The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is a private, accredited non-profit vocational school located in Port Hadlock, Washington. The school aims to preserve and teach the skills and crafts of fine wooden boatbuilding and other traditional maritime crafts. Students at the school build boats according to the documentation and lines of an original boat owned by The Center For Wooden Boats in Seattle, WA. The specific boats that students build are Grandy skiffs, typically between 9 and 14.5 feet long. These small crafts are lapstrake planked in western red cedar with sapele stems, keels, and transoms. Frames for the boats are made of either White Oak or Black Locust. The school builds one to two of these boats each year, and they are some of their most popular boats.
The Grandy Boat Company was formerly located on Lake Union in Seattle and had been building boats both large and small since the early 1920s until 1967. The school follows the US Coast Guard standards when building both commissioned and speculative boats while teaching students the traditional wooden and wood composite boatbuilding skills required to work in the marine trades. Income generated from the sale of boats supports the school. Anyone interested in discussing building a boat can reach out to the school through email or phone call.
Posted by Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding on 2014-04-23 14:33:57