HOWB 163 – Interview | Mike Bretner, Comm’s Director Vancouver BC Wooden Boat Society

Today’s podcast is with Mike Bretner of Vancouver, BC. Mike is a self confessed wooden boat addict and also

the communications director for the Vancouver BC Wooden Boat Society.

Bretner owns and uses several really cool boats: 1.) A 1952 Turner lifeboat with the original 1 cylinder gas

engine; 2.) a 1967 Mirror Dinghy he has owned since 1981, and; 3.) a 14ʹ strip built boat he recently built based

on Phil Bolger’s Defender design.

Of note too – Mike’s dad owned an Amphicar and surprised Mike as a young child by driving off the road and

into the water