WEBVTT - WAYNE CHIMENTI: Shelter From The Storm 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:10.840 So welcome back to Love Someone with Delilah, our podcast 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:14.080 that we've been doing for the last couple of years 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:19.239 talking to people who are changing the world one heart 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:23.680 at a time. We've talked to educators, We've talked to 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:27.120 people in all different walks of life who are using 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:29.960 their gifts, their talents, their skills to impact the world 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:33.080 for good. And with me in the studio right now 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:38.240 is Wayne how do you say your last name? Chimente, Jimenti, Jiminty, 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:43.559 Roz Delaney, and Polly Nol And then we've got a 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:46.879 couple of other students that came with Wayne today to 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:50.920 my studio to do this podcast. And you are representing 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:57.320 the Community Boat Project. That's right, changing lives one boat 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:00.720 at a time, not one heart to the time, one 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:03.960 vote at a time. I love that. So before we 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:08.400 get into what you actually do at the Community Boat Project, 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:13.240 I need to tell our listeners about our wonderful sponsor 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:16.920 of this podcast series, a business I'm sure you are 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:22.039 intimately familiar with because your builders, the Home Depot. The 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:25.920 Home Depot is the sponsor of our podcast and the 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:31.119 number one retailer of power tools and accessories. You live 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:34.560 in a farmhouse like I do, and you realize what 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:38.119 a time saver. 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One of 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:14.359 the ways that I destress after talking on the radio 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:17.880 for five hours is I go online and I look 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:24.960 for weird, strange, cool art objects or animals to rescue 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:30.160 or whatever that will add character to my farm. And 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:32.960 I stumbled across this tiny house that was like a 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:39.600 gypsy caravan that was beautiful, and I said, I need that. 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:42.240 I think I need that. 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:45.560 A lot of people look at that have the same response. 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:47.880 I got to have it, and then you know, the 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.919 next day, reason comes into it. 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:53.640 Yeah, okay, Well I was one of those people that 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:55.840 thought I had to have it, but I was I 0:02:55.960 --> 0:03:01.080 was fascinated with the craftsmanship of this little tiny house 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:03.600 and it looks like a gypsy caravan. It was very 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:06.480 colorful and very pretty. And you wrote to me and 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:09.519 you explained who had built the tiny house. So tell 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:12.840 us how the tiny houses came to be, because that's 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:15.120 not really a boat, but how that came to be 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:16.800 part of the Community Boat Project. 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:20.440 Yeah, I think that our name Community Boat Project has 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:24.360 now become sort of a misnomer because we build everything. 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.120 In fact, I was thinking that maybe we should just 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:30.399 switch it from Community Boat Project to just community builders. 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:34.280 And we have high school students that come in and 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:38.400 then we have mentors from the community. Those mentors can 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:43.480 be everything from violin makers to ex physicists to x architects, 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:48.160 to wood carvers to just Joe Schmoe to you know, 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:50.880 somebody who's a cook who likes to, you know, make 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:56.680 barbecue or make cakes. And so you have a bunch 0:03:56.680 --> 0:04:00.760 of students who are in the room and some of 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:02.680 them know what they want to learn. Other ones don't 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:05.040 know what they want to learn. They just looking for 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:09.760 something to stimulate their passion in learning. And we try 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:11.400 say what do you want to do? You want to 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:13.200 try building a boat? Do you want to try building 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:16.080 a musical instrument? Do you want to try building a 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:19.560 tiny house? We I think build our first tiny house 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:22.800 about five years ago. It was a real winner in 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:27.080 that a lot of students loved the notion of tiny houses, 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:31.880 particularly in our county, Jefferson County. Although it's a rural county, 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:35.279 everybody thinks of it is gentrified Port townshend It actually 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:39.640 has a higher homeless population than King County. And it's 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:41.320 just that those people are living in the woods and 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:42.800 not under bridges, so you don't see it. 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:44.360 WHOA, I did not know that. 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:45.440 You would not know that. 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.760 So it's actually the Community Boat Project of Port Hadlock 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:51.479 is the right is the title, And you're in the 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:55.320 Pacific Northwest? And how long? How many years has your 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:56.239 project been going? 0:04:57.000 --> 0:05:00.920 This project started in nineteen ninety f so we've been 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:07.239 running programs for twenty six years. Originally I was stopped 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:09.480 on the side of the road. I was a tall 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:12.720 ship captain at that time, but I was stopped on 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:13.239 the side. 