HOWB 204 – Interview | Simeon Baldwin & Dale Simonson – Lessons Learned, DNF 2017 R2AK Due to Taking on Water & Rough Seas

Welcome to Hooked on Wooden Boats podcast episode number 204.

I'm your host today, Dan Matson, aka Wooden Boat Dan.

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Although there have been thousands and millions of attempts.

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.

Bet you thought I wasn't going to do another podcast, didn't you? It's been a couple months.

I apologize for that.

I've been a busy guy.

Before I start talking about my scant progress, though, the featured segment today is an interview I did with Simeon Baldwin, who lives in Port Ludlow, Washington, and Dale Simonson, who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

They're both scamp owners.

And in June of 2017, they entered the first leg of the, sorry about that little beep there, entered the first leg of the race to Alaska, which is from Port Townsend to Victoria.

It's 40 miles.

You have to make it in 48 hours, I believe it is.

They took Simeon's scamp, Knotty.

And so it was Dale and Simeon and Denny, who is Simeon's brother-in-law, the three of them.

And they ran into some difficulties and ended up having to call the Coast Guard.

I believe it was at nighttime.

Well, anyway, so this is an interesting podcast.

They talk about what happened, the lessons they learned, how they could have avoided this possibly, and how they handled this situation.

Nobody got hurt or anything.

They did have to call the Coast Guard and get rescued or towed in.

But anyway, I'm going to leave the details for the interview, which is, I think it's 45 minutes or an hour long, just so you know.