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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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HOWB 130 – Interview | Korey and Christina: From...

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2024/12/30

Today’s podcast episode is an interview with Korey Ruben and Christina Cogan. They moved from Florida in September 2013 so Korey could attend the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in Port Hadlock, WA. Before moving from Florida, Korey was pursuing his helicopter pilots license so he could become a commercial pilot. Christina was working as a microbiologist at a large company in Florida. Korey had begun sailing and lived on a small boat for a time. He started listening to the HOWB podcast and

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00:47:30

HOWB 129 – Interview | Pete Leenhouts, Exec. Director...

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2024/12/23

Today’s podcast episode is an interview with Pete Leenhouts of Port Ludlow, WA who is the Executive Director of the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in Port Hadlock, WA. Pete is a retired career U.S. Navy Officer, and was the Captain of a Wooden Mine Sweeper for several years. After retiring, Pete moved to the Port Townsend area, enrolled in the Boat School and took all three boatbuilding courses – Contemporary Construction, Traditional Small Craft, and lastly Traditional Large Craft. Pete

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00:50:53

HOWB 128 | Interview – David Nichols, Wooden Boat...

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2024/12/16

Today’s podcast episode is an interview with David Nichols of Austin, Texas. Nichols has been building and designing boats for almost twenty years, and is the author of three books: A Working Guide to Small Boat Sails; Lapstrake Canoes; and Building the Sea Eagles. He’s written articles for WoodenBoat and Boatbuilder magazines, as well as writing and producing boatbuilding videos. David also taught boatbuilding at the WoodenBoat School, in Brooklin, Maine, for five years and Great Lakes Boat

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00:45:46

HOWB 127 – Interview | Buzz Scott of OceansWide.org;...

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2024/12/09

Today’s podcast episode is an interview with Buzz Scott, President and Founder of the Oceanswide.org research organization in Newcastle, Maine.Buzz’s maritime adventures began as a young fisherman growing up on Matinicus Island, Maine. His love for the ocean grew greater with time and his parents provided him with his first boat at the age of 12 – small double ended boat called a peapod that came with 25 wooden lobster traps. For years Buzz rowed his peapod around Matinicus, exploring its coves,

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00:45:25

HOWB 126 – Interview | Terry Learned of Learneds Boat...

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2024/12/02

Today’s podcast episode is an interview with Terry Learned of Learned’s Boat Shop in Pacific City, Oregon. Terry grew up on the Oregon coast fishing and building boats with his grandfather and father. The Learned’s Boat Shop was officially launched in 1975 and has been building (mostly) 22ʹ surf launched, plywood dories (designed by Terry’s father) since that time.Three generations of the Learned family have fished dory boats off the beach at Pacific City, Oregon from Cape Kiwanda. Since 1975 the

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00:57:26

HOWB 125 – Interview | Tom Jackson, Senior Editor...

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2024/11/25

Today’s podcast episode is an interview with Tom Jackson, senior editor of WoodenBoat Magazine in Brooklin, Maine.Tom built his first boat at the age of 10 while living in the mountains of British Columbia, and his interests then and since have included woodworking, boatbuilding, maritime history, nautical archaeology, sailing, and rowing. He worked as a journalist in Oregon and Washington after graduating from the University of Oregon, at the same time always looking for boatbuilding, sailing, and

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00:41:42

HOWB 124 – Interview | Tom Pamperin: Small Boat...

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2024/11/18

Today’s podcast episode is an interview with small boat builder, adventurer, and author Tom Pamperin. Tom is originally from Wisconsin and currently on assignment teaching English in Kuwait City, Kuwait. Tom built his current boat – Jagular – a few years back and has experienced a series of adventures (or “(mis)adventures” as Tom calls them) in this $300 sailboat. Tom is writing a book about his fun times on the water.

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00:52:28

HOWB 123 – Interview | Russ Bulley of the UK on the...

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2024/11/11

Today’s interview is with Chartered Engineer Russ Bulley of Northhampton, England. Russ contacted me by email to tell the restoration story of his 35ʹ LOA, 1954 double ended wooden sloop (convertible to cutter rig) Garnet. She was restored over a 3 year period ending in 2011. My email response to Russ went something lik this: “Let’s do a podcast!” to which Russ quickly obliged. It all started with a job transfer from the UK to Malaysia 7 years ago. Russ became interested in acquiring a wooden boat

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00:51:13

HOWB 122 – Interview | Sam Johnson, Wooden Boat...

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2024/11/04

Today’s interview is with Sam Johnson, Executive Director of the Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria, OR. Sam grew up on a ranch in California messing about on ponds, streams and creeks with his own raft and other small makeshift boats. In the summer his family would vacation at Capitola, CA by Soquel Creek where Johnson would get his boating fix on the local rowboats. While pursuing a PhD degree in Marine Biology at Stanford University in Monterey, CA, Johnson began his wooden boat tutelage

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00:42:35

HOWB 121 – Interview | Dennis Armstrong, Marlinspike...

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2024/10/28

Today’s interview is with Dennis Armstrong of The Knotted Line in Redmond, WA. I met with Dennis at his home and got a tour of his shop/garage which is chock full of materials and products he has made over the years.How did he get started in the knot business? While visiting the east coast as a young adult, Dennis met a Coast Guard Quartermaster who showed him how to tie a Turks head. Next Armstrong tied a String Ring for his new bride, and then promptly forgot how to tie the turks head. For their

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00:52:44

HOWB 120 – Interview | Eric Hvalsoe, Shipwright,...

