HOWB 073 – Interview | Jim Metteer – Wooden Boat Builder and Restorer Extraordinaire - 02.07.13
Today’s featured interview is with Jim Metteer of Poulsbo, WA. Jim grew up “all over” the west coast as his dad moved from working at one hydroelectric dam to another. In 1965 the family settled in so...
27 Nov 202350min
HOWB 072 – Interview | Roy Jackson – built Wooden Schooner over a 3 decade period! WOW! - 01.31.13
I had the rare and special privilege of meeting up with Roy Jackson who, along with his late wife Dolores built a 43ʹ Murray Peterson designed gaff rigged Coaster II Schooner – Dolores M Jackson – bet...
21 Nov 20231h 9min
HOWB 071 – Interview | Jim Llewellyn Wooden Boat Restorer and Blanchard Sr. Knockabout Owner - 01.24.13
Jim grew up in Bellevue, WA and at the age of 9 his parents bought a Blanchard Jr. Knockabout for $250 and spent another $250 to refurbish it. Jim’s dad taught him to sail on that wooden sloop, and at...
13 Nov 202337min
HOWB 070 – Interview | Captain Tyson Trudel – Center for Wooden Boats Youth Program Dude, Wooden Boat Afficianado - 01.17.13
Tyson did most of his growing up in Cove, Oregon with a massive population of 500 people During his youth he sailed with his family on their 21ʹ San Juan sloop. However, when his parents decided to ta...
6 Nov 20231h 1min
HOWB 069 – Interview | Nat Howe of NW Seaport – Wooden Boat Guru and Museologist - 01.10.13
Nat grew up in Seattle and as a young kid was building boat models out of milk cartons, wood, and assorted other materials he could scrounge up. His parents and grandparents owned (and still own) an A...
30 Okt 20231h 1min
HOWB 068 – Highlights of 2012 and Plans for the BEST YEAR EVER in 2013 - 01.03.13
Thanks to your support and the support of hundreds of other wooden boat lovers, HOWB has completed its first full year with flying colors. This Episode is dedicated to looking at the HIGHLIGHTS of 201...
23 Okt 202332min
HOWB 067 – Interview | Diana Hennick, Visitor Services Guru at the Center for Wooden Boats - 12.27.12
Diana is a NOAA brat – her dad was a commissioned officer in the the NOAA Corp and met her mom – a civilian deckhand – on board a research vessel in the Bering Sea. Diana was born in San Diego, and l...
16 Okt 202332min
HOWB 066 – Interview | Dan Leach, boatwright and Center for Wooden Boats Community Engagement Lead - 12.20.12
Dan Leach is one of those gents that makes you feel right at home from the first time you shake his hand – which for me was October 2011 when I went to the Center For Wooden Boats to interview the fou...
9 Okt 202337min
