Hooked On Wooden Boats Dan Mattson

This week’s podcast is an interview with Barb Trailer, co-director of the 37th Annual Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival. Barb and I talk about the history of the 37th Festival, the highlights and some new happenings this year. Mark your calendars for September 6-8, 2013 and don’t miss it! You can listen to several interviews from last year’s festival at HOWB 053.

Barb spent her youth in Minnesota and Colorado and snow skied with her family. At the age of 23 she moved to Saint John Island in the Virgin Islands and started her sailing and boating adventures. Soon she was the cook on the W.N. Ragland, next she crewed on a Sparkman & Stephens 80ʹ Ketch (where she met her hubby), and then Barb spent several years on the 160ʹ power boat Viva before settling in Port Townsend.

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Keep the bright side up and the barnacled side down - Wooden Boat Dan over and out :D



PS  Please note this podcast was recorded several years ago - some of the links, email addresses, phone numbers, and promos mentioned are outdated and no longer valid.

I am super excited today as it is the 100th Episode of HOWB! I can’t believe I have been doing this for almost 2 years Time has flown by and I am having more fun than ever. The other big news this week: I am publishing my first eBook on August 15th, 2013 – Get in the Wooden Boat Game: A Guide for Building Your First Boat.

Today’s special 100th episode includes an interview with Henry LePage and an interview with Cliff Ravenscraft.

Henry LePage is 8 years old and lives in Chappaqua, New York. Henry has had his own hand tools and enjoyed woodworking and boating for as long as he can remember.

Last year Henry got a hankering to have his own boat – one he could handle by himself. For his 7th birthday, his parents gave him a boatbuilding book – Ultra Simple Boat Building by Gavin Atkin. He plied through the book and settled on building the 11ʹ 6ʺ Poorboy Skiff. With the help of his father and grandfather, Henry completed the skiff – Miss Arcadia II – and launched her in the St Lawrence River on September 1, 2012. Congrats Henry!!! Henry dreams of joining the US Coast Guard some day. His boat was pictured in the Launching section of Issue 230 of WoodenBoat Magazine and in the Getting Started in Boats section of Issue 232 of WoodenBoat Magazine.

The second interview is with Cliff Ravenscraft – The Podcast Answer Man. I began listening to Cliff’s weekly Podcast in 2009. Cliff inspired me to start my own podcast, and after 2 years of pondering my next move, I took Cliffs online Podcasting AtoZ course in September 2011. (If you take this amazing course, use the discount code “Boats” and you will get a significant discount).

As a result of Cliff’s encouragement, support, and technical prowess, I launched the Weekly HookedOnWoodenBoats Podcast September 22, 2011. In the podcast interview today, Cliff and I have a fun time reminiscing about how I got the podcast off the ground and recount how Cliff at first thought I was going to

podcast about “Wooden Boots”

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You can contact me at woodenboatdan@gmail.com to share you comments, feedback, stories, and wooden boat adventures.



Keep the bright side up and the barnacled side down - Wooden Boat Dan over and out :D



PS  Please note this podcast was recorded several years ago - some of the links, email addresses, phone numbers, and promos mentioned are outdated and no longer valid.

Today’s podcast is an interview with Chief Instructor and Master Shipwright Jeff Hammond of the Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building in Port Hadlock, WA.

This is the first of my Interview of The Expert series of podcasts focused on 6 methods of boatbuilding: Carvel, Lapstrake, Cold Molded, Stitch and Glue, Strip Planked, and Skin-on-Frame. I discuss each of these methods of construction in my eBook Get in the Wooden Boat Game: A Guide for Building Your First Boat which will be published August 15, 2013.

In this interview, Jeff discusses the ins and outs of using the traditional Carvel method of building. Carvel is a boat building method whereby an internal structure of frames run perpendicular to the hull, and a series of butted planks extending from transom to bow are fastened lengthwise to the frames. Carvel building was established in the 14th century.

During the podcast, Jeff discusses the following points on Carvel:

Description and history

Skill level required to utilize the Carvel method Cost of Carvel versus other building methods Time to build with Carvel versus other methods Pros and cons

Tips and tricks

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You can contact me at woodenboatdan@gmail.com to share you comments, feedback, stories, and wooden boat adventures.



