– Pete Leenhouts, Executive Director of the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding, enjoys a visit from Anna Nasset and John Montgomery from Edensaw Woods Ltd. (Nice t-shirt John!)
The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding started in 1981. Jim Ferris and Charlie Moore started Edensaw Woods in 1984 and both are graduates of the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding. This creates a special relationship between the School and Edensaw, who helps keep the School well-stocked in tools and high quality woods.
We hope you can come by more often to see the boat building fruits of those sales!
Instructor Bruce Blatchley’s class turns their Drascombe Longboat. Students are Rw Barrett, Eric Kay, John Sandoval and Chuck Garrett. Nice work guys!
This boat is being built for a youth boating program led by the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) in Baja, Mexico. They currently have a fiberglass fleet of Drascombes. This wooden one should be lighter, stiffer and more durable.
Construction of the 36-foot motor sailor SEA BEAST under the direction of Instructor Ben Kahn is moving right along.
Here, the stem rabbet is being cut by student Jeff Lydston.
The wood is purple heart – here are excerpts from Wikipedia about the wood:
“Peltogyne, commonly known as purpleheart, amendoim or amaranth, is a genus of 23 species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, native to tropical regions of Central and South America, where they occur in tropical rainforests. Purpleheart comes from the rain forests of Brazil, Guyana, and Suriname.
Purpleheart is an extremely dense and water resistant wood. It is ranked one of the hardest and most stiff of the woods in the world. Some people claim it is so durable that it can be used as truck decking.[2] The trees are prized for their beautiful heartwood which, when cut, quickly turns from a light brown to a rich purple color. Exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light darkens the wood to a brown color with a slight hue of the original purple. The longer the wood is exposed to UV lights (sunlight), the colour of purple slowly changes from a light purple to a substantially chocolate-purple colour.[3] This effect can be minimized with a finish containing a UV inhibitor. The dry wood is very hard and dense with a specific gravity of 0.86 (54 lb/ft^3 or 860 kg/m^3). Carbide blades are recommended when working with purpleheart wood. The wood is also known as amaranth and violet wood.”
Port Hadlock — The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding announces the Ann Davison Memorial Scholarship, developed specifically to support women pursuing a career in the maritime trades. Ann Davison was the first woman to solo sail across the Atlantic Ocean. Her boat, the Felicity Ann, is owned and being repaired by the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding. In honor of Davison’s courage and tenacity this $1000 need-based scholarship is awarded annually to women enrolled in one of the School’s 12-month associate degree boat building programs.
Pamela Roberts, Director of Education explained that, “Female students often face financial challenges that can create unnecessary barriers to school enrollment. These challenges include care-taking responsibilities not only for small children, but also for elders within the students’ families. By targeting specific scholarships for women, we believe that more female students will be able to attend the School.”
The School’s mission is to teach and preserve traditional and contemporary wooden boatbuilding skills while developing the individual as a craftsman.
Pete Leenhouts, Executive Director, shared, “The craftsmanship taught here at the School is directly applicable not only in the boatyard, but in skilled trades across the US. Graduates have gone on to become boatbuilders, fine woodworkers, teachers, musical instrument builders, museum specialists – alumni are limited only by their imaginations!”
The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is located in Port Hadlock, Washington and is an accredited, non-profit vocational school. You can find us on the web at boatschoolstore.com.
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.
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 (like this one) 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 boatschoolstore.com .
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 [email protected] 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 . Roger Flectcher’s website is www.riverstouch.com .
The McKenzie river flows west out of the Cascades Mountains in central Oregon and terminates north of Eugene 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. It was built largely of Alaska Yellow Cedar. The oars are spruce.
It’s seen here on sea trials March 5th, 2014, demonstrating its manueverability during sea trials.
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 boatschoolstore.com .
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 [email protected] 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.
