The 4th quarter interiors class is building a mock-up boat so they can finish the inside. They will build bunks, cabinetry, bulkheads, and more. It’s fun to visit the boat shops each day and see the incredible progress that is made in the span of a single day at the Boat School!
This year’s Contemporary Wood Epoxy Program students did a fine job building the Sentinel’s hull and deck. After a couple final details in the boat’s cockpit construction, it’s on to laying the teak deck. With a mast delivery in mid-July and sails being sewn as we speak, the excitement for this year’s Wooden Boat Festival is really starting to…
The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is at the Wooden Boat Show in Mystic Seaport, CT. If you’re in the area come on over and say hello to instructor Sean Koomen in Tent B. We’ll be at the Show through Saturday and Sunday. Sean has photos of many of the current boat projects at the Northwest School of Wooden…
The launch for the BBC’s Whitehalls was a great success on June 13, 2013. Three Whitehalls were launched – two large and one smaller. The two large Whitehalls were built in the boat shop of Instructor Ben Kahn with students: Gina Bonneau Noah Flegeall Chris Brobst Asa (TBD) Shawn Huston Patrick Carlisle Sam Hunt Mark Stuber Instructor Jeff Hammond…
The 2013 Contemporary Wood Composite students move closer to finishing the Sentinel 24. Here are a couple photos of the completed deck frame and completed subdeck installed! The cockpit was constructed in a separate area from the boat and then lifted into the deck beams. The boat will be finished with teak laminated to the sub deck. Students have…
Ferrari of the schooners’ also offers race-based sail training By Robin Dudley of the Leader Form follows function – it’s one of the reasons sailboats are so aesthetically pleasing. Design details are there to do something, not just look pretty. And one of the prettiest boats around keeps busy winning races as well as teaching kids and adults about…
You can enhance your educational experience in the Jefferson County, Port Hadlock and Port Townsend, Washington area by attending CedarRoot Folk School workshops.:: PO Box 135 :: Nordland, WA 98358 :: [email protected] Masonry Stove Come learn the elegant design of eastern European high thermal mass stoves. These fuel efficient stoves are designed to radiate heat back into a…
For the Next Task, I Turn From the Bench with one hundred bronze clench nails in a wide mouth mason, the bucking iron’s finger gap smooth upon my hand, the ball-peen longing for its sway, to meet each nail’s head gently, to send the slender tooth into its bread, whereupon the head is backed by weighted hand, that the…
I don’t believe that I could ever get tired of framing boats. It seems like the boat just appears in front of you. Of course it doesn’t. There has been a lot of work to get to this point. We have spent hours lofting, making molds, fitting and bolting the back bone together, but this is when it all…
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) asked the Boat School to build three traditionally-built Whitehalls as replicas of the boats used by John Wesley Powell and his group of explorers during their first-ever descent of the Colorado River in 1869. The BBC will film a reenactment of the voyage later in 2013. The School is building one 16-foot Whitehall, the…
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Founded in 1981, the school offers a full-time 12 month Associate of Occupational Studies (AOS) degree in Boatbuilding, a 9-month Diploma program in Marine Systems, and 5-day Intensive courses in Marine Systems topics.
