For many years, the Coho Ho Ho Rally has included a informative and social field trip with gracious vender support. Port Townsend Rigging does a shop tour and rig survey on Saturday and we get a tour of Port Townsend sails and the Shipwrights Co-op on Sunday. This year I missed the Saturday rigging day, and made it up on Sunday in time to find folks at the Blue Moose Cafe, where we usually meet for breakfast. It's always a bit overload to tour the sailloft - there is so much to see. Alison is active and animated, always seeming to be moving and has so much sail-making and repair info she wants to share - what a delight and challenge to photograph. We even got to test-rip an old sail. We had a good Coho group and I tried to get pics of everyone I could. By 11:30 we were on David's Shipwrights Co-op tour, with his young tech Damian. What an impressive tour, building after building with all kind of boats in different stages of refits; powerboats, sailboats, fishing boats and historical projects. We went through several wood shops, a metal shop, and electrical upgrades. The private yacht "New Pacific" is getting ready for an NW Passage crossing with quite a refit. We even found Carol Hasse's little blue lapstrake Nordic Folkboat in a back yard, followed by the tall ship Lady Washington. Lots of interesting and impressive work all over the place - what a tour! Thanks all!
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