Brooklin Maine The wooden boat school camp ground
That is me and billy at the camp ground in the wooden boat school brooklin maine june 2016
The Alumni Community of WoodenBoat School
The WoodenBoat School in Brooklin, Maine, offers classes in boatbuilding and seamanship from June to September: Each spring, a few lucky alumni of the School from all over the United States return to the school to help commission the campus and boats for the season. For two weeks, they paint, hammer, chisel, and saw. In the process, they bring the place to life while honing their skills and forging deep friendships.
Anyone who completes a class at the WoodenBoat School is considered an alumnus and is eligible to participate in Alumni Week. So many people want to work for free we have to hold a lottery. The ones who are selected consider themselves lucky.
Maybe you can join them. Become a student at thewoodenboatschool.com
2018 08 Cruising Maine - Brooklin to Rockland
We made the short trek from Camden to Brooklin in heavy fog, dodging lobster pots along the way. In Brooklin, home of the Wooden Boat School, we watched the Wood Boat Regatta before heading on to Rockland
The Alumni Community of WoodenBoat School, Part 2
It has been a hectic few weeks of non-stop work getting the boats ready for the students coming in the 2015 season. Now the effort moves to the waterfront as our fleet of boats are launched. Thanks to the eager and competent help of our alumni, we can once again open up another season of WoodenBoat School to new and returning students from all over the world.
The WoodenBoat School in Brooklin, Maine, offers classes in boatbuilding and seamanship from June to September. Each spring, a few lucky alumni of the School travel from all over North America to help commission the campus and boats for the season. For two weeks, they paint, hammer, chisel, and saw. In the process, they bring the place to life while honing their skills and forging deep friendships.
Anyone who completes a class at the WoodenBoat School is considered an alumnus and is eligible to participate in Alumni Week. So many people want to volunteer their time during these two weeks, we have to hold a lottery. The ones who are selected consider themselves lucky.
Maybe you can join them. Become a student at thewoodenboatschool.com.
CFCC Wooden Boat Building Program
Program profile for Cape Fear Community College's unique Wooden Boat Building Program taught by Instructor Mark Bayne. Students learn to build a boat from the raw lumber all the way to the final floating product. Graduates from this program are prepared to work in all forms of the Boat Building field as well as handle most any form of carpentry.
Parade and Summer Recreation in Brooklin, Maine 1951
Home movie- Roasting marshmallows over a bonfire, the Brooklin convenience store, sailing, picnics, swimming. Summer in Maine.
For more, see the Rebecca Freethey Viall Collection at Northeast Historic Film.
This project was funded by the Hancock County Fund of the Maine Community Foundation. See more video clips of Hancock County at NHF's YouTube playlist Hancock County, Maine: A Century of Moving Images or visit us at oldfilm.org
Brooklin School students help restore native salmon population
Students at the Brooklin School have been hatching salmon eggs, caring for the salmon until they are fry, and releasing them for many years. This video documents the third and fourth grade class in 2005 as they worked to help restore the native salmon population.
Wooden Boat Build #3 Glen-L Zip/Flying Saucer
Learning as I go, I've started assembling the frames to resemble a boat. A retro, all wood, dual cockpit runabout that is remenisent of the 1930's and 40's ChrisCrafts. It will be powered by a 1956 johnson 30hp outboard, and run on the Great South Bay, Long Island, New York. The great south bay is the body of water that exists between the south shore of LI and the barrier island that separates us from the Atlantic Ocean, which is known as Long Beach or Fire Island. The GSB is loaded with islands, pristene coves, and white sandy beaches, as well as restaurants, bars, and parks, including Jones Beach State Park, which has an awesome concert venue. Thanks for watching! Stay tuned and see how it works out.
Jim
Maine Boat Builders Hope for Smoother Seas After the Recession
The state of Maine has a long boat-building tradition. Ralph Stanley has spent most of his eighty years designing and buildings boats in the town of Southwest Harbor, Maine.
