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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. Instructor Bruce Blatchley built this one 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 traditional and contemporary 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.
This boat, a particularly sweet example (as are they all) of a Grandy lapstrake skiff built in 2010 for a local owner, is for sale at the School's website.
The boat is lapstrake planked with old-growth western red cedar over steambent white oak frames, and fastened with coppy rivets and roves to a sapele backbone. The standing lug rig was made by Northwest Sails which is co-located with the School.
The Grandy is 11 1/2 feet long with a beam of just four feet. It can easily carry well over 225 pounds on an eight inch draft which, as you can see in these pictures, is not even close to its capacity.
A set of spruce oars, leathered and custom-fit to the boat, rounds out the ensemble.
It's easily trailered behind even small compact cars as it weighs around 250 pounds including its rig, and is a perfect boat for enjoying the protected salt water coves of the Puget Sound as well as the many freshwater lakes that abound in our region.
Head on over to the School's website at www.nwboatschool.org for details, price, and who to contact.
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 a former instructor from an original boat owned by The Center For Wooden Boats www.cwb.org in Seattle WA.
We build one to two boats like this each year. It is unusual to find them for sale, as 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.
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) and used by them for coastal voyaging in Mexico. www.nols.edu/
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.
Photographer: Sydney Charles Smith, Balaena Bay, Wellington, with James Bringin’s boatyard, ca 1920, Sydney Charles Smith photographs, Alexander Turnbull Library, Reference: 1/1-019613-G
Published in the Capital Times, 27 June 2012
Here is Balaena Bay, with Roseneath in the background, photographed just before the First World War. By then yachting had become a popular Wellington pastime, and the Bay was one of the few places around the harbour where boats could be hauled up for repairs and maintenance.
It was a boat building centre too. At the time of this photograph the boatbuilding business in the shed on the right was run by James Bringins. Other notable boat builders who worked there included Ted Bailey and Joe Jukes. Between them they built some of Wellington’s best-known yachts, launches and fishing boats.
Balaena Bay continued to be a hang-out for local boaties until the 1950s. By then, though, Roseneath residents wanted the beach for swimming. Sand was laid over the stones, and the boats were slowly moved away.
Most of the classic wooden boats from the time of this photograph have long gone. One of the best, though, will soon be sailing again. The 22-foot sloop “Lizzie” was built by Bailey at Balaena Bay in 1909. Several years ago she was a derelict wreck in Auckland. Now you can see her on the Clyde Quay slipway being lovingly restored by enthusiasts of the Wellington Classic Yacht Trust. She will be a fine sight on the harbour next summer.
See more photos of early Balaena Bay
Our new book Wellingtonians: From the Turnbull Collections contains revised and expanded entries from this exhibition, and some new ones too. You can get it from good bookshops or straight from the publisher.
Permission of the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga O Aotearoa, must be obtained before any reuse of this image.
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.
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) and used by them for coastal voyaging in Mexico. www.nols.edu/
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.
We used this long 20' piece of MDF board as a batten to draw out the hull panels onto the 16' blanks. The canned goods make good ducks to hold the batten up to the small finishing nails placed at each offset mark. We then cut them close to the line with a sabre saw and cleaned them up with a block plane.
Part 1
This article actually first appeared in the Duckworks forum. Then was run as a set of three articles on Duckwork's main site. Michael Storer was the author or all of it (of course!).
I try to keep a hold of the larger view, in terms of seeing what really works for large numbers of boats. Happily, I've been involved in racing, the wooden boat revival and cruising boats, including many years doing maintenance and repainting. All in quantity, so it is possible to make some sense of the general trends. Also over, what is now sadly/nostalgically, a reasonably long period.
Racing since 1972. Involved in maintenance and painting as my work from 1981 to 1999. Seeing the changes epoxy made to our lightweight wooden boat classes in Australia from about 1980. Assisting home builders with boatbuilding materials and advice since 1989.
I'll give some specific examples of things you can see from the numbers.
