Below is the schedule of events for the Seventy 48 and R2AK. There are many local boaters and friends entered in one or the other or both. Some are on locally designed and/or built boats. Cheering on the Seventy 48 racers as they arrive after rowing or paddling 70 miles through our crazy currents and …
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The PTMTA will have a 10×10 booth at this year’s Wooden Boat Festival September 9, 10, 11. Set up is on the 8th. Marine Trades participation at our local festival is how we keep it local so please claim your part in the spirit it was first started. Pat Mahon is the 2022 “team leader” …
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PTMTA member, Turn Point Design, has sold their catamaran- Felix! The boat was designed by Brandon Davis and built by his team here in Port Townsend as a participant in the R2AK events. The new owners are Beto Pandiani and Igor Bely who will sail the Northwest Passage (Alaska to Greenland) this summer! The last …
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20% ad Public Awareness Campaign created by Bill Curtsinger and Gwendolyn Tracey from 2018-2020. Honoring our NWSWB and all of the alumni keeping these skills and traditions alive.
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Rebuilding our archive of 20% posters from 2018 to 2020. To see more of these mini interviews conducted by Bill Curtsinger and Gwendolyn Tracey, click on the 20% category on the right. More posters are being added weekly. This week we are honoring our Fishing Fleet and wishing them a safe, healthy, and prosperous season.
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You can now Click on the 20% Posters category on the right to see more of these ad campaigns created by Bill Curtsinger and Gwendolyn Tracy featuring our Marine Trades Community Members! Please note that these posters were created between 2018 and 2020. With the updated website, we have created an archive using the category …
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The Port Report came out last week and if you bought a Leader, you saw it. Rumor has it that the Port Office may have a stack as well. This quarter’s issue features some of the many women of our our working waterfront. Gratitude for the effort that went into creating this issue and to …
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The Chamber of Jefferson County’s May 2022 issue of the Business Insider has a nice feature on our other member charter boat company, Sail Port Townsend. Port Townsend is now graced with 2 entrepreneurial day charter businesses. Always glad to see our members featured in the Press and grateful for the enthusiastic attention to our …
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Great article and photos by Dieter Loibner in Soundings Online, featuring member business, Left Coast Charters: https://www.soundingsonline.com/features/from-passion-to-profession
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Please welcome a new member to our marine systems services community: Lillian Kuehl
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In case you have missed recent episodes, these monthly podcasts with port updates and featured Marine Trades interviews on KPTZ are fun and informative. https://kptz.org/?s=working+waterfront
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The PTMTA has long had a can at the Penny Savers Mart called the Lifeboat Fund can. Coho Printing has also generously begun hosting a Lifeboat Fund can on their check out counter. This fund builds coin by coin, dollar by dollar and takes years to amount to a worthy sum. Originally, the fund was …
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Sharing some of our 2018-2020 maritime 20% posters and honoring Our Stories. Carol Hasse is now Port Commissioner Carol Hasse and Port Townsend Sails is now operated by and located at The Shipwright’s Co-op in Boat Haven.
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Celebrating our Marine Trades: NWSWB Alumni Wendy Apfel tells her story. Click image to link to video
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Learn More about the Clean Bay Project, the electric pump-out boat built by the NWSWB
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Congratulations to Sea Marine for opening their new canvas loft in the Armory Building at Point Hudson.
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Check out our newest PTMTA members: Brandon Garms of Confluence Marine Systems Leigh O’Connor of Irondale Woodworks Erik Brown & Alyce Flannigan of Left Coast Charters
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Posting this article from Sail-World about a locally built multihull now owned by Ryan Finn. This little boat that could is about to arrive in San Francisco from New York via Cape Horn. It has been an epic voyage covered by Lat 38 and all a-buzz on Sailing Anarchy. See the article below or visit …
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Last year, Porfessional Boatbuilder staff writer, Dieter Loibner asked Port Townsend’s Russell Brown to write about epoxy for the magazine. The editors turned it into one of their featured Task Sheets. You will not see Russell in the classroom or at the podium but his technical writing has given many novice & seasoned boat builders …
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At the 2022 Shipwright’s Regatta awards party, Pete Langley of the Port Townsend Foundry, took a moment to explain a few of the unique trophies that he helped to create. Each piece includes a slice of history, perpetual trophies that perpetuate our stories. See the video clip here Thank you to the PT Sailing Association …
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