Meet the Associate Editor

This is Tom Jackson, WoodenBoat's associate editor, and his rapidly growing black lab pup, Biscuit. Tom will have been with the magazine for eight years in September; before that, he spent years and years in newspaper journalism. How many years? “Too many,” he said, shaking his head.
    Packing a passion for small traditional craft, Tom came to Brooklin from Astoria Oregon, where, as a recovering newspaperman, he was working with his wife, Corinne, running an art gallery/café. The couple pulled up their stakes in Oregon upon Tom's hiring at WoodenBoat, and Tom drove his Toyota pickup truck across the country, a partially finished Nomans Land boat in tow. The Nomans Land boat, a beautiful job of joinery, will likely be complete sometime in the next few years—if Tom ever finds a few minutes to sit still.
    This summer, he's off to Seattle to man our booth at the Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival at the Center for Wooden Boats. He returns home for just one day before joining the crew of the new 78' Spirit of Tradition sloop GOSHAWK for delivery for the Marblehead to the Halifax Race (Tom will remain aboard for the race). Then it's back to Brooklin for a few weeks before jetting off in the other direction—this time to Sweden, where the peripatetic associate editor will sail in a raid and write an article about the experience. (A raid is a sort of gang-cruise of small open craft—mostly traditional.)
    Boatbuilding will resume in the fall.

Comments

[Dave Tew]

Wasn't Tom involved with Freya Boatworks of Anacortes, WA in the 70s? Or perhaps that was another Tom Jackson.

[MPM]

No, he was not. Tom tells me that was a man named David Jackson.