Bradley Suedekum graduated with the Class of 2014 from the Traditional Small Craft program. Bradley was instrumental in the building of the Batela and Davis boat projects that year. He was a steady force in the boat shop, always willing to take on tasks and do what was required to get things done. Bradley headed for Seattle after graduation…
Student Russell Bates is shown in this video taking the 2014 Grandy out on its sea trials. Russell said he was pulling as hard as he could to test the oars and the boat’s performance. You can see the energy he was putting into it! This is a beautiful boat that was completed in Instructor Jeff Hammond’s 2014 Traditional…
Ptleader.com Posted: Wednesday, June 4, 2014 3:30 am By Emma Leedy of the Leader | Forget Noah, Neena Milton is building a boat. Milton, a senior at Chimacum High School, takes two periods of woodshop every day. She started taking woodshop for the first time last year after moving to Port Hadlock from San Antonio, Texas. With a free…
The Batela is a traditional Venetian boat, that is, developed in the Italian city of Venice. It is a flat-bottomed boat with a slight degree of rocker (meaning, the bottom is curved from bow to stern) to make it easier to row and control. Rowed standing up, it is essentially a cargo carrier or ferry. The Traditional Small Craft…
Enrollment at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is now open for the 2014-2015 school year. The new Enrollment Forms and School Catalog are published and posted online at the following link: https://nwswb.edu/programs/enroll/ The Boat School has capacity for a new cohort of 55 students each year, the 12-month Associates Degree programs starting on or around the date of…
Students Jessiah Worley, Chris Lindstam, and Alan Fenwick scrape epoxy off the interior seams of a boat that has recently been lifted off its mold. The Lake Oswego boat is a wherry developed in Oregon by a Finnish boatbuilder for use on Lake Oswego. Two original boats are known, both maintained by The Center For Wooden Boats in Seattle…
Student Bradley Suedekum helps propel the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding’s boat during the Port Townsend Rhody Parade. Helping are Executive Director Pete Leenhouts at the wheel, passenger Courtney (last name TBD), student Mark Paxton and Director of Education Pamela Roberts.
There is nothing more energizing than a high school marching band at Rhody Parade. Shown is the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding’s parade boat and team!
Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding student Mark Paxton enjoys attention at the Port Townsend Rhody Parade from the Sequim Irrigation Festival Royalty. Our Boat School parade team awaits the start of the parade. L. to r: Executive Director Pete Leenhouts, students Mark Paxton, Bradley Suedekum and Courtney (last name TBD). Director of Education Pamela Roberts shows off her maritime…
This Lake Oswego boat was built onto a mold constructed of thin “bead and cove” wood strips. The mold looks like an actual hull, but it really is just the form the actual boat is built onto. Strips of wood veneer are carefully measured and placed onto the mold and edge glued to each other to create the hull….
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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.
