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Pocket Yachter Events

No rules, just fun. Come join us for an event.

We the Pocket Yachters have a long history of organizing events for like minded folk:

  • The annual Pocket Yacht Palooza (now retired)
  • the annual Salish 100 (now being lovingly tended by Port Townsend’s Northwest Maritime Center)
  • Our Small Boat Festival (held for the first time in 2024, coming back in 2025 - see below!)
  • New for 2025 our Small Boat Beach Rendezvous

In a normal year there are many events and messabouts that you are welcome to join. For a (very incomplete) list of previous years' events, take a look at our archive

And if you have an event taking place in the Salish Sea that you’d like to have appear here, please Contact Us

2025

Montague Harbour Rendezvous ↗ ↖
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From May 23rd to 25th, this is one half of the events put on by the Salish Sea Small Boat Rendezvous group in BC, the other being the Sucia Island Rendezvous. Montague Harbour Marine Provincial Park is located on Galiano Island in the Canadian Gulf Islands.
Second Annual Pacific Northwest SMALL BOAT FESTIVAL
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The Second Annual SMALL BOAT FESTIVAL # It’s coming on May 30-31, 2025 Following a successful first Small Boat Festival in 2024 (see some pictures here), the Pacific Northwest Pocket Yachters announce the second annual SBF will be held May 30-31, 2025, at Port Ludlow Marina.
Seventy 48 Race start ↗ ↖
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This race still runs every year. Human powered boats only (no sail, no motor) race from Tacoma to Port Townsend, covering 70 miles and completed in 48 hours.
WA360 Race Start ↗ ↖
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Our friends at the Northwest Maritime Center bring the WA 360 race back to alternate years with the R2AK race in attempt to increase sign-ups for the races. Done R2AK but not WA360? Sign up and race.
Sucia Small Boat Rendezvous ↗ ↖
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From July 11th to 13th, this is a great event hosted at the most northerly island in the San Juan archipelago. We have informal potluck gatherings around dinner time at the campsite (or at the picnic shelter if it’s available) and, if the usual light winds and strong currents cooperate, we will attempt a Round-the-island “race” Saturday at noon.
Start of Salish 100 ↗ ↖
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The largest organized small-boat cruise in North America. Join a hundred or so other small boaters, cruising in a relaxed way from Olympia, WA to Port Townsend, with stops each night. The inaugural Salish 100 was created and run in 2019 by the Port Townsend Pocket Yachters.
Small Boat Beach Rendezvous (Blake Island)
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New 2025 Event For Small-Boat Enthusiasts! The Pacific Northwest Pocket Yachters, in partnership with The Center for Wooden Boats, announce a new small-boat event for 2025, the Small Boat Beach Rendezvous, to be held Saturday, August 2, on a rising tide at Blake Island State Park.
Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival ↗ ↖
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Don’t miss the largest wooden boat festival in North America. It is three days long full of beautiful boats with plenty of opportunity to learn new things.