Poulsbo is a small town across the Sound from Seattle. Every year the town of Poulsbo invites the CYA to hold their rendezvous there – and gives us all free moorage for the weekend. We in return open our boats and allow people to come on board and tour our boats. In addition we have a pot-luck dinner on Saturday night and a breakfast on Sunday morning. It was a great opportunity to show off the Guillemot and get to see some of the other old boats.
We had joined the CYA earlier in the summer. To be more exact, we had sent in our application and money. We were told at the time that it sometime took months to approve an application (hey, it’s a volunteer organization). We were confident that we would be accepted, since the boat had been a member under the previous owner, so we have been flying the burgee all summer. At Poulsbo, the current Commodore told us that he had just approved our application. We still haven’t heard anything official, but are assuming that we have been officially approved, and are behaving like full members.
We left for the Rendezvous on Friday afternoon. As we got in line for the Locks, we saw another wooden boat – Peaceful, A Richardson which is moored almost across from us at Stimson’s Marina. We got to talking while we were waiting for the locks and found out that they were on their way to the Rendezvous as well. Here’s a shot of Peaceful on the way to the Rendezvous (The images are courtesy of Rick Etsel, another CYA member who keeps a website of photos of the fleet).
After we got through the locks, we crossed the Sound together. It was a gorgeous warm fall day and the crossing took a little over 2 hours. We got to the marina in Poulsbo and radioed for our assigned spot. We were put next to our friend Martine Roudier on the Zella C, who did not arrive until Saturday, and she was moored next to her husband Ken Meyer on his boat the Patamar.
After we got the Guillemot docked (with lots of help from fellow CYA members on the dock) and tied down the sun had set, so we went up into Poulsbo and had dinner with Ken and his daughter, who had joined him for the weekend.
Saturday was spent on the boat, showing a few folks through, and visiting as many of the other 32 classics as we could. It was great, since this was the first time we had met most of the members, even though we had seen many of the boats on the water during the Summer. We also realized that almost half of the boats were from Stimson’s Marina – a veritable love-fest of old wooden boats! For example, we met the owners of the Hi’Ilani which is moored right behind us on D Dock at Stimson’s. They said they had been watching us practice backing into our slip all summer, and they were glad that we were practicing, since it meant we weren’t likely to hit them!
Saturday night was the Potluck Dinner, which has apparently become somewhat of a competition over the years as to who can bring the most exotic/best food. We contributed a salad of heirloom tomatoes and fresh mozzarella, which appeared to be hit – it all vanished fairly quickly.
Sunday was a Potluck Breakfast, with myriad variations on Omelets, followed by more open house tours until Noon. By then the wind was picking up, so we left just after Noon.
After an uneventful crossing, we got back to the Locks along with at least 10 other CYA boats.
Here is a picture that Rick Etsel took of us as we were headed back to Seattle:
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