Hooked On Wooden Boats

Today’s podcast is an interview I did with Inger Rankins during the 2018 Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend Washington.
Inger is originally from Norway, and as a youth was regularly rowing the families wooden clinker workboats to and from the island her grandparents lived on. Inger learned to sew her own clothes at a young age, and in 1990 began applying those skills to marine canvas work. She has had her own marine canvas business since 1999 and enjoys the creativity of making sail covers, boat covers and other canvas boat parts. Inger and her husband Sean own and operate Northwest Sail and Canvas Makers.
In this interview, Inger discusses her all night (20 hours straight) rowing in the inaugural Seventy48 human powered race from Tacoma to Port Townsend, WA in a PT Watercraft PT-11 rowing dinghy.

Today’s podcast is an interview I did with Eben & Annie during the 2018 Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend Washington. Eben & Annie purchased famed cutter Taleisin from Lin & Larry Pardey several years ago, and are now living aboard her. We talk about what they are learning from Taleisin and what their future plans are.

Today’s podcast is an interview with Jake Beattie during the 2018 Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival. Jake is the executive director of the Northwest Maritime Center in Port Townsend. We had fun talking about the festival, R2AK, Seventy48, 48 North Magazine, Maritime Thrift stores and other fun stuff!

Today’s podcast is an interview with Douglas Brooks during the 2018 Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival.
Doug is a boatbuilder, author, and researcher specializing in the construction of traditional Japanese wooden boats. Brooks has apprenticed with seven boatbuilders in Japan since 1996, building over a dozen types of traditional boats.

Today’s podcast is an interview with Nathan Nelson and Gini Wilson at the 2018 Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival at the Northwest Maritime Center.
Nathan and Gini discuss their participation in the 2018 PT Festival Edensaw Boatbuilding challenge and their upcoming journey to Hobart Tasmania Australia to be part of Team USA (along with Steve Stanton and Ryan Chadwick) and build a Haven 12 1/2 to launch and auction off at the Australian Wooden Boat Festival.