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The lapstrake-built Townshend in the foreground is a replica of an exploration longboat on HMS Discovery that explored Puget Sound in 1792-95. It is in a rowing race with Bear another replica built in Port Townsend by Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding. Both can be rigged with lugsails, but they have been taken down and stowed for the rowing event which had all kinds of rowing crafts. These two pretty much raced with each other and the lead changed several times. They were having fun for the crowd.
This is at the rowing race of the Port Townsend's Wooden Boat Festival: woodenboat.org/plan-your-visit
This gorgeous canoe-like trekking boat is designed to row. It was constructed in 2 and a half days by the Gig Harbor crew as part of a boatbuilding challenge. She is my overwhelming choice for the most challenging to build and most beautiful on the water. They named her Vicky for the Victorian lady with the parasol. The photo was taken at 2019 Port Townsend: Wooden Boat Festival woodenboat.org/plan-your-visit/
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Kentmere 400 in Xtol 1:1
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After competing to see who can build a rowboat the fastest (a couple of hours), the competitors have to float and race their boats. Thus often entails broken oarlocks, lost oars, collisions and general sinking...
Pinisi, or the Art of Boatbuilding in South Sulawesi, refers to the rig and sail of the famed ‘Sulawesi schooner’. The construction and deployment of such vessels stand in the millennia-long tradition of Austronesian boatbuilding and navigation that has brought forth a broad variety of sophisticated watercrafts. For both the Indonesian and the international public, Pinisi has become the epitome of the Archipelago’s indigenous sailing craft. Today, the centres of boatbuilding are located at Tana Beru, Bira and Batu Licin, where about 70 per cent of the population make a living through work related to boatbuilding and navigation. Shipbuilding and sailing are not only the communities’ economic mainstay, however, but also the central focus of daily life and identity. The reciprocal cooperation between the communities of shipwrights and their relations with their customers strengthen mutual understanding between the parties involved. Knowledge and skills related to the element are passed down from generation to generation within the family circle, as well as to individuals outside of the family through the division of labour.
Phinisi (alt Pi nisi) has been inscribed on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity register.
When I was working in Makassar, the most treasured thankyou gift I was given was a model phinisi in a display case. The long history of sailing and navigation in the region (way prior to Dampier or Cook) extended to trading with aboriginal (Australian) people especially with those who lived on the Tiwi Islands near where Darwin is today, and along the Arnhem coast including Yirrkala (Macassan Beach).
It’s takes about four to five months to complete the structure of a boat, and at a cost of around RM700,000 with a staff-strength of ten skilled men.
The Edensaw Boatbuilding Challenge is a contest build a wooden boat, launch the boat and row or paddle it around a short course, all in about 2 and a half days. This year the Gig Harbor group set themselves a higher challenge to build the canoe-like trekking boat shown that is made to be rowed. We were fascinated to watch the seam bending of the ribs and later the fitting of the planks that created this gorgeous craft. This goes well beyond the challenge of building a plywood slab sort of fishing boat. They gathered onlookers, many of whom thought it could not be done. The Gig Harbor crew did it and produced a beautiful graceful craft. The Victorian lady was rowed around the course for a triumant finish. Embarrassingly, the judges picked the the plywood slab boat as more challenging. It sort of bummed me out. The photo was taken at 2019 Port Townsend: Wooden Boat Festival woodenboat.org/plan-your-visit/
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The team from the Museum’s boatbuilding school have recently completed two skiffs as a joint project with Garnock Connections and Rathbone Training.
Here you can have a closer look at the process behind the making of these skiffs. Their hulls are based on a traditional vessel: a Fair Isle Skiff, the model of which can be found in the Scottish Fisheries Museum. It was constructed as a demonstration project in 2009 and started a true revival of the coastal rowing in Scotland.
The original design of the skiff was modernised enabling anyone without a boatbuilding experience to take on a similar project with a bit of guidance from the experienced boatbuilders. Today people from all over the world build similar skiffs and regularly attend championships.