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:13.320 Of the road. 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:15.479 Wait wait, wait, wait wait, you just can't throw that 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:18.080 out there, Wayne, I was a tall ship captain at 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:21.440 the time. You are very tall. You're like six two 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:23.800 six three sixty four. But you're not talking about you 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:27.200 were a ship captain who was tall. You were talking 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:30.760 about the tall ships that go into ports that tour 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:32.120 the world, right. 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:36.040 Yeah, if you're thinking about traditional square riggers or schooners, 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:41.920 very large sailing vessels. That was my life for thirty 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:42.799 five years. 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:47.440 So when I went to Boston Harbor and they had 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:50.839 the tall ships that came in for the Fourth of July, 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:55.080 and these beautiful ships came through the fog at five 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:58.480 six o'clock in the morning as the sun was just 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:02.000 beginning to pierce through, you would have been on one 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:05.400 of those beautiful, majestic tall ships. 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:09.520 Yes. In fact, I did theeteen eighty one of the 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:12.480 very first Boston tall Ship Festivals in nineteen eighty which 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:14.800 then left and we went to Europe afterwards. 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:17.599 So I was there in nineteen ninety and ninety one 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.600 on a boat in the harbor and I get seasick, 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:23.800 but I didn't care because I wanted to see the 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:24.839 tall ships come in. 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:29.240 There's something about ships or boats in general that just 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:33.600 touch every human's romantic soul. So even though you are 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:36.000 not near the water, though you may live in the 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:40.440 Midwest and maybe a corn farmer. You see a boat, 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:45.479 suddenly there's something that touches you deeply, and that's just 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:50.280 something about their their beauty and yet practical. And there's 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:55.080 something deeply, deeply in our human psyche that responds to boats. 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:59.600 So you were a tall ship captain, where were you 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:06.120 at when you transition to blessing the community and enabling 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:08.600 and inspiring dozens of kids? 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:13.800 So in nineteen ninety three, I was running the schooner Adventurous, 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:18.720 which is a Puget Sounds local tall ship. It's the environmental, 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:22.960 over one hundred year old vessel, just absolutely gorgeous, and 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:26.920 I did that for thirteen years. So I was running 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:29.680 the Adventuress when I first got involved with Marcy van Cleef, 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:35.680 who wanted to just give public school kids free, high 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:41.760 quality experiential experiences. So her thing was, I'm tired of 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:45.080 just the rich kids getting their really cool privileges. How 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:48.560 can we make it that every kid, if they want to, 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:51.960 can get out on a boat, can go water testing 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:53.560 in the woods, you know all the things that you 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:56.720 know just the private schools do, and let's do it 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:59.920 for free, and let's make it accredited. So she appro 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:03.800 me about doing an on the Water program, which we 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:07.440 call the Voyagers, which would take students out every Friday 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:11.040 and they would it would be an accredited class and 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:15.280 then go on a two week outward bound style journey 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:19.200 in the spring. Something that'd be you know, usually five 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:23.000 six thousand dollars experience. What was this woman's name, Marcy 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:25.200 van Cleeve St Marcy Vans. 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:27.320 I was just gonna say, you stole my line. I 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:29.200 was going to get hold of the Pope see if 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:33.080 we could get a sainthood for this person for her 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:35.280 insight and her vision. 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:38.920 Yeah, because we are only one branch of this incredible 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:43.800 program called the Pie program where kids learn to repair bikes. 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:48.280 There's another one that just as a whole orchestra Water 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:50.960 to you name it is going on through this Pie program. 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:56.800 It's just about kids following their passion rather than the 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:58.720 set high school curriculum. 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:02.520 And is it only in your area or has it 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:05.520 has it spread to other communities, because I know in 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:07.600 the town I live in, we don't have any of that. 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:12.640 Right When they started the Pie program, it was one 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:15.720 of the very first alternative programs in the public school 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:17.640 system in the state of Washington. 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:19.200 For US. 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:21.679 It is also spread up to the Poor Townshend School 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:25.880 District in another program which is very parallel called Oceans. 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:30.440 So of course Jefferson County, Poor Townshend School District, Chimicum 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:32.439 School District, and Quilsene School District. 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:37.000 So twenty six years ago this was birthed. 