Zoom in for Wooden Boat Festival’s ‘Ask an Expert’
Here’s an easy and inexpensive way to learn more about wooden boats, without even having to leave the house: Ask an Expert.
From January 6 to April 7, Wooden Boat Festival is hosting a series of eight behind-the-scenes interviews and demonstrations followed by Q&A sessions. Plus, the sessions will be available for on-demand viewing to series ticket holders until April 15.
The series will be hosted by experts around the world, beginning with Lin Pardey at 6:00 p.m. PST on Wednesday, January 6. Lin will be live from her home in New Zealand, where she’s covering the America’s Cup and Larry’s memorial, and planning her next sailing trip.
The following seven sessions will be presented by: Douglas Brooks — Building a Boat the Japanese Way; Behan and Jamie Gifford — Pandemic Cruising in Mexico; Chris Chase and Susan Shillinglaw — Behind the Scenes of the Western Flyer Project; Andy Stewart and Paul Bieker — Designing a Performance Daysailer; Ernie Baird and Diana Talley — Estimation and Precision in Boatbuilding; John Welsford — Turning a Dream into Reality; and Danielle Doggett — Ceiba: Building a Cargo Ship in the Jungles of Costa Rica.
Tickets are $5.99 per session, or $30 for the entire series. Get yours now.
Proceeds go toward supporting the Wooden Boat Festival and the Northwest Maritime Center, whose mission is to engage and educate people of all generations in traditional and contemporary maritime life, in a spirit of adventure and discovery.