Summary: PODCAST SHOW NOTES - Episode #22 Interview - Bruce Blatchley, instructor NW School of Wooden Boatbuilding 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! Here's some pics to enjoy: Listener Feedback and Comments: Thanks Anders Swerke for your kind email from Poland and a link to your blog. Good luck on you Welsford Walkabout boat. Congrats to Tug Buse for being featured starting on page 64 of Wooden Boat Magazine # 225, hot off the press. And thanks to Pete Leenhouts (Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building) for being my personal tour guide this week in Port Townsend! Want to help? Please leave feedback! I want to build a community of people from all over the world who want to connect, learn, share stories and photos, and have fun with wooden boats. I would REALLY appreciate you sending me wooden boats pics, stories, or projects you are working on. You can also write in my blogs comment sections, email me at Dan@Hookedonwoodenboats.com, or call my feedback hotline at 424 261-2360. And click on Subscribe to subscribe to my email news list. Thanks! Click here to subscribe to the Hooked On Wooden Boats Podcast:
