Andy Stewart has been working on wooden boats professionally for over twenty five years.
With a back ground in woodworking, sailing and mountaineering he began repairing his own boats while a student at The Evergreen State College (TESC) in Olympia.
After graduation in 1984, he began working with shipwrights in local yards while apprenticing with Cliff Cox as a sailmaker. He helped in the completion of three new sailing hulls in three years at the Rights of Man yard owned by Carl Brownstein.
In the later 80’s he and his wife, Kristin, lived aboard their 36’ Ralph Winslow yawl. Andy worked on the completion of the Lady Washington in Aberdeen and then helped start a boatbuilding project for at risk youth.
In 1992, Andy and long time associate, Scott Kimmitt started Olympia Shipwrights and worked from a shop they built in West Bay Marina, Olympia. They were shipwrights for The Evergreen State College who kept two traditional wooden sailboats for science and social studies. Andy has sponsored several Evergreen students as shipwright interns.
A love for the islands and bigger waters brought Andy and his family to Anacortes to work for Howard Bean at North Harbor Diesel as their carpenter in 1997. In order to stay focused on the repair and restoration of wooden boats he started Emerald Marine in 1999. The introduction of North Harbor’s Sealift haul out made possible the move to the current, bigger facility in 2004.
Andy is thankful for the support of his clients, friends and family who have helped him do this work up to now and into the future. As a craftsman, his passion is to use tradition and appropriate innovation to keep wooden vessels and his trade alive.
James McMullen was born in Denver, Colorado by mistake. Since that's roughly as far away from the ocean as it's possible to get, he's spent most of his adult life trying to correct for this tactical error by obsessing about boats and water full time. Since 1989 James has built 45 boats and counting. . . . .
Although James has worked on everything from sea kayaks to schooners, his personal favorite type of boat is the traditional Sail & Oar type of boat. He has travelled pretty much the entire Puget Sound area under wind and muscle power in boats he built himself. Here's a few links to some travel blogs of some recent adventures:
"Lake Ozette 2007"
"67 miles in 4 days by Sail & Oar"
"Webshots page"
After a varied careers in law enforcement, banking, and commercial beekeeping Patrick O’Hearn has been able to indulge his love of woodworking and boats by joining Emerald Marine as a partner. As office and retail sales manager he works to keep the business’s books in order and assist and advise retail customers with wood, epoxy, and bronze orders. An avid flyfisherman, Pat fishes lakes in Washington and Canada from a home built stitch and glue fishing pram. He helping the other Emerald partners to build his latest boat, a new 19 foot Bartender. |
