Lifetime Achievement Awards

The best way to gain an appreciation of Dave King’s achievements as a boat builder and his myriad contributions to the preservation and advancement of that industry is to sit in the sunshine on the deck of Sirens, share a beer, and talk with him about the boats plying the bay. His love of his life in the maritime industry and his unique contributions to the preservation of the maritime patina of Port Townsend will gently emerge. You will soon discover within his calm, good humored, and delightfully loquacious exterior a savvy entrepreneur, a skilled politician, and a self-effacing man devoted to his wife Alice, his family, and the welfare of his community. He is without doubt richly deserving of this award.

It has been my privilege to work side-by-side with Dave for over 20 years in the planning, development, and governance of the Northwest Maritime Center. His many years of devotion to that entity have been critical to its success. He was a founding Board member of the organization, served as its President as we reached the decision to go forward with construction, and has served many years as the organization’s ever-vigilant Treasurer.

But did you know he is a Harvard graduate? As a college undergrad, he audaciously penned a letter to the legendary designer (and past recipient of this award) William Garden requesting plans for his “Porpoise” design (a 43’ ketch) which he wanted to build “that summer”. Garden politely wrote back to him and suggested that perhaps he should learn the trade before embarking on such a project. That letter launched a career that began not long after on the shores of the Chesapeake (where he happened to first meet Lyn and Larry Pardey).

A few years later, he drifted north to Bath, Maine, where he ultimately taught in the apprenticeship program of the Bath Maritime Academy. In 1978, he traveled west, met his bride to be, Alice, and they found their way to the 1978 Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival. Like others who contributed to the legendary resurgence of our maritime industry, they were smitten and stayed.

Dave began his career here working out of his pickup and a small space in what is now the Admiral Ship Supply building. He worked several years for Cecil Lange who he refers to as “a largely unheralded rainmaker for our marine trades.” Thereafter he went to work for Admiral Marine Works, building and beach launching in legendary fashion mega-yachts like Eviva. His responsibilities grew with that organization to the point it had 160 employees and he was General Manager. When the company chose to relocate, once again to our collective good fortune, he elected to stay. In fairly short order, he and a few colleagues formed a new company in 1999, Townsend Bay Marine, and he served as its CFO until retirement in 2015.

During the course of his boat building career, he also found time to become immersed in local politics, serving eight years on City Council (four of them as mayor). In that capacity he worked extensively on the refinement of the City’s Shoreline Master Program, particularly as it related to the preservation and accommodation of the marine trades and Point Hudson. And, oh yeah, he served on the Board of Directors of several non-profit entities in addition to the Northwest Maritime Center, including The Wooden Boat Foundation, The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding, and the Port Townsend Marine Trades Association.

He did build some boats for himself over the years (an 18’ crabbing skiff, a 28’ schooner, and several more). Each is, of course, good for a story or two. Did you know that he first started out for the west coast after college, but the escapade ended with a serious motorcycle accident in Idaho? And believe me, there’s much more. Buy the man a beer. Thanks, Dave. For everything. —Steve

As one of the first (and for too many years the only) woman shipwright and boat shop owner in Port Townsend, her workspace at her rented shop in the Boat Haven Shipyard—Taku Marine—served as headquarters for the “coconut wireless” for boatyard news, port politics, and career and boat owner transitions. Her shop was a birthplace and nursery to the nascent Port Townsend Marine Trades Association (PTMTA).

Born in Seattle, Diana took off for California “with a flower in her hair” after high school. Fate led her to Gate 3, Sausalito, where a boatbuilder named Ray Speck was framing up a 16’ Sid Skiff. She wrote: “It’s like looking inside a body still being formed and seeing the future it will become. I’d never looked at a boat before. A lightning bolt hit me. Humbled. This was something I had to learn to do. For 45 years, I blessed or cursed Ray every working day.”

The guys at Sausalito Shipwrights invited her to join their “co-op” while she learned the trade. Massages were the tool she brought to the partnership. She lived on the back of a flatbed truck near the shop until she headed back north to cool, green Washington where she found love, adventure, and work as a commercial fisherman.

In 1990, she was chomping for change—to be her own boss. Diana moved to Port Townsend from Ocean—a 38’ wood fishing boat she co-designed and built with her daughter’s father on Bainbridge Island. Fellow fisherman, Rick Oltman, offered her a boat bunk in Point Hudson while she worked her first job. She said Rob at Landfall “kept me alive with a running tab.” Jack Finney and Don Fauth on C dock in Boat Haven let her live on their boats when they were away at sea.