ENCAPSULATION: Where each piece of wood in the boat is sealed on all sides with epoxy. Not just cold moulded with epoxy between the layers as well
To protect plywood the story is the same as every other wooden part of the boat. It needs epoxy on all sides for the coating to be an encapsulation of the part. If this is inconsistent then the capsule is broken and you don't get the protection.
TELEGRAPH POLES: It was suggested that coating would not be needed if the boat was just made of bigger bits.
www.storerboatplans.com/boat-building/materials/epoxy/boa...
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) and used by them for coastal voyaging in Mexico. www.nols.edu/
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.
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) and used by them for coastal voyaging in Mexico. www.nols.edu/
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.
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. Instructor Bruce Blatchley built this one 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 traditional and contemporary 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.
This big 36-foot long motor sailor was designed by designer Carl Chamberlin of Port Townsend WA and modified for an owner in southern California. Construction began in January, 2014. It is being built at the School 2014-1016 by the Traditional Large Craft classes under the direction of Instructor Ben Kahn.
SEA BEAST, named after the owner's favorite dog, is the second of these big motor sailors to be built, and was expanded six inches in beam to accommodate a Gardner 3L diesel engine.
Instructor Ben Kahn is leading construction.
The boat will be planked with port orford cedar planking over white oak frames on a purpleheart keel. The deck house will be built of fiberglassed marine plywood, and the masts and spars constructed of sitka spruce.
The class of 2014 will loft the boat and construct the keel, build the molds, set up the backbone and and frame the boat. The class of 2015 will plank the hull and construct a great deal of the interior and part of the house. The class of 2016 will complete the boat. Systems installation will be supported by each class as marine systems experts go about their work. We are fortunate to be able to work closely with designer Carl Chamberlin during construction.
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 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 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 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 .
We build both traditional and modern wood-composite boats, and have teaching students to do so since 1981.
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.
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. Instructor Bruce Blatchley built this one 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 traditional and contemporary 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.
This boat, a particularly sweet example (as are they all) of a Grandy lapstrake skiff built in 2010 for a local owner, is for sale at the School's website.
The boat is lapstrake planked with old-growth western red cedar over steambent white oak frames, and fastened with coppy rivets and roves to a sapele backbone. The standing lug rig was made by Northwest Sails which is co-located with the School.
The Grandy is 11 1/2 feet long with a beam of just four feet. It can easily carry well over 225 pounds on an eight inch draft which, as you can see in these pictures, is not even close to its capacity.
A set of spruce oars, leathered and custom-fit to the boat, rounds out the ensemble.
It's easily trailered behind even small compact cars as it weighs around 250 pounds including its rig, and is a perfect boat for enjoying the protected salt water coves of the Puget Sound as well as the many freshwater lakes that abound in our region.
Head on over to the School's website at www.nwboatschool.org for details, price, and who to contact.
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 a former instructor from an original boat owned by The Center For Wooden Boats www.cwb.org in Seattle WA.
We build one to two boats like this each year. It is unusual to find them for sale, as 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.
The Rogue River Driver is the type of boat commissioned by the novelist Zane Grey in 1903 for a trip down the Rogue River in west-central Oregon.
Author Roger Fletcher, who documented the boat in his book "Drift Boats and River Dories", states the boat was probably intended to be taken apart after its journey down the river and the redwood lumber used for another purpose. Instead, for reasons unknown, that never happened, and the boat is now a historic artifact stored under a rude open shelter deep in a wilderness area.
The School was commissioned to build an exact replica of the boat, one strong enough to make it the miles of river travel through Class III rapids necessary to get to the resting place of the original boat.
The original boat was built of redwood and nailed together over a wooden form. It was not intended to last for more than, at most, a few trips down the river.
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.
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 rig, 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.
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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 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drascombe" rel="nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drascombe</a>.
