Who are the 2009 Poster Boats?

Mike Kowalski, the 2009 Wooden Boat Festival poster artist, chose "local" boats built, maintained, active and "working" on the Port Townsend waterfront and boatshops to illustrate this years festival theme Working Waterfront.  From left to right, they are Tug Elmore, built in 1890 then built again in 1922 after a fire burned her to the waterline; Bryony, built in 1983 by Jim Franken with Bob Prothero at the NW School of Wooden Boatbuilding; an unnamed Pocock "double" similar to many boats of this design now rowed, maintained and built in Point Hudson; and Schooner Alcyone, built in 1956 by Frank Prothero, then becoming a family-owned cruising and sail training vessel in the mid-80s to Captains Sugar Flannigan and Leslie McNish while raising their two daughters. 

Together, they show the diversity of watercraft designed, built, restored, maintained, actively working and living on our working waterfront.