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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.

Podcast · By Dan Mattson · English · Official site

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Sep 21, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 21, 2026

    HOWB 217 - The Last Episode (for now :D) (opens the original)

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    I wrap up 8 years of podcasting in this dialogue. Thanks for listening!

  2. Episode · Sep 14, 2026

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

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    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, b

  3. Episode · Sep 7, 2026

    HOWB 214 – Interview | Eben & Annie, Proud Sailors of Famed Cutter Taleisin (formerly Lin & Larry Pardey’s) (opens the original)

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    Today’s podcast is an interview I did with Eben & Annie during the 2018 Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend Washington. Eben & Annie purchased famed cutter Taleisin from Lin & Larry Pardey several years ago, and are now living aboard her. We talk about what they are learning from Taleisin and what their future plans are.

  4. Episode · Aug 31, 2026

    HOWB 213 – Interview | Jake Beattie Exec Director NW Maritime Center: R2Ak, Seventy48, Festival, 48 North & More! (opens the original)

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    Today’s podcast is an interview with Jake Beattie during the 2018 Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival. Jake is the executive director of the Northwest Maritime Center in Port Townsend. We had fun talking about the festival, R2AK, Seventy48, 48 North Magazine, Maritime Thrift stores and other fun stuff!

  5. Episode · Aug 24, 2026

    HOWB 212 – Interview | Douglas Brooks Japanese Boatbuilder, Author, Researcher, and Student (opens the original)

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    Today’s podcast is an interview with Douglas Brooks during the 2018 Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival. Doug is a boatbuilder, author, and researcher specializing in the construction of traditional Japanese wooden boats. Brooks has apprenticed with seven boatbuilders in Japan since 1996, building over a dozen types of traditional boats.

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