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:40.320 Right, and so I helped Marcy when I was off 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:42.520 the ship. I had a you know, I had like 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:45.199 a two week on, two week off schedule with the Adventuress, 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:50.199 and I could help Marcy when I was off the ship. Finally, 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:53.840 I decided to give up the Adventurous job at one stage, 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:59.000 and that coincided with me. I was helping Marcy on 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:02.800 one of the spring journey. There was myself, her another captain, 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:07.160 Captain Mary Beth Armstrong. We had a very bad day 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:11.000 on the water. We were using some open boats that 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:15.760 were a replica of Vancouver's longboats, so they were eighteen 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:19.560 hundreds technology, and we had a day when a front 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:22.080 came in a storm. We only to go about two 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.440 miles and we could barely get there because the boats 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:27.760 were so bad at going to windward. They didn't row 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:30.800 to inward, they didn't sail to windward. We got in 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:35.720 that night sodden, cold, and Marcy said, and MB said, 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:41.840 and I said, we need better boats. And Marcy just said, oh, well, 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:45.320 let me write a curriculum and we'll just start another 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:49.960 class next year. That coincided with me leaving the Adventuress 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:54.079 and we started what was then a boat building program 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:58.120 with the idea of having local designers design us boats 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:01.400 that were specific for the task, that were safe, they 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:05.520 were fast to row, fast to sail, and also had 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:09.400 a lot of watertight integrity. And we did it. We 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:10.760 just started building wilts. 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:15.520 With kids, learning to use hand tools, learning to do woodworking. 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:19.440 How many kids were in your first program, Well. 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:22.640 I think probably about ten kids that came in. 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:29.000 What did you see happen in their lives, in their personalities, 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:35.120 in their character when they started working with you, working 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:38.480 with each other, working with the community building boats. 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:42.160 Well, I think one thing is that everybody has to 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:46.240 go to school at the high school level, and the 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:50.520 curriculum is very narrow about what they offer you. They 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:53.160 say the humans have at least seven different types of intelligence, 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:56.800 and we are catering to one. So if you are 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:59.400 a great artist, if you're great with your hands, if 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:03.600 you're a great kind of engineering problem solver. You probably 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:05.480 are not going to be a great sit down at 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:09.880 the desk all day math and English person. So that's 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:14.520 when we start doing something like this, people blossom suddenly. 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:16.440 People who are good with their hands, people are good 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:20.199 problem solvers, people who are artists. They all get in 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:23.840 there and they they start to feel good about themselves 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:25.560 and guess what, they get credits for it. 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:29.400 So I want to talk to Polly and Roz. Roz, 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:30.960 how long have you been with the program? 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:34.079 So I started hanging out at the Community Boat Project 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:35.760 when I was fourteen, when I was a freshman in 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:40.160 high school. And I'm twenty two now, so that's eight years. 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:44.000 So when you started what attracted you? What drew you 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:45.760 to the Community Boat Project? 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:49.840 I was told that I could get math credits without 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:51.240 going to math class. 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:55.440 That's a beautiful thing. You got math credits, but you 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:57.400 have to use math, and building a boat you have 0:12:57.440 --> 0:12:58.480 to use a lot of math. 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:01.000 Yeah, I mean, I think so much of it is 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:02.800 like so many of the things that kind of fit 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:05.199 into the math skill set are like so different than 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:07.880 like curriculum, I mean that are so different than like 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:10.800 arithmetic or other things that you see repeated in like 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:15.120 math curriculums, you know, like spatial thinking and reading a 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:15.720 tape measure. 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:18.800 And what is your favorite thing about the Boat Building Project? 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:20.280 What is your area of passion? 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:22.480 I mean, so I think for me, I do love 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:23.959 to build things. You know, I've built a lot of 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:26.400 stuff in my life. I've built some other boats outside 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:29.439 of the Community Boat Project too. What I'm really interested 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:31.920 in is I'm interested in problem solving, and I'm interested 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:35.720 in youth work. In my time at the Community Boat 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:38.200 Project and just as a student of the Chimmickum Pipe Program, 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:40.680 I really just you know, got to know a lot 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:44.720 about how different people are and how when you have 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.040 just a room full of really different people, how to 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:49.360 come together and do great things. And so that was 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:50.800 really what struck my fancy. 