HOWB 203 – Interview | Kelvin Dietz on Pygmy Kayaks, Datsun 510s, 1973 GMC Motorhome

Welcome to Hooked on Wooden Boats, podcast episode number 203.

I am your host today, Dan Mattson, a.k.a.

Wooden Boat Dan.

If you can't do it, well, there might be a couple folks that can.

And this is the world's first podcast fully dedicated to celebrating the art, craft, history, tradition, and romance of wooden vessels around the world.

Thanks for joining me today, folks.

We have a fun episode planned as usual.

Featured interview today is one I did with Kelvin Dietz in September at the Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend.

Kelvin is from Oregon, he and his wife, and we hooked up at the festival this year.

I had met Kelvin a couple years before.

He's been listening to my podcast some.

He's a wooden boat lover.

He's got a couple beautiful pygmy kayaks that he built.

And the other cool thing is he's got a 1973 GMC motorhome that's been restored and tricked out that's really fun.

And he's also Mr. Dotson 510, which, in case you don't know, there's a real cult following for the old 510s, which are pretty cool little rigs.

So he had his 73 GMC motorhome and his Dotson 510 station wagon blue, and that he tows behind the motorhome, and a couple kayaks on top that he built.

It's a pretty trick-looking rig.

Yeah, so we had a lot of fun.

Kevin's a very talented guy, a very gregarious guy, which is a good thing.

I like gregarious people.

They're easy to get along with, right? So anyway, stay tuned for the interview with Kelvin.

It's a lot of fun.