Listen to Martin, the School Manager explaining how these vessels are made.
To discover more about the boatbuilding workshop see: skfb.ly/6MyMF
Sea-faring boats of various sizes and applications are made by traditional artisans and carpenters of Beypore, Calicut for hundreds of years dating back to BCE. This vessel to be launched in another month is undergoing final finishing operations. This Luxury vessel is as per the order of a Sheik from Qatar
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The Scottish Boatbuilding School at the Scottish Maritime Museum in Irvine was established in 2014 to provide education and qualification in both traditional and modern boat building, as well as vessel conservation and restoration.
Addressing the growing skills shortage in the boatbuilding the Scottish Boat Building School was involved in the development of the new Modern Apprenticeship Scheme. While keeping the boatbuilding alive, the scheme aims to train up young people from the local community and provide them with skills which can then be transferred into a variety of industries: from joinery to construction.
This 3D model, created as a part of ‘Scanning the Horizon’ project, provides a unique glimpse into the school’s boatbuilding workshop, which is not accessible for the public. Listen to Martin, the Boatbuilding School Manager as he explains the mission of the School and the role of the apprenticeships.
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The Bolger Elegant Punts are taking shape in the Family Boat Building shelters. The Traditional Small Craft Association (TSCA) sponsored the build this year. An Elegant Punt from a prior build is on display for inspiration.
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Chief Instructor Tim Lee and the students in the 2009 and 2010 Traditional Large Craft classes built this breathtakingly beautiful boat for owner Sarah Howell. You can see more construction and sailing photos of this boat, as well as read Sarah's comments, here: www.yankeeonedesign.com/y44_gemini.htm
And, here's a good information page on this classic boat class: www.yankeeonedesign.com/
The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is located in Port Hadlock WA and is a private, accredited non-profit vocational school. You can find us on the web at www.nwboatschool.org .
Our mission is to teach and preserve the skills and crafts of fine wooden boatbuilding and other traditional maritime crafts.
You can reach us via e-mail at info@nwboatschool.org or by calling us at 360-385-4948.
In Lao PraBang, along the Mekong river a long boat is being restored, Not so much renovating... as it is sustaining.
In order to make new oak planks fit the curve of a wooden boat the wood needs to be made pliable by placing it in a box of steam and heating to as near to 100 degrees celsius as possible. After a couple of hours the 2 inch thick piece is ready to apply to the boat and you have a very small window before it cools and loses its flexibility. Juggling a heavy piece of wood 30 ft or more long can be interesting and requires plenty of people to handle it.
This box was made for this repair job and comprises five plastic drums with the bottoms cut out and two steel drums at the ends. Water is poured into the bottom drum through a hole which is seen here with a wooden bung in. The plank sticks through a slot in the top drum and can be seen disappearing around the side of the boat. The bending is only required at one end of the plank so it doesn't all have to be steamed. The steam box/tube is raised at one end so that the condensing steam runs back to the bottom. The main tube is wrapped in loft insulation and plastic sheet. Water is heated by propane torches in a small brick hearth. Simple but effective.
This small tug was designed by the American designer H.C. Hanson in 1957 for the US Forest Service as a Scaler's Boat. Scalers determine the amount of board feet of lumber in each log cut by a timber crew. Three of these vessels were built commercially in the mid-1950's to this design for the Forest Service for use in the western United States.
Former instructor Tim Lee redrew the lines for the 26-version, stretching it to 28 feet. The extension allows the engine box to be moved aft of the pilothouse while the pilothouse can be lengthened a bit.
Under his direction, students at the School began construction in 2013. Instructor Peter Bailey's students continued work on the boat during the class of 2014. We expect to finish the boat by mid-September, 2015. As of this writing, it is for sale.
The tug is 28 feet long with a beam of about 8 feet. It has a draft of four feet, and displaces about 5 tons.
Our tug is built as a cruising tug. It will be planked in aromatic port orford cedar from southern Oregon over white oak frames. The house sides will be mahogany. The boat will be driven by a 54 hp Yanmar diesel engine, and will be customized to the owner's desire's before delivery.
