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Click on Jobs Postings to see what’s on offer. Email us to post your maritime jobs. Let us know when jobs are filled. Don’t see your job posted? Please contact ptmarinetrades (at) gmail.com We aim to keep this page updated and relevant. Many thanks!

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EDC free Resource Roundtable 3.17.22


To join the EDC Team Jefferson’s Resource Roundtable on March 17th on ZOOM, learn more HERE. Meet Rick & Micah from the Center for Inclusive Entrepreneurship. Find out about their no-cost programs, how they may be able to help you develop your business ideas, launch a small business, and manage it over time. “CIE’s Community …

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JeffCo JOB FAIR -call for MT businesses to participate


JeffCO Job & Trades Fair, May 26, Chimacum HS— Call for MT businesses to Participate: This Fair is a collaboration between all 3 East Jefferson High Schools:, plus and end of day time for the general public. Connecting home grown talent with our home gown businesses. The Job & Trades Fair will showcase 60+ companies …

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PTMTA board meeting


The PTMTA Board of Trustees will be meeting at the Nomura Building on March 17, 2022 and 5:15 Members are welcome to submit comments, questions and requests for issues you’d like the PTMTA to work on. ptmarinetrades (at) gmail.com Agenda for the meeting can be seen here. March 2022 agenda

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Our Stories: Susan Brittain


Don’t miss this free and final Ask an Expert series event hosted by the NWMC  on Zoom on March 17th

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M/V Westward Short Video


Check it out by clicking on this image:

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New Grants for Small Businesses


The Chamber’s Community Development Fund Grants are locally funded and the application is straightforward. The PTMTA successfully utilized a similar grant last year to create this blog. This is for the next round of grants: Grow Your Own Opportunity Grant Chamber of Jefferson County Community Development Fund 2022 Grant 1 Grow Your Own Opportunity Grant …

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Calling all Maritime Women


Please Join us, friends and neighbors, for this Gathering and Photo 2022 for the Women Of Our Working Waterfront.       Friday, March 11th.   Photo on City dock at 4 p.m., the Cotton Building is open 3 – 6 p.m. to meet with old and new friends. For all the women who love …

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JOBS; Edensaw, Shipwright’s, NWMC, Level Sky


If you have not looked at the PT Leader this week…. Edensaw Woods is looking for Warehouse and Millhouse Assistants. The Port Townsend Shipwright’s Co-op needs a Full Charge Bookkeeper. The NW Maritime Center is looking to fill several positions, including a Summer Program Coordinator, and a Summer Sailing Instructor. Level Sky Bright Work on …

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Welcoming New Members


The PTMTA is happy to welcome several new and first-time PTMTA Members to our collective. We are humbly grateful for the vote of confidence from all of the maritime professionals joining and renewing. Beyond the Negative, Jeremy Johnson + his PT Maritime Photography project and books. Gilman Thermal Imaging PT Sailing Association Sail Port Townsend …

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March 9th Port Commission meetings


Click to learn more _ – 9:30 Workshop -1PM Commission meeting  

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Boat Festival Registration is open


Register Boats, food vendors, musicians,Vendors and Presenters for the 45th Wooden Boat Festival on September 9-11 2022. From the NWMC links to the Wooden Boat Foundation’s festival home page. Registration links under “get Involved”

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Our weekly PTMTA outreach


Dear Members, Due to a SCAM email surprise this week, and because legitimate member notifications are so important, we have opted all current members into this weekly email update as part of your membership. This newsletter is based on the week’s posts on our new blog. Our new PTMTA blog was created to reduce random …

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State of the City update 2022


What the City does affects us all and this may bring you up to date. This is a recording of a Chamber Cafe with Mayor David Faber and City Manager John Mauro held earlier this month. Click the image below to see the video on Youtube.

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Port Biz: Feb. 24th Hotsheet


Keep abreast of what the Port is working on and the decisions they are making. If you missed the Feb 23rd commission meeting, Here is the Port’s own synopsis. The full details are found in the Agenda and minutes and by listening to the meeting audio. The latest “Hotsheet” : https://portofpt.com/posted-ports-feb-24-hot-sheet/. Please note a correction …

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SCAM ALERT


Today an email showed up in the inboxes of our membership unbeknownst to the PTMTA board. Please DELETE IT. This scam was rather clever but it had a few red flags: The return email was not ours but looked like it could have been. Our Gmail is ptmarinetrade@ It was not signed by the secretary …

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Saturday-FEB 26th-SHIPWRIGHT’S REGATTA 2022


POSTPONED due to Gale Warning. NEW DATE: MARCH 26th Time to put your tools down and go sailing! https://ptsail.org/shipwrights-regatta-2022/ Check out the history on the special event.  

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The Next Generation


In an effort to collect all of our Marine Trades stories possible, this PT LEADER story from November 2021 is being posted here-in. Both Melanya Nordstrom and Pete Stein are on our 2022 board of trustees, as well as Jeremy Lala of Sea Marine, Sarah Kolbeck of PT Rigging and Spars, Ian Weedman who now …

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Yes-it was a mistake…


The February 16th PT LEADER Insert Working Waterfront featured a photo on its cover that, while being an interesting project, (Sail Cargo in Costa Rica) it was totally out of place in this publication. Somebody FLUBBED…Big Time. Several of our Marine Trades members wrote to the Leader * and a response from our friend at …

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Port Commission Meeting Feb.23


By Port of Port Townsend on Feb 18, 2022 12:19 pm The Agenda and Materials for the Meeting of the Port of Port Townsend Commission on February 23, 2022 have been posted. The Port Commission has a meeting scheduled for Wednesday, February 23rd at 5:30 p.m.   Commissioners will be considering Airport Engineering Professional Services & …

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