This week I interviewed master shipwright and instructor Bruce Blatchley. Bruce spent a lot of time on the water in canoes as a kid on the east coast. After high school, military service, college, mountain guiding, rock climbing, and building houses, he turned his attention to wooden boats. He first attended the NW School of Wooden Boatbuilding, then worked locally in the trade fine tuning his skills. A few years later, he was back at the school as an instructor heading up the school’s “Contemporary Boat” program.

Bruce is overseeing the School’s building of a ’62 wooden sloop “Sliver” designed by Bob Perry of Seattle, WA. The hull is strip planked red cedar with a triaxial fiberglass cloth in marine epoxy overlay. The sloop is being built for a private party and is designed to be fast and easy to single hand – she is a beaut and expected to be launched this year (2012)!

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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podcast was recorded several years ago - some of the links, email addresses, phone numbers, and promos mentioned are outdated and no longer valid.