The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is located in Port Hadlock, on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula, 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.
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 Lee, from an original boat owned by The Center For Wooden Boats www.cwb.org in Seattle WA.
Grandy skiffs built by our students are usually between 9 and 14.5 feet long. They're lapstrake planked in western red cedar, with sapele stems, keels and transoms. Frames are White Oak or Black Locust. We build one to two boats like this each year. These small craft are some of our most popular boats.
The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is located in Port Hadlock WA and is a private, accredited non-profit vocational school. You can find us on the web at www.nwboatschool.org .
Our mission is to teach and preserve the skills and crafts of fine wooden boatbuilding and other traditional maritime crafts.
We build both commissioned and speculative boats to US Coast Guard standards while teaching adult students the traditional wood and wood composite boatbuilding skills they will need to work in the marine trades. We sell our boats to help support the School. Please feel free to give us a call should you like to discuss our building a boat for you.
You can reach us via e-mail at info@nwboatschool.org or by calling us at 360-385-4948.
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 stake working in Seattle as carpenter helping to rebuild the city after a disastrous fire, ran a successful boatshop in Ketchikan, then set up shop on Metlakatla Island and began turning out boats.
His first boats were flat-bottomed skiffs with transoms. Later, he began building double enders, graceful boats that could carry a heavy load of fish or other cargo under sail or oars, the type seen here. Finally, he developed and began building a more rugged, carvel-built transom boat designed to carry the heavy outboard motors of the day.
The Center For Wooden Boats has an excellent information page packed with data and pictures about Davis Boats here: www.cwb.org/south-lake-union/online-museum/boat-catalog/d...
The School has built Davis double enders as well as the transom version. Here's an article about their construction:
lumberjocks.com/Scotach/blog/5102 (part 1)
lumberjocks.com/Scotach/blog/5141 (part 2)
And more articles, here:
www.duckworksmagazine.com/08/columns/pete/index1.htm
www.duckworksmagazine.com/11/gatherings/union/index.htm
And another picture of a double-ender, here, at The Center for Wooden Boats (www.cwb.org)
Alumni Jason Bledsoe (Traditional Small Craft 2007) discovered the original boat, from which this one is being built, in the weeds in Port Ludlow WA. After several years of trying, he persuaded the owner to let him have the boat so that he could document it for the publically-accessible Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), maintained in the Library of Congress by the National Park Service. He took the lines of the little boat, and donated them to the School so that we could build this boat.
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 fine art of wooden boatbuilding and traditional maritime crafts.
We build both commissioned and speculative boats for sale while teaching students boatbuilding the skills they need to work in the marine trades.
If you are interested in us building a boat for you, please feel free to give us a call.
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.
The Carolina Spritsail Skiff is a traditional boat, historically built on on Harker's Island, North Carolina, on the Outer Banks. The lines were taken for the boat by M.B. Alford in July of 1976 from a boat built in 1911 then owned by Dr R. Borden and now in the Traditional Small Craft collection at the Hampton Mariners Museum in Beaufort NC. The Museum's file number for the plans is #135.
In the mid-1960's, Julian Guthrie, a well-known traditional boatbuilder on Harker's Island built a skiff for the new boat's owner, which the owner used and enjoyed for nearly ten years before selling. The boat never left his mind, however, and he finally decided to have us build him a new one to plans obtained from the Hampton Mariners Museum.
www.downeasttour.com/harkers_is/julian-guthrie.htm
coresound.com/exhibits/nc-heritage-awards
We were fortunate to be able to work with the owner, who not only gave us the commission but the plans and a series of photographs of the original boat built for him in the mid-1960's.
This Carolina Spritsail Skiff is being built by students in the 2014 Traditional Small Craft class under the direction of Master Instructor Jeff Hammond. The plans will be followed exactly, with several slight modifications determined through the owner's previous experience (no sheet holes in the blocking aft, for example) will be incorporated. Provisions will also be made for a small outboard engine to provide enough "iron wind" to push the boat along when windless conditions are encountered in the summer on the Puget Sound.