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:53.080 And how many kids have you worked with over the 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:55.480 last eight years that you've seen them, like Wayne said, 0:13:55.559 --> 0:14:00.000 just blossom when they discover that they're so incredibly talented 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:00.800 and gifted. 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:04.040 Oh a whole bunch, like a lot of them. I 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:07.120 don't have a number for you, five, ten, fifteen, twelve. 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:09.160 More than that. More than that, I've done some other 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:11.959 youth work. I've definitely worked with kind of a lot 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:13.960 of kids at this point. 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:16.640 And is this the trajectory you're thinking? Are are you 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:19.760 thinking your life is going to be your life work 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:23.400 involved with boats or your life work involved with kids. 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:27.320 I'm going to do it all, do it all. Yeah, 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:29.440 And Pollie, how long have you been with the program? 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:31.840 I started in June, like this June. 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:33.160 Oh, so you're a newbie. 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:34.080 Yeah, definitely. 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:36.480 What attracted you to the program? How did you find 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:36.840 your way? 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:41.000 Well, college kind of wasn't something that like really excited me, 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:44.680 and I did some running start in high school, and 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:47.280 it was just for me. It was just really stressful, 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:49.280 and it just wasn't something that I could just picture 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:51.480 myself doing to get where I wanted to be in life, 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:54.560 and that was like just be able to live, like 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:56.680 have money and be able to live and just do 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:57.240 things like. 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:58.080 Travel and stuff. 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:00.640 So one day I was sitting in class in my 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:03.440 art teacher's room, which I stayed like all my senior 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:07.320 year pretty much, and he met Wayne somehow and he 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:09.200 was like, hey, you should do this program. And I 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:11.920 was like, Okay, I've never built anything before, let's do it. 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:14.400 And so then I talked to Wayne and I had 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:16.960 like a little interview thing and the first time that 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:18.720 I ever met him, he had me go down in 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:21.120 one of the boats and bail it out with water 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:24.720 like one of the docks. And to me, I was like, 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:26.680 this is really cool, Like this isn't something that you 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:28.119 can ever learn inside of a classroom. 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:31.680 So he was mister Miagi. Yeah, and instead of wax on, 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:34.240 wax off, he was water out, water out. 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:34.960 Exactly. 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:37.720 Did he give you like a big bucket to bail 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:38.280 or something? 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:41.040 I think an old milk carton an. 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:45.800 Where you cut it open but you use the handle exactly? Wow, 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:51.160 you're tough, Wayne. And if she passed the boat bailing, 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:53.000 were you didn't get a letter in the program? Was 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:55.360 this a test to see just how committed she was? 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:56.200 Yeah? 0:15:56.240 --> 0:16:00.600 I mean life is not all dreamy projects. You don't 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:02.560 get to a great place without doing a lot of 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:06.640 grunt work. And so for us that you know, sometimes 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:11.600 you're doing an absolutely gorgeous you know, joint or wood carving, 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:13.840 but sometimes you just got to sand and paint the 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:15.760 boat and that's that's life. 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:18.680 Hold on for just a second, folks. We're going to 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:21.320 talk about your projects a whole lot more here, but 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:24.320 I need to pause just for a moment for this 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:28.840 very important message back with Wayne and a couple of 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:33.320 interns from the Community Boat Project, Ros and Polly talking 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:36.880 about the incredible work that they are involved with. 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:39.000 Can I just tell quick Roz story? 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:39.800 Yes? Please? 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:41.880 So you know you did to bring in this kit. 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:43.360 Can I tell the Quick Ross story? 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:43.520 Oh? 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:44.040 Gay, go ahead? 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:44.960 Okay. 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:48.320 So when I was fourteen, So wait a second, Wait 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:49.880 a second, it takes me a minute. 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:51.240 You know it's the story I'm going to tell. 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:53.080 Yeah, I do know the story you're going to tell. 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:55.400 So when I was fourteen, I was one of the 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:57.720 most socially awkward people you had ever laid your eyes on. 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:00.320 It made people physically uncomfortable to look at. Yeah. I 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:03.480 was so uncomfortable, a lot of anxiety, a lot of 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:04.720 like trauma in the home. 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:06.760 Didn't know how to relate to people. 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:07.320 Yeah. 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:09.680 And so my motto was, if you can't make friends, 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:10.480 make cheesecake. 