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WoodenBoat School, Brooklin, Maine
Build your own Adirondack Guide Boat early July 2011
Wooden
Boat Foundation, Port Townsend WA.
Build your own Wood Duck late April 2011
Chesapeake Light
Craft, Annapolis, Maryland
Build your own Wood Duck late September 2011 in association with the WoodenBoat School
Great
Lakes Boat Building School ,cedarville, MI
Maine
Maritime Museum in Bath Maine.
Build your own kayak from a kit early september 2011
One of the most popular classes has been the "Build your own Wood
Duck Kayak Class".
The Wood Duck is a recreational kayak designed for comfortable, relaxing
paddling in sheltered waters. This kayak is built from mahogany plywood
which makes her very pretty as well as light weight and strong. She
is available in three sizes 10 feet or 12 feet or 13'-9" long. larger paddlers will
want the larger boat as will those wishing a bit more speed. We will
build this little boat starting with the plywood panels and get it ready
for you to varnish at home. We may even get to try it out before you
travel home.
A New class this year is "Build your own Guide Boat"
This new glued lapstrake guide boat is a very pretty and fun rowing boat for fishermen and recreational rowers on lakes, flatwater rivers and sheltered freshwater. I have revised my earlier guideboat design to be a kit produced by Chesapeake Light Craft. The kit should be available in 2011.
15 feet 6inches long by 38" wide
Instructor Profile:
ERIC SCHADE of Phippsburg, Maine was trained as a mechanical engineer,
and has practiced that profession for 20 years. In 1983, he built his
first boat, a small canoe. Since then he has built more than 50 small
boats, including kayaks, canoes, rowing boats, and small sailboats.
In 1996 he founded Shearwater Boats (www.shearwater-boats.com) to offer
custom canoes and kayaks. Gradually Shearwater has developed to the
point where it offers an extensive line of stitch-and-glue watercraft—kayaks,
canoes, rowing boats, and sailboats. Eric has also designed a line of
new boats offered by the Chesapeake Light Craft company (www.CLCboats.com)
Eric has taught boat building classes in Norwalk, Connecticut and at
the WoodenBoat School In Brooklin, Maine with something like 150 boats
built by his students.
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