1. School, Build, and Virtual-Build By Chris Schwartz
Wooden Boats
School, Build, and Virtual-Build
By Chris Schwartz

2. Wooden Boats – School basics
The WoodenBoat School is located in Brooklin, Maine (about a 5-hour drive north of Boston).
Took a Traditional Woodstrip Kayak Construction class for a week in 2006.
There were 10 people in the class, including one person from Austin.
Ted Moores taught the class.
KayakCraft book very helpful.

3. Wooden Boats – School, why?
My family initially helped get me into woodworking – book case, checkers set, wine rack, etc.
Took the class because I like how wooden boats are both beautiful and functional.

4. Wooden Boats – School photos
Here’s the view of a boat from the boat house overlooking Eggemoggin Reach.

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More boats out in Eggemoggin Reach.
Short walk from WoodenBoat School Campus.

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Boats Docked…

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Inside the School
Breakdown of labor resources (am on Endeavor’s hull)…

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Beginning planking on the hull (1 inch strips of cedar)…

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Working on planking strip with friend…

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Good friend Chuck (from Austin) making a point at the hull…

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Sanding and fairing the hull…

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Initial fiberglass cloth layout…

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Applying the epoxy onto the fiberglass…

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Scraping off the excess epoxy…

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Trimming the excess fiberglass off…

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Finishing the deck…

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Cockpit coaming trimming being cut…

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Setting the cockpit coaming…

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Final touches on Endeavor…

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Other classes to see include metallurgy…

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…sketching…

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…watercolor…

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…and other boatbuilding classes…

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…including a dinghy…

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…and stitch-and-glue method.

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Farewell WoodenBoat School…’till hopefully another year!

27. Wooden Boats – quick bad joke
Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were getting cold so they decided to light a fire in their boat. It promptly sank…

28. Wooden Boats – quick bad joke
…proving once again that you can’t have your kayak and heat it too.

29. Wooden Boats – Build
In decided to build a kayak for my friend Steve and his wife.
Used stitch-and-glue method, which I figured out as I went (real simple!).
It took me one year to build, 10-5 on Saturdays only.

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Here are the wooden components as they are shipped in CNC’d pieces in a box…

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…a simple stitch at the seam between two components...

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…beginning creating the stations...

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…sanding the hull...

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…stitching and gluing the deck...

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…fixing the deck to the hull...

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…glassing the deck...

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…checking for potential leaks in the friend’s R&D test pool...

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…at the boat launch party with friends...

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…taking Sandy Lake out for a tour...

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…family memories...

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..all done! Here I’m taking Sandy Lake out for a final excursion.

42. Wooden Boats – Virtual-Build
Took plans from a simple sailboat design and virtually built it in Google Sketchup 2017.
The plans came from the WoodenBoat shop and are of a Nutshell Pram.
I broke the process into four phases – (1) Hull beginning, (2) Hull finishing, (3) Sail integration, and (4) Finishing.
Named her Grace and was sure to add a Texas flag!

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Phase 1 – Hull beginning…

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…Phase 2 – Hull finishing…

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…Phase 3 – Sail integration…

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…Phase 4 – Finishing isometric view…

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…Phase 4 – …finishing hull view…

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…Phase 4 – …finishing stern view.

49. Wooden Boats – Conclusion
It’s been quite an adventure since the initial days of WoodenBoat education with Ted Moores.
Final questions?