She stayed on different boats for about a year until she got her own boat, Scandia—a Kettenburg 38—restored and in the water. Her daughter, Kashmira, then came to live aboard with her. “Because of all these people, I was able to get a foothold. I couldn’t have survived without their generosity.” A gift she, in turn, gave others.

It was in that spirit of local action and thoughtful generosity that Diana served on the board of Wooden Boat Foundation, Chamber of Commerce and Port advisory committees; spoke at She Tells Sea Tales events; ran as a candidate for Port Commission; served as Shipwrights’ Regatta Goddess, presented as Festival faculty, and co-founded the PTMTA. The truth is she helped us all—to grow, fight, give, forgive, and grow again.

Jim Franken grew up in Newport Beach, California, in the 1950s surrounded by some of the most beautiful boats in the world. His grandfather, who loved boats, built row boats, sailboats, paddleboards, and sailing models for his children in the ‘20s and then for his grandchildren in the ‘50s.

In 1960, when Jim was thirteen, his parents sold everything, and the family took off on their 48’ yawl and headed for the South Pacific. This is when Jim started drawing boat lines and studying principles of yacht design. Jim designed and built his first boat—a 20’ catamaran—in 1963 and spent the next 15 years racing, cruising, and delivering boats in California, on the west coast of Mexico, Central America, throughout Hawaii and French Polynesia. In 1978, his desire to get more involved with boat building led him to Port Townsend in time for the Second Annual Wooden Boat Festival. Jim met Earl Wakefield and his family at that Festival; they were just starting Admiral Marine and offered him a job.

In the summer of 1981, Bob Prothero approached Jim to teach lofting and design at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding. In addition to teaching, Jim designed several boats which were built by the school for customers including the gaff cutter Bryony. In 1987, Jim started his own design and lofting business and subcontracted to Admiral Marine and a variety of yards throughout Puget Sound and BC. His design and building experiences range from a 28’ ocean-crossing rowboat to a 161’ mega-yacht with an amazing variety of projects in between.

Jim continues to work in the industry on a limited basis and enjoys when an interesting and challenging design project comes his way. In Jim’s spare time, he’s building a 24’ trailerable outboard cruiser for camping and continues to draw boats for fun and peace of mind. He is a patient and thoughtful guy who is always willing to share his experience and knowledge with fellow boat lovers.

As a smart and self-determined young man, Jake was drawn to boats. He learned from working at Uniflite and with others on the Bellingham waterfront. He sailed his smart sloop, Hard Alee, to work in Sitka and on adventures along the BC coast and Haida Gwaii. Though he had considered applying himself to the wonders of academia, he would not have been content confined to those halls.

Jake went to Aberdeen to work on building the new tall ship Lady Washington as a shipwright. He eventually became her captain and assumed the mantle of reluctant educator and mentor for several generations of shipwrights and sailors in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

As captain and crew, Jake sailed the west coast many times on boats including the Lady Washington, Hawaiian Chieftain, and Kaisei, with epic voyages from Hawaii to Florida via the Panama Canal on the Schooner Lynx, to Europe and back on the HMS Bounty, and on the HMS Endeavor for her re-enactment arrival in what we call New Zealand.

As a shipwright, Jake worked on everything from tall ships to tugs, often in the famous West Coast wooden boat community of Anacortes. From building the Lady Washington, recaulking the CA Thayer at San Francisco Maritime, to working on his friends' boats for embarrassing low wages, Jake tackled all projects with strength and patience. Through it all, his message was always clear—keep the traditions and knowledge alive, teach others, and pass the torch on. Work hard when it's time to work and drink a cold one when it's time to rest.

Jake was a lifelong learner; he was never content with the answer "that's just how it works", and he would seek to become knowledgeable in all subjects that came across his path. He valued mentorship, a good joke or story (especially one that ”punched up”), and was a good shipmate, always.

He led by quiet, competent example; he could do any job he asked of his crew, he was outwardly fearless in the face of trouble, and he left room for everyone under him to grow to their potential. This community is better for having Jake around. Many of us can reach back for his reassuring guidance as we face our own challenges. Many of us hold dear Jake’s way of paying knowledge and humanity forward.

