Meet Dylan who came to visit our workshop in September 2025 and stayed for 2 weeks working on our Claddagh restoration project!
Dylan, what’s your background in relation to Boatbuilding/Tradition Boats?
Varied. I started boat work doing maintenance on my grandfather’s Ingrid as a kid which have me the spark of passion for it, but started in earnest after attending a boat building school on Gabriola Island around 2010. Mostly restoration work west coast trollers and pleasure yachts for a few years, along with a few jobs doing boats for film and a custom sailing race boat for the first race to Alaska out of the north west maritime centre in Port Townsend. Shortly after that I moved to Costa Rica for a few years to work on Ceiba, a 350 ton, 3 mast top sail schooner being built for cargo trade between North and South America. After I worked between a few other sailing cargo ships in Netherlands and France and the rebuild of a historic arctic fur trading vessel in Vancouver BC.
When did you come to our club?
My introduction to Galway Hookers and the club came in September of 2025. Only a short stay of 2 weeks, with the intention of coming back again soon.
What attracted or inspired you to come work with the club?
I heard about the club and what was happening in Galway from a colleague I’d worked with in Costa Rica. The shop was still being built at the time so work on Claddagh was a bit slow going but I got a few forward frames remade.
I look forward to coming back again, it’s a great scene there in Galway 🙂