FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Pete Leenhouts, Director Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding Phone: (360) 385-4948 Fax: (360) 385-5089 Email: [email protected] Website: www.nwswb.edu Boat School Offers Wide Range of Workshops During 2013 Port Hadlock, WA, May 15th, 2013. The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is hosting a wide variety of informal workshops during 2013. The School, now in its 32nd…
Masaki Tabohashi is interviewed by Dan Mattson from Hooked on Wooden Boats! Masaki learned about the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding when he was in 8th grade and living in Japan. He decided then that he would attend the Boat School someday. Now he’s 20 years old and has completed six months of his Traditional Small Craft Program so…
Listen to internet radio with ProBoat Radio on BlogTalkRadio Rich Difede (Gold Coast Yachts) says, “Talent is critical… so what do we do to manage its development ?” Rich joins PBRadio hosts Barbara Jean Walsh and Ann Avary in discussing talent from a variety of viewpoints: mental, physical, emotional, spiritual, and professional.
Shaped on all Six Sides from New Canada on Vimeo. A short documentary about the craft and philosophy of wooden boat carpentry. Directed by Kat Gardiner Produced by Kat Gardiner & Nathan Walker Starring Andy Stewart with James McMullen Greg McCrosky Nathan Walker A Food Chain Production Shot & Edited by Kat Gardiner GoPro & Music Supervision by Nathan…
You Take No Risk in Ordering from Us The Willits Brothers and Their Canoes by Patrick F. Chapman Old Town, Maine. Peterborough, Ontario. Canton, New York. We instantly associate these locations with the great canoe makers of their time. Old Town. Peterborough, Rushton. The companies and their canoes are revered. For those of us in the Pacific Northwest, Tacoma,…
Our beloved Master Instructor, Jeff Hammond received a thank-you email from a student who began his woodworking career 20 years ago under Jeff’s expert tutelage. We think that Kipp’s story is a perfect example of how the skills learned at the Boat School, building beautiful works of floating wooden art, can be transformed into any of the fine woodworking…
Uploaded on May 2, 2008- Rob Ayer Visit the school for more information: http://northwestboat.wpengine.com – This is a time-lapse video I created based on photos taken at 60 sec intervals for 4 months while at NWSWB. The large boat is a Cape Cod Catboat and behind it is an Edwin Monk Sunray Lake runabout. The time-lapse was done with…
This classic Pacific Northwest design is from the board of George Calkins, and was drawn in 1963. It was the biggest of the Bartender class, which was designed for the rough surf off Washington and Oregon’s Pacific coast. The design was so successful that it was accepted by the U.S. Coast Guard for use as its surf rescue boat….
Port Townsend, WA – Wooden Boat Festival 9:00 am – 7:00 pm 431 Water Street, Port Townsend, WA 98368 Port Townsend’s Wooden Boat Festival is the most education-packed and inspiring wooden boat event in the world. Featuring more than 300 wooden vessels, dozens of indoor and outdoor presentations and demonstrations, a who’s who of wooden boat experts and thousands…
Graduates of the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding work in our nations’ shipyards, boat shops, educational institutions and maritime museums, maintaining the continuity of the art of wooden boat building, repair and restoration. It seems that with each conversation I have with individual boat school students, new and diverse goals emerge for their careers. Today I spoke with one…
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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.
