The Traditional Small Craft class of 2013 working under the direction of Senior Instructor Jeff Hammond built this GRandy Skiff. It is 11 feet 7 inches long and 4 feet 3 inches in beam. It weighs about 175 pounds.
The lapstrake boat is built on a sapele backbone. It’s western red cedar planking is clench nailed to steam-bent white oak frames with copper nails.
The Grandy Boat Company was formerly located on Lake Union in Seattle, and made many hundreds of boats both large and small during a long tenure there from the early 1920’s to 1967.
Here’s a good web page about the company and it’s boats: home.comcast.net/~btse1/grandy/grandymainpage.htm
Our students build these boats to lines and documentation taken by former instructor Tim Lee from an original boat owned by The Center For Wooden Boats www.cwb.org in Seattle WA.
Grandy skiffs built by our students are usually between 9 and 14.5 feet long. We build one to two boats like this each year. These small craft are some of our most popular small boats.
The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is located in Port Hadlock WA and is a private, accredited non-profit vocational school. You can find us on the web at www.nwboatschool.org .
Our mission is to teach and preserve the skills and crafts of fine wooden boatbuilding and other traditional maritime crafts.
You can reach us via e-mail at info@nwboatschool.org or by calling us at 360-385-4948.
