Jake Beattie - Northwest Maritime Center

The Boat Geeks

The Boat Geeks #9 - Jake Beattie (CEO, "Boat Dork")

Recorded 2.12.24

The headwaters of the Northwest Maritime Center began in the '70s when some friends who loved wooden boats decided to create a gathering for other wood boat lovers. That little inauspicious gathering turned into the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival - the second largest in the world!

Recorded in the late afternoon changing light aboard their floating studio in Port Townsend, WA, in the heart of the Pacific Northwest, your hosts Darren and Daeron take a deep dive into the world of boating.

This episode: Jake Beattie is a very busy man, leading an organization that stages North America's largest wooden boat festival; a wild 750-mile endurance race to Alaska; operates youth maritime camps and classes; prints a monthly regional sailing magazine; runs a marine thrift store; stages many other races and regattas; conducts adult maritime classes; holds workshops and seminars; created the Maritime High School; does harbor tours; and even runs a Victorian hotel! All from the Northwest Maritime Center campus in Port Townsend, WA, a Victorian Seaport on the Salish Sea.

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Northwest Maritime Center: https://nwmaritime.org/

Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival: https://woodenboat.org/

Race to Alaska (R2AK): https://r2ak.com/

Youth Camps & Classes: https://nwmaritime.org/programs/youth...

Adult Classes: https://nwmaritime.org/programs/adult...

48 North Magazine: https://48north.com/

NWMC Memberships: https://nwmaritime.org/take-action/me...

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