March Spring 2012 Adult Classes Buffalo Harbor Ferry (10 weeks) Tuesdays beginning March 13th 5:00pm until 8:00pm. Using the boat building methods of the last century, we build an historically accurate replica of a traditional boat which served in the Buffalo Harbor in the 19th century. Build it, launch it, then go aboard to row it! Enrollment is limited to 8 people. Instructor: Richard Butz and John Montague. Course cost for members: $ 130. Non-members: $ 180. Includes all materials and required tools. 6-Hour Canoe, Black Rock Skimmer and Weekend Skiff (10 weeks) Wednesdays beginning March 14th 6:30pm until 8:30pm. These 15- ft. pulling boats were designed with the novice in mind. The skiff is intended to hold a family of two adults and two children or three adults. In its basic form it weighs about 80 pounds and is easily car-topped. The skimmer is intended for a single adult rower who is out for exercise. The canoe can hold about 250 pounds, making it ideal for an adult or two children. All boats are stable and the Skimmer is quite swift. Enrollment is limited to 8 people. Instructor: Bill Rogers. 6 Hour Canoe- Course and kit cost for members: $600. Non-members: $650. Black Rock Skimmer- Course and kit cost for members: $600. Non-members: $ 650. Weekend Skiff- Course and kit cost for members: $900. Non-members: $950. Chesapeake Light Craft Kayak Mill Creek (10 weeks) Thursdays beginning March 15th 5:00pm until 8:00pm. Participants construct 13- ft. recreational kayaks from pre-cut kits. Designed for paddlers weighing 125 to 250 pounds, boats weigh about 40 pounds and are stable with large cockpits. In 1997 they were featured in WoodenBoat magazine, and since then thousands have been built. Enrollment is limited to 6 people. Instructor: Gary Kresser. Course and kit cost for members: $1650. Non-members: $1700. Lofting (2 days) Saturday March 10th and Sunday March 11th from 9:00am until 5:00pm. Lofting is the process of taking a set of boat plans and converting the information on them into full sized patterns from which you can actually build a boat. Books have been written on the subject but nothing compares to actually lofting a boat with someone who fully understands and enjoys the process. Students loft buttock lines, waterlines, sections and diagonals for a very shapely round bottomed dinghy with a raked transom. Lofting a stem rabbet and expanding both faces of the transom are included. If you don't know what any of that means but want to build a boat someday, don't worry; you'll know the terms and understand the process when you leave. This is another two day course, all materials are provided, and again no prior experience is required. Enrollment is limited to 8 people. Course cost for members: $65. Non-members: $90. Half Model Making (2 days) Saturday March 17th and Sunday March 18th from 9:00am until 5:00pm. Making half models is one of the most satisfying projects that can be undertaken with some basic woodworking tools and next to no shop space. Developed by boat builders, half models are actually a design tool. They capture the lovely shape and the lines of form of a boat, in scale. Students will use a band saw, spoke shaves, spoon gouges, block planes and some other hand tools. This class is a great introduction to boatbuilding because you will work with hand tools and with a rudimentary set of actual boat plans. Students make a lift half model of the Lake Erie Shallop Scajaquada. All tools and materials are provided. No prior experience with tools or boat plans is required. Enrollment is limited to 8 people. Course cost for members: $85. Non-members: $110. Boatbuilding Carpentry (2 days) Saturday May 5th and Sunday May 6th from 9:00am until 5:00pm. This is another Saturday and Sunday class, and while either Lofting or Half Model making would be helpful, no prior experience with woodworking is required. Boatbuilding is all about using the right materials, and getting good fits for the various joints where curves and bevels meet. Special tools, methods and materials have been developed over the several thousands of years of the craft and this class is a "hands on" for all of those things. Steam bending, fasteners, goops glues and other materials are all covered as is sharpening tools. Cost includes all materials and use of the required tools. Enrollment is limited to 8 people. Instructor: Roger Allen. Course cost for members: $130. Non-members: $155. Oar and Spar Making (2 days) Saturday May 19th and Sunday May 20th from 9:00am until 5:00pm. Oars and spars share some specific techniques and tools. If you can make a pair of