Joe Wubbold — known to many islanders as Captain Joe — will be feted and roasted this Saturday for his 80th birthday celebration, also a community fundraiser.

“He gives and gives and gives,” said Truman O’Brien, one of the event organizers. “Now is a chance for us to give back.”

The event will feature a roast — where Wubbold said he may also roast in return — refreshments for purchase and music by Geordie’s Byre, Wubbold’s favorite island band.

Wubbold agreed to the festivities once the idea of a fund-raiser was introduced, he said, and with the condition he could pick the causes. Proceeds from the night will go to organizations he is closely involved with: the Keepers of Point Robinson, the Vashon Community Care Foundation, Sunrise Ridge and the Vashon Park District for its scholarship fund.

Wubbold, who ranks moving to Vashon as one of the four seminal events of his life, recently reflected on turning 80 and counted among his blessings a loving family, a good working life, good people with whom he went to sea and reasonably good health.

“I feel that my life has been all too short,” he added.

He expects the party to be a good time, he said, noting that all the ribbing will be done with love.

“I think we are going to have a lot of fun with it, and I hope a lot of people come,”he said.

The event will be from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday at the Open Space for Arts & Community. A $15 donation is suggested.