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.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the wood polymer. –
Lignin or lignen is a complex polymer of aromatic alcohols known as monolignols. It is most commonly derived from wood, and is an integral part of the secondary cell walls of plants[1] and some algae.[2] The term was introduced in 1819 by de Candolle and is derived from the Latin word lignum,[3] meaning wood. It is one of the most abundant organic polymers on Earth, exceeded only by cellulose. Lignin constitutes 30% of non-fossil organic carbon[4] and a quarter to a third of the dry mass of wood.[citation needed]
As a biopolymer, lignin is unusual because of its heterogeneity and lack of a defined primary structure. Its most commonly noted function is the support through strengthening of wood (xylem cells) in trees.[5][6][7]
Global production of lignin is around 1.1 million metric tons per year and is used in a wide range of low volume, niche applications where the form but not the quality is important. (END)
Note regarding lignin and wooden boatbuilding: When steam heated up to about 200 degrees, lignin releases it hold on wood thus allowing the boat builder greater flexibility to bend the wood until it cools off once again. Boat builders have to move fast when dealing with steamed wood so that it doesn’t freeze up on them during the process of bending.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) asked the Boat School to build three traditionally-built Whitehalls as replicas of the boats used by John Wesley Powell and his group of explorers during their first-ever descent of the Colorado River in 1869. The BBC will film a reenactment of the voyage later in 2013.
The School is building one 16-foot Whitehall, the “Scout Boat”, and two 21-foot Whitehalls. Though Powell launched four Whitehalls onto the river in 1869, one, the 21-foot “No Name”, was lost to the river shortly after the descent began.
The white oak from which the boats are constructed was supplied by Newport Nautical Timbers www.newportnauticaltimbers.com/ . The 16-foot boat will be planked in larch from eastern Washington, which is as close as it is possible to come to the original white pine planking used on that boat.
Whitehalls are the iconic American pulling boat.
They emerged in New York City and, possibly, shortly thereafter in Boston in the 1830’s. It is thought the name derives from Whitehall Street in New York City, though no one is sure. By the mid-19th century, they could be found anywhere there was a sizeable body of water – the East Coast, the Great Lakes, and the Pacific Coast at San Francisco all boasted boatbuilders turning out Whitehalls.
The boats were usually used under oars and occasionally sail as fast harbor ferries and the boat used to take harbor pilots out to meet inbound sailing ships. They have a fine reputation as fast, easy-rowing vessels that are capable of carrying a great deal of weight.
Nearly all Whitehalls were carvel-built with white cedar planking on an oak backbone with oak frames. (Carvel planking means that the planks butted up against each other, edge to edge, which results in a smooth hull). The finer boats were highlighted with a bright sheer plank (the top plank) varnished to catch one’s eye.
There is surprisingly little known about the boats used by the 1869 Powell Expedition, the first to descend the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River. We do know that the Powell Expedition boats were built in Chicago IL to Powell’s specifications.
It’s known that the “Scout Boat” as Powell called it was 16 feet long and planked in white pine, that the remaining boats were 21 feet long and planked in white oak with twice the number of frames and doubled stems and stern posts.
There are no complete descriptions of the boats themselves, no pictures, and only a few scattered references made to the boats in the surviving journals and records of the Expedition.
The three boats we are building for the BBC are being constructed to the best information available, using the general scantlings provided by John Gardner’s historical work, extent plans, our significant experience in building Whitehalls over our 32 years, and the historical data available to us.
The boats will be completed by mid-July, 2013.
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 boatschoolstore.com .
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’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 [email protected] or by calling us at 360-385-4948.
Port Townsend’s Wooden Boat Festival is the most education-packed and inspiring wooden boat event in the world. Featuring more than 300 wooden vessels, dozens of indoor and outdoor presentations and demonstrations, a who’s who of wooden boat experts and thousands of wooden boat enthusiasts, there’s something to do, someone to meet, or a boat to board at every turn. Expanded a little each year, the festival honors its traditions while inviting energetic debate and demonstration about the latest innovations in boatbuilding, equipment, skills, and adventure.
Incredible bending of white oak ribs at Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in Port Hadlock, Washington. Video by Luane Hanson.
Lignin
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the wood polymer.
Lignin or lignen is a complex polymer of aromatic alcohols known as monolignols. It is most commonly derived from wood, and is an integral part of the secondary cell walls of plants[1] and some algae.[2] The term was introduced in 1819 by de Candolle and is derived from the Latin word lignum,[3] meaning wood. It is one of the most abundant organic polymers on Earth, exceeded only by cellulose. Lignin constitutes 30% of non-fossil organic carbon[4] and a quarter to a third of the dry mass of wood.[citation needed]
As a biopolymer, lignin is unusual because of its heterogeneity and lack of a defined primary structure. Its most commonly noted function is the support through strengthening of wood (xylem cells) in trees.[5][6][7]
Global production of lignin is around 1.1 million metric tons per year and is used in a wide range of low volume, niche applications where the form but not the quality is important. (END)
Note regarding lignin and wooden boatbuilding: When steam heated up to about 200 degrees, lignin releases it hold on wood thus allowing the boat builder greater flexibility to bend the wood until it cools off once again. Boat builders have to move fast when dealing with steamed wood so that it doesn’t freeze up on them during the process of bending.
