Last year I graduated from a weekend course with a half model of a sailing dinghy. I took my boat home and mounted it on a mirror. My grandchildren have asked why it has 4 oars. I thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity of working with wood and…
With the change to level two and the increase of group sizes to 100 we are now able to offer our much loved courses again. We have some new dates for our most popular courses below and more exciting announcements to come. Essential skills course…
Unfortunately due to the Covid19 situation we have had to postpone or cancel all upcoming courses and shut the school down until the situation becomes safe to operate again. If you have booked on an upcoming course, Eventfinda will be in touch in the next…
We have just finished listing a bunch of new and some of your favourite courses, make sure you check them out. Essential Skills course with John Welsford 4/5 April. more info here Introduction to Woodturning with Alan Hooper 18/19 April more info here Build a…
There is still a couple of spots availible for the awesome half model course this weekend, make sure you grab one! qrf This is a 2 day course on building half models. You will learn the basics of lofting and develop a great understanding of…
Build a Half Model Course. 14th-15th Sept. This is a 2 day course on building half models. You will learn the basics of lofting and develop a great understanding of how lines are used to design a boat hull. During the 2 days, you will…
Some really great courses coming up over the next few weeks including. Steam bending and fitting ribs with Allan Hooper on the 8th June, Sharpen and Set on the 12th June and Essential skills with John Welsford on the 15-16 June.
An excellent course on the weekend covering a huge amount of information and hands on experience with composites skilfully presented by Adrian Pawson. We covered everything from simple polyester laminates through to carbon fibre and vacuum bagging and even touched a little on pre preg…
Its been an amazing few weeks at the boatbuilding school, First off Allan Hooper with help from Olaf Wiig ran a course on building a half model. This turned out to be great fun and everyone went home with a beautiful half model of their…
We have just rebuilt our website thanks to the wonderful team at Impact NPO and their generous volunteers. You can now search, book and pay for your courses all online. Make sure you check it out and while your there have a browse through all…
What an amazing bunch of people at ImpactNPO, We were invited to part of their Auckland Hackathon weekend and were hoping to get some help with our website and booking system instead these amazing guys and gals gave up their weekend to build us a…
Boatcrafts.NZ is our new project based on teaching craftsmanship through the skills of boat building, Our aim is to enrich peoples lives through using their hands and learning the lost art of craftsmanship.