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) and used by them for coastal voyaging in Mexico. <a href="https://www.nols.edu/" rel="nofollow">www.nols.edu/</a>
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. <a href="https://www.nols.edu/courses/locations/mexico/mxsemester.shtml" rel="nofollow">www.nols.edu/courses/locations/mexico/mxsemester.shtml</a>
The UK-based Drascombe Association is a good source of information about John Watkinson and his wide variety of boats. <a href="http://www.drascombe-association.org.uk/drascombes.php" rel="nofollow">www.drascombe-association.org.uk/drascombes.php</a>. 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 <a href="http://nwboatschool.org/programs/contemporary-2/" rel="nofollow">nwboatschool.org/programs/contemporary-2/</a>
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 <a href="http://www.nwboatschool.org" rel="nofollow">www.nwboatschool.org</a> .
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
Graduation ceremonies for the 2011-2012 class at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding were held Wednesday, September 15th, at the Rotary Pavilion in H.J. Carroll County Park in Chimacum Washington. The School, located on the water in Port Hadlock WA, is celebrating its 31st year of operations on Washington's Olympic Peninsula.
Graduate Cooper Parrish speaks to family and friends. Cooper has been hired to continue work on the 62-foot Bob Perry designed SLIVER a wood composite sloop being built by the School.
03 Oct 13. After the completion of the School's portion of the SLIVER project in July, 2013, Cooper was hired to work at Space-X in California as a composites specialist.
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.
This big 36-foot long motor sailor was designed by designer Carl Chamberlin of Port Townsend WA and modified for an owner in southern California. Construction began in January, 2014. It is being built at the School 2014-1016 by the Traditional Large Craft classes under the direction of Instructor Ben Kahn.
SEA BEAST, named after the owner's favorite dog, is the second of these big motor sailors to be built, and was expanded six inches in beam to accommodate a Gardner 3L diesel engine.
Instructor Ben Kahn is leading construction.
The boat will be planked with port orford cedar planking over white oak frames on a purpleheart keel. The deck house will be built of fiberglassed marine plywood, and the masts and spars constructed of sitka spruce.
The class of 2014 will loft the boat and construct the keel, build the molds, set up the backbone and and frame the boat. The class of 2015 will plank the hull and construct a great deal of the interior and part of the house. The class of 2016 will complete the boat. Systems installation will be supported by each class as marine systems experts go about their work. We are fortunate to be able to work closely with designer Carl Chamberlin during construction.
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 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 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 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 .
Author Roger Fletcher's website is www.riverstouch.com .
The McKenzie River flows west out of the Cascades Mountains in central Oregon and terminates north of Eugene Oregon when it joins the Willamette River.
The Light McKenzie River boat is thought to have been first developed in the 1920's by Veltie Pruitt for use on the McKenzie River.
This boat was built at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding by students in the Class of 2014 working under the direction of instructor Ben Kahn.
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 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.
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.
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.
Conducting sailing trials in the Paul Gartside-designed Jacquemont Sloop GJOA . www.gartsideboats.com/
This boat was built by the 2006 Traditional Small Craft class under the direction of Instructor Tim Lee, seated at right in the cockpit, and fitted out by the 2007 traditional Small Craft class. She's seen here during her first time in the water.
GJOA is carvel built, with western red cedar planking over white oak frames. She spends her time on San Francisco Bay.
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.
Students are installing the risers in the boat under the direction of instructor Jeff Hammond. The risers support the thwarts (seats).
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.
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.
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 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) and used by them for coastal voyaging in Mexico. www.nols.edu/
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.
This big 36-foot long motor sailor was designed by designer Carl Chamberlin of Port Townsend WA and modified for an owner in southern California. Construction began in January, 2014. It is being built at the School 2014-1016 by the Traditional Large Craft classes under the direction of Instructor Ben Kahn.
SEA BEAST, named after the owner's favorite dog, is the second of these big motor sailors to be built, and was expanded six inches in beam to accommodate a Gardner 3L diesel engine.
Instructor Ben Kahn is leading construction.
The boat will be planked with port orford cedar planking over white oak frames on a purpleheart keel. The deck house will be built of fiberglassed marine plywood, and the masts and spars constructed of sitka spruce.