The Olympic Peninsula of Washington State is a unique natural biome of the world. Surrounded by water on three sides, the Peninsula is a haven for people interested in marine activities such as boating and fishing. Mossy rain forests create native habitat for a host of wild animals.
Home to the Olympic National Park, the peninsula attracts visitors from around the world. Natural wonders include the Olympic Mountains and the Olympic National Forest.
The Peninsula has some of the most pristine Pacific Ocean beaches in the United States. You can visit Lake Ozette near the coast and take a day hike out to the beaches where you will see sand as well as logs, estuaries and sea stacks.
Tribal communities include Neah Bay, Elwah and Jamestown S’Klallam Tribes, who participate each year in the annual Canoe Journey. The Olympic Culinary Loop and local Wineries provide special events and tours that will satisfy everyone’s taste for fine food and beverages.http://www.olympicpeninsula.org/
Enjoy this short slideshow featuring students at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding!
It’s always gratifying to feature the students at the Boat School as they are a lively, positive bunch of people who share an exciting passion for wooden boats.
In this slideshow you will see things that are the common mark of inspiring schools everywhere – smiling faces, inclusive participation, humor, diversity, engagement, teamwork, respect, challenges, complexity, fun and focus.
Thinking of joining us? Contact the School at 360-385-4948 or [email protected] today!
Rogue River Driver – planking in progress – 3 min video
Students in the 2014 Traditional Small Craft Program led by Senior Instructor Jeff Hammond bring a plank from the steambox to lay on a Rogue River Driver boat.
Students featured are Bobby Bowen, Russell Bates, Jacob Simmering, Mark Paxton, Andrew McGilvra and Bradley Suedekum. Nice work students!
Lignin
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the wood polymer. –
Lignin or lignen is a complex polymer of aromatic alcohols known as monolignols. It is most commonly derived from wood, and is an integral part of the secondary cell walls of plants[1] and some algae.[2] The term was introduced in 1819 by de Candolle and is derived from the Latin word lignum,[3] meaning wood. It is one of the most abundant organic polymers on Earth, exceeded only by cellulose. Lignin constitutes 30% of non-fossil organic carbon[4] and a quarter to a third of the dry mass of wood.[citation needed]
As a biopolymer, lignin is unusual because of its heterogeneity and lack of a defined primary structure. Its most commonly noted function is the support through strengthening of wood (xylem cells) in trees.[5][6][7]
Global production of lignin is around 1.1 million metric tons per year and is used in a wide range of low volume, niche applications where the form but not the quality is important. (END)
Note regarding lignin and wooden boatbuilding: When steam heated up to about 200 degrees, lignin releases it hold on wood thus allowing the boat builder greater flexibility to bend the wood until it cools off once again. Boat builders have to move fast when dealing with steamed wood so that it doesn’t freeze up on them during the process of bending.
This video shows Instructor Peter Bailey caulking a plank seam. Peter is a master shipwright who is an inspiration to students at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding! He is working on a Hanson-designed Forest Service scaler boat, a vessel historically used to navigate around log jams and shorelines in the Pacific Northwest. This boat has given the Traditional Large Craft Program ample opportunity to practice their skills in planking and caulking! Thanks, Peter, for modeling the caulking process!
This 13′ Sid Skiff was built by the 2011-12 and 2012-13 Traditional Small Craft students. A dream to sail and row, this boat is extremely fun and maneuverable – perfect boat for beginners and expert sailors. Built of cedar on oak frames, she is light and strong. (This particular boat has sold.)
“I’ll Calm the Ocean” by Morgan O’Kane. www.morganokanemusic.com
The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is featured in the inside front page of this publication. Check out all the articles about the maritime trades in Port Townsend, Port Hadlock and Jefferson County, Washington.
Every year at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding we build an exciting lineup of boats for either commission or for spec. This year our students have been building the: –
This boat 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.
Under the direction of Instructor Ben Kahn, students at the School will continue construction on this boat during 2014.
The boat is 28 feet long with a beam of about 8 feet. It has a draft of four feet, and displaces about 4.5 tons.
Our boat is being built as a cruising vessel. It will be planked in aromatic port orford cedar from southern Oregon, over white oak frames. The house sides will be mahogany. The boat is driven by a 54 hp Yanmar diesel engine, and will be customized to the owner’s desire’s before delivery.
