Put on your sailors cap and your best peg leg for the 32nd annual Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival this weekend (Friday through Sunday). This family-friendly event includes sailboat parades, storytelling, craft workshops, and miniature boat racing. (Saturday will feature a band, Tugboat Country, at 7:30 p.m.) Younger visitors will also appreciate the toy boats and tours of much bigger vessels, vintage Puget Sound tugboats included. For parents, theres food and live musicplus a beer garden, to take the edge off those maritime yarns and sea shanties. Lake Union Park and Center for Wooden Boats, 1010 Valley St., 382-2628, www.cwb.org. $5 (individual), $10 (family) suggested. 10 a.m.6 p.m. JAIME SWINDLE
July 4-6, 10 a.m., 2008