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Every year a group of classic Bartender boats (planing double-enders designed by the late George Calkins) gets together for a rendezvous and camp-out weekend. This year the Bartenders, led by NWCBC member Bill Childs of Bellingham, will gather on Saturday and Sunday, September 19-20, at Fossil Bay on Sucia Island, in the San Juan Islands.
Northwest Classic Boat Club members have been warmly invited by Bill to attend the Bartender Rendezvous, or at least drop in at Sucia to say hello during the event.
We're planning to be there with our old '59 Luhrs lapstrake inboard, and we hope other NWCBC members might wish to join in the fun, perhaps launching Saturday morning in Anacortes and running to Sucia for a day trip, or overnighting somewhere in the islands together Saturday evening, after getting together with the Bartender group.
Attached is a classic 1950's photo showing George Calkins and a customer bounding through surf into the open ocean along the Oregon coast, where George built more than 1,000 plywood boats...including a lot of Bartenders in the 19- to 29-foot range. The boat in the photo was George's favorite model, a 22-foot inboard.
Anybody up for another jaunt into the San Juans, after Labor Day when many of the crowds have disappeared?
- Marty
Northwest Classic Boat Club members have been warmly invited by Bill to attend the Bartender Rendezvous, or at least drop in at Sucia to say hello during the event.
We're planning to be there with our old '59 Luhrs lapstrake inboard, and we hope other NWCBC members might wish to join in the fun, perhaps launching Saturday morning in Anacortes and running to Sucia for a day trip, or overnighting somewhere in the islands together Saturday evening, after getting together with the Bartender group.
Attached is a classic 1950's photo showing George Calkins and a customer bounding through surf into the open ocean along the Oregon coast, where George built more than 1,000 plywood boats...including a lot of Bartenders in the 19- to 29-foot range. The boat in the photo was George's favorite model, a 22-foot inboard.
Anybody up for another jaunt into the San Juans, after Labor Day when many of the crowds have disappeared?
- Marty
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