craftsmanship – Kitchen Inspiration

IMG_5439 – Port Hadlock WA – Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding – Traditional Large Craft – Chamberlin-36 SEA BEAST – chopping the keel rabbet – L to R – C. Dworsky, J. Lyding, M. UIenga, R. Ewan, M. Lee

October 14, 2020 by 4g3nd4

www.nwboatschool.org

This big 36-foot long motor sailor was designed by designer Carl Chamberlin of Port Townsend WA and modified for an owner in southern California. Construction began in January, 2014. It is being built at the School 2014-1016 by the Traditional Large Craft classes under the direction of Instructor Ben Kahn.

SEA BEAST, named after the owner’s favorite dog, is the second of these big motor sailors to be built, and was expanded six inches in beam to accommodate a Gardner 3L diesel engine.

Instructor Ben Kahn is leading construction.

The boat will be planked with port orford cedar planking over white oak frames on a purpleheart keel. The deck house will be built of fiberglassed marine plywood, and the masts and spars constructed of sitka spruce.

The class of 2014 will loft the boat and construct the keel, build the molds, set up the backbone and and frame the boat. The class of 2015 will plank the hull and construct a great deal of the interior and part of the house. The class of 2016 will complete the boat. Systems installation will be supported by each class as marine systems experts go about their work. We are fortunate to be able to work closely with designer Carl Chamberlin during construction.

The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is located in Port Hadlock WA and is a private, accredited non-profit vocational school.

Our mission is to teach and preserve the fine art of wooden boatbuilding and traditional maritime crafts.

We build both commissioned and speculative boats to US Coast Guard standards while teaching adult students the traditional wood and wood composite boatbuilding skills they will need to work in the marine trades. We sell our boats to help support the School. Please feel free to give us a call should you like to discuss our building a boat for you.

You can find us on the web at www.nwboatschool.org .

You can reach us via e-mail at info@nwboatschool.org or by calling us at 360-385-4948.

Posted by Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding on 2014-05-06 14:28:21

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IMG_9971 – Mystery Bay State Park – 2016 Croosa Palooza – SCAMP “SILVER BELLE”

October 11, 2020 by 4g3nd4

SCAMP, the class name of this little pram, stands for Small Craft Advisor Magazine Project. It was developed by New Zealand designer John Welsford for the Port Townsend-based magazine Small Craft Advisor. Designer/Builder Kees Prins helped to further develop the design. smallcraftadvisor.com/

The boat is 11 feet 11 inches long overall, has a beam of 5 feet 4 inches, and a draft of 7 inches with its offset centerboard up. It is ballasted with 173 pounds of water that is drained when the boat is hauled up the launching ramp, and consequently is easily towed behind any small vehicle such as Subaru Outback. smallcraftadvisor.com/scamppagemenu

It is considered a "micro-cruiser", and can sleep one person on a 8 foot 3 inch berth or two people on a 6 foot 6 inch berth. It accomplishes this massive amount of room in such a short length both because it is pram-bowed, meaning the vee-bow ends just above the water and flares into a flat transom, which significantly enhances available space, and because the centerboard is offset to one side (and is, in fact, nestled into the right-hand seat). As a result, four average-sized adults can easily fit into the cockpit with room to spare.

The boat can be built from plans or from a kit, both available from Small Craft Advisor. It has proven to be a very popular design, with dozens and dozens built to date all over the world.

Small Craft Advisor maintains a very active online discussion board for the boat, here: smallcraftadvisor.com/message-board2/viewforum.php?f=3

You will find designer John Welsford here: www.jwboatdesigns.co.nz/index.html

John Welsford’s design page, which showcases the range of his boats and has lot of great interaction, is on Facebook, here: www.facebook.com/groups/440526479459574/

Building and sailing classes are offered by The Pocket Yacht. You can find out more, here: www.thepocketyacht.com/ .

For a continuing discussion of SCAMPs, check out the WoodenBoat forum thread "SCAMP Envy and Lust", here: forum.woodenboat.com/showthread.php?139540-SCAMP-envy-lust

And for even more pictures of SCAMPs, check here: www.flickr.com/groups/2722238@N23/

Posted by BlackShoe1 on 2016-06-15 00:48:34

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IMG_1548 – Nordland WA – Nordland General Store pier – 2015 Red Lantern Rally – ice cream race to the Nordland General Store and back – Josh Colvin and kids in SCAMP-1

October 11, 2020 by 4g3nd4

It is considered a "micro-cruiser", and can sleep one person on a 8 foot 3 inch berth or two people on a 6 foot 6 inch berth. It accomplishes this massive amount of room in such a short length because it is pram-bowed, meaning the vee-bow ends just above the water and flares into a flat transom, which significantly enhances available space. Four adults can easily fit into the cockpit with room to spare.

