Haven Boatworks drops anchor in new dock by First Fed Monday, July 3, 2023 10:35am Local MarketplaceFinances Port Townsend is a notable maritime hub in the Puget Sound. Its bustling, historic waterfront is a perfect home base for Haven Boatworks, a boat building and repair company sought after by maritime companies and sailing enthusiasts up …
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Author Deiter Loibner’s article in the most recent Professional Boatbuilder magazine features the Shop Co-op at Boat haven. Click the image to read it.
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Local photographer and PTMTA member, Jeremy Johnson has been focused (no pun intended) on the marine trades for a few years now. His Port Townsend Maritime photo magazines are like fine art photo albums of friends and the beautiful work everyone is doing at this moment in time. This editor thought it relevant to include …
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Let’s congratulate this year’s Lifetime Achievement Awardees Ray Speck, Neil Rabinowitz, & Betsy Davis! Click below to read more on the original announcement:
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Click the image to see King 5’s reporting on the demolition of the ocean rowing vessel ‘James Robert Hanssen’.
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Photos of our marine trades people and the work you do are incredibly powerful tools in the working waterfront toolbox. Not only do they promote you and your business, photographs in the public arena inspire, educate, and strengthen the industry which they represent. Have you not studied some of the historical images of Port Townsend …
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Enjoy the latest Our Working Waterfront podcast, aired June 9th, 2023, featuring Point Hudson history and Sea Marine. Click image to listen on the KPTZ archive
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Many here will have known Tuck. Click the image below to see his obituary. Seattle, WA — Peter Tuckerman Esty Jr., of Seattle and Port Townsend, WA, formerly of Deerfield and Wareham, MA, passed away on April 8, 2023, leaving his life partner, Anne Krier. Predeceased by his father, Peter T. Esty, he additionally leaves …
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The recordings have been posted. Here are the stores from the She Tells Sea Tales event at the NWMC in March of 2023. Click on the below image to listen from the KPTZ page. Learn more about this annual event by clicking the event page above
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From sardine seiner to fisheries research, the Western Flyer continues to contribute to the industry The average commercial fishing vessel in the U.S. North Pacific fleet is over 40 years old, and most have been repowered. Launched in 1937, the 77-foot Western Flyer is older than most, and while no longer actively fishing, the former …
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The next installment of Our Working Waterfront from KPTZ in case you missed it.
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Here is The April edition of Our Working Waterfront podcast from KPTZ: Hit PLAY!
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In addition to Our Working Waterfront, KPTZ produces the Coastal Cafe podcast. Check out this episode about Washington’s emerging seaweed farming.
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Our Port Townsend Marine Trades will likely find the plight of the Port of Olympia unfortunately familiar, as well as grateful things have improved on many fronts in the last few years. https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article274188720.html (The text of the article is saved below because of unsuccessful attempts to locate PT Leader and PDN articles about events that …
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Jim Heumann’s second oral history interview recorded in February of 2023 for his Maritime Voices preservation podcast: Hi, this is Jim Heumann. In this interview I will be speaking with Sean Rankins. Sean is a sail maker and the owner, with his wife Inger, of Northwest Sails & Canvas in Port Hadlock, Washington….During the 80’s …
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Our own Jeremy Johnson sent this information. Check it out! Our kickoff video and the first of a series, Shipwright Sessions takes a look at an unsung but critical component of wooden boat work; caulking. In this episode, we sit down to talk with Brad Seamans of the Port Townsend Shipwrights Co-Op, who recently wrapped …
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Jim Heumann’s first interview for this new Maritime Voices podcast recorded with Leif Knutsen in June 2022: …one of the founders of the Port Townsend Shipwright’s Co-op. We talk about the boats he built, working as a shipwright in Alaska, what Port Townsend was like in the 70’s and 80’s,… Learn more about thisoral history …
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On March 25, Pete and Cathy Langley of Port Townsend Foundry were among those recognized for their leadership in our community. Congratulations to all nominees and awardees! 2023 Jefferson County Community Leadership Award Winners Congratulations to the winners of the 2023 Jefferson County Community Leadership awards, as well as to the other esteemed members of …
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