He would have also hated the fact we spent this long talking about him.

George Buehler began designing boats in the 1970’s during the revival of interest in wooden boats and wooden boatbuilding. His approach was always from the point of view that it was more important to ‘get it done’ than it was to fret over the nuances of the building process. His design career started as a matter of designing a boat that he himself could build, and sail and extended with much experience and years of honing into a broad swath of devotees and fans. He believed a boat is a statement of expression and needs to be valid for each individual. It is with much sadness that this award is given posthumously as he truly deserved to have the honor and accolade while he was still alive, but fate stepped in and dictated otherwise. He is an author of multiple books, and you would need to search far and wide to find a more outspoken and passionate proponent of boats and boat design.

Carl has been a mainstay around the Port Townsend waterfront for many years and was around for the early days of the wooden boat revival in the 1970’s. He is an excellent designer with a hand and eye that shows off his many years of diligent study and working in the design field. It is noteworthy that when the renowned designer/builder George Calkins was getting ready to build his dream motorsailer in the late 1970’s, he reached out to Carl for help in the design and building plans. Carl has also had several projects that the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding has built in years past. Carl is a quiet and calm man with a demeanor that up front would never hint of the reserve of intelligence and talent contained within.

Over 32 years ago, with a few sticks of wood and a couple of tarps, Jim “Kiwi” Ferris and the late Charlie Moore started Edensaw Woods in Port Townsend. Now, three decades later, the business has grown into 80,000 square feet of warehouse and nearly 50 employees in two locations. Kiwi has literally been one of the table legs that has helped hold the wooden boat industry in the Northwest. Wood from Edensaw can be seen on boats all over the world, from multi-million dollar yachts to small kayaks and canoes, as well as homes, furniture, and much more. His influence, mentorship, and leadership in the boat building industry is unparalleled and unequaled in the Northwest.

Master Rigger Brion Toss is best known as the author of The Complete Riggers Apprentice, first printed in 1984 and considered today an authoritative text on the subject of rigging. Brion’s career as a master rigger was born from an obsession with knots over 30 years ago, which led him to work with some of the finest traditional riggers in the world. As his expertise and passion for the art of rigging grew, Brion’s education was taken to the highest levels, rigging everything from tiny daysailers to huge square-riggers. With his extensive experience, Brion is able to take the ageless wisdom of traditional rigging and apply it to the materials and applications of today, pursuing the challenge of designing the ideal rig—that unique combination of details best-suited to a particular boat and its particular crew.

“You have made my boyhood dream come true,” says Bob Perry. Grateful to his teachers, for opportunities, and for the sailors who cherish his work, Bob designs yachts that are grateful for water and wind. Robert H. Perry was born in Ohio and spent his childhood in his mother’s native Australia. At age twelve, he joined his parents on a month long voyage by Liberty ship back to the States. That experience aboard shaped Bob’s future career and plunged his imagination into ships and the sea. By eighth grade, in Seattle, Bob was immersed in the study and practice of sailing. He decided to become a yacht designer while still in high school. An introduction and lunch with Bill Garden, when Bob was just fifteen, set the course. Bob attended Seattle University and moved directly into design work shortly thereafter. Through his 20’s Bob worked under a number of master designers in Seattle and Boston, finally opening his own office on Shilshole Bay in Seattle in the early 1970s.

The Valiant 40 began production in Bellingham in 1973; the yacht was a runaway success and an instant classic−eventually over 200 were built. Owners were (and still are) thrilled with a versatile ocean cruiser that quickly proved fast, comfortable, safe, and capable of both circumnavigation and performance racing. Bob’s third client wanted to build CT54 boats in Taiwan, so beginning in the late 1970s Bob began a cooperative design/build relationship with the Taiwanese maritime industry. This partnership lasted for over two decades and produced hundreds of his yachts. The Valiant 40 was quickly followed by the Islander 38, Tayana 37, and Baba 30; design after design−many hundreds, eventually−flowed from Bob’s desk and changed the face of sailing in the Pacific Northwest and around the globe. Today it’s said that there are more of Bob Perry’s designs cruising the world than those of any other designer.

