The cold molded sailboat (CM20) for the handicapped sailing program at Challenge Mountain takes shape as students install the strip planking. This layer will be followed by two layers of veneer. The utility launch’s planking is completed and work will soon begin on her decks and interior.
Thanks to the help of boat designers Fred Ford and Ken Workinger the third quarter composite boat building project to benefit the handicapped sailing program at Challenge Mountain is underway. Tiara Yachts has very generously supplied the Great Lakes Boat Building School with donated computer generated and produced station moulds that will be used in building this exciting strip planked, cold molded sailboat. Please be sure and visit this site frequently for updated photos and descriptions as the boat takes shape! If you have any questions about 2008-2009 full time program or our summer workshops, please give us a call at 906-484-1081. See you soon!
Registration is open for the 2008 Full-Time Vocational Program that begins in September. Please click here for registration and enrollment information!
The Summer Workshop Catalog is now available for Download!
Representatives from the Great Lakes Boat Building School will discuss the school and its programs at North Central Michigan College’s Luncheon Lecture Series 2008 on February 22. For further information, or to make a reservation, please contact the college at 231-348-6602. See you there!
With the partial backbone in place for the 21 foot utility launch in the background, Chris Musson carefully chisels out the rabbet in the boat’s stem. After several weeks of lofting and pattern making, this second quarter electric boat building project is taking shape. Read the rest of this entry »
Great Lakes Boat Building School partners with Challenge Mountain on the design and construction of a sailboat for the disabled and handicapped.
The boat school’s Traditional Boat Building quarter will begin on January 3, 2008 with the lofting of the lines of this utitlity launch designed by Nelson Zimmer. Using plans purchased from Wooden Boat’s Fifty Wooden Boats, the class will build this beautiful “green” boat using an electric motor and system provided by the Elco Electric Launch Company. Final interior work will be part of the course schedule in the boat school’s fourth quarter Yacht Joinery class taking place in the summer of 2008.