Marine Industry Experts present interactive demonstrations
7/1/2005
Steam bending, plank spiling, spar making, and dove tailing are just a few of the skills that will be demonstrated by industry experts at the 14th annual WoodenBoat Show taking place at the Newport Yachting Center in Newport, Rhode Island on August 26 - 28. All workshops are free to show attendees. Show tickets cost $10 per day or $18 for a three-day pass. Additional show information can be found at http://www.woodenboat.com or by calling 800 273-7447.
Instructors and students of the International Yacht Restoration School (IYRS) will take the mystery out of some critical skills that are essential to boatbuilding: using steam to bend wood on Friday at 10:30 a.m. and again Sunday at 10:30 a.m.; and the way to determine how to cut a flat board to make a curved and twisted plank fit exactly, a process called plank spiling on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. IYRS students study to learn state-of-the-art methods for bringing wooden boats back to life. The highly regarded full-time, two-year program is based at Thames Street in Newport-just a short distance from the show site.
Aime Ontario Fraser of Shelton, Connecticut, teaches and writes about boatbuilding and woodworking. She has taught at The WoodenBoat School and is a frequent contributor to WoodenBoat. In WB No. 149, she wrote about making spars of individual pieces, each shaped like a "bird's mouth" in cross-section for effective gluing with epoxy, and she also wrote about fine-tuning and sharpening wood planes in WB No. 158. She'll show how to make birds mouth spars on Friday at 12:30 p.m. She will also discuss tool sharpening on Saturday at 12:30 p.m., and considerations for setting up a home boat shop on Sunday at 12:30 p.m.
Harry Bryan built his first boat at age 10. He worked in yards in Massachusetts before homesteading in New Brunswick in 1972. He builds his boats in a shop that is "off the grid," as described in WB No. 132. His boatbuilding techniques-and his inventiveness in fashioning tools to suit his needs-have been described frequently in WoodenBoat, where he is a contributing editor and a regular teacher at WoodenBoat School. He will describe the effective use of hand tools, using a mock-up of deck beams to illustrate his points, starting on Saturday at 2 p.m. and again on Sunday at 2 p.m.
Harold Burnham comes from a long line of shipbuilders in Essex, Massachusetts. There he built, among other masterpieces, the schooner THOMAS E. LANNON for a charter operator and the chebacco boat LEWIS H. STORY for the Essex Shipbuilding Museum. He will demonstrate one of the oldest shipwright's arts: shaping a hull by first building a half-model. He'll start off with an axe, and the chips will begin to fly on Friday at 2 p.m.
Karen Wales is a boat builder and woodworker living in Chamberlain, Maine. She has been an instructor at The WoodenBoat School and is a frequent contributor to WoodenBoat Magazine. She wrote about building a tool tote in WB No. 183 and she'll build one in person starting at 4 pm. on Friday. Karen will demonstrate how to make simple angle, hand-cut dovetails. She uses this joinery to construct a tool carrier, as it is a practical project to get you started. While a hand-cut dovetail of any type is a mark of craftsmanship, simple angle dovetails are of particular value to the marine woodworker. The canted sides of a housetop or sea chest add utility and stability to these pieces while underway at sea. Historically, simple angle dovetails have been used in their construction. Karen will show how to hand-cut these strong and beautiful joints so that anyone can add them to their own projects.
Brion Rieff is the proprietor of Brion Rieff Boat Building in Brooklin, Maine. At any given time, he and his staff may be working on a traditional yacht restoration, a new cold-molded schooner, a foam-core racing boat of his own design, a plank-on-frame Herreshoff Alerion, and a small lapstrake skiff. Vacuum bagging is an efficient and very effective technique of using vacuum pressure to force the thin veneers of cold-molded planking tightly together while the epoxy glue cures. Brion will demonstrate the method on Saturday at 4 p.m.
For more information please contact Leslie Lindeman.
Aime Ontario Fraser of Shelton, Connecticut, teaches and writes about boatbuilding and woodworking. She has taught at The WoodenBoat School and is a frequent contributor to WoodenBoat. In WB No. 149, she wrote about making spars of individual pieces, each shaped like a "bird's mouth" in cross-section for effective gluing with epoxy, and she also wrote about fine-tuning and sharpening wood planes in WB No. 158. She'll show how to make birds mouth spars on Friday at 12:30 p.m. She will also discuss tool sharpening on Saturday at 12:30 p.m., and considerations for setting up a home boat shop on Sunday at 12:30 p.m.
Harry Bryan built his first boat at age 10. He worked in yards in Massachusetts before homesteading in New Brunswick in 1972. He builds his boats in a shop that is "off the grid," as described in WB No. 132. His boatbuilding techniques-and his inventiveness in fashioning tools to suit his needs-have been described frequently in WoodenBoat, where he is a contributing editor and a regular teacher at WoodenBoat School. He will describe the effective use of hand tools, using a mock-up of deck beams to illustrate his points, starting on Saturday at 2 p.m. and again on Sunday at 2 p.m.
Harold Burnham comes from a long line of shipbuilders in Essex, Massachusetts. There he built, among other masterpieces, the schooner THOMAS E. LANNON for a charter operator and the chebacco boat LEWIS H. STORY for the Essex Shipbuilding Museum. He will demonstrate one of the oldest shipwright's arts: shaping a hull by first building a half-model. He'll start off with an axe, and the chips will begin to fly on Friday at 2 p.m.
Brion Rieff is the proprietor of Brion Rieff Boat Building in Brooklin, Maine. At any given time, he and his staff may be working on a traditional yacht restoration, a new cold-molded schooner, a foam-core racing boat of his own design, a plank-on-frame Herreshoff Alerion, and a small lapstrake skiff. Vacuum bagging is an efficient and very effective technique of using vacuum pressure to force the thin veneers of cold-molded planking tightly together while the epoxy glue cures. Brion will demonstrate the method on Saturday at 4 p.m.
For more information please contact Leslie Lindeman.