The class of 2014 will loft the boat and construct the keel, build the molds, set up the backbone and and frame the boat. The class of 2015 will plank the hull and construct a great deal of the interior and part of the house. The class of 2016 will complete the boat. Systems installation will be supported by each class as marine systems experts go about their work. We are fortunate to be able to work closely with designer Carl Chamberlin during construction.
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 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 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.
This big 36-foot long motor sailor was designed by designer Carl Chamberlin of Port Townsend WA and modified for an owner in southern California. Construction began in January, 2014. It is being built at the School 2014-1016 by the Traditional Large Craft classes under the direction of Instructor Ben Kahn.
SEA BEAST, named after the owner's favorite dog, is the second of these big motor sailors to be built, and was expanded six inches in beam to accommodate a Gardner 3L diesel engine.
Instructor Ben Kahn is leading construction.
The boat will be planked with port orford cedar planking over white oak frames on a purpleheart keel. The deck house will be built of fiberglassed marine plywood, and the masts and spars constructed of sitka spruce.
The class of 2014 will loft the boat and construct the keel, build the molds, set up the backbone and and frame the boat. The class of 2015 will plank the hull and construct a great deal of the interior and part of the house. The class of 2016 will complete the boat. Systems installation will be supported by each class as marine systems experts go about their work. We are fortunate to be able to work closely with designer Carl Chamberlin during construction.
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 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 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 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 rig, 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.
This boat, a particularly sweet example (as are they all) of a Grandy lapstrake skiff built in 2010 for a local owner, is for sale at the School's website.
The boat is lapstrake planked with old-growth western red cedar over steambent white oak frames, and fastened with coppy rivets and roves to a sapele backbone. The standing lug rig was made by Northwest Sails which is co-located with the School.
The Grandy is 11 1/2 feet long with a beam of just four feet. It can easily carry well over 225 pounds on an eight inch draft which, as you can see in these pictures, is not even close to its capacity.
A set of spruce oars, leathered and custom-fit to the boat, rounds out the ensemble.
It's easily trailered behind even small compact cars as it weighs around 250 pounds including its rig, and is a perfect boat for enjoying the protected salt water coves of the Puget Sound as well as the many freshwater lakes that abound in our region.
Head on over to the School's website at www.nwboatschool.org for details, price, and who to contact.
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 a former instructor from an original boat owned by The Center For Wooden Boats www.cwb.org in Seattle WA.
We build one to two boats like this each year. It is unusual to find them for sale, as 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.
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. Instructor Bruce Blatchley built this one 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 traditional and contemporary 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.
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. Instructor Bruce Blatchley built this one 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 traditional and contemporary 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.
This big 36-foot long motor sailor was designed by designer Carl Chamberlin of Port Townsend WA and modified for an owner in southern California. Construction began in January, 2014. It is being built at the School 2014-1016 by the Traditional Large Craft classes under the direction of Instructor Ben Kahn.
SEA BEAST, named after the owner's favorite dog, is the second of these big motor sailors to be built, and was expanded six inches in beam to accommodate a Gardner 3L diesel engine.
Instructor Ben Kahn is leading construction.
The boat will be planked with port orford cedar planking over white oak frames on a purpleheart keel. The deck house will be built of fiberglassed marine plywood, and the masts and spars constructed of sitka spruce.
The class of 2014 will loft the boat and construct the keel, build the molds, set up the backbone and and frame the boat. The class of 2015 will plank the hull and construct a great deal of the interior and part of the house. The class of 2016 will complete the boat. Systems installation will be supported by each class as marine systems experts go about their work. We are fortunate to be able to work closely with designer Carl Chamberlin during construction.
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 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 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.
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.
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. Instructor Bruce Blatchley built this one 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 traditional and contemporary 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.
This big 36-foot long motor sailor was designed by designer Carl Chamberlin of Port Townsend WA and modified for an owner in southern California. Construction began in January, 2014. It is being built at the School 2014-1016 by the Traditional Large Craft classes under the direction of Instructor Ben Kahn.