The sails and rigging will be made by master sailmaker Sean Rankins of Northwest Sails, which is co-located with the School.
The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is located in Port Hadlock WA and is an accredited, non-profit vocational school. You can find us on the web at www.nwboatschool.org, on Facebook, SmugMug, and of course, on Flickr.
Our mission is to teach and preserve the fine art of both traditional and contemporary wooden boatbuilding and maritime crafts.
We build both commissioned and speculative boats while teaching students boatbuilding the skills they need to work in the marine trades. We sell our boats to help support the School. Give us a call should you like to discuss our building a boat for you.
The 1920's-era Davis Boat (foreground) and the 2014 John Atkin-designed "Flipper" dinghy bask in the sunshine out in front of the Westrem Traditional Small Craft Shop on a warm spring day.
The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is located in Port Hadlock WA and is an accredited, non-profit vocational school. You can find us on the web at www.nwboatschool.org .
Our mission is to teach and preserve the fine art of traditional and contemporary wooden boatbuilding and maritime crafts.
We build both commissioned and speculative boats to US Coast Guard standards while teaching adult students the traditional wood and wood composite boatbuilding skills they will need to work in the marine trades. We sell our boats to help support the School. Please feel free to give us a call should you like to discuss our building a boat for you.
You can reach us via e-mail at info@nwboatschool.org or by calling us at 360-385-4948.
Sources and Helpful Links
Natoma Skiff Materials Notes
Planking – Occume plywood 5mm thick, request uncut metric size from Harbor Sales
Stems – 2x6 hemlock fir from Home Depot
Keel – 2x4 Hemlock fir from Home Depot
Gunwales – Clear Douglas fir
Breasthooks – Spanish cedar from South Jersey Lumbermans, Inc.
Seats – 1" Red cedar deck planking from Home Depot
Seatblocks – scrap 2x4 material
Knees – white oak from scrap hardwood flooring
Footstop assembly – 1968 Mahogany recycled from Boston Whaler interior
Rowing outriggers – Bendable 3mm, 5 ply Finnish birch plywood sheet 25" x 25" from Lee Valley Tools
Epoxy and Fillers – 1 gallon MAS FLAG (filleting, laminating and glueing) resin and medium hardener from MAS Epoxies, colloidal silica filler for thickening, colloidal silica and microballoons for fairing and filleting
Epoxy for coating – .5 gallon MAS Epoxy Low viscosity resin with slow hardener
Clear Finish – Minwax Helmsman Spar urethane semi-gloss
Paint – Behr Premium exterior latex enamel white and gray from Home Depot
Stainless hardware – BoatUS local store
Stainless oarlock sockets – 1" stainless from Joseph Fazzio, Inc. Metals and machined by Roger Crabtree (home machinist) to size
This 21-foot runabout was designed by John L Hacker in the mid-1930's while working in Detroit Michigan for the Canadian Greavette Company.
The Class of 2014 has been commissioned to build the boat. The new boat will have a bottom laminated of mahogany over marine plywood and mahogany sides and decks. It will be powered by a Crusader 5.7-liter engine.
The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is located in Port Hadlock WA and is an accredited, non-profit vocational school. You can find us on the web at www.nwboatschool.org .
Our mission is to teach and preserve the fine art of wooden boatbuilding and traditional maritime crafts.
We build both commissioned and speculative boats to US Coast Guard standards while teaching adult students the traditional wood and wood composite boatbuilding skills they will need to work in the marine trades. We sell our boats to help support the School. Please feel free to give us a call should you like to discuss our building a boat for you.
You can reach us via e-mail at info@nwboatschool.org or by calling us at 360-385-4948.
Instructor Peter Bailey in one of the two Flipper dinghies he built with his students in the Skiff Building Class. (The other boat was used as our display boat at the 2014 Seattle Boat Show).
