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.
- 40 minutes 11 secondsHOWB 190 – Interview | Lin Pardey on Why Wooden Boats are the Best for Cruising & Taleisin’s Tales Book Release
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 about she & Larry’s adventures!
23 February 2026, 3:05 pm - 31 minutes 59 secondsHOWB 189 – Interview | Rich Johanson of Philbrick Boats and NW School of Wooden Boatbuilding
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!
16 February 2026, 4:03 pm - 39 minutes 25 secondsHOWB 188 – Interview | Pete Leenhouts on Restoration of Riptide – a 47ʹ Bridgedeck Cruiser Built 1927 by Schertzer of Seattle
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!
9 February 2026, 4:01 pm - 40 minutes 12 secondsHOWB 187 – Interview | Dale Simonson on Building His Beloved Microcruising SCAMP Luna!
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.
2 February 2026, 3:57 pm - 19 minutes 10 secondsHOWB 186 – Wooden Boat Dan on Highlights of 2016 Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival
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
Dropped my $150 camera lens into Puget Sound 🙁
Check out HOWB 179 for highlights of last year’s festival.
26 January 2026, 4:32 pm - 25 minutes 24 secondsHOWB 185 – Interview | Josh Colvin on R2AK, SCAMP & Other Fun Stuff!
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.
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19 January 2026, 4:29 pm - 38 minutes 30 secondsHOWB 184 – Interview | Marty Loken on R2AK, Poulsbo Boats, SCAMP. St. Lawrence River Skiff, and Other Fun Stuff
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.
12 January 2026, 4:27 pm - 37 minutes 7 secondsHOWB 183 – Interview | Captain Robert d’Arcy on Schooner Martha’s 2014-2015 Yearlong Voyage
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.
5 January 2026, 4:24 pm - 52 minutes 26 secondsHOWB 182 – Interview | John Lockwood, Owner Pygmy Boats – on Boats & World Travel
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!
29 December 2025, 4:21 pm - 43 minutes 23 secondsHOWB 181 – Interview | John Harris, Owner Chesapeake Light Craft – New Boats & Trends by admin
Today’s podcast is a recording I did with John Harris of Chesapeake Light Craft during the 2015 Port Townsend
Wooden Boat Festival. We talked about new and fun projects/kits at CLC (paddle boards, ultralight dinghy, SW
Dory, etc.), changes in the industry and just fun good ole wooden boat stuff!
22 December 2025, 4:10 pm - 39 minutes 28 secondsHOWB 180 – Interview | Jake Beattie of the NWMC on R2AK
I’m taking a break from my Podcast Vacation today to publish another episode of HOWB :D.
Today’s podcast is a recording I did with Jake Beattie during the 2015 Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival. We
talked about highlights of the festival, news at the NWMC, and more importantly the inaugural R2AK and the
announced second R2Ak scheduled for June 23, 2016!
Click on the green player button above to listen to the podcast with Jake.
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