HOWB 159 – Interview | Rob O’Dea, Wooden Boat Lover & Pres of the Oarlock & Sail Wooden Boat Club, Vancouver, BC

Today’s podcast is an interview with Rob O’Dea, president of the Oarlock and Sail Wooden Boat Club of

Vancouver, BC. In the clubs own words: “The Oarlock and Sail W ooden Boat Club is a club for people who

enjoy building, repairing, sailing, talking about, thinking about, and simply messing about in small wooden

boats. The club operates out of a floating boat shed at the V ancouver Maritime Museum’s Heritage Harbour at

1905 Ogden Avenue, V ancouver. Members can be found each saturday morning restoring the club’s fleet of small

wooden boats or working on a new build.” And visitors are welcome anytime!

O’Dea has been messing about in wooden boats most of his life. Eight years ago he bought a 36ʹ sailboat built in

1956 in Nova Scotia. This boat had been owned by Charlie and Margo of Charlie’s Charts Cruising Guides, and

was their home as they were writing their Guides. Rob shares some tall tales of adventure aboard this fine vessel.