FLIPPER was designed by John Atkin, based on an earlier design for a similiar boat, called MABEL, by his father, William Atkin.
Flipper is a dinghy, or "dink", designed to be a safe boat to use as a tender to a larger boat or, when rigged with mast and sail, as a safe boat in which kids can learn to sail without expensive hiking equipment and so forth.
www.atkinboatplans.com/Dinks/Flipper.html
Her designer writes: "In The Book of Boats, I wrote that Mabel is a famous little vessel. Her plans have been published the world over. They were first shown in MotorBoat magazine -- affectionately known by many as "the old green sheet" when Billy Atkin was doing a series of designs for that publication some 60 years ago! Later the design was presented in the well-loved magazine Fore An' Aft in an article by the late Weston Farmer. Still later, Mabel showed up in a 1937 book entitled Motor Boats, which was written by my father. He designed this little dinghy at Huntington, New York, in 1924."
"Fairly recently, I revised the design of Mabel, after having built one of these boats in my Dinghy Shed. Based on my observations, I increased her freeboard and renamed her Flipper: The increased freeboard made a considerably more burdensome boat. Her principal dimensions are: 10 feet 1/2 inch overall by 3 feet 11 inches beam and 3 1/2 inches draft."
The class of 2014 built three of these little dinghies. Two were built traditionally by Instructor Peter Vailey's students, and one was built of marine plywood.
The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is located in Port Hadlock WA and is an accredited, non-profit vocational school.
You can find us on the web at www.nwboatschool.org .
Our mission is to teach and preserve the fine art of wooden boatbuilding and traditional maritime crafts.
We build both commissioned and speculative boats while teaching students boatbuilding the skills they need to work in the marine trades.
We sell our boats to help support the School. Give us a call should you like to discuss our building a boat for you.
You can reach us via e-mail at info@nwboatschool.org or by calling us at 360-385-4948.
How common are Epoxy Resin allergies and what are there strategies for reducing the chance of building an allergy? I will discuss building strategies, materials choices and useful production work practices.
I have difficulty in writing this and am trying not to state more than is reasonable. There is not much hard data around for home boatbuilding.
Just want to run through a few things with epoxy allergies, how other glues can be used and something of the history of boatbuilding in recent times. Inspired by Peter Thomas on the Storer Boat Plans Facebook Group.
How Common is Epoxy Allergy?
Zero-th law … Epoxy Allergies are not very common but it is awful to experience in many cases.
I'd love to be able to put some numbers on it. It is not a big area of research.
Perhaps I'm better placed than many to make some sort of estimate. I worked in supply of materials and kits and running classes and workshops for 10 years and another 20 years selling plans and following projects through.
But as an attempt to quantify my experience … if allergies are 5 in 1000 for small boats they are probably 15 in 1000 for big boats and increasing with age and bad weather conditions (enclosure - which is also a part of building big boats).
More on that later as it feeds into our strategies for avoiding sensitization to epoxy.
The Difference between Allergens and Toxins
First of all epoxy is less toxic than polyester resin. And in particular less toxic than the Styrene solvent.
#allergy #dermatitis #epoxyallergy www.storerboatplans.com/faq-info-about-materials-and-meth...
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 Lee, from an original boat owned by The Center For Wooden Boats www.cwb.org in Seattle WA.
Grandy skiffs built by our students are usually between 9 and 14.5 feet long. They're lapstrake planked in western red cedar, with sapele stems, keels and transoms. Frames are White Oak or Black Locust. We build one to two boats like this each year. These small craft are some of our most popular boats.
The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is located in Port Hadlock WA and is a private, accredited non-profit vocational school. You can find us on the web at www.nwboatschool.org .
Our mission is to teach and preserve the skills and crafts of fine wooden boatbuilding and other traditional maritime crafts.
We build both commissioned and speculative boats to US Coast Guard standards while teaching adult students the traditional wood and wood composite boatbuilding skills they will need to work in the marine trades. We sell our boats to help support the School. Please feel free to give us a call should you like to discuss our building a boat for you.
