Port of Port Townsend – The Big Boy Boat Yard

A Boat Yard with Muscle!

Port of Port Townsend Boat Haven is a massive boat yard with 475 commercial and recreational vessels and more than sixty marine trades businesses located on the property. You can get anything from a complete boat restoration to bottom painting, and major or minor repairs. Not only that but, you can have coffee, lunch, dinner, or grab a beer and buy fish all at different establishments right in the yard, it’s that big. With a Laundromat, a couple of restaurants, and a brewery located on the grounds, you don’t need to go far to take care of the necessities, and to top it off there is a full-sized grocery store right across the street.

We stayed at the marina for a night before we were scheduled to be lifted out of the water for our bottom paint job. Work was done by BUMS. So the next day Kismet joined the huge fishing boats, trawlers, and yachts on jack stands in the smaller boat section at the back of the boat yard. We had power during our stay, so it wasn’t so bad. It was chilly and rainy most of the time we were there, but we have a small electric heater we use when boaterhoming. It was on most of the time. We must have been on the hard for three nights, plenty of time to check out downtown Port Townsend and get a real feel for life working or living in a boat yard.