{"id":4536,"date":"2015-07-27T16:54:28","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T16:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/?p=4536"},"modified":"2015-07-28T17:00:55","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T17:00:55","slug":"pocket-yacht-palooza-and-crooza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/?p=4536","title":{"rendered":"Pocket Yacht Palooza and Crooza"},"content":{"rendered":"

July 18th saw boats gather in Port Townsend for the fourth annual Pocket Yacht Palooza<\/a>. In addition to the boats on trailers and along the waterfront, visitors were treated to a Q&A session with several Race to Alaska<\/a> racers\u2014including first solo finisher, Roger Mann. And that evening, small-boat designer John Welsford<\/a> gave a stimulating talk on “Designing for Dreams,” which included his sharing details and photos of Howard Rice’s nearly finished modified adventure SCAMP<\/a> and Howard’s plan to return and explore remote Tierra Del Fuego by small boat. <\/p>\n

The next day more than 20 boats set off on the first ever Palooza Crooza, a scheduled 3-day cruise around nearby Marrowstone Island. What follows are photos from the festivities and cruise. <\/p>\n

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Palooza in full swing. Photo by Marty Loken<\/em><\/p>\n

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R2AK solo racer Roger Mann answers questions. Photo Marty Loken<\/em><\/p>\n

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The fleet setting off for Mats Mats Bay. Photo Helen Leenhouts<\/em><\/p>\n

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Danny Grunbaum of Seattle with his twin 13-year-old twins, Sam and Maks aboard their Core Sound 17. Photo Helen Leenhouts<\/em><\/p>\n

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Pete and Helen Leenhouts’ little tug called Blue Star. They served as escort the entire cruise. Photo Josh Colvin<\/em><\/p>\n

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Charles Silver at the helm of SCAMP #1. Joel Bergen’s Navigator Ellie<\/em> in background. Photo by Josh Colvin<\/em><\/p>\n

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Tom Gale’s Bolger Old Shoe passing under bridge at Port Townsend Canal. Photo Debra Colvin<\/em><\/p>\n

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A pram parade of SCAMPs looking for wind. Photo Josh Colvin<\/em><\/p>\n

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Rick Proctor took this shot of another San Francisco Pelican from his own Pelican. <\/p>\n

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Lee’s Oughtred-designed Wee Seal called Opus. Photo Josh Colvin<\/em><\/p>\n

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Tom Carr’s Mirror Offshore 19 called Bluebird<\/em>. Photo Helen Leenhouts<\/em><\/p>\n

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Simeon’s SCAMP #11 Noddy headed under bridge. Photo Debra Colvin<\/em><\/p>\n

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Lynn Watson and Katie Mae<\/em> ghost into Mats Mats Bay. Photo Josh Colvin <\/em><\/p>\n

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A few of the boats moored at our gracious host’s private dock in Mats Mats. Photo Marty Loken<\/em><\/p>\n

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Sunset on Mats Mats. Photo Marty Loken<\/em><\/p>\n

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Kirk Gresham’s Crotch Island Pinky, and David Jones’ Oughtred Eun na Mara cruiser near Marrowstone Point. Photo Helen Leenhouts<\/em><\/p>\n

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Scott Marckx’s Welsford Rogue runs close to shore. Photo Helen Leenhouts.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Palooza Croozers at the dock at Fort Flagler State Park. Photo Marty Loken<\/em><\/p>\n

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Some boats used beach rollers to overnight at Fort Flager. Photo Marty Loken<\/em><\/p>\n

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Palooza coordinator, Marty Loken, catching a well-deserved nap. (George Holmes designed canoe yawl based on the Ethel design) Photo Helen Leenhouts<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

July 18th saw boats gather in Port Townsend for the fourth annual Pocket Yacht Palooza. In addition to the boats on trailers and along the waterfront, visitors were treated to a Q&A session with several Race to Alaska racers\u2014including first solo finisher, Roger Mann. And that evening, small-boat designer John Welsford gave a stimulating talk…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4536"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4573,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536\/revisions\/4573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}