Sponsoring Host: Foss Waterway Seaport  Tom Cashman and Earla Harding were gracious hosts!  The facilities were decorated and perfect for the nearly 60 guests.  Adding a public program to the days activities also allowed OAR Northwest to visit with local Tacomites.  Super Thanks!

Beverage and Food:

Odin Brewing Company and Wes Peterson who served Odin’s Gift.  From America’s most Adventurous Brewery, the gift was certainly one OAR Northwest will remember for years to come.

de la Estancia and Carl Mundt, President, who served organic polenta with baby spinach.  de la Estancia was aboard the 2006 OAR Northwest expedition, and the crew was lucky that it was!

Alacer Corp who provided Emergen-C® Vitamin Drink packets.  Save your holiday party with Emergen-C® Vitamin Drink!  Give the festivities an Emergen-C® punch that guests will never forget.

OAR Northwest would like to publicly recognize and thank, in advance, the following food and beverage sponsors of our VOYAGE IN PLANNING celebration!

Alacer Corp., producers of Emergen-C® Vitamin Drink

de la Estancia, producers of Organic Polenta

Odin Brewing Company, producers of Odin’s Gift

Each company has supportive and great to work with during event planning.  We look forward to both Carl Mundt of de la Estancia and Wes Peterson of Odin Brewing Company to serve and introduce their products to our guests.

Examples of mouthwatering fare devoured by the ravenous rowers in 2006 will be sure to please our guests, and they’ll hear about stories of how to embellish polenta with Emergen-C!  As Carl has written….we’re hosting a “polentavent,” and the Alacer Corp. may agree, calling for an at-sea Emergen-C.

Title: VOYAGE IN PLANNING Celebration in Tacoma, Wash.
Location: 705 Dock Street, Tacoma, WA 98402
Link out: Click here
Description: Public is invited to visit “James Robert Hanssen,” 29-foot ocean rowboat, and OAR Northwest expedition team members. In 2006, after 72-days and 3,500 miles, the OAR Northwest team rowed across the North Atlantic Ocean from New York to Falmouth, England. They secured a Guinness World Record for being the first American ocean rowing team to ever make mainland landfall without assistance. In 2012 OAR Northwest will once again row across the Atlantic Ocean and engage school students via a dynamic education program. Read more under the “EDUCATION” tab.
Start Time: 1500
Date: 2011-12-16
End Time: 1700

We’re a little behind in reporting the progress on the boat.  However, things are moving.  Fast.

Below are just a couple pictures of the fun.

The boat with all the bits and pieces

The boat with all parts removed after two days of work (riggers held on by 2 loose bolts)

More to come in the next post about what was easy to remove, and what was difficult to remove.  We’ll also start to introduce many of the individuals and groups who have been guiding and helping us during this phase of the refurbishment that is best described as an exercise in Catharsis.

And fun.