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I've been a wood boat nut from way back.  As a teen (the 80's) I worked for Svendsen's Boatworks in Alameda, and raced sailboats on the San Francisco Bay.  I worked for a sailboat charter company, and fell in love with wood boats.  After college I became an oceanographer, and currently for NOAA as a tsunami researcher.

I have built out a small shop in the garage (the "47th Street Boatshop"), where I'm learning how NOT to grab a power tool when a hand tool will work. I love boat design, building, maintenance, tinkering, cruising, racing, and ... well anything to do with boats. I've restored an old cruising sailboat (a Cal 29), and built several skin-on-frame kayaks, and I'm part way through a build of a 15-foot Navigator camp-cruiser designed by the Kiwi John Welsford.

I've been attending the Port Townsend for years - my photo collection starts in 2003 but I know I've attended the 1997 Festival - and I'm proud to be part of this wonderful community: the PT Foundry, the PT Sails, the Shipwrights Co-op, the School, the Marine Center, the designers, the builders, the yards, the Museum... such a wonderful place, such a wonderful group of people.