Boating is part of living in the Northwest and has been since the dawn of time. In Seattle, Opening Day has been a big deal for more than a century:
Great cities are home to events that carry on traditions that resonate far beyond their official boundaries. Think strawberries and cream at Wimbledon, or mint juleps at the Kentucky Derby.Opening Day of Boating Season – with its members’ dress code of blue jacket, white shirt, tie, white pants or skirt and white shoes – may be the closest the Pacific Northwest comes to having an annual tradition along the same lines as what happens each year at the All England Club or Churchill Downs.
Boating is part of living in the Northwest and has been since the dawn of time. In Seattle, Opening Day has been a big deal for more than a century. The event features a boat parade, and the University of Washington crew hostsagainst other teams from around the world, and the celebration is centered around Portage Bay and the Montlake Cut. Watching the parade and races is free, and it’s all organized by the Seattle Yacht Club.
With its lighthouse-like tower, the club’s headquarters are visible on the east shore of Portage Bay and easily spotted from the Portage Bay Viaduct of SR-520. It’s a stately old building with docks and moorage for hundreds of boats.
The events stretch out for nearly a week, and it’s an all-hands-on-deck operation. This isn’t surprising, since Seattle’s event, says Pete Rosvall, is considered one of the biggest celebrations of boating anywhere in the United States.“The notion would go back to about 1895 and the Fourth of July,” Rosvall said. “It didn’t actually happen, but there was a notion.
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