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Saturday, September 26, 2015

Are you heading out to the Wooden Boat Show today?

The sixth annual Southport Wooden Boat Show featuring boats of all makes and sizes will be held Saturday, September 26, from 10am-4pm. at the Southport Yacht Basin, located two blocks from historic downtown. Wooden boats, on display both in the water on land, range from kayaks to 42-foot Core Sounders and will be professionally judged. Attendees are also invited to vote for the People's Choice Award.

Visitors can meet and talk with skilled boat builders from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission to the event is free. There will be live entertainment by Herb Harton throughout the day and a seafood chowder cook-off will be featured. There will be opportunity to take a trip on the Cape Fear with Captain Betsy Boating Tours.

Other activities include Nauti-kids events where little sailors can build their own boats and test their sea-worthiness; visits from North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher, the Cape Fear Museum of History and Science, and the NC Underwater Archaeology. Also featured will be nautical and maritime arts and crafts, nautical and maritime demonstrations, a model boat exhibit, and new collectors posters and T-shirts designed exclusively for the 2015 show.

There will be a raffle for: a double-ender rowboat, winner of the 2014 Master Boat Building Challenge in Georgetown, SC; a signed and framed original 2015 poster; and The Adventure Co kayak tour.