This boat, a particularly sweet example (as are they all) of a Grandy lapstrake skiff built in 2010 for a local owner, is for sale at the School’s website.
The boat is lapstrake planked with old-growth western red cedar over steambent white oak frames, and fastened with coppy rivets and roves to a sapele backbone. The standing lug rig was made by Northwest Sails which is co-located with the School.
The Grandy is 11 1/2 feet long with a beam of just four feet. It can easily carry well over 225 pounds on an eight inch draft which, as you can see in these pictures, is not even close to its capacity.
A set of spruce oars, leathered and custom-fit to the boat, rounds out the ensemble.
It’s easily trailered behind even small compact cars as it weighs around 250 pounds including its rig, and is a perfect boat for enjoying the protected salt water coves of the Puget Sound as well as the many freshwater lakes that abound in our region.
Head on over to the School’s website at www.nwboatschool.org for details, price, and who to contact.
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 a former instructor from an original boat owned by The Center For Wooden Boats www.cwb.org in Seattle WA.
We build one to two boats like this each year. It is unusual to find them for sale, as these small craft are some of our most popular 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.
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 reach us via e-mail at info@nwboatschool.org or by calling us at 360-385-4948.