This is the first boat in the Sentinel-24 class of designed by Stephens/Waring Yacht Design of Belfast, Maine (SWYD) www.stephenswaring.com .
The Sentinel-24 class is designed to be a comfortable and stylish sloop with the beautiful lines of yesterday’s classics paired with modern underbody design and state-of-the art rigging.
This vessel represents Stephens Waring Yacht Design’s signature approach to distinctive, fun and high performance sailing with more than a touch of historic grace. –
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is contracting with the School for the construction of three traditionally-built Whitehalls to be built as replicas of the boats used by John Wesley Powell and his group during their first-ever descent of the Colorado River in 1869. The BBC will film a reenactment of the voyage later in 2013.
The School is building one 16-foot Whitehall, the “Scout Boat”, and two 21-foot Whitehalls. Though Powell launched four Whitehalls onto the river in 1869, one was lost in rapids shortly after the descent began.
This 62-foot strip-planked day sailor was designed by the renowned designer Robert Perry for a client here in the Pacific Northwest. www.perryboat.com/
Bob Perry has been very pleased with the School’s progress on the boat, and has remarked more than once that he feels we are doing a superlative job on the construction.
The boat was built on molds cut by Turn Point Design in Port Townsend.turnpointdesign.com/
The hull is western red cedar sheathed in 24-ounce fiberglass. WEST System products have been used throughout the project. www.westsystem.com/ss/
Master Boatbuilder Ray Speck drew the lines for this classic Puget Sound small craft while working as a boatbuilder in Sausalito CA. Ray saw that the harbormaster, Sid Foster, was using a particularly sweet little 12′ 5″ lapstrake skiff to row around Richardson Bay.
Ray took the little skiff’s lines with Sid’s permission, and over time, developed them into a range of skiffs from 13 to 18 feet long. Ray estimates he’s built just about one hundred of these beautiful boats so far in his nearly 45 year career as a boatbuilder, many of them while teaching at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding. The Sid is an excellent sailor as well as a very nice boat to row. A rare combination.
Planked in red cedar, framed with white oak and trimmed with a combination of Honduras mahogany and Sapele this is the most recent of many built at the school. –
The Davis Pulling Row Boat is carvel planked. The Davis boats were built by a native family in Southeast Alaska. It is believed that they were modeled on the Pelagic Sealing Skiffs and ship’s boats. They were very popular and used in the hand trolling fishing industry of the early to mid part of the 20th century. The lines were taken from an orginial boat that is in the Center for Wooden Boat’s permanent collection in Seattle. – –
Grandy Skiff, lapstrake planked in western red cedar and framed in white oak.
The cross bars (called “cross spalls”) keep the boats shape against the press of the white oak frames until the interior is constructed. — at Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding. –
During WWII George Calkins built boats for the war effort. After the war he began focusing on smaller plywood boats. Prams, rowboats, dories, runabouts, race boats, and cabin cruisers emerged from the CalkinsCraft shop at Delake, OR (now Lincoln City).
Over a ten year period George built over 1,000 plywood boats. Besides being successfully built and used by recreational boaters all over the world, BARTENDERS have been used extensively in Australia by harbor patrols, state police, and Australia’s famous surf rescue teams. Several oil companies have utilized the BARTENDER in the offshore oil industry to get them through rough sea conditions that most other small craft would not handle.
The Francis Lee story is part love of craft and part love of sailing. The combination is simply the best of sailing and a showcase for the Pacific Northwest’s boatbuilding skills. (see complete list at end of article of those who contributed)
Love of Craft
It’s hard to find someone with greater love of craft that naval architect Bob Perry. At age 67 he continues to come up with elegant solutions for wide ranging clients. These particular clients, Kim and Susan Bottles, were already long time friends, which made the experience that much richer.
Perry and the Bottles shared an affinity for Bill Garden’s Oceanus design, which led to a close study of L. Francis Herreshoff’s drawings of the “Ultimate Sailing Machine.” The path started becoming clear, though Perry said “You want long waterline, I can do long waterline. But it will be mine, not his.” And so started the 4-year process that ended in January’s launch of the Francis Lee.FLrhp2
This was, from nearly the outset, to be a Pacific Northwest project to showcase the region’s boatbuilding expertise and give a shot in the arm to the local marine industry.
