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With over twenty four wooden boats from nine feet to fifty two feet, canoes and dinghies to sailing yachts and motor yachts; clinker, carvel, cold mould, strip plank, and epoxy sheathed hulls; steamed frames, sawn frames, laminated frames; teak decks, sheathed decks; and 'fitting out' in solid hardwood to cabinet makers standards; keel bolts, stern tubes, skin fittings, cleats, winches and chain plates; skylights, hatches, self-draining cockpits and engine boxes; hollow masts, booms and bowsprits; working from plans or taking the lines, lofting and lifting mould and patterns; painting, varnishing, splicing... what other profession offers this amount of variety, and results in a practical creation of beauty that will take you across the greater expanse of the world's surface - water?
We pride ourselves in having a wide range of training projects for students to work on. Instructors are careful to match each student to an appropriate task.