Wooden Boat Festival Portland Oregon

The weather promises to be fine this weekend. Those of you who live close to Portland, Oregon might want to drop in at the Wooden Boat Festival at the Willamette Sailing Club. The show is Sunday the 8th from noon to six, but the family boat building starts on Friday.

Sponsored by the Willamette Sailing Club, RiversWest and the Oregon Maritime Museum.



Admission is free!

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 Doineann the second St Alyes Skiff launched in Portland

Doineann (Gaelic for "Storm"), a St Alyes Skiff, was launched last Sunday, in Portland, Oregon.
She is the eighth St Alyes skiff built in the US and the second on the west coast.
These boats were built at the Wind and Oar Boat School, a non-profit run by director Peter Crim, by the teams that will race them.

The first boat to come out of the school was Rosie, whose all-woman team will be participating in the Skiffie Worlds next month in Ullapool, Scotland. Rosie joined Doineann on the Willamette River, with Portland in the background, as the new team tested their fine craft for the first time.

Congratulations to the builders of Doineann and also to the Wind and Oar Boat School!

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