RALPH STANLEY: Takes a lot of skill to work with wood, to build a boat out of wood. Those skills are something that have been acquired over thousands of years and passed on to people. And, if somebody doesnt keep on building out of wood, it will be lost.
Stanley is retired from boat-building. But he worries that many builders are using materials like fiberglass to make copies of the boats hull, or body of a boat.
RALPH STANLEY: Fiberglass came along and I thought about going into fiberglass. But if I did, I would have to have a mold and I could never change that mold. And every boat Ive built I see something I would like to change on the next one.
Stanleys son Richard also builds boats. Richard Stanley says wood is able to take up the full energy of shocks. He says fiberglass is thicker and beats back the shocks.
Kerri Russell is head of Maine-Built Boats. The group provides support for the states boat building industry. She says many boat-builders have good reasons for using use fiberglass.
Russell worked for a company that makes boats with fiberglass. She says it strengthened the hulls, weighed less than wood, and required fewer repairs.
CUYLER MORRIS: This boat sails away for three hundred eighty-five thousand dollars.
Cuyler Morris is head of Morris Yachts, an award-winning builder of sail boats. Those boats sell for up to one million four hundred thousand dollars.
Morris says his company is always looking for the best materials and using them with the best design. He says usefulness is an important quality. Morris father started the company thirty-eight years ago. Morris Yachts now uses electrically-operated parts instead of hand-powered ones.
CUYLER MORRIS: There are all sorts of things that have made boating easier, like this little jiffy sail cover here.
A machine-powered sail cover protects the sail until it is needed.
Morris says the device is better than hand-powered winches. A winch is the name of a device used to open and close the sail. Kerri Russell says many boats are equipped with new technology because boat-builders want to increase sales among busy families.
Russell says technology is helpful for people who might not have time for traditional boats.
Cuyler Morris says something is special about boats built in Maine. He says Maine is all about quality -- whether you want a small wooden rowboat or a super sailing yacht. People just do it the right way.
The recession has deeply affected Maines boat industry. But Morris is hopeful about the future.
CUYLER MORRIS: Seventy-two percent of the world is covered with water. People are always going to boat. There is always going to be a demand for boats built in Maine because of quality, so Im really optimistic.
The future is less clear for builders of wooden boats. Ralph Stanley now spends a lot of his time playing a fiddle made from the wood he long used to build boats. I'm Shirley Griffith.
Boat building competition at belfast Maine
went to the 1st boat building competition in Belfast - 9 teams made 8 boats that floated in less than 4 hours
Angus King Reports from Brooklin, Maine
- United States Senate candidate Angus King checks in from Brooklin, Maine, after a week of travels to Sarah Lawrence University in New York to drop off Molly at college, and campaign stops at the Windsor Fair, Waterville, Oakland, Belfast, Searsport, Bangor, and more!
Build your own Wood Duck kayak class
Follow along as we build 5 stitch and glue kayaks in a class at Chesapeake Light Craft.
This class was offered through the WoodenBoat School (thewoodenboatschool.com) which offers a wide variety of boat related courses. classes are offered at the school in Brooklin Maine, and other venues such as CLC.
This class was a build your own Wood Duck class based on stitch and glue plywood kits offered by Chesapeake Light Craft (clcboats.com) Note that one Shearwater 17 snuck into class as well.
I was the instructor for this course. Students were mostly from Metro Washington DC plus a student from upper New York State. Brooklin classes tend to have students from around the country and abroad.
Adirondack Guide Boat mention on news cast
This is a local news station that allows viewers to send in pictures for a weather shot. I sent in a picture of my Adirondack Guide Boat that I built for them to air. Looks good but the picture that I sent was stretched by them.
Sailing the Eggemoggin Reach to Castine
Sights along the Eggemoggin reach and Castine
Brooklin Middle School Rocks!
