It was a beautiful sunny Fall day today, so Bruce and I went to the Georgetown Wooden Boat Show. We were over-joyed to see that it was well attended.
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| Flooding on Front Street in Georgetown, on Oct 5 2015 |
This is especially important this year because, up until last weekend, this historic little town was still being flooded by the overflowing river that runs next to its Main Street
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| Flooded Boardwalk in Georgetown along Sampit River on Oct 5, 2015 |
The Sampit River was still high enough today to be lapping at the boardwalk along the river, but at least it was dry and safe to walk on.
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| Live musicians were playing in several locations |
The elevated river seemed to have limited the number of wooden vessels that were on display in the river itself, but all of the street fair activities were as lively and well attended as ever.
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| The Harbor Patrol remote control Talking Tug Boat chats with kids. |
Children's activities like a talking miniature tug boat ( remotely controlled by a Harbor Patrol officer and built a mini wooden raft to race through a obstacle course, kept the little people entertained.
People watching while eating at many of the areas street front cafes
or food stands is always popular.
Watching master boat builders in a timed competitions to build a dory is always a hugely popular event . Those builders who have a competed their dory within the allocated time limits, then have to race it across the Sampit River to win the competition.
And then of course there is the pleasure of being able to get up close and personal with wooden beauties in every shape and form, from those which have engines,
to those that do not,
and everything in between.
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| BJ by a viking-like oared wooden vessel |
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