WOODEN BOAT ARTICLES

• Corcoran, Dave, builder: "Abranet: Dust-free Sanding," 179:105
• Corcoran, Dave, builder: Currents (obituary), 197:13
• Corcoran, Dave, builder: on daysailer Coquina (N.G. Herreshoff cat-ketch), photo, 187:76
• Corcoran, Dave, builder: project profile (1995), 124:32
• May 2006-June 2006 Sticks in the Water, page 108

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Learn the Art of Fair Curves by Lofting the Tech Dinghy
Kurt Hasselbalch, David Corcoran
Tue Jan 15 thru Fri Jan 18, 09am-05:00pm, wood shop N51-160

Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 11-Jan-2002
Limited to 8 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Fee: 15.00 for Material Fee

This new course is a spin-off from the Museum's IAP boat building classes offered the previous two years. Lofting is the ancient art of creating the full-size curves of a hull shape in preparation to creating molds or frames to build a boat or ship. Fifty years ago and more lofting was a necessary skill for all boat builders. With the expanding use of lofting programs (many developed by persons who have never lofted) the skills of using hand and eyes to determine a fair line is a dying art. This is a great course if you wish to have a total understanding of problems and process that are now largely solved in applications. Dave Corcoran is a very experienced traditional wooden boat builder who has lofted and built a wide variety of hull forms including three different N.G. Herreshoff designs. We will use copies of the original plans by MIT Professor George Owen employed by Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. to build the first group of 43 wooden lapstrake Tech Dinghies ordered by MIT. [see also our new half-hull model making class under Crafts, Hobbies and do-it-yourself].

Web: http://web.mit.edu/museum
Contact: Kurt Hasselbalch, N 51-233A, x3-5942, kurt@mit.edu
Sponsor: MIT Museum Latest update: 03-Nov-2001

LEARNING ADVENTURES
Lake Champlain Maritime Museum
COURSES AND WORKSHOPS AT LCMM's BASIN HARBOR SITE
COURSE INSTRUCTOR DATES

Blacksmithing
Basic Blacksmithing Peter Wells June 23-24, July 7-8, July 28-29, Aug 11-12
Blacksmithing Projects Peter Wells July 14 -15, Aug18-19
Blacksmithing for Teens Peter Wells July 19-20, August 8-9

Boat Building
Build Your Own Maine Cedar Canvas Canoe Dave Mussey June 24-29
* Building Sunshine Geoff Burke July 2-6 and July 9-13
Adirondack Guideboat Construction Steve Kaulback July 2-7
Build Your Own Annapolis Wherry Geoff Kerr July 23-2 9
Building the Baidarka (Authentic Aleut "Skin" Kayak) Bruce Lemon July 30-August 5
Build Your Own "Chesapeake" 17-foot Sea Kayak Geoff Kerr August 6-12
Build Your Own Cod Rib 12-foot Canoe Tim Clark August 11-16
Build Your Own Shellback Dinghy Dave Corcoran August 14-19
Repair or Restore Your Cedar Canvas Canoe Bill Clements September 8-12, Oct 15-19
Building the Wee Lassie Lapstrake Canoe Geoff Burke September 18-23
SPECIAL PROGRAM at Basin Harbor Site:
Building the Birch Bark Canoe Bart Howe August 18-Sept 2

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