Congratulations on completing the keel of the CHAMBERLIN 36! Shown left to right are: Students Korey Ruben, Corey Rodgers, Cyrus Dworsky, Penelope Partridge, Ryan Wilmsmeier, Mussa Ulenga, Alden Rohrer, Instructor Ben Kahn, Reuben Ewan, Adrian Candaux, Jeff Lydston, Mike Lee and Alex Cox. This big 36-foot long motor sailor was designed by designer Carl Chamberlin of Port Townsend, WA…
Student Noah Sturdy demonstrates how to caulk a boat seam. Wikipedia: “Traditional caulking (also spelled calking) on wooden vessels uses fibers of cotton and oakum (hemp fiber soaked in pine tar). These fibers are driven into the wedge-shaped seam between planks, with a caulking mallet and a broad chisel-like tool called a caulking iron.The caulking is then covered over…
David Eckler graduated from the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in 2007 and has been going strong every since! He does artisan woodwork and custom boat building. He designs and builds wooden boat accessories. You can see his work and get his contact information at the following website: http://www.woodenboataccessories.com/ Keep an eye out for the upcoming edition of the…
– Pete Leenhouts, Executive Director of the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding, enjoys a visit from Anna Nasset and John Montgomery from Edensaw Woods Ltd. (Nice t-shirt John!) The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding started in 1981. Jim Ferris and Charlie Moore started Edensaw Woods in 1984 and both are graduates of the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding. This…
Instructor Bruce Blatchley’s class turns their Drascombe Longboat. Students are Rw Barrett, Eric Kay, John Sandoval and Chuck Garrett. Nice work guys! This boat is being built for a youth boating program led by the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) in Baja, Mexico. They currently have a fiberglass fleet of Drascombes. This wooden one should be lighter, stiffer and…
Construction of the 36-foot motor sailor SEA BEAST under the direction of Instructor Ben Kahn is moving right along. Here, the stem rabbet is being cut by student Jeff Lydston. The wood is purple heart – here are excerpts from Wikipedia about the wood: “Peltogyne, commonly known as purpleheart, amendoim or amaranth, is a genus of 23 species of…
Press Release April 15, 2014 Port Hadlock — The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding announces the Ann Davison Memorial Scholarship, developed specifically to support women pursuing a career in the maritime trades. Ann Davison was the first woman to solo sail across the Atlantic Ocean. Her boat, the Felicity Ann, is owned and being repaired by the Northwest School…
The Grandy Boat Company was formerly located on Lake Union in Seattle, and made many hundreds of boats both large and small during a long tenure there from the early 1920’s to 1967. Here’s a good web page about the company and it’s boats: home.comcast.net/~btse1/grandy/grandymainpage.htm Our students build these boats to lines and documentation taken by former instructor Tim…
The Light McKenzie River Boat, as it is traditionally known, is described in detail in Roger Fletcher’s book “Drift Boats and River Dories”, published by Stackpole Books in 2007. The book’s ISBN is 0-8117-0234-0 . Roger Flectcher’s website is www.riverstouch.com . The McKenzie river flows west out of the Cascades Mountains in central Oregon and terminates north of Eugene…
Andrew McGilvra caulks a Davis boat. www.nwswb.edu Davis Boats were developed as inshore fishing boats for use in Southeast Alaska by John Davis, a Tsimshian Indian, in the late 1800’s. He observed the boats used by American and Canadian vessels transiting through the area, and believed he could build better boats more suited to his area. He made his…
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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.