But it became much more than that when the Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building was chosen for the construction. The School’s enthusiasm for the project spread and soon just about every skill and talent necessary to create this vessel came together around the boat.
The Fall quarter has come to an end and students at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding have gained knowledge in Basic Woodworking, Drafting, Lofting and Skiff Construction. We are proud of the discipline that these students have shown in their studies. Many of our students begin their studies with almost no experience in tools and woodworking and now they are ready to build boats next quarter. Here are a few photos from the quarter!
Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding Instructor Ben Kahn.
Congratulations to all the students and staff at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding who helped build the 2013 Whitehalls for the replication of John Wesley Powell’s journey down the Colorado River! The BBC will debut the film in England on Sunday, January 5, 2014! It is titled, “Operation Grand Canyon with Dan Snow.”
Ben Kahn, instructor extraordinaire, participated in the journey as the lead boat builder/carpenter. As he writes in his journal, “My adventure started when myself and eight students set out to build the two large Whitehall “Powell Boats” for the BBC, eight months before the expedition. Two boats, with a combined length of 42 feet and combined beam of 10 feet. Double stem and sternpost with double frames and five feet of deck space fore and aft. My translation of that nonsense was they should be Whitehall’s built strong like fish boats. I designed and built them with that mantra in my head. My group executed this task in a way that has spoiled me as a boatbuilding teacher. Wow, it was a truly awesome experience for all of us and I cannot describe how proud I am of them. They killed it! The other mantra was “get shit done” and we really did.”Read more
Congratulations to instructors Ben Kahn, Jeff Hammond and their students – your boats performed well under exceptionally challenging conditions! You should all be proud of your teamwork on this project. Click here for more photos.
This year’s class has done a terrific job on their skiffs! We can’t wait to see them on the water!
Bruce Blatchley, instructor, with his students l. to r.: Bobby Bowen, Matt Shaunnessy, Austin Hatch, Penelope Partridge, Michael Mullally, Alex Finn, Alan Fenwick and Bruce Blatchley. (Not pictured are Ryan Oswalt and Peter Flint.) These students are finishing up their first quarter at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding. During their initial quarter they study basic woodworking, drafting, lofting and skiff building.
Peter Bailey, instructor, with his students l. to r.: Rw Barrett, Andrew McGilvra, Peter Bailey, Johnathan Ishmael, Bradley Suedekum, Chris Carle, Drew Larson, John Sandoval, and Kristen Andrews.
Ben Kahn, instructor, with his students l. to r.: Jeff Lydston, Ben Kahn, Chuck Garrett, Alex Cox, Noah Sturdy, Chris Lindstam, Reuben Ewan, and Steve Kim. (Not pictured are Galen Brake and Glenn Quarles.)
Ernie Baird, instructor, with his students l. to r. Jacob Simmering, Lafayette Duvall, Mussa Ulenga, Ernie Baird, Adrian Candaux, Russell Bates, Caro Clark, Alden Rohrer and Gary Ragsdale . (Not pictured are Jessiah Worley and Mark Paxton.)
Jesse Long, instructor, with his students l. to r.: Jesse Long, Eric Kay, Mike Lee, Michael Voderberg, Cyrus Dworsky, and Caleb Underwood. (Not pictured are Alec Binder and Corey Rodgers.)
Maritime scholarship opportunity for Washington State high school seniors graduating or obtaining their GED in 2014! Applications are due February 24, 2014.
Enrollment at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding will open this coming January 2014 for the 2014-2015 school year. New enrollment forms and a new catalog will be published and posted soon online at the following link:
The Boat School has capacity for a new cohort of 55 students each year, starting their programs on or around the date of October 1. Enrollment is managed on a “first come first serve” basis so don’t wait too long to send in your enrollment forms. They must be accompanied by a $300 payment to cover the $100 registration fee and a $200 tuition deposit. (The tuition deposit is refundable if you happen to cancel your enrollment before school starts.)
For more information about the Boat School programs, tuition and scholarships go to http://nwswb.edu/.
Our main liaison to the local school districts’ high school programs, Marci Van Cleve; teacher with a vision and previous recipient of the American Red Cross “Hero” Award for, “25 years of saving young peoples lives through educational excellence”, now is celebrated by the national boating community for 25 years of bringing youth into the maritime culture.
Sponsored by Wooden Boat Magazine and given by the Wooden Boat Foundation and NW Maritime Center the Lifetime Achievement Awards are the kick off to the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival, and are a definitive way of becoming the Who’s Who in the boating community.