Bob is certainly not retired. He’s still designing new boats of all kinds, and provides fee-based consultations for serious boat shoppers. One recent innovative racer was built at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in Port Hadlock: the Perry Sliver Class Daysailer 62 Francis Lee, launched in 2014, proved a head-turner and dominant racer. Bob enjoys crewing this successful new design; scratch that−Bob likes to drive her any time he’s aboard, which is often, thanks to a twenty year friendship with her owner. Bob and his wife live in a beach cottage on the North Sound and he enjoys time on the water in his Boston Whaler. He’s still in favor of sailing well to weather and grateful that his career has brought him so much pleasure. He designs in order to put water and wind to their best use: “It’s not magic. Just physics.” The WBF judging team acknowledges Bob Perry’s lifetime achievement with gratitude for keeping so many of us fast, comfortable, and safe.

Marty Loken says he’s best known as “an out-of-control collector of project boats.” Marty dedicates his life to getting people and boats out on the water and he’s mastered this feat countless times over his 75 years. Over 200 boats owe their restored and renewed lives to his craftsmanship and vision: he’s built dozens more boats from scratch. At his shop in Nordland, WA, he makes sure that worthy older wooden boats stay on the water. Marty and his wife Marijiann (Mo) Moss say the place is known as “the boat farm”… a sort of halfway house for good old boats that need to be saved. In just the last year Marty built a16-foot Oxford Wherry and restored four classic boats while serving as Associate Editor of Small Craft Advisor magazine and Editor of Duckworks Magazine: this is what he calls “semi-retirement.”

Marty’s love of water and boats began almost before he can remember. It’s been said he must have been “born in a boat.” His first rocking horse was actually a boat with handles. Marty grew up in the Scandinavian neighborhood of Ballard, WA, surrounded by fishermen, boats, and water. His father and grandfather designed and built boats; Marty built his first boat at age ten, and another one a few months later. In high school he developed an interest in writing and was soon launched on a ten-year general reporter job with The Seattle Times. Family connections led him to Alaska where he spent almost a decade editing regional magazines, writing books, and honing photography skills. Marty’s love of photography (still a passion) led him to create a image management business, which he tranplanted to Seattle in 1980. This successful venture was sold to Getty Images of London in 1994 and Marty “retired” from Getty in 1997.

Boats became a livelihood in 1997, when Marty took his wooden boat building and restoration skills to work after purchasing Seattle’s Wooden Boat Shop retail store and launching The Restoration Shop, specializing in full restoration of customers’ vintage boats. Two years later the business moved to Whidbey Island. Marty met Mo at the Whidbey Island Writers Conference shortly thereafter: four years later they together moved boats, shop and all to Marrowstone Island.

Retirement began anew for Marty in December, 2013, when he shifted to restoration of his own boats, rather than those of customers. He now had time to turn back to writing, photography and public service as wellto the great benefit of the maritime and local community. Marty organized the annual Pocket Yacht Palooza in Port Townsend, the largest gathering of small boats on the West Coast. He had served on the board of The Center for Wooden Boats (and is a lifetime member), now volunteers for the Wooden Boat Festival, and has served in numerous leadership roles for classic boat and professional publications and organizations.

Marty has loved to row and take on boating adventures since childhood and most recently was an inaugural SEVENTY48 racer aboard a Colin Angus Oxford Wherry as TEAM GEEZER. Keep an eye out at the Wooden Boat Festival for FOTO, the 1953-designed raised deck outboard cruiser Marty recently restoredMarty and Mo enjoy FOTO’s role as the official Photo Boat of Small Craft Advisor Magazine, based in Port Townsend. Restored to glory and active use, as all good old boats deserve, Marty’s boats are a legacy of lifetime achievement.

A native of Southern California, Tim Nolan has been involved with boats since 1958, when he bought a sailing pram at the age of 11. Growing up he surfed the local beaches of Palos Verdes and worked as a deckhand on excursion and sport fishing boats from San Pedro before enrolling in the engineering program at the University of Michigan. After graduation he worked at Global Marine in Los Angeles before serving in the Peace Corps for 2 ½ years, teaching Naval Architecture in Guayaquil, Ecuador. He then settled in the northwest in 1974.

In 1975 he dropped out of commercial design to do what he loved best: working on boats. He worked as a shipwright for several years while continuing to design pleasure boats, including the Cape George 31 Cutter, of which over 50 were built by Cecil Lange and Sons in Port Townsend.

