This Grandy Skiff is 11 1/2 feet long and is being built by 2014 Contemporary program students working at the instructor Bruce Blatchley. It has been strip-planked in western red cedar. The tan spots are fairing compound. It will be veneered, or cold-molded, using a thin layer of western red cedar over the strip planking. You can see a long piece of veneer clamped to the sheer in this picture.
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 former instructor Tim Lee, from an original boat owned by The Center For Wooden Boats www.cwb.org in Seattle WA.
Grandy skiffs built by our students are usually between 9 and 14.5 feet long. They’re lapstrake planked in western red cedar, with sapele stems, keels and transoms. Frames are White Oak or Black Locust. We build one to two boats like this each year. These small craft are some of our most popular boats.
This boat is the first Grandy to be built in the wood composite style by our Contemporary program. We expect it will be a very strong, yet, surprisingly light boat, and an excellent vessel to use as a dinghy.
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.