The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is a non-profit vocational school located in Port Hadlock, Washington. The school’s mission is to teach and preserve the skills and crafts of fine wooden boatbuilding and other traditional maritime crafts. One of the boats the school’s students build is the Grandy skiff, which is usually between 9 and… Continue reading Planking Commences on 9-foot Grandy Skiff at Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding’s Westrem Shop in Port Hadlock, WA – A Traditional Small Craft with Lapstrake Design (IMG_3129)
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IMG_3141 – Port Hadlock WA – Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding – Traditional Small Craft – Westrem Shop – Rogue River Driver
www.nwboatschool.org The Rogue River Driver is the type of boat commissioned by the novelist Zane Grey in 1903 for a journey down the Rogue River in west-central Oregon. Creator Roger Fletcher, who documented the boat in his e-book “Drift Boats and River Dories”, states the boat was likely intended to be taken aside soon after… Continue reading IMG_3141 – Port Hadlock WA – Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding – Traditional Small Craft – Westrem Shop – Rogue River Driver
IMG_3133 – Port Hadlock WA – Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding – Traditional Small Craft – Westrem Shop – Rogue River Driver
www.nwboatschool.org The Rogue River Driver is the style of boat commissioned by the novelist Zane Grey in 1903 for a vacation down the Rogue River in west-central Oregon. Author Roger Fletcher, who documented the boat in his e-book “Drift Boats and River Dories”, states the boat was possibly supposed to be taken aside following its… Continue reading IMG_3133 – Port Hadlock WA – Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding – Traditional Small Craft – Westrem Shop – Rogue River Driver
IMG_3151 – Port Hadlock WA – Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding – Traditional Small Craft – 9-foot Grandy Skiff – planking – fitting and fastening the garboards
www.nwboatschool.org The Grandy Boat Business was previously located on Lake Union in Seattle, and produced several hundreds of boats the two significant and compact throughout a long tenure there from the early 1920’s to 1967. Here’s a very good internet web page about the firm and it is boats: dwelling.comcast.internet/~btse1/grandy/grandymainpage.htm Our college students make these… Continue reading IMG_3151 – Port Hadlock WA – Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding – Traditional Small Craft – 9-foot Grandy Skiff – planking – fitting and fastening the garboards
IMG_3148 – Port Hadlock WA – Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding – Traditional Small Craft – 9-foot Grandy Skiff – planking – fitting and fastening the garboards
www.nwboatschool.org The Grandy Boat Business was previously located on Lake Union in Seattle, and made lots of hundreds of boats both equally large and compact in the course of a long tenure there from the early 1920’s to 1967. This is a good world wide web website page about the company and it can be… Continue reading IMG_3148 – Port Hadlock WA – Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding – Traditional Small Craft – 9-foot Grandy Skiff – planking – fitting and fastening the garboards