Bainbridge Island is one of three Kitsap cities hosting National Marina Day festivities Saturday. Similar Marina Day recognitions will take place across the country this weekend.
Events are scheduled at Waterfront Park from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. One unique activity planned for Eagle Harbor is an “anchoring with a local” workshop. Boaters will partner with an island mariner to learn how to anchor in 30 feet of water.
Back of Beyond Outfitters will
offer a free “small boat mess-about” all day. There will be a rodeo
for small non-motorized boats, demonstrations, and canoe tours of
the harbor. Participants can bring their own craft or rent one
on-site.
Other Marina Day activities will include free vessel examinations, a flare demonstration, sailboat rides, ROV hull inspections and rigging lessons.
Eagle Harbor also welcomed a special guest this week. MV Lotus (pictured above) is anchored off the Harbour Marina. Lotus will be on hand this weekend and on June 15-16 for the Bainbridge Wooden Boat Festival, according to the Lotus page on Facebook. Lotus was launched in 1909 and has plied Puget Sound and the Inside Passage for more than a century.
(Tad Sooter photos)
