Lapstrake boats are framed after they’re planked. Here, the Traditional Small Craft class students are framing one of the two Grandy Skiffs built in 2007. Frames are white oak. Framing each boat took a morning – in four hours, it was all done. Many hands make light work!
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. These small craft are one of our most popular boats.
Here’s a good web page about the company and it’s boats: home.comcast.net/~btse1/grandy/grandymainpage.htm
We build these boats to lines and documentation taken by our Chief Instructor, Tim Lee, from an original boat owned by The Center For Wooden Boats www.cwb.org in Seattle WA.
The Grandy’s we build are usually between 11.5 and 14.5 feet long. They’re lapstrake planked in western red cedar, with sapele stems, keels and transoms. Frames are White Oak or Black Locust.
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.
