Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival 2026

How might we best support and provide long-term stewardship to our wonderfully disparate wooden boats and the skills it takes to preserve and maintain them?  The Dolphin Swimming & Boating Foundation has a way with the renowned Dolphin wooden rowboat fleet that plies the San Francisco Bay waters daily; San Francisco Master Mariners  is an organization whose members are the boats, individually-owned wooden sailboats ,largely built before December 1941  and whose main events are the annual Memorial Day Regatta and the mid-June Wooden Boat Show at the Corinthian Yacht Club.  Diane, who serves as President of the Dolphin Foundation and Membership Director of the Master Mariners,  will regale us with how they're doing what they do and the challenges they are facing, and asks that you bring what you're doing so we can get better, together,  at this extraordinary, complex, time-sensitive, quirky, highly-rewarding  work.