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2024/10/22

Today’s interview is with Eric Hvalsoe of Hvalsoe Boats in Shoreline, WA. Eric grew up in a boating family, and has been involved with small wooden craft design and construction, marine carpentry and fine woodworking since 1981. Hvalsoe was trained as a professional boatwright at the Bates College in Tacoma, WA. He has been designing, building, and repairing boats, and teaching wooden boats skills for 30 plus years. Eric designed the Hvalsoe 13 and 16, traditional lapstrake rowing and sailing craft

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01:00:09

HOWB 119 – Interview | Gayle Brantuk, Glen-L Marine...

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2024/10/14

Today’s interview is with Gayle Brantuk , proprietor of Glen-L Marine in Bellflower, CA. Gayle is the daughter of Glen L. Witt who started the business in 1953. At the age of 95, Glen still visits the office to see how the company and employees are faring. During the interview, Gayle tells the fascinating story of how her father wanted to build his own boat (to save money), but had a hard time finding amateur boat building plans. During WWII, Glen was in the Army Air Corp, learned drafting, and took

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00:35:17

HOWB 118 – Highlights of 2013 and Plans for the BEST...

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2024/10/07

Thanks to your support and the support of hundreds of other wooden boat lovers, HOWB has completed its second full year with flying colors. This Episode is dedicated to looking at the Great Happenings of 2013 a my Plans for 2014! Highlights of 2013 I attended 5 Boat Festivals- Olympia, Port Townsend, Seattle, Bainbridge Island, Lake Chelan Started phone interviews: Doug Hylan (087), Pat Lown (094) , Iain Oughtred (116, 117) Started Interview the Expert Series 6 Const Methods, Epoxy, Glued Plywood

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01:03:37

HOWB 117 – Interview the Expert | Iain Oughtred on...

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2024/09/30

This episode is an interview with renowned small boat designer Iain Oughtred of the Isle of Skye in Scotland. To listen to a previous interview with Iain about his life journey to designing and building small wooden boats, listen to HOWB116.Iain has over 100 boat designs to his credit, most of which you can buy online at WoodenBoat.com. There is also a biography about Iain titled – A Life in Wooden Boats. During this Interview the Expert recording, Iain and I discuss the following points on Glued

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01:07:34

HOWB 116 – Interview | Iain Oughtred, Small Boat...

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2024/09/23

This episode is an interview with renowned small boat designer Iain Oughtred of the Isle of Skye in Scotland. Iain grew up in Australia and discovered sailing in his teens. He began sailing on a wooden Vee Jay sailing dinghy, next he was onto an Australian Scow Moth, and then to a Gwen 12 sloop. Iain raced Gwen 12’s for 6 seasons, quit his model maker job, and built 7 Gwen 12’s of which he kept 3 for himself. During a visit to the UK, he toured Scotland with friends and set foot on the Isle of Skye

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00:36:23

HOWB 115 – Wooden Boat Dan on Building the SCAMP...

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2024/09/16

This episode is an interview with myself on building the SCAMP micro-cruising sailboat. I started the boat in June 2013 and completed the assembly of the kit in October 2013. Go to Launch to see a video of launch day I spent a total of 208 hours building the boat from a kit purchased from Small Craft Advisor Magazine (who is the brainchild for the SCAMP). The cost to build and assemble the kit was $4,137 and I sold the boat recently for $7,200. If you do the math, I earned a little less than

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00:54:24

HOWB 114 – Interview the Expert | Russell Brown on...

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2024/09/09

This episode is an interview with Russell Brown on the ins and outs of marine epoxy – which most boat builders will use at some point in time. I drilled Russell with a plethora of questions that have come to my mind since I began using marine epoxy in the early 1990s. Russell and I had a great time discussing the gory details of how epoxy works, the best way to use it, and why it is probably the best “glue” available for the marine environment. You can listen to a previous interview with Russell and

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00:36:24

HOWB 113 – Wooden Boat Dan on Building the 12ʹ...

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2024/09/02

This episode is an interview with myself on building the 12ʹ Sassafras Canoe. I started the canoe in January2012 and completed it in May 2013. Go to Launch to see a video of launch day I spent a total of 140 hours building the boat from plans in The Canoe Shop book (available on Amazon). It took approximately 60 hours to assemble the boat, and 80 hours to glass the bottom and inside and finish the outside of the boat. This included applying 3 coats of epoxy to all surfaces; fairing, filling,

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00:47:01

HOWB 112 – Interview | Chuck Leinweber, Owner...

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2024/08/26

This episode is an interview with Chuck Leinweber of Harper, Texas. Chuck and his wife Sandra are thefounders of the highly successful Duckworks Boatbuilding Supply and Duckworks Magazine. Chuck is a self admitted wooden boat addict, having built an average of one boat per year for the last 30 years. It all started when as a youth, he picked up his dad’s Sea Scout Manuals, and couldn’t put them down. Then he helped his dad build a 22ʹ plywood cabin cruiser which they used on the Gulf of

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00:41:43

HOWB 111 – Interview | Pete Bergstrom; Mentoring...

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2024/08/19

This episode is an interview with Pete Bergstrom of Monticello, IL. Pete emailed me a few months ago saying he enjoyed the podcast, and also that he was doing a mentoring program at his Church by building a wooden boat together with the youth. And he said he would be glad to do a podcast interview if I were interested in that topic.Well, I jumped all over that opportunity and Pete and I had a great time discussing his personal history as well as the 3 year boat build at his Church where 8 plus kids

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