A Good Day's Work: Life in the Port Townsend Maritime Trades

[@vincentstouter449]

The yin & yang of the senior male and younger woman perspective made the presentation interesting and engaging. 👍 👏

[@craigkeller]

Beautiful place, beautiful boats, beautiful people.

[@cds957]

Great video, wonderfully done. I'm a retired boat lover at 81 and this type of attitude and determination will get the job done.

[@larrydeforrest5744]

Too bad we don't last as long as a wooden boat! Your craft is very beautiful, Thanks

[@Myseadreams]

First time watching this channel. I simply loved it. Truly made my day and it’s not even 8:00AM.

[@martinteuber2313]

ein wunderbarer film, danke!

[@erictakakjian6021]

Great film about a special place. Carolyn is incredibly talented. I've been building and fixing boats since the early 70's. When ever I watched an episode of A to A with Carolyn in it I would learn something new.

[@timsecord8207]

My interest in Port Townsend begins with the story of Tally Ho! Great video!🇨🇦

[@charleykanieski7242]

Lovely video. Thanks again Ernie for all your contributions

[@solfisher5001]

Brilliant! Brava Carolyn! Bravo Ernie! Thanks for your hospitality and few years back, when I studied at the boat school in Port Hadlock!

[@WoyLad]

I remember well when we wet-welled and refrigerated all our AK seine boats. Those were a busy and fun few years!

[@horatiohornblower868]

No wonder Tally Ho was built in PT !

[@385638]

Thank you for sharing, I have been coming to Port Townsend for 30 plus years and have enjoyed every visit and when I ran across the Sampson Boat company Tally Ho project it was just great. My next visit is will get down to the port to maybe see some of the great work that is being done there.

[@elliowb2]

Great video and stories. It was fun to know that I've had a number of similar experiences as Carolyn, though separated in time. I was a student at SEA and sailed on RV Westward, I did a short trip on the Pride II (and sailed in Pride I as well), and learned ships carpentry and sparmaking while restoring the SV Elissa. It looked like Carolyn also sailed in Dove (?), so that may have been under Captain Will Gates. I worked and learned from Will during the Elissa project. He is such a great person and sailor.

[@paulgallop2643]

Nice job Ernie. Nice to see so many of our local gang proudly getting "into it".

[@ryhanpeacefeather9278]

Enjoyable video. Nice to learn more about the place i call home!

[@darrellhanks6459]

Wonderful video! I enjoyed getting some insights into how the maritime trades developed in Port Townsend through the eyes of Earnie. Port Townsend is rich with characters in the trade and it would be great to hear some more history through their eyes.

[@buzzfish1]

I appreciate what you are attempting to share with all of us who don't know very much I am so impressed I am so jealous. Thank you so much

[@JohnLee-db9zt]

I’m moving there!

[@TonyLoro]

Port Townsend is one of the reasons I’ve moved to the Pacific Northwest course I couldn’t afford to buy a place in Port Townsend so I had to settle for Sequim, which is way cool also

[@scott8689]

This is fantastic! working with your hands is magical!

[@jimminniehan2548]

Thank you for sharing your stories with us. Really amazing. :)

[@ashtreegarden5079]

hi, Tally Ho! brought me here, wonderful place!

[@william4909]

Thank you, beautiful work.

[@darrylmcleman6456]

FINE BUSINESS!!! CHEERS from S..W Van ISLE!

[@johnwheelwright799]

Excellent!

[@garyhyde8197]

excellent!

[@corvavw6447]

Great job ,is no work it's a hobby 😊.

[@KingKrist67]

Well done!

[@calartian85]

Hi from Coupeville!

[@stevegraham2535]

Cielo Mare was built there.

[@johnboutwell3251]

I'm a lifelong sailor from Canada, married an American gal we ended up living in port Townsend. So attended the wooden boat festival. Rigging is of great interest to us all so I went to a talk by a professional rigger st this event. The speaker was a woman who had just crewed on a delivery to San Francisco. She spent twenty minutes explaining how she came to the conclusion that wind instruments on the masthead were really worthwhile???? Apparently prior to having actually sailed on a boat equipped with masthead wind Instruments she in her so called professional capacity had advised clients that they were worthless. Then she spent more time apologizing for having misinforming so many people. OK this is a professional rigger who we would assume knew something about sailing. By now a lot of the audience were getting a bit twitchy and restless. Then there was a Q andA session. Someone asked how often should you replace standing rigging. Her reply was they say you should replace it every ten years. Next question. Myself and several other folks got up and walked out. This was my exposure to the professionalism of the riggers in port Townsend. I could have gotten as much information about rigging from reading a 20 year old copy of mad magazine. I'm sure she was an exception to the other aspects of sailing and boat maintainence but I was appaled

[@deerfootnz]

What did you want her to say about rigging replacement? The insurance companies mandate replacement of stainless wire rigging every ten years, so irrespective of it's loading or condition, that's what now happens.

[@milanmarinkovic3016]

".......wind instruments on the mast head......" Plenty of people are still sailing without them,.me included. I like minimalist sailing, as simple as possible. I'm staring to much into the the screens all day long,.at the office.

[@sartorst3376]

Hey I know her from somewhere 😊

[@johnfisher7143]

I have nothing against women in the trades. But I have worked in the trades all my life and my observations are that women enter male spaces and then attempt to change those spaces to suit themselves at the expense of men. I can’t think of any examples where men seek to enter traditional women’s vocations and then drive women out of those spaces. None. Yet there are numerous examples of the opposite.