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Hooked On Wooden Boats

Dan Mattson

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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  • S1 · E215
    September 14 · 33 min

    HOWB 215 – Interview | Inger Rankins 41st Place Finish and All Night Row in 2018 Human Power Race Seventy48

    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.

  • S1 · E211
    August 17 · 37 min

    HOWB 211 – Interview | Gini Wilson, Nathan Nelson NW School Wooden Boatbuilding; 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Team USA

    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.

  • S1 · E209
    August 3 · 29 min

    HOWB 209 – Wooden Boat Dan Highlights of 2018 Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival

    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

  • S1 · E208
    July 27 · 35 min

    HOWB 208 – Interview | Small Craft Advisors’ Josh Colvin and Marty Loken: SCAMP, New Pram Tender, Heather and More!

    Today’s podcast is an interview I did with Marty Loken and Josh Colvin during the 2017 Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival. Marty is now associate editor of Small Craft Advisor magazine and having fun with it :D. We talked about SCAMP; a new 6ʹ – 8ʺ pram design; Heather (pilothouse sloop); and lots more cool wooden boat stuff! Tune in and have fun with this story!

  • S1 · E207
    July 20 · 30 min

    HOWB 207 – Interview | Dillon Majoros, Designer Extraordinaire CLC Boats

    Today’s podcast is an interview I did with Dillon Majoros during the 2017 Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival. Dillon attend the Landing School and is a designer at CLC Boats in Annapolis Maryland. He’s worked on lots of fun projects including the Teardrop Camper and Waterlust Sailing Canoe. Tune in and have fun with this story

  • S1 · E215
    July 8 · 40 min

    HOWB 216 – Interview | Bruce Tipton, Boat Builder, Artist and Spar Maker Extraordinaire

    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 there for the last 40+ years.

  • S1 · E204
    June 22 · 1 hr 19 min

    HOWB 204 – Interview | Simeon Baldwin & Dale Simonson – Lessons Learned, DNF 2017 R2AK Due to Taking on Water & Rough Seas

    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 the entire adventure and the lessons they learned from this harrowing adventure.

  • S1 · E202
    June 8 · 36 min

    HOWB 202 – Interview | Eben Bruyus & Annie Ryan on Living Aboard Famed Cutter Taleisin

    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.

  • S1 · E201
    May 22 · 43 min

    HOWB 201 – Interview | Karl Kruger – First Ever 2017 R2AK Finisher on SUP

    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 with Karl and ask all the fun questions.

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