Galoots, it's time for me to update my biography!  
 
I'm a retired naval officer and long-time amateur woodworker. My wife  and 
I live in Port Ludlow, on the east side of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. 
 
Like many, I started out at my dad's knee (actually, I sat on his workbench 
 which gave me a good view of the proceedings). I had a good opportunity  
to learn basic woodworking from my father and grandfather. I had a shop  
throughout my naval career and turned out all kinds of toys, basic furniture,  
and so forth until I learned about the wooden boat world following a  tour on 
a wooden minesweeper.   
 
After I retired, I attended the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding,  
and completed nearly all of their programs in my three years there as a 
student.  After serving on the Board of Directors, I was hired on as Executive 
Director  and served in that capacity for a little over two years before 
retiring again. I  am on the Board of the Port Townsend School of Woodworking
and
Historic  Preservation, and am an active member of the Traditional Small 
Craft Association  (TSCA) Puget Sound Chapter, a member of the Early American 
Industries  Association (EAIA) and the Pacfic Northwest Tool Collectors 
(PNTC), both very  supportive and congenial groups, and am President of the East
Jefferson County  Rotary Club this year.   
 
My wife and I own two wooden boats, the 1997 Scott Sprague-designed 26-foot 
 utility tug BLUE STAR and the 1927 Schertzer Brothers-built 47-foot bridge 
 deck cruiser RIPTIDE, both of which, I'm happy to say, are afloat and 
operating  well though, as always, needing just a bit more work.  
 
Galoots may run across  an occasional article from me about wooden  boats 
in WoodenBoat magazine's Small Boat Monthly, the magazine Messing About in  
Boats, and online at Duckworksmagazine.com among other places. I keep  my 
photo archives on Flickr, and have listed the sites below should  anyone be 
interested.    
 
My interests center around the repair and construction of wooden boats of  
all types; collecting, restoring and using old tools, and general 
woodworking. 
 
Pete Leenhouts

Flickr  pages: https://www.fl
ickr.com/photos/old_salt7/

BLUE STAR, a 1998 Scott  Sprague utility tug
Photo album:  
https
://www.flickr.com/photos/old_salt7/albums/72157646510483739
Photo album:  
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RIPTIDE,  a 1927 Schertzer Brothers bridge-deck cruiser
Photo album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/old_salt7/sets/7215765154546
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Photo  album: 
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