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This week I interviewed Bill Mahler, (former) director of the NW School of Wooden Boatbuilding. Bill tells me the story of how the school got started: After building wooden boats in the Puget Sound area for more than fifty years, master shipwright Bob Prothero had learned a lot about the business that wasn’t in any textbook. It was his dream to find a way to pass this lore along to new generations of wooden boatbuilders and help keep his craft alive. He came to the Olympic Peninsula from Seattle and founded the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in January, 1981.
You can contact me at [email protected] to share you comments, feedback, stories, and wooden boat adventures.
Keep the bright side up and the barnacled side down - Wooden Boat Dan over and out :D
PS Please note this podcast was recorded several years ago - some of the links, email addresses, phone numbers, and promos mentioned are outdated and no longer valid.
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This week I interviewed Bill Mahler, (former) director of the NW School of Wooden Boatbuilding. Bill tells me the story of how the school got started: After building wooden boats in the Puget Sound area for more than fifty years, master shipwright Bob Prothero had learned a lot about the business that wasn’t in any textbook. It was his dream to find a way to pass this lore along to new generations of wooden boatbuilders and help keep his craft alive. He came to the Olympic Peninsula from Seattle and founded the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in January, 1981.
You can contact me at [email protected] to share you comments, feedback, stories, and wooden boat adventures.
Keep the bright side up and the barnacled side down - Wooden Boat Dan over and out :D
PS Please note this podcast was recorded several years ago - some of the links, email addresses, phone numbers, and promos mentioned are outdated and no longer valid.

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