Diana W TalleySeattle-born Diana Talley is retired now after 40 plus years embracing most-things maritime: commercial fishing, sailing, off-shore adventuring, boatbuilding, rowing, sailboat racing and also as a decades-long boat-shop owner. She, together with her artner, raised their daughter aboard for approximately 10,000 nautical miles. Moving ashore as a single mother is when her career as a boatbuilder grew in Port Townsend, Washington, which is anecdotally known as the "wooden boat center of the universe." She found love and partnership there and spent 25 years together with Rick. When Rick was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's, they closed the shop, sold their boat and spent his last 4 years living well. Now she donates time to friendly boat projects, doing the traditional work that Port Townsend is famous for as well as supporting young women in the maritime trades to honor the vast help she was given when she started. She has six grandchildren and often works with them in her own shop. Read More Read Less