Boat Building for Teens

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Learn the basics of wood working, and build your own canoe.
Event Start Date

Overview & Curriculum

This project is an opportunity for teens to learn beginner and intermediate woodworking techniques. Particiants will begin by learning to read and interpret detailed plans, basic boat building techniques, and tool safety training. Throughout the course of the week, students will learn more advanced techniques and use both hand and power tools to build their own canoe, then finish it off with a custom paint job.

On the final day of the project, students will set sail in Clemmons Lake at Ivy Creek Park.

Schedule

Start date: Monday, July 24
End date: Friday, July 28
Time: 9:00am - 3:00pm

Eligibility

This project is for students ages 14 to 19 (rising 9th through 12th grades). The registration fee is $300. Students will keep their canoe at the end of the project.

  

 

Des Black

Des is a retired engineer who has worked with wood most of this life and now creates one of a kind wooden bowls, boxes, coffee tables and other wooden items he is asked to make. He offers wood turning classes at Vector Space, is a member of the Central VA woodworkers guild, a member of the Virginia Artisans Trail and owns the Forest Splinters Threads business with his wife. His work can be seen at Goose Creek Studios in Bedford VA.