Brooklin School Jazz Band
March 21, 2015
Maine State Middle School Jazz Fest
performing Jump, Jive an' Wail
Traditional Boatbuilders Face Challenges of New Technology, Uncertain Economy
In the northeastern U.S. state of Maine, the tradition of boat building dates back hundreds of years. Today, boat yards employ about 5 percent of the state's work force, and their industry generates over $600 million a year for the Maine economy. And with fishermen and pleasure seekers alike plying the state's 11,000 kilometers (7,000 miles) of coastline, there's been a steady demand for Maine-built boats. VOA's Julie Taboh spoke with some practitioners of the trade in and around Bar Harbor, where craftsmen create everything from hand-built wooden lobster boats to luxurious pleasure craft for customers the world over.
Maine's mysterious Viking penny part 2: how did it get here?
Part two of a two-part series about Maine's 'Viking penny,' found on the coast of Brooklin, ME.
Graham McKay, Marine Archaeologist & Boatbuilder
Born and raised along the Merrimack River in Amesbury, Massachusetts, I’ve always been fascinated with boats and the water. (I built my first boat in high school, and at the same time, began sailing tall ships…What I call, traditionally rigged vessels. ) After four years of studying economics and playing baseball at Harvard I found myself not wanting to head to Wall St. along with the rest of my class.Thus, my incurable interest in all things maritime led me to become both a commercial fisherman, and professional sailor.
By age 29 I was: A Sea Captain, A Commercial Diver, and a Fisheries Scientist. Ethically, the killing of marine life involved in commercial fishing became too much for me, and it was at this time that I chose to further my education in Maritime History and Archaeology, and moved to the U.K. to attend the University of Bristol where I obtained my Master's Degree in Maritime Archaeology.
Upon returning home from England, and as I was writing my master's thesis, I went back to my earlier roots in boatbuilding. I am now the Executive Director and Master Boatbuilder at Lowell’s Boat Shop in Amesbury, MA. Historically speaking, Lowell’s is the oldest operating wooden boat building business in the United States, as well as a working museum, whose mission is dedicated to continuing both the education and preservation of the craft of wooden boat building. (
For the past 8 years I have continued to build boats, captain tall ships, and have launched several youth programs in boat-building and related maritime experiences. I am also currently an Archaeologist sitting on the State Board of Underwater Archaeology. (
Over the years my professions and passion for maritime history have granted me numerous press and publicity opportunities, both in print and on television. I have travelled throughout New England teaching and lecturing on the art and craft of wooden boat building, and have consulted on marine archaeological projects and findings. I have also been featured in, or have written for publications including Woodenboat Magazine which has a current circulation of 70,000 paid subscribers.
Landing School Peapod Planking Part 2
Headquartered in Arundel, Maine, The Landing School is a full-time post-secondary school that blends education in modern yacht design, boat building and marine systems technology under one roof. Founded in 1978, The School's inaugural program focused on Wooden Boat Building. Today, the school has grown to incorporate diploma and Associate's degree curriculums with concentrations in four programs: Wooden Boat Building (Small or Cruising Boats option), Composite Boat Building, Marine Systems and Yacht Design. The Landing School's driving force is to bridge the gap between theory and practice, providing graduates with the skills and understanding necessary for current employment opportunities and future career growth. The Landing School is accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges (ACCSC). The Landing School is also approved as an institution of higher education by the Maine State Approving Agency for Veterans Education Programs. For more information about The School and their programs, please visit landingschool.edu.
Maine
Maine (/ˈmeɪn/; French: État du Maine) is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south; New Hampshire to the west; and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost portion of New England. It is known for its scenery—its jagged, mostly rocky coastline, its low, rolling mountains, its heavily forested interior, and picturesque waterways—as well as for its seafood cuisine, especially lobsters and clams.
For thousands of years, indigenous peoples were the only inhabitants of the territory that is now Maine. At the time of European encounter, several Algonquian-speaking peoples inhabited the area. The first European settlement in Maine was by the French in 1604 on Saint Croix Island, by Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons. The first English settlement in Maine, the short-lived Popham Colony, was established by the Plymouth Company in 1607. A number of English settlements were established along the coast of Maine in the 1620s, although the rugged climate, deprivations, and conflict with the local peoples caused many to fail over the years.
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