Hooked On Wooden Boats

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.

Today’s podcast is an interview with Beth Kennedy recorded at the 2017 Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival at the Northwest Maritime Center.
Beth talks about how she got into boat building, wooden boats, and her SCAMP journey with her late husband.

Today’s podcast is me myself and I recording a podcast about the highlights of this year’s Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival at the Northwest Maritime Center.
As usual I had an absolute blast at the festival during the 4 days I was there. Some of the highlights include:
Watching Marty Loken receive the Lifetime Achievement Award for Community Spirit & Culture
Recording a record 13 podcasts (about 7 hours of recording)
Hooking up with old and new friends in Port Townsend
Attending a great varnishing presentation by Joni Blanchard
Learning about laminating veneers by Ryan Chadwick for Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding
Attending the R2AK Blazer party