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Hooked On Wooden Boats

Dan Mattson

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HOWB 190 – Interview | Lin Pardey on Why Wooden Boats are the Best for Cruising & Taleisin’s Tales Book Release
2026/02/23 | 40 mins.
Today’s podcast is a recording I did with Lin Pardey at the 2016 Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival. We touched on a variety of topics including “Why wooden boats are great cruising boats”, the sale of Taleisin, and other fun stuff 😀
Lin has just released her new book – Taleisin’s Tales – Sailing towards the Southern Cross – and it promises to be as popular as the dozens of books she has written about she & Larry’s adventures!
HOWB 189 – Interview | Rich Johanson of Philbrick Boats and NW School of Wooden Boatbuilding
2026/02/16 | 31 mins.
Today’s podcast is a recording I did with Rich Johanson at the Pocket Yacht Palooza in June 2016.
Rich is a graduate and now employee of the NW School of Wooden Boatbuilding, and the proud owner of Philbrick Boats! Philbrick boats was founded in 1934 by Don Philbrick with the mission of building gorgeous wooden powerboats. And Rich is carrying on that tradition!
HOWB 188 – Interview | Pete Leenhouts on Restoration of Riptide – a 47ʹ Bridgedeck Cruiser Built 1927 by Schertzer of Seattle
2026/02/09 | 39 mins.
Today’s podcast is a recording I did with Pete Leenhouts at the 39th Annual Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival in 2015.
Pete is the proud owner of Riptide – his beloved 47ʹ x 11ʹ Bridgedeck Cruiser built in 1927 by Schertzer of Seattle. Pete is in the process of a complete restoration of Riptide and she is beautiful and stately!
HOWB 187 – Interview | Dale Simonson on Building His Beloved Microcruising SCAMP Luna!
2026/02/02 | 40 mins.
Today’s podcast is a recording I did with Dale Simonson at the 39th Annual Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival.
Dale built his beloved SCAMP – Luna – with care and precision starting with the SCAMP Camp and finishing it at his home in British Columbia. Dale shares the details of how he selected the SCAMP as his build project, and the journey of actually building her over a 2 year period.
HOWB 186 – Wooden Boat Dan on Highlights of 2016 Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival
2026/01/26 | 19 mins.
Today’s podcast is a recording I did with myself on the highlights of the 40th Annual 2016 Port Townsend
Wooden Boat Festival.
I recorded 9 interviews for the podcast
Gave a presentation on building a SCAMP sailboat
Attended several presentations
Watched the R2AK Blazer Presentation
Had a blast for 72 hours straight – except for sleeping in the bed of my truck 😉
Reconnected with a lot of friends
Dropped my $150 camera lens into Puget Sound 🙁
Check out HOWB 179 for highlights of last year’s festival.

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About Hooked On Wooden Boats

This podcast is 110% dedicated to celebrating the art, craft, history, tradition and romance of wooden boats around the world. Season 1 will include all 217 episodes I recorded (and previously published) between 2011 and 2018.

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