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Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival  |  September 6–8, 2024  |  woodenboat.org
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(Re)Building the Western Flyer
Saturday September 7, 2024 3:30pm - 4:30pm PDT
Technical Stage
The Western Flyer was built at Tacoma’s Western Boat Building Company in 1937. In 1940 John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts chartered the sardine seiner for a trip to the Sea of Cortez. Renamed and neglected, the boat sank for the second time in 2012.
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In 2015 the Port Townsend Shipwrights Co-op was contracted to rebuild the Western Flyer PTSC partners, TIm lee and Pete Rust led the reconstruction. Join Tim and Pete as they discuss the project of dismanteling and rebuilding over 90% of the hull of this iconic fish boat.
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Tim Lee

Port Townsend Shipwrights Inc
Tim Lee has worked as a professional shipwright for 35 years. He taught wooden boat construction for13 years at The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding, serving as chief instructor for eight of thoseyears. In 2013 he returned to commercial work and became a member of the Port... Read More →
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Pete Rust

Pete Rust has alway been around the waterfront, having grown up on Vashon Island. He has worked as a sailor aboard the 101' schooner Ragland and fished commercially. He has been a professional shipwrigt for 30 years, becomming a member of Port Townsend Shipwrights Co-operative in... Read More →
Saturday September 7, 2024 3:30pm - 4:30pm PDT
Technical Stage
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