This year’s class has done a terrific job on their skiffs! We can’t wait to see them on the water! Bruce Blatchley, instructor, with his students l. to r.: Bobby Bowen, Matt Shaunnessy, Austin Hatch, Penelope Partridge, Michael Mullally, Alex Finn, Alan Fenwick and Bruce Blatchley. (Not pictured are Ryan Oswalt and Peter Flint.) These students are finishing up…
“Azurlita” launches Friday, Sept. 6 at 5 pm – JOIN US in front of the SEA Marine Company at the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival to celebrate with our students & instructor – Sean Koomen!
Click on the image to read the Jefferson County Chamber Newsletter featuring the School’s 2013 boat projects. Port Townsend Leader Newspaper
In boats made here, the BBC will repeat an incredible river expedition! By Brian J. Cantwell Seattle Times outdoors editor A new TV documentary about John Wesley Powell’s famed exploration of the Grand Canyon has come to Washington for authentic — if ill-suited — wooden watercraft. LONG BEFORE any modern-day, quinoa-gobbling Californian had the notion, John Wesley Powell may…
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 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…
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…
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,…
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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.