For a time he returned to commercial work, designing fishing boats, barges, and tugboats, including the Lauren Foss and Corbin Foss, the most powerful in the Foss fleet. In 1985 he moved to Port Townsend and consulted for Admiral Marine Works, working on four large composite yachts.

Tim began an association with Ed Monk and Son in 1989 that continues to this day. Tim’s contribution to the design process is primarily structure, and he plays a strong role in managing the plan set development. He is probably best known for his freehand perspective sketches that condense information and speak directly to the builder. He likes detail and enjoys sketching them in a way that looks like they want to leap out of the paper and into the boat.

Today Tim Nolan Marine Design continues to provide quality design services to a limited number of customers. Tim owns a total of 137 boats, and when he’s not working on his boats, you might find him playing his fiddle or standup paddle boarding.

From the Selection Committee: Tim Nolan is a well-known character in the maritime scene around Port Townsend. He is a letter-perfect candidate for the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award for Boatbuilding and Boat Design. He has spent his life working both boats and boat lines into something magical on the water. His work carries the scope of breadth from the smallest dinghies to large ocean motor yachts, and he has backed it all up with the eye of an artist and the science of an engineer. He is a rare talent in the marine industry, and we are very pleased that he has agreed to be our recipient this year.

Jim Blaiklock has been messing about in boats since he was born, having grown up in a sailing family in New Jersey and Sag Harbor. As a beloved member of the Port Townsend boating community, he was a founding member and officer of the Port Townsend Marine Trades Association.

He drew standing room only crowds at several Festivals with his entertaining, knowledgeable demos on dutchmen and butterflies. He ran the Kids’ Boatbuilding booth at the Festival for years, designing the templates, cutting the hulls, procuring supplies all year long, and then staying after the Festival on Sundays until every scrap of sail, string, globs of glue, and nails were picked up, using a magnet to find errant nails. He's always been about doing every job completely, and advocated for sweetening the pot, as he'd say—do more than you were hired and paid to do.

He volunteered as the Boatshop Manager for the Wooden Boat Foundation for many years before finally being hired in that capacity. He picked up donated boats from around the Sound, and then sailed them back and fixed them up to be sold to raise money for the Foundation.

He was a beloved mentor to the scores of Gray Wolf Ranch volunteers that worked in the shop; many recognized his impact on their lives by inviting him to their Gray Wolf graduation ceremonies and dinners as a specially honored guest. Those he mentored spoke of learning more about life from him than anywhere else. He taught them that "slow is fast," meaning take your time and do it right so you don't have to do it over.

Teaching sanding, varnishing, and painting was his way to teach about how to live life with finesse—the word he used and the students cherished.

From the Selection Committee: Jim Blaiklock has been a part of this community since the first Festival, when he rode up on a motorcycle from San Diego, where he was a shipwright. He eventually bought property and moved here.

After a few years as a volunteer, he was hired as the Foundation’s Boatshop Manager. He mentored kids and adults in the Cupola House Boatshop. Together with volunteers, he fixed up a Point Hudson building as a shop with larger capacity.

His patient teaching style, seasoned experience, and unconditional generosity are legendary. His gentlemanly ways, friendly charm, and pragmatism have endeared him to scores, if not hundreds, of volunteers, young and old alike, who’ve started or apprenticed in Port Townsend. As a mentor, teacher, and loyal friend, Jim exemplifies every aspect of this award.

The Wooden Boat Foundation will also be honoring Miguel “Mike” Winterburn with a special Shipwrights Hall of Fame award this year. From his start shaping surfboards to a career building boats, Mike is known as a craftsman without equal, seeking to create beautiful work with an emphasis on function. Many shipwrights in town today consider him one of their first mentors. Local shipwright Brian Wentzel shared, “For me he had a subtle way—always there to answer a question or suggest a path, but never without the reasoning behind it. He often carefully watched others make mistakes, but never interfered. To truly learn, he believed that we needed to make our own mistakes. Then he’d offer a quick smile and a suggestion for how it could be corrected.”

Born in Pender Harbour, BC in 1955, Tad was immersed in coastal culture right away. Roads were few, all transportation and work involved boats of various types, but almost all were wooden and of unique West Coast design. A fifth-generation British-Columbian, Tad’s entire family lived and worked on boats; Tad became involved in logging, log towing, and commercial fishing as a young man, and this led to designing and building small steel workboats as well as a few wooden sailing vessels.