The boat can be built from plans or from a kit, both available from Small Craft Advisor. It has proven to be a very popular design, and dozens have been built to date.

Small Craft Advisor maintains a very active online discussion board for the boat, here: smallcraftadvisor.com/message-board2/viewforum.php?f=3

You will find designer John Welsford here: www.jwboatdesigns.co.nz/index.html

It is considered a "micro-cruiser", and can sleep one person on a 8 foot 3 inch berth or two people on a 6 foot 6 inch berth. It accomplishes this massive amount of room in such a short length because it is pram-bowed, meaning the vee-bow ends just above the water and flares into a flat transom, which significantly enhances available space. Four adults can easily fit into the cockpit with room to spare.

The boat can be built from plans or from a kit, both available from Small Craft Advisor. It has proven to be a very popular design, and dozens have been built to date.

Small Craft Advisor maintains a very active online discussion board for the boat, here: smallcraftadvisor.com/message-board2/viewforum.php?f=3

John Welsford is the well-known New Zealand boat designer who works in both sail and power. His boats are known for their seaworthiness and rugged good looks. He was profiled in WoodenBoat magazine issue 225 (March/April 2012) by author Tom Pamperin, whose description of John’s design ethic fits him well: "Welsford is at heart a romantic, I realize – an engineer with a poet’s soul, a draftsman disguising escape machines in rolling bevels and beautiful curves…"

> Website: www.jwboatdesigns.co.nz/
> John’s blog: jwboatdesigns.blogspot.com/
> John’s plans are available here:
duckworksbbs.com/plans/jw/index.htm

Building and sailing classes are offered by The Pocket Yacht. You can find out more, here: www.thepocketyacht.com/
Building and sailing classes are offered by The Pocket Yacht. You can find out more, here: www.thepocketyacht.com/

Posted by BlackShoe1 on 2015-07-28 20:12:49

The inviting spiral of a Heavenly staircase

October 10, 2020 by 4g3nd4

"Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth as it is in Heaven."
— Matthew 6:10

Bringing Utopian ideas into real life is tough. If you want everyone to have equal opportunity, how do you do it? If you want to eliminate sexism and racism, how? If you want everyone to have their essentials covered of bread, water, shelter and healthcare, how? Making ideas of a just and fair Heaven stick on a very messy and limited earth is very tough stuff.

How do you lift your slice of the world up? For one, do one’s work well. For example, architecture can inspire and remind the user that the path to heaven isn’t so long. This 1839 spiraling staircase in the old Trustees’ Office at the Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky is marvelous to behold. It’s beautiful.

It is amazing what Shaker non-architects accomplished in their desire to have the everyday mundane touch a bit of Heaven.

Shakers had a framework for their community layouts and building designs. Their overarching goal was to bring heaven to earth, as can be seen in this staircase from on high that connects the earth beneath.

Posted by sniggie on 2017-03-11 14:50:56

Tagged: , woodwork , spiral staircase , rail , HDR , Kentucky , Shaker’s Village , craftsmanship , artisan Micajah Burnett , architecture , Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill , National Historic Landmark

250|365 Pen Product Pic – Round 3 ~ Light Box

October 6, 2020 by 4g3nd4

Theme: Light Box

Cento made some more pens in his workshop (magnificent looking pens I might add) and I took some more product shots for him. Actually, this little photo project is what motivated me to make the DIY light box in the first place and I’m sure happy I did! And man, I love how you can achieve such smooth, even highlights with this thing!

This is a shot from round two, I think I made some real lighting progress.

— Strobist —
1 Vivitar 285 HV @ 1/2 at about 12 o’clock over top of my DIY light box

— Critiques Welcome —
– www.comatosed.ca –

Posted by Greg Samborski on 2009-09-08 15:50:37

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The Built Environment, South East London, England.

October 3, 2020 by 4g3nd4

Abandoned Public House.

Earmarked for demolition.

LR3308

Posted by Joseph O’Malley64 on 2019-03-30 11:26:09

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IMG_5313 – Port Hadlock WA – Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding – Traditional Large Craft – Hacker-21 Special – student Johnathan Ishmael cutting the stem rabbet

October 1, 2020 by 4g3nd4

www.nwboatschool.org

Student Johnathan Ishmael at work cutting the rabbet on the stem of the Hacker-21 Special.