oars you can make a mast, boom, or gaff. Making a really fine pair of oars is another of those woodworking projects that can be done in a minimal shop at home from materials available at the local lumber yard with rewards given every time you pull on a finely balanced set. There is literally no comparison between a great oar made just for your personally built boat and the clumsy, boxy clubs that are available through the local marine supply store. For the cost of the course you should walk away from our shop with a set that you love and the knowledge to make others as your fleet grows. Enrollment is limited to 8 people. Instructor: Roger Allen. Course cost for members: $120. Non-members: $145. ____________________________________________________________ Roger Allen's 2012 Boat Classes Plane Making A traditional boat builder has at least two planes in the toolkit that are personally made, a "backing out" plane and a "spar" plane. One has a convex sole and the other is concave. While the vast majority have been cut from oak in North America, fine wooden planes have been made out of hard woods like beech, rock maple, hornbeam, and exotics such as rosewood or ebony. Once you've made a plane that fits your own hand, and used it to hollow out a carvel plank or the blade of a perfect oar, you'll find it easier to do many other woodworking projects with true "hand tools". This is a two day course and costs just a bit more because we supply all of the materials needed including the plane iron. Course cost for members: $110. Non-members: $135. The Boatbuilder's Toolkit Along with wooden planes, boat builders make a variety of specialty tools to help solve boatbuilding's unique woodworking problems. Special marking and measuring gauges, fids, custom scrapers, lap clamps, and other tools carefully shaped out of brass, cherry, bone, and tool steel are the product of this two day class. Making a tool that is unique in design and decoration while being truly functional is one of the most satisfying ways to spend time when the snow is thick on the ground. Take two days and learn how. Course cost for members: $95. Non-members: $120. ____________________________________________________________ Also available Optimist Pram. The "Opty" is a popular 8-ft. sailing pram used by yacht clubs and sailing associations as trainers the world over. Weighing in at about 65 pounds and yours to keep, it is an ideal beginner's project for a parent and child to work on together and then learn to sail. Course and kit cost for members: $1,850. Non-members: $1,900. Kayak Building for Women. A beautiful plywood kayak is like fine furniture and paddles like a dream. It draws one to the water and the joy of being "out there". With our staff and modern techniques, we make building a kayak from a kit accessible to all who want to follow. Course and kit cost for members: $1,650. Non-members: $1,700. Sailor's Sea Chest. Build a pine Sailor's Sea Chest with dovetail joints, brass hinges and hemp grommet handles! This project brings students to a higher confidence level with several more advanced power woodworking tools. The chest can be painted, varnished, washed with a transparent stain or even distressed and oiled. The cost of the workshop does not include varnishes or paints for finishes. Medium-sized outside dimensions approx. 24" x 12" x 12". Boards are 1/2". Course and kit cost for members: $185. Non-members: $235. Large-sized outside dimensions approx. 39" x 19" x 16.5". Boards are 3/4". Course and kit cost for members: $285. Non-members: $335. Sweating the Small Stuff--building small model boats. Do you have a model kit for a wooden boat you didn't quite finish and need some advice and assistance? We can help! Bring in the kit, let us see what needs to be done, and we'll get you going to finish it. Some minimal cost to participants for materials used. ____________________________________________________________ Youth Classes 6 Hour Canoe. Integrate STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) into your classroom experience! Students will learn the craft of boat building with this simple canoe design. The class will expose students to measuring, cutting, drilling, gluing, and assembling a 15- ft canoe. Each canoe will be made by three students plus an experienced mentor. Classes are for two hours, twice a week, for five weeks. Scheduling can be adjusted as needed. Recommended for grades 7-12. Course cost for members: $500/boat. Non-members: $550/boat. ____________________________________________________________
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