave]

Great collage. Love the photos of real women, with salt in their hair and life in their eyes. Bring on PTWBF 2010!

[Roger Long]

Nice to see photos posted by someone with an eye for a, uh.., boat.

[RodB]

Thanks for the comments... I just thought I should post them instead of just leaving them in the file.

RodB

[Thorne]

Nice!

[switters]

what are you, some kind of lovely woman magnet?:eek:

great pics, loved the boat pictures equally, thanks for sharing.

[pefjr]

http://www.woodenboat.com/forum/images/icons/icon14.gifhttp://www.woodenboat.com/forum/images/icons/icon14.gif

[TimH]

That does it. Now I REALLY have cabin fever.

[Keith Wilson]

#$#($# @#&$ %$&*% *$%^!!! It's $%*ing snowing #*%$$#^ again!!!

Lovely pictures; thanks very much.

[rbgarr]

That's the way I remember PT. Such cheerful people. :D

[John of Phoenix]

Spectacular. Thanks.

[BrianW]

Most excellent!

[Wild Dingo]

mmmmmm... I SAY... MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM :mad:

Now how come there were few and far between sheilas like that at Mystic when I was there MMMMMMMMM????

Do you think I can have one... please mmm? ;)

Yeah yeah the boats are great too but those sheilas!! mmmmmMMMMMMMMMMMMMM oh yes please! :cool:

If ANY of them have a penchant for a slightly used and abused old fart with a white beard longish curls and distinct accent please no I say PLEASE pass on my contact details mmm you do have my contact details ROD???!!!! if not pm me ASAP!!

back the the boats!! great pics mate truely inspiring nothing short of what we have come to expect of you my friend! stunning...

although it seems strange to me that if I want to see exceptionally great woodenboats I have to travel half way round the world to do so!... but with the side attractions I think I might just about manage another trip northward ;)

Beautiful pics mate :cool: :cool:

[Yeadon]

You're an invasive lech with some serious skills.

[Bill Lowe]

great photos and a great place.

[Paul Pless]

You're an invasive lech with some serious skills.You've been holding out on us... I mean all we ever seem to get from you is some foggy low angle water view shot reclined from the stern of a peapod. Atone for yourselfI say!

[gert]

An exemplary eye for the ladies; well done :)

ps
What's going on here?
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/woodboatinshopwbs-72.jpg

We went to the PT show in 02 I think; next time we're going to stay over night. There is just way too much to see for a day trip.

[Eric D]

Rod,

stunning work....both subjects, women and boats...well done. Love the mirth in the smiles...glint in the eyes...joy of the people on the boats is evident. Well done!!!

Stunning boats too!!

[James McMullen]

Not to brag too much. . . .but I know some of the subjects in those pictures--both animate and inanimate.

[RodB]

what are you, some kind of lovely woman magnet?

great pics, loved the boat pictures equally, thanks for sharing.

Simply pure force of habit... a lifetime keeping an eye out for for interesting subjects.:)

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Not to brag too much. . . .but I know some of the subjects in those pictures--both animate and inanimate.

Well, email them and give them this URL.....

RodB

[CharlieCobra]

Some beautiful subjects there, both animate and otherwise.

[TimH]

Rod,

Love the mirth in the smiles...glint in the eyes...joy of the people on the boats is evident. Well done!!!



Happiest time of year around here.:D

[Tom Robb]

The unfinished hull in the shop is a bespoke boat designed and built by the new shop forman, Kees Prince - a most talented guy, for a local. The rather odd looking masts were pipe set there to show people more or less what they'd look like. They're in tabernacles.
BTW, the red building is the Wooden Boat Foundation's gorgeous new shop, not the NW School of Wooden Boatbuilding's digs which are several miles south in Port Hadlock.
Thanks for the memories.

[rbgarr]

Not to brag too much. . . .but I know some of the subjects in those pictures--both animate and inanimate.

Are we talking biblical knowledge here?

[Yeadon]

You've been holding out on us... I mean all we ever seem to get from you is some foggy low angle water view shot reclined from the stern of a peapod. Atone for yourselfI say!

The difference is that I don't leer with a long distance lens, I just say smile and say hello.

[TimH]

Nothing wrong with leering :)

[KAIROS]

In September I went to the Port Townsend in the water boat show...... R

Very Nice!

Just one small quiet unassuming comment: In these parts it's known as the Wooden Boat FESTIVAL. We go out of our way to make it a festival.....a celebration of wood boats.....as opposed to that prissy show kind of thing our sponsors sponsor on the other coast. The details of the next one are not posted yet, but it will be the 34th Annual Wooden Boat Festival, September 10-12, 2010. Check back at the Wooden Boat Foundation website (http://www.woodenboat.org/) for updates.

Call it a show if you want......but come take some more good photos.

[RodB]

Originally posted by Kairos: Just one small quiet unassuming comment: In these parts it's known as the Wooden Boat FESTIVAL. We go out of our way to make it a festival.....a celebration of wood boats.....as opposed to that prissy show kind of thing our sponsors sponsor on the other coast. The details of the next one are not posted yet, but it will be the 34th Annual Wooden Boat Festival, September 10-12, 2010. Check back at the Wooden Boat Foundation website for updates.