This 21-foot runabout was designed by John L Hacker in the mid-1930’s while working in Detroit Michigan for the Canadian Greavette Company.

The Class of 2014 has been commissioned to build the boat. The new boat will have a bottom laminated of mahogany over marine plywood and mahogany sides and decks. It will be powered by a Crusader 5.7-liter engine.

The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is located in Port Hadlock WA and is an accredited, non-profit vocational school. You can find us on the web at www.nwboatschool.org .

Our mission is to teach and preserve the fine art of wooden boatbuilding and traditional maritime crafts.

You can reach us via e-mail at info@nwboatschool.org or by calling us at 360-385-4948.

Posted by Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding on 2014-05-03 15:43:01

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Old Handmade Woodwork

September 30, 2020 by 4g3nd4

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Craftsmanship found in antique shop in Santa Rosa, Northern California, USA.

Posted by sswj on 2019-04-22 18:20:02

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Handscrew and Stop Block

September 25, 2020 by 4g3nd4

Stop Block.
I clamped this piece of scrap to the work in preparation for rounding over the edge. It helped to keep the router from doing anything unexpected at the corner.

Posted by greg_guarino on 2011-10-15 23:41:38

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IMG_1733 – Port Hadlock WA – Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding – Traditional Small Craft – toolchest and mallet

September 25, 2020 by 4g3nd4

The School begins classes once each year, early in October. Students are divided into sections of 12 students each, and get two hours of classroom instruction and six hours of shop instruction per day, Monday through Friday 8am – 5pm.

Basic Boatbuilding is the focus of the first semester, which runs from early October to late December.

The instructors assume that most, if not all, students have no woodworking skills and proceed from that assumption. The skills taught in the first semester are those essential to boatbuilding, and the course, for that reason, is very "hands-on".

Students learn to sharpen and use all their tools, and participate in a wide range of individual skill-building exercises, from learning to make the joints commonly used in boatbuilding to a series of tools. Basic lathe work is taught. Students build a dovetailed shoulder box and a wooden mallet, seen here. Students learn to draft and make a half-model. Then, working in pairs, they learn to loft a boat full-size on the floor. Finally, working, together as a team, the quarter culminates in December as students work together to build a flat-bottomed skiff.

The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is located in Port Hadlock WA and is a private, accredited non-profit vocational school.

Our mission is to teach and preserve the fine art of wooden boatbuilding and traditional maritime crafts. We build both commissioned and speculative boats for sale while teaching students boatbuilding the skills they need to work in the marine trades.

You can find us on the web at www.nwboatschool.org .

You can reach us via e-mail at info@nwboatschool.org or by calling us at 360-385-4948

Posted by Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding on 2014-01-11 16:29:22

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The Chair

September 23, 2020 by 4g3nd4

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Port Hadlock WA – Boat School – Nutshell Pram transom being epoxied-coated

September 22, 2020 by 4g3nd4

The Joel White-designed Nutshell Pram is a popular plywood composite pram. They’re an excellent project for our students as they can easily be built during the six month Contemporary Boatbuilding course taught annually from January through mid-June. We often build two at a time to give students more opportunities to learn the basics on these extremely capable small craft.

Prams have transoms on each end – the bow is usually a bit smaller than the stern transom. They’re workhorses, designed to carry a lot of weight back and forth to a boat from the pier. They’re designed to be easy to tow behind a sailboat, or to lift up and store on deck for longer passages. The Nutshell Pram succeeds admirably on all of these accounts.

The Nutshell Pram can be built as a rowing-only boat or equipped with a centerboard and spars so it can be sailed.

For more on Joel White, please see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_White

WoodenBoat magazine is also a great source of information about Joel White, his life and designs. www.woodenboat.com

Joel White’s obituary, in the New York Times, provides an excellent overview of this talented designer. www.nytimes.com/1997/12/10/sports/joel-white-66-designer-…

The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is located in Port Hadlock WA, on the Olympic Peninsula, and is a private, accredited non-profit vocational school.

Our mission is to teach and preserve the fine art of wooden boatbuilding and traditional maritime crafts.

We build both commissioned and speculative boats for sale while teaching students boatbuilding the skills they need to work in the marine trades.We build boats both on commission and on speculation.

You may find us on the web at www.nwboatschool.org .

You can reach us via e-mail at info@nwboatschool.org or by calling us at 360-385-4948.

Posted by Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding on 2011-05-23 22:17:37

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