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The School begins classes once each year, early in October. Students are divided into sections of 12 students each, and get two hours of classroom instruction and six hours of shop instruction per day, Monday through Friday 8am - 5pm.
Basic Boatbuilding is the focus of the first semester, which runs from early October to late December.
The instructors assume that most, if not all, students have no woodworking skills and proceed from that assumption. The skills taught in the first semester are those essential to boatbuilding, and the course, for that reason, is very "hands-on".
Students learn to sharpen and use all their tools, and participate in a wide range of individual skill-building exercises, from learning to make the joints commonly used in boatbuilding to a series of tools. Students learn to draft and make a half-model. Then, working in pairs, they learn to loft a boat full-size on the floor. Finally, working, together as a team, the semester culminates in December as students work together to build a flat-bottomed skiff.
This is a student's shoulder box, or tool chest.
The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is located in Port Hadlock WA and is a private, accredited non-profit vocational school.
Our mission is to teach and preserve the skills and crafts of fine wooden boatbuilding and other traditional maritime crafts.
You can find us on the web at www.nwboatschool.org .
You can reach us via e-mail at info@nwboatschool.org or by calling us at 360-385-4948
Copyright Robert W. Dickinson. Unauthorized use of this image without my express permission is a violation of copyright law.
Taken as part of an Arizona Insider Studio model shoot on April 9, 2011 in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Canon 60D and Canon 17-55mm f2.8 IS lens. I supplied the torque wrench. One monolight camera left with a medium softbox and one monolight camera right with a medium softbox. The power levels were not recorded (there were four lighting setups in the maintenance garage, so I didn't keep track of their settings). The monolights were triggered with my Pocket Wizard. ISO 100, f5.6 at 1/125 second. Very minor post-processing work in Portrait Professional. I cleaned up a few things in Photoshop CS4 and added a Levels layer. I used a Portrait Sharpen layer in onOne, a Cool Edges layer in onOne, and CS4 was used to create the vignette.
This was a fun shoot. First time with this group.
Model: Jesika, MM# 1052304
Wardrobe and hair stylist: Julia, MM# 350023
Makeup: Jennifer O'Bannon (don't have a MM#)
My MM#: 1838217