No. 312 Seattle Maritime Festival Pier 66

Seattle Maritime Festival Harbor Open House

Time: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 14

Location: Pier 66, Bell Street and Alaskan Way, Seattle

More info:seattlemaritime101.com/vigor-maritime-festival

Bell Street Pier Open House activities:

Waterfront Chowder Cook-Off

Participating restaurants in the Chowder Cook-Off include Ivar’s, The Edgewater Hotel’s Six Seven Restaurant,  Anthony’s at Pier 66,  Elliott’s Oyster House, Bell Harbor Conference Center, The Crab Pot, and The Fisherman’s Restaurant. Purchase a Chowder Passport at the Festival Information Booth or at any participating restaurant for only $5 and you’ll receive a delicious 3 ounce sample of chowder from each restaurant. Sampling stations are located at the participating restaurant. All proceeds benefit the Seattle Propeller Club’s charities.

Vessel Tours :

Canadian Navy's Glendyne, Seattle Maritime Academy Instructor, Global Diving’s Munson, King County Research Vessel Liberty, Seattle Harbor Patrol and Seattle Sea Scouts Propeller.  In addition, the Port of Seattle will have their Bomb Squad Truck and Dive Truck and the Coast Guard will have a trailered vessel on the plaza at Pier 66. Also, look for displays from Puget Sound Maritime and Captain's.

Free Harbor Tours

Departing at 11:30am, 1pm, 2:30pm 

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No. 252 Center for Wooden Boats, South Lake Union Seattle

Center for Wooden Boats   Website: http://cwb.org/
1010 Valley St
Seattle, WA
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Founded in the 1970s by Dick Wagner of Seattle, the Center for Wooden Boats has evolved into a living maritime museum that preserves, documents, educates visitors on the local history of wooden boats. Beginning as boat rental business from his houseboat under the Aurora bridge in the 1960s.
The CWB now has over 170 boats including sailboats, rowboats, pedal boats and electrical powered boats at three locations South Lake Union, Northlake Workshop and at Cama Beach State Park on Camano Island.

CWB Lagoon 

CWB Main Lodge 

CWB Lagoon

Wooden canoes waiting for paddlers

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No. 184 Watch Sailboats Duck and Dodge on Lake Union Tuesday Nights

Seattle Duck Dodge Races are back May 14th
Tuesday Nights on Lake Union starting at 7PM

website: http://www.duckdodge.org/
Gas Works Park
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Duck Dodge is a weekly Tuesday evening sailing event on Lake Union in Seattle.  It's a sight to behold as dozens of sailboats duck and dodge each other by sailing around the lake in a large circle. Sailboats ranging from dinghy, day sailors to cruisers and race boats head out on the water around 7pm Tuesday Nights through out the summer. You can't miss the large contingent on Lake Union from I-5 or any shoreline. 

Depending on the wind speeds you might see a fast pace duck and dodge with tacking and colorful spinnakers if the wind is up. On low wind days the boats seeimgly crawl or even sail backwards.

Tuesday Night Racing

2013 Duck Doge Race Schedule 


May 14th        Funky Hat Night
May 21st        Sam Garvin Memorial Night 
May 28th       Viking Night
June 4th          This Theme Intentionally Left Blank
June 11th        Thrift Shop Night
June 18th        Wild West Night
June 25th        Pirate Night
July 2nd          Red White and Blue Night
July 9th           Egyptian Night
July 16th          No Duck Dodge - Race Week
July 23rd         Pick Your Own Theme Night
July 30th          Prom Night
August 6th       Show your Team Spirit
August 13th     48 Parallel Tropical Night
August 20th     Pajama Night
August 27th      Toga Night
September 4th   Committee Re-Appreciation
November 2rd    Rum Run

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No. 145 Fisherman's Terminal

3919 18th Avenue West

Seattle, WA

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Fishermen's Terminal is located on Salmon Bay in the Interbay neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, east of the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks and immediately west of the Ballard Bridge.

Fisherman's Terminal

Operated by the Port of Seattle, the Fishermen’s Terminal in Ballard Interbay is home to 600 vessels many of which are commercial fishing vessels that spend months on the open sea off the coast of Alaska fishing for crab and halibut.

Fishermen's Terminal is home to the Fishermen's Memorial, a bronze and stone sculpture with plaques memorializing more than 500 local commercial fishermen and women who have been lost at sea since the beginning of the 20th century.

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No. 126 Lake Union park

Lake Union Park
860 Terry Ave N
Seattle, WA

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Lake Union Park, located on the south west corner of Seattle’s central lake, is a new 12-acre park that provides the Queen Anne neighborhood access to open green spaces, a restored shoreline, a pedestrian bridge, a model boat pond, a history trail, a 300 foot long interactive fountain of water jets, a beach for launching small boats, a footprint for The Center for Wooden Boats' new Education Center (future facility), a grove of trees, a great lawn, footpaths, park benches, and infrastructure that can support large events. Lake Union Park also has a station for the South Lake Union Streetcar, which began operating in late 2007.

Aerial view of Lake Union Park in south end of Lake Union

Future Site of Museum of History and Industry

Morning Sunrise at Lake Union Park

Docks at Lake Union Park

Pedestrian Foot Bridge

Model Ship Builders bring out their artfully crafted vessel to the Model Boat Pond

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No. 116 Bell Harbor Marina

Bell Street Pier/Pier 66

2203 Alaskan Way

Seattle, WA 98121

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The Bell Harbor Marina along Alaskan way is just north of the Seattle Aquarium and Pier 63. There are roughly 70 vessels ranging from dinghis to 150' yachts. On occasion there will be a larger cruise liner docked here as well. Depending on conditions the Olympic Mountain range can be visible in the background.

Bell Harbor south corner

Looking down at Bell Harbor Marina from Bell Conference Center David Irons Jr

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No. 109 Everett Marina

Port of Everett Marina
Fletcher Way
Everett, WA
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Created in 1918, the Port of Everett is situated on Port Gardner Bay at the mouth of the Snohomish River. With over 2000 boats ranging in length from dingis and kayaks, to small and larger motor yachts to tall sailboats there something for every one's dream of owning a boats. The floating docks are gated and only open to boat owners and guests but with a mid zoom range lens you can get in quite close on the hull details from the walk way that goes around the complex. Plenty of reflection shot opportunities available through out the day.
You can see a lot of bird activity from gulls, geese, and blue herons to sea life such as pacific harbor seals swimming between the boats to larger animals such as minke, grey whales and killer whales in the channels. Sunsets are dramatic weather permitting.

Sailboat Masts Silhouette

Everett Marina from the sidewalk

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