Call it a show if you want......but come take some more good photos.

Title at beginning changed per your correction...:)


A wider rigging shot taken at the local marina .... see deadeyes above...

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/deadeyesshroudsetal-72.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/babeass-72.jpg

RodB

[John Turpin]

There was boat stuff in the photos? I didn't notice that.

[RodB]

The information the cat-ketch above that was on the wall in the Wooden Boat School ... These images should cover most of the details... sorry the quality is not better... but they were just pics from my camera...

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/woodboatinshopwbs-72.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/Catketchdescription.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/catketchsailplan.jpg

I thought the following interior was quite interesting... but I can't remember which boat it was. The boats at the festival were very close packed, so in many cases it was difficult to get good pics of the exterior of the boats. This interior was cool in my estimation... so I shot it.

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/interiorniceyacht-72.jpg


RodB

[RodB]

Well, I had time to go through the rest of my pics... these were the only ones worth posting...

A couple more shots at the local Marina....

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/bowspritniceilght-72.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/redhull-dingytoo-72.jpg

And back at the Boat Festival...

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/sweetgal-72.jpg

Atkin's "Gary Thomas" interior... I really liked the galley cabinets etc... good for future reference some day...

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/GaryThomasinteriorstern-72.jpg

Gary Thomas interior V berth....

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/garythomasinterior1-72.jpg

And my final shot also taken at the local Marina...

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/woodboatcabincls-72-1.jpg

Overall, I think I found as many interesting shots at the local Marina as the actual Boat Festival....


I appreciate the close-ups of the rigging detail, the deadeyes etc. I hope you don't mind if I saved a few.

When I first became interested in wooden boats I was always disappointed at the lack of detail photos of boats I became interested in. Now, when I get an opportunity, I always try to capture interesting detail photos for future reference, especially if the boat in question is a classic. Please feel free to use any images you need for future reference. I must have taken 150 photos of Araminta and Alerion when I went to Mystic....

Thanks again for the comments.... looking forward to the next festival...

Rodb

[Cecil Borel]

thanks for posting Rod, lovely photos.

[RodB]

Hello Cecil...

Whens your launch date???:D

RodB

[John B]

Thanks Rod.. nice pics.
There's a PT boat on my pier at the moment.. I'll go and say hello if they're around next time I'm down there. Thin Wolf IIRC.. looks like a van de stadt.

[Cecil Borel]

Rod: I think you should come out and take pictures of my boat, you could make her look really pretty! Hoping to leave the shop in ~ 18 months.

[RodB]

Cecil,

Lots of folks don't realize what great photos you can get of your boat if you have a couple of slylights in the roof of your shop. Bob Albers, the builder of Susan, has these and it makes a world of difference in the lighting I get there taking photos of his build not to mention good light for working.

More pics Cecil.. of the Kahuna...
:)

RodB

[RodB]

I forgot Rozinante.....

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/Rozinantesunlight-72.jpg

R

[Raka025]

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/babeass.jpg

RodB

I am moving my boat to Port Townsend when finished. Oh, la la...

[JimConlin]

As much as we on the right coast appreciate it, the Maine Boatbuilders Show is not like that.
There are lots of these.
http://cdni.llbean.com/is/image/wim/206994_2764_41?wid=330&hei=295

[JimD]

This is, I believe, the former Brora Thor that spent many years in our neck of the woods. Built in BC in the 1920s and originally designed as a schooner, it was fitted with big engines instead and put to use as a tug. It did not see sails until the 1980s when it was finally rigged as a bald headed gaffer:

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/Prestoboat/Misc%202009%20Aug/schoonerbrhull-72.jpg

How it looked in Genoa Bay, Vancouver Island from my kayak five years ago:

http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47b7cf30b3127ccec2c23905479400000010O00CbOGrVu4cMQ e3nw8/cC/f%3D0/ps%3D50/r%3D0/rx%3D550/ry%3D400/

[bischoffboatworks]

Rob: So sorry I missed you at the festival. You probably walked right by my boat "Leslie Jean", a 15' Whitehall that was on the hard. I am currently starting my own "Susan" in a new shop in Georgetown area of Seattle. Please let me know next time you come through this area so we can meet up.


http://bischoffboatworks.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/p10006001-e1267678539883.jpg

[RodB]

Rob: So sorry I missed you at the festival. You probably walked right by my boat "Leslie Jean", a 15' Whitehall that was on the hard. I am currently starting my own "Susan" in a new shop in Georgetown area of Seattle. Please let me know next time you come through this area so we can meet up.

There is a good chance I'll be at the upcoming Port Townsend in the water boat show in Sept... 2010

Maybe it would be possible to check out your shop the day before the show opens...

Hope to see you there...

I did walk right by your boat and took pics of it... very nice.

RodB

[rbgarr]

Maroon spaghetti strap reminds me a bit of Ellen Barkin in 'The Big Easy':

NSFW: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1TT21FQ8e0&feature=related

[Sailor]

Nice curves, shapely forms and there were boats too. Great thread.

[Paul Girouard]

Bump for Steven Bauer and other Mystic WBF go-ers.

Thanks Paul Pless for the PM / link. :p