Keep the bright side up and the barnacled side down - Wooden Boat Dan over and out :D



PS  Please note this podcast was recorded several years ago - some of the links, email addresses, phone numbers, and promos mentioned are outdated and no longer valid.

Today’s podcast is an interview with Marty Loken, founder of the Port Townsend Pocket Yachters and (almost) retired from his Boatshop on Marrowstone Island. The Pocket Yachters like to keep it simple – no officers, dues, bylaws, regulations nor fees to attend the annual Palooza.

Last year I attended the first ever Palooza and had a blast. This year I attended the second annual Pocket Yacht Palooza and must say it was amazing – this is a must attend event so mark your calendars for July 19 and 20th 2014! There were 75 pocket yachts (including my canoe Chelan ) from the Puget Sound area, Colorado, northern CA, OR, ID, and British Columbia. And Sam Devlin was there showing off his first ever Lit’l Coot 18ʹ Motorsailer.

There appears to be a growing interest in small boats since they are easier and cheaper to maintain and build, quicker to launch, and just plain get used because the boats aren’t complicated! And this is right up my alley as I love small boats and building them is a blast too!

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You can contact me at woodenboatdan@gmail.com to share you comments, feedback, stories, and wooden boat adventures.



Keep the bright side up and the barnacled side down - Wooden Boat Dan over and out :D



PS  Please note this podcast was recorded several years ago - some of the links, email addresses, phone numbers, and promos mentioned are outdated and no longer valid.

Today’s podcast is an interview with Scott Sprague of Bainbridge Island. I met Scott at the 2013 Bainbridge
Island Wooden Boat Festival while he was relaxing on the beautiful 42ʹ double ended sloop – Tumblehome – he
designed and built. We had a great time talking shop and I learned what a rotating wing spar is :).


Scott grew up on Bainbridge Island and from a very tender age he was sailing his parents gaff rigged sloop and
wooded schooner around Puget Sound and into Canada. During high school he started designing boats and after
graduating, he purchased a fishing boat hull and converted it to a 29ʹ wishbone ketch which he lived aboard for 7 years.


Scott was introduced to his dad’s good friend, renowned Northwest boat designer William Garden, as a youth
and had the privilege of being mentored by Garden on vessel design. Between 1981 and 1989 Scott designed
and built a very unique sloop – Tumblehome.

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You can contact me at woodenboatdan@gmail.com to share you comments, feedback, stories, and wooden boat adventures.



Keep the bright side up and the barnacled side down - Wooden Boat Dan over and out :D



PS  Please note this podcast was recorded several years ago - some of the links, email addresses, phone numbers, and promos mentioned are outdated and no longer valid.

Today’s podcast is an interview with Betsy Davis, Executive Director of The Center for Wooden Boats (CWB) in Seattle, WA. I chatted with Davis while she was sitting on her classic 1914 yacht Glory Be during the 37th annual Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival. We had a great time talking about CWB, the Glory Be, and other fun stuff.

Betsy spent her formidable years on Mercer Island and enjoyed getting out on canoes and row boats on Lake Washington. After working in the hi-tech industry, becoming a board member at CWB, and purchasing Glory Be in 1997, Betsy took some time to reflect on the next step in her life journey. That process landed her in the 2 year Marine Carpentry Program at Seattle Central Community College.

In January of 2002 while attending the Marine Carpentry Program, fire struck the Seattle Yacht Club where Glory Be was moored and she burned and sank. Three weeks later, her wreckage was pulled out of the water and she miraculously floated just like a boat should. One of Betsy’s Marine Carpentry instructions witnessed that phenomenon, and offered to Davis that if she would pay for the materials, the Marine Carpentry school would restore Glory Be.

Over the next 2 years, she was lovingly and painstakingly restored to her former glory, and looks as beautiful today as she did when she was launched in 1914 from the Taylor-Grandy yard on Vashon Island, WA. And in 2003, Betsy became the Executive Director of CWB.