Tad had always maintained a strong interest in yachts, both power and sail, and when the opportunity arose to move to Maine, he went. After a semester at Maine Maritime Academy (Yacht Design Institute) he joined the Bruce King design office in 1987. In the next 14 years there he worked on everything from 10’ dinghies to 180’ sailing yachts. He had a hand in everything from production fiberglass power and sailboats, including the Hinckley Picnic Boats and Sou’wester 70, to the 80’ cold-molded commuter Liberty.

In his spare time he built a small farm near Whitefield, ME with his wife Carie McAlister, raising milk goats and two sons.

Leaving Maine in 2001, he returned to Gabriola Island, BC to open a one-man design practice. There his work has focused on new design of classic types, the Lake Union Dreamboat and double-ended trollers, as well as the refitting of large motoryachts. His life-long interest in small traditional boats led to an 8-year term on the Board of Directors at the Silva Bay Shipyard School, as well as organizing and managing the Shipyard Raid for 5 years.

Today his office is designing new 60’ and 65’ cargo schooners, as well as a 32’ double-ended troller for Alaska. For the past 8 years he’s been living aboard and slowly restoring Blackfish, a 50’ Urry Brother’s designed and Northwest School built ketch.

Tad feels quite strongly that he’s part of a long line of local PNW designers with regional leanings: Leigh Coolidge, Ted Geary, H.C. Hansen, Tom Haliday, Frank Fredette, Ed Monk Sr., and William Garden have all influenced his work. Lesser-known BC designers like the Urry Brothers and Robert Allan have also exerted influence. Important too has been the work of hundreds of individual boatbuilder/designers, the Wahls and Groops of Prince Rupert, the Farrells and Gooldrups of Pender Harbour, and the Remmems, Vesteads, and Gronlands of the Fraser River. “All these builders designed and built wooden boats that are both beautiful and efficient, which is something I hope to encourage and continue,” Tad concludes.

Ted Pike was an integral part of the Wooden Boat Foundation and Festival for all of the 26 years that he was part of the Port Townsend boating community.

Becoming a sailor at age 14 was a life-altering experience for Ted. He realized then that it could become an abiding passion and one that could (and did) change the direction of his life. Traveling the world as a young man, visiting many spots in the US, Europe, Eastern Asia, he settled for many years in Australia where he sailed continually and learned the art of crafting wooden boats and wooden surfboards. Returning to the US with many wonderful stories, he continued honing those skills in Avila Beach, Ventura, San Diego and, finally, Jefferson County. With the first boat he built, Cuca, an Edson Schock design, he introduced his future wife and children to the wonders of sailing. The second boat, Brisa, provided them with some extensive cruising off the California Coast and into Mexico. Bringing Brisa to Port Townsend introduced them to the joys of sailing in the Northwest. The purchase of Annie Too begat Brisa Charters and Ted's beginning as a U.S. Coast Guard 500-ton licensed Captain. Annie Too sailed for nearly 20 years from Orcas Island and from Port Townsend.

For 20 years Ted was a vibrant, enthusiastic employee of Edensaw Woods and traveled the country and Canada spreading information, cheer and love, returning with many, many uplifting stories. Wherever he went he made many friends, treating them with great respect, encouragement and caring and giving his famous, huge "Ted Pike" hugs. For several of his last years he also worked for WoodenBoat Magazine, continuing his encouragement, success and hugs.

He was actively involved with the Wooden Boat Foundation and Festival, the Port Townsend Sailing Association, Northwest Maritime Center, Port Townsend Marine Trades, Jefferson County 4-H, Orcas Island Sailing Association, Jefferson Teen Center, Centrum Foundation and WoodenBoat Magazine. His advocacy for the youth in his community was admirable. His participation with wooden boats, boat owners, marine trades, fundraising, regattas, and speaking engagements in Port Townsend and other communities has been deeply appreciated.

As most know, Ted went on to other seas in August 2015. While he is greatly missed by his family, his friends, and his community, all are grateful to have known the gifts he gave us during his lifetime.

Ted was an integral part of the Lifetime Achievement Awards for the past many years. He helped in the selection of the recipients, assisted in putting the program together each year, and often spoke at the event, managing to be both heartfelt and humorous. We tried for many years to honor him with the Community Spirit & Culture award, which he always refused. We are sorry he will not be with us to receive this award; few more profoundly embodied Wooden Boat Community Spirit & Culture than Ted.