Fjordin Crossin this weekend in Hoodsport

A bit of old Norway is coming to Hoodsport this weekend with the Fjordin Crossin festival.

The event celebrates a Nordic tradition of “sending a barrel of aquavit in a ship from Norway across the equator and back again,” according to the event’s website.

The local version will send a barrel of the Hardware Distillery’s dill aquavit across the Hood Canal and back to Hoodsport.

It happens Saturday at the Hoodsport Dock and is sponsored by the Hardware Distillery and Be the Traveler/Hood Canal Events.

Starting at 11 a.m., food booths and other vendors will open by the dock and registration is ava...