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:13.720 That's a good motto. My daughter blessing hers as, if 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:18.040 you can't make friends, make brownies. She bakes brownies at 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:19.840 least two or three times a week. 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:21.720 Yeah, I mean, it's a great way to go. So 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:24.199 I was baking a cheesecake every Thursday to bring to 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:27.439 the shop so that everyone would like me and want. 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:27.960 To be my friend. 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:31.920 And so I was, you know, kind of slowly amassing 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:34.760 some social capital at the Community Boat Project, all through 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:35.760 baked goods. 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:39.480 Is a great plan, Rose, great plan. Yeah, Like did 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:43.399 you do flavored cheesecakes? All kinds of weird stuff? You 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:45.120 are my girlfriend? I love this. 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:48.680 Yeah. So I had kind of like amassed this sort 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:51.200 of social capital. I was quickly like you know, insinuating 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:54.840 myself into this program. And Wayne decided that he wanted 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:58.359 me to be on like the team that was going 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:01.120 to be lofting and building new boat for that year, 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:03.879 the Epic. It's still the boat we use for the 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:07.240 on the water programs. And I was a special ed 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:10.679 kid all my life. And I told Wayne that I 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:14.760 couldn't be on that team. I didn't have the confidence 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:18.080 to believe that I could do these things. And I 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:22.000 asked him to take me off that team, and to 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:26.800 my eternal gratitude, he said no. He very obstinately said no, No, 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:29.080 You're going to do it. You're going to do great. 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:31.680 Even if you mess it up, we'll fix it. And 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:34.320 for all those years we were working on that boat, 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:37.560 I was one of the three main students in that project. 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:43.760 So you know there's roses is I will not do math. Heard, 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:45.720 it's her line, sand I'm not going to do math. 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:49.520 And we're talking about now lofting, which is taking from 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:51.679 a set of plans, a small set of plans, and 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:54.320 blowing that set of plans up to full size. And 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:58.280 we're lofting now a thirty three foot schooner. And uh, 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:03.480 just raw another young woman called Dati and a master 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:06.560 boat builder Ray Speck, who built one hundred and fifty 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:08.879 boats in his life, and the three of them have 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:15.439 to transfer all this information from plans to reality and 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:19.600 then start to build a boat. So does that person 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:20.720 have math skills or not? 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:28.679 Clearly mad math skills, Absolutely amazing math skills. You just 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:31.560 can't tell her that. It's never say the word, never 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:33.760 say the M word. Call it cheesecake baking. 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:36.520 Yeah, no four letter words to start with them. 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:40.000 Wow, I'm setting here. I can't even talk. I'm so 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:45.480 blessed by that story. Well, you certainly overcame all that 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:52.159 social awkwardness because you are delightful and definitely comfortable in 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:56.560 your own power and strength. And I love that. I 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:59.160 also love the fact Wayne that all the students who 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:01.000 brought to my farm to are all women. 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:04.720 So yeah, this year we had paid internship, of which 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:07.359 Polly was the first one to step up to. Every 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:10.760 one of those people were female. But I'm just going 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:13.040 to have to say that our thing is not about 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:17.040 men or women genderless love that, and so we're actually, 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:19.560 you know, it's just kind of an interesting phase where 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:22.119 everything was about a women's empowerment, woman's empowerment, and now 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:25.439 we're like, yeah, it's just about people who have traditionally 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:29.520 not been able to be attracted to those trades. And 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:32.600 that that includes people of color, that includes a lot 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:36.400 of Native Americans, that includes just a lot of folks. 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:39.040 I mean traditionally you think of boats as like old 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:42.199 white guys, you know, but they're so fun to build 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:44.800 and get on. Everybody should be on there. 0:20:45.160 --> 0:20:47.200 I told you earlier. I was raised on the Oregon 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:50.640 coast and one summer I worked at a fish canning 0:20:50.760 --> 0:20:55.040 plant and we'd go in really early in the morning, 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:57.920 and my brother worked there and his job was cutting 0:20:57.960 --> 0:21:01.359 the fish. So if you were a sports fisherman and 0:21:01.359 --> 0:21:04.160 you would go catch to salmon, you would tag them, 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:07.200 bring them in. My brother would cut them with this 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:10.400 machine that had these razor sharp knives that came down 0:21:10.440 --> 0:21:13.040 and chopped them in perfect little steaks. And then my 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:15.800 job was to put them in a can and then 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:18.199 a machine put the lid on and pressure cook them. 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:20.000 And you got to take your salmon home with you 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:20.800