HOWB 160 – Interview | Michael Durland Proprietor at Deer Harbor Boatworks on Orcas Island, San Juan Islands, WA

Today’s podcast is with Michael Durland, proprietor of Deer Harbor Boatworks and long time resident of Orcas

Island in the San Juan Islands of WA state. If you’ve never been to the San Juans, it’s high time you visit – this is

one incredible place!

Michael moved to the Island in the 70’s to work on a boat with a friend, and never left. He runs the Boatworks

and works on a lot of cool wooden vessels of all sizes and designs.

Michael also helped launch the Wooden Boat Society of the San Juans in 2001. The Society holds a rendezvous

each year in between the dates of the Victoria, BC Classic Boat Festival and the Port Townsend Wooden Boat

Festival. The rendezvous is a down home, low key event with meals, racing and general messing about on boats.