2014 Depoe Bay Crab Feed & Classic Wooden Boat Show Sat-Sun April 19-20, April 18

Depoe Bay is hosting its annual Crab Feed, Classic Wooden Boat Show and Ducky Derby at the bay front, with food and fun for all.  Dinners of locally caught Dungeness crab with all the trimmings will be served at the Community Hall on both Saturday April 19 and Sunday April 20.  Indoor and outdoor dining options and a beer garden will be available.  Whole crab meals will be $20 and half crab meals $15.  The 20th Annual Wooden Boat Show at “the world’s smallest harbor” will feature forty exhibits of both vintage and modern vessels from all over the Northwest. Admission is free. A free model boat building demonstration will provide both the young and young-at-heart with the opportunity to build their own model.  Hundreds of colorful bathtub ducks will be released to race into the harbor Sunday afternoon for the Ducky Derby.  Buy a ticket for a chance to win great prizes provided by Depoe Bay merchants, including clothing, food and an authentic centuries-old silver shipwreck treasure coin.  Depoe Bay’s U.S. Coast Guard station will open its doors to tours of its patrol and rescue boats stationed in “the world’s smallest harbor”.  If you’ve ever wondered what its like to be on the Pacific with the Coast Guard, this is your opportunity!  Thanks to a resident pod of gray whales, Depoe Bay enjoys near year-round whale watching and has become known as “Oregon’s whale watching capitol”.  At the Whale Watching Center park rangers are ready to help spot gray whales.  The center is open daily from 10 AM to 4 PM and admission is free.  For advance information please contact Nick Bruyer (Depoe Bay Chamber of Commerce) at 541-270-3944 to plan your group trip.  Email address: njbruyer@msn.com.