You can reach us via e-mail at info@nwboatschool.org or by calling us at 360-385-4948.
Dates: March 31st - April 4th, 2014 (five days)
Time: 8:30am - 5pm with an hour for lunch and two 15 minute breaks
Tuition: $795 (Boat School students and alumni $600)
Instructor: Jay Smith, Aspoya Boatworks
Contact: info@nwboatschool.org for details and to register for this class.
Jay Smith, the well-known owner of Aspoya Boatworks, is coming to the School to teach our spring workshop. Check out this video of Jay talking about one of his "smaller" projects- the 55-foot Viking Longboat he's building near Anacortes WA. using traditional Norwegian tools and techniques. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL6Uso6Hcoo
Jay is the "real deal" - he's devoted his life to studying and building these boats, from large to small.
Workshop students will learn how to build a Norwegian "Ferge", or ferryboat that is ten feet long as illustrated in the picture. The workshop will emphasize building the boat by eye, rightside-up, using hand tools and tree nail ("trunnel") fastenings.Familiarity with hand tools is a must for this class, as the course is too short to teach sharpening and tool use.
The boat will be sold after the class.
The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is located in Port Hadlock WA and is an accredited, non-profit vocational school. You can find us on the web at www.nwboatschool.org .
Our mission is to teach and preserve the fine art of wooden boatbuilding and traditional maritime crafts.
We build both commissioned and speculative boats for sale while teaching adult students boatbuilding the skills they need to work in the marine trades. If you're interested in our building a boat for you, please feel free to give us a call.
You can reach us via e-mail at info@nwboatschool.org or by calling us at 360-385-4948.
The Drascombe Longboat is a type of open voyaging sailboat trademarked by John Watkinson which he designed and built in the period 1965-79 and sold in the United Kingdom (UK). They have wide and deep cockpits, adaptable boomless rigs and high bulwarks. Later boats of this name were manufactured and sold in the United States as well. Longboat production began in 1970 according to the vessel's Wikipedia page at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drascombe.
The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding has been formally licensed by the Watkinson family to build the Drascombe Longboat.
This first vessel, on which construction began in January, 2014, will be built for the National Outdoor Leadership School in Mexico (NOLS Mexico) www.nols.edu/
and used by them for coastal voyaging in Mexico. www.nols.edu/courses/baja-coastal-sailing/
The Drascombe Longboat is 21 feet 9 inches long with a beam of 6 feet 3 inches. The vessels have a yawl rug, and carry 172 square feet of sail.
The vessel will weigh about 880 pounds when complete, although we expect that our version, modified to meet the requirements of NOLS Mexico will weight somewhat more than that. www.nols.edu/courses/locations/mexico/mxsemester.shtml
The UK-based Drascombe Association is a good source of information about John Watkinson and his wide variety of boats. www.drascombe-association.org.uk/drascombes.php. The Drascombe Association News (DAN) is their publication.
The Class of 2014 Contemporary program students under the direction of instructor Bruce Blatchley will build this boat of fiberglassed marine plywood and WEST System epoxy. For more about this program, see nwboatschool.org/programs/contemporary-2/
The sails will be built by Northwest Sails under the direction of Master Sailmaker Sean Rankins.
The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is located in Port Hadlock WA and is an accredited, non-profit vocational school. You can find us on the web at www.nwboatschool.org .
Our mission is to teach and preserve the fine art of wooden boatbuilding and traditional maritime crafts.
We build both commissioned and speculative boats while teaching students boatbuilding the skills they need to work in the marine trades.
We sell our boats to help support the School. Give us a call should you like to discuss our building a boat for you.
You can reach us via e-mail at info@nwboatschool.org or by calling us at 360-385-4948.
You can see three panels here in this Faering built and owned by Steven and Gavin Bauer in Portland, Maine. The darker plank is Joubert Sapele faced Okoume (varnished), the middle strake is Okoume by Joubert, and the lower plank in the photo is Shelman Okoume. All planks are finished with a Behr spar varnish.