Hooked On Wooden Boats

Today’s podcast is an interview I did with Bruce Tipton during the 2018 Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend Washington. Bruce moved to Port Townsend in the mid 1970’s to check out the wooden boats and has become a part of the Port Townsend Wooden Boat renaissance and culture. He is a master spar maker and boat builder. In this interview, Tipton discusses how he got to Port Townsend and his work...

Today’s podcast is an interview I did with Tiffany and Bruce Halabisky during the 2017 Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival. Tiffany & Bruce spent 11 years sailing around the world on their 34ʹ Atkin designed gaff cutter Vixen. During the voyage they had 2 daughters (Solianna and Seffa Jane) and the time of their life. Tune in and have fun with this story!

Today’s podcast is an interview I did with Simeon Baldwin and Dale Simonson during the 2017 Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend Washington. Simeon and Dale both own SCAMP micro sailboats. They entered the R2AK first leg in 2017 and had to call the Coast Guard and be rescued due to one crew approaching hypothermia, and also to the SCAMP taking on water (due to a leaking bilge seal). We discuss th...

Today’s podcast is an interview I did with Kelvin Dietz, at the 2017 Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend Washington. Kelvin and I met through my podcast a few years back. He has built 2 beautiful pygmy kayaks and loves vintage motorhomes and Datsun 510s. We had a great conversation about all these topics!

Today’s podcast is an interview I did with Eben & Annie during the 2017 Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend Washington. Eben & Annie purchased famed cutter Taleisin from Lin & Larry Pardey about 3 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 I did with Karl Kruger of Kruger Escapes during the 2017 Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend Washington. Karl is the first person to finish the 750 mile R2AK on a SUP (Stand Up Paddle Board). He completed the unassisted paddle in 14 days 6 hours and finished ahead of 10 sailboats in the 3rd annual race. His accomplishment is beyond impressive and I got to sit down...

Today’s podcast is an interview I did with famed blue water sailor Lin Pardey during the 2017 Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend Washington. Lin discussed the hows and whys of sailing for millenials

Today’s podcast is an interview I did with Graham Byrnes founder of B&B Yacht Designs during the 2017 Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend Washington. Graham has a fascinating story to tell of his early years of sailing, racing and then designing and building boats.

Today’s podcast is an interview I did with Colin Angus during the Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend Washington.

Today’s podcast is an interview with Cody & Beth Harris (interviewed in HOWB145) and David Patterson during the 2016 Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend Washington. Cody and Beth (Rabannah) and David (Cloud Girl) met while cruising in British Columbia. During the podcast we talked about cruising about Princess Louisa Inlet, Vancouver, BC harbor, and other fun cruising.

Today’s podcast is an interview I did with Andrew Breece Publisher of WoodenBoat Magazine during the 2016 Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend Washington. We talked about Andrew’s youth of boating, how he landed his job at WoodenBoat, and what’s happening at the Magazine today.

Today’s podcast is a recording I made on September 10 after attending the 2017 Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend Washington. I discuss the highlights of the Festival (for me) and the fun people I interviewed for the podcast.

Today’s podcast is a recording I did with John Lockwood of Pygmy Boats at the 2016 Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend Washington. John and I talk about his recent world travels, SUPs, boat designs and other eclectic topics.

Today’s podcast is a recording I did with John Harris of CLC Boats at the 2016 Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend Washington. John and I talk about their new teardrop trailer, SUPS, kayaks, new products from CLC, and other fun stuff.

Today’s podcast is a recording I did with Marty Loken at the 2016 Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend Washington. Marty and I talk about his Bill Garden designed canoe built by Schooner Boatworks in Portland Oregon, Marty’s current projects, and other fun stuff.

Today’s podcast is a recording I did with Eben Bruyus and Annie Ryan at the 2016 Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival. Eben and Annie purchased famed cutter Taleisin from Lin & Larry Pardey last year. They are self admitted “green horn” sailors and are looking forward to a lifetime of adventures aboard Taleisin. Check out their blog at Taleisin.com. We had a grand time discussing how they found...

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...

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!

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!

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.

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...

Today’s podcast is a recording I did with Small Craft Advisor Co-Editor and SCAMP brainchild Josh Colvin during the 2015 Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival. We talked about the R2AK, SCAMP sailboats, and lots of other fun stuff. Check our HOWB 040, HOWB 143, for previous interviews I have done with Josh. Click on

Today’s podcast is a recording I did with boatbuilder, restorer, sailor, pocket cruiser extraordinaire Marty Loken, during the 2015 Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival. We talked about the R2AK, SCAMP sailboats, Poulsbo boats, and lots of other fun stuff. Check our HOWB 011, HOWB 098, HOWB 138, for previous interviews I have done with Marty about his own wooden boat journey.

Today’s podcast is a recording I did with Robert d’Arcy Captain of the Schooner Martha, during the 2015 Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival. We talked about Robert’s adventures with family and crew taking Martha on a yearlong voyage to Mexico, California, Hawaii and other far away places. Check our HOWB 062 for an interview I did with Robert about his own wooden boat journey.

Today’s podcast is a recording I did with John Lockwood of Pygmy Boats during the 2015 Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival. We talked about John’s world travels (at the time John was about 2 years into his around the world trip), boats, paddles and John touched (quite) a little on political issues!