2022 Wooden Boat Festival

Captain Karl Kruger has been on the water for over 35 years. He taught himself to windsurf at twelve years old and worked his way up to 420s, Lasers, Hobies and a variety of Keelboats. He began teaching sailing when he was 17, and now holds a United States Coast Guard 100 Ton Master’s... Read More →

Nigel Calder is best known for his Boatowner’s Mechanical and Electrical Manual and Marine Diesel Engines, both considered definitive works. In addition to hundreds of magazine articles, he has also authored ‘A Cruising Guide to the Northwest Caribbean’, ‘Cuba: A Cruising... Read More →

About Lin PardeyLin has voyaged the world’s oceans accruing more than 217,000 sea miles on boats ranging from 24 feet to more than 60. A major portion of these voyages were on board two engine-free wooden cutters she and her husband Larry built. On Seraffyn, a 24’4” Hess cutter... Read More →

I am probably best known for my best-selling book, Adrift (Houghton Mifflin, 1986), in which I chronicled my 76-day liferaft voyage in 1982, but I also have logged over 80,000 trouble-free miles offshore, most of it with only one or two crew, including seven ocean crossings, on everything... Read More →