SEA BEAST, named after the owner's favorite dog, is the second of these big motor sailors to be built, and was expanded six inches in beam to accommodate a Gardner 3L diesel engine.
The boat will be planked with larch below the waterline over steambent white oak frames on a purpleheart keel. The deck house will be built of fiberglassed marine plywood, and the masts and spars constructed of sitka spruce.
The class of 2014 will loft the boat and construct the keel, build the molds, set up the backbone and and frame the boat. The class of 2015 will plank the hull and construct a great deal of the interior and part of the house. The class of 2016 will complete the boat. Systems installation will be supported by each class as marine systems experts go about their work. We are fortunate to be able to work closely with designer Carl Chamberlin during construction.
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 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 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.
This big 36-foot long motor sailor was designed by designer Carl Chamberlin of Port Townsend WA and modified for an owner in southern California. Construction began in January, 2014. It is being built at the School 2014-1016 by the Traditional Large Craft classes under the direction of Instructor Ben Kahn.
SEA BEAST, named after the owner's favorite dog, is the second of these big motor sailors to be built, and was expanded six inches in beam to accommodate a Gardner 3L diesel engine.
Instructor Ben Kahn is leading construction.
The boat will be planked with port orford cedar planking over white oak frames on a purpleheart keel. The deck house will be built of fiberglassed marine plywood, and the masts and spars constructed of sitka spruce.
The class of 2014 will loft the boat and construct the keel, build the molds, set up the backbone and and frame the boat. The class of 2015 will plank the hull and construct a great deal of the interior and part of the house. The class of 2016 will complete the boat. Systems installation will be supported by each class as marine systems experts go about their work. We are fortunate to be able to work closely with designer Carl Chamberlin during construction.
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 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 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.
This big 36-foot long motor sailor was designed by designer Carl Chamberlin of Port Townsend WA and modified for an owner in southern California. Construction began in January, 2014. It is being built at the School 2014-1016 by the Traditional Large Craft classes under the direction of Instructor Ben Kahn.
SEA BEAST, named after the owner's favorite dog, is the second of these big motor sailors to be built, and was expanded six inches in beam to accommodate a Gardner 3L diesel engine.
The boat will be planked with larch below the waterline over steambent white oak frames on a purpleheart keel and stem. The deck house will be built of fiberglassed marine plywood, and the masts and spars constructed of sitka spruce.
The class of 2014 will loft the boat and construct the keel, build the molds, set up the backbone and and frame the boat. The class of 2015 will plank the hull and construct a great deal of the interior and part of the house. The class of 2016 will complete the boat. Systems installation will be supported by each class as marine systems experts go about their work. We are fortunate to be able to work closely with designer Carl Chamberlin during construction.
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 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 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.
This big 36-foot long motor sailor was designed by designer Carl Chamberlin of Port Townsend WA and modified for an owner in southern California. Construction began in January, 2014. It is being built at the School 2014-1016 by the Traditional Large Craft classes under the direction of Instructor Ben Kahn.
SEA BEAST, named after the owner's favorite dog, is the second of these big motor sailors to be built, and was expanded six inches in beam to accommodate a Gardner 3L diesel engine.
Instructor Ben Kahn is leading construction.
The boat will be planked with port orford cedar planking over white oak frames on a purpleheart keel. The deck house will be built of fiberglassed marine plywood, and the masts and spars constructed of sitka spruce.
The class of 2014 will loft the boat and construct the keel, build the molds, set up the backbone and and frame the boat. The class of 2015 will plank the hull and construct a great deal of the interior and part of the house. The class of 2016 will complete the boat. Systems installation will be supported by each class as marine systems experts go about their work. We are fortunate to be able to work closely with designer Carl Chamberlin during construction.
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 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 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.
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.
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. Instructor Bruce Blatchley built this one 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 traditional and contemporary 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.
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) and used by them for coastal voyaging in Mexico. www.nols.edu/
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.