PT Watercraft has a gift store on Zazzle where you can find our themed hats, t’shirts, mugs, notebooks, puzzles and more. I have used the site to create a variety of “SWAG” and other art based cards and odds and ends. The quality on Zazzle is excellent and you pay for what you get so sales are always a bonus!
Limited time 20% off – Check it out: https://www.zazzle.com/store/ptwatercraft/products
Sharing Russell’s article recently published in Epoxy Works and now on their digital site:
Learn More about Russell’s epoxy instructional writing and videos.
A couple of ideas for gift giving this holiday season.
Maritime Trades book 10% discount for gift giving. 18.95 $17.05
Inspire someone to explore the Marine Trades.
Mind calming complex and beautiful traditional batik designs.
Batik Coloring Book 10% discount for gift giving: $9.95 $8.95
Offer expires December 31st 2025
In case you are wondering why I am posting this on Port Townsend Watercraft, it is because I spent part of the last two years photographing a small portion of our local and mostly younger marine trades people. I had a vision but not a marketing plan or even how to pay for it. I just knew that our region, like many others did not have the visuals or real time mini bios to inspire young people to choose the trades, or more specifically the marine trades as a career option.
If there is interest in your community, please let me know. Maritime Trades; Snapshots of real people in their workplaces is published by the Ingram Spark catalog and they have a tiered pricing for retailers with accounts. It is available online around the world and also directly from PT Watercraft for the US. https://Direct Purchase link
If you are a non-profit, a school, youth center, library, employment agency or retailer without access to the IS catalog, reach out to me at Port Townsend Watercraft.
The price point for bulk orders is very reasonable for an 82 page, full color book.
I currently have stock available and hope to use the proceeds from sales and financial sponsors to gift books to groups and individuals short on funding but in need of inspiration. Thank you, Ashlyn Brown
MT project summary 2 useful for sharing with board members and purchasers. (printable.pdf)
This issue of Epoxy Works includes an article written by Russell describing his latest method for “no-sand Fillets”.
https://www.epoxyworks.com/no-sand-fillets/
Dear friends,
As you may know, the annual Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival is happening in less than 2 weeks. A few things to know about where PT Watercraft will be at the festival.
We will not be displayed on land this year. We will plan on having the dinghy sailing or rowing around most of the weekend.
Ashlyn will be part time at the PT Marine Trades Association booth near the Boat Yard Stage.
On Sunday, we hope to have as many PT 11’s and Spear’s as possible rowing in the RowRowRowMyBoat rally (open to all row and paddle craft) that starts at the launch ramp in Boat Haven and ends at the NW Maritime. See the flyer below.
If your boat is here and in the water, consider joining the Saturday, under 23′ regatta.
We look forward to a fun and safe weekend on the water!
This beautifully built and well loved PT Skiff from the original kit is presently for sale. (1/30/25)
Details about the boat and where it is listed are in this PDF: While Aweigh Copy II
and on the OCH classic Boat SHow: https://classicboatshow.com/classified/18-port-townsend-watercraft-pt-skiff-2016-while-aweigh/
Owner testimonial:
Nine years ago this month, I was anxiously awaiting delivery of my skiff kit and little did I know about the journey I would begin. I had built a few things from wood like bookcases and a covered deck, but nothing that even approximated the 126 or so pieces of Okoume that I became so intimate with. I learned much from the process of going to work every day, following your superb directions and asking for help when I needed it. And as I would often say about the Catboat we owned for 15 years, “…every day we take her out, she teaches me something” So too, building my Skiff taught me much.I never would have expected to make a wonderful new friend, Damian…as well as Linda, and a cohort of “boat shed rats” who would enrich my life immensely. I have learned so much from this experience and always remind myself that many of my favorite books are about what goes on inside boat sheds.But, having just clocked my 80th birthday, and the fact that Teri and I recently downsized our lives, I think it is time to allow someone else to enjoy the fruits of my labor. The enjoyment and satisfaction I have garnered since I first dreamed the dream of building a boat almost a decade ago is priceless. The mere 120 hours on the meter are in no way a true measure of those feelings. And there is nothing that swells the ego quite like being able to say, “….yes, I built her.”I have listed her on the Off Center Harbor Classic Boat Show;
We are ever grateful and appreciative of the care PT 11 builders put into their projects and then to receive photos and updates on progress & adventures is such a huge bonus. Here are some of the images received in the second half of 2024 as well as a reference to a Lattitude 38 article recently published.
Leland-Lat38-PT11. This pdf of an article by cruisers with a PT 11 from the January Issue of Lattitude 38.
Click the image below to Sign up for the Feb 22 Shipwrights Regatta! 
We would love to see more regional PT 11’s out in Port Townsend Bay. The Sailing Association’s summer Small Boat series (Monday evenings) is an ideal opportunity to improve your dinghy sailing skills. The committee boat team is wonderful and there is little better in life for making one feel unabashedly happy than dinghy sailing.Click the calendar below to sign up for the Summer Small Boat Series.
The Winter Solstice is always a special day here in the PNW where the days have been increasingly short and too often gray, dark, and cold. Russell and I send warm season’s greetings to all and to ever brighter days going forward.
So many winter celebrations to honor so we wish everyone Happy Holidays in all the ways you hope for.
