Postponed for a week or so – please stay tuned

Price: $100, all materials and tools provided

Contact: Nick Rushton (Rusty) – Chairman, SBSSS:
info@boatschool.com or the Silva Bay Shipyard School at 250.247.8809

Click here to download and print a copy of the poster to post in your area!

More details to come – watch this space.

SBSSfeb from Silva Bay Shipyard School on Vimeo.

The Silva Bay Shipyard School is pleased to announce that Jerry Regimbal has taken on the role of Project Manager for the work to be performed on the School’s “Mascot” U&I.

Overall the intention is to prepare the U&I, a 30 foot Troller, for the upcoming season where it will be used to represent the School at various waterborne functions and wooden boat festivals.

Work will take place in the Wet Slip behind the Shipyard School office between now and April 17th when it is intended to relaunch the U&I in conjunction with the Shipyard School Launch Festival celebrations.

Any and all assistance will be greatly appreciated – please contact Jerry either through the School – info@boatschool.com – 250 247 8809 or at his home 250 247 8498.

A big thanks to West Wind for supporting the school.

Volunteers are being assembled to build the tender and have it ready for the school’s April launch. Please e-mail the school if you are interested in Volunteering!

A huge thanks to both Quill and Peter for doing a fantastic job showing off their skills. Great weekend!

Click below for pictures and video:

Pouring some molten Bronze from Silva Bay Shipyard School

And two of the final products!

Watch for updates on our Bronze Casting short course.

Fall 2009 Time lapse from Silva Bay Shipyard School on Vimeo

The event is being held ahead of the SBSS’s upcoming bronze casting short course where students will learn how to cast their own patterns.

Peter and Quill will be preparing and casting from 1-3pm on both Saturday and Sunday at the school.

The demo is free and all are welcome. Please stop by and see how casting is done!

Janina Stajicjanina@soundernews.com
Thursday, December 24 2009

It’s still the only full-time wooden boat building school of
its kind in Canada, but with a rejigged board and a new “bigger
vision” the Silva Bay Shipyard School is already making waves
in the community and beyond.

Rusty Rushton, chair of the new board, says the bigger vision
includes new ideas that are helping to “put the school on a firm
financial footing” and “keep the doors open.”

One of those ideas is a new website (www.boatschool.com) which
is being updated regularly and has information on the school
as well as the courses it offers. Those who are familiar with
the work of the school may be surprised by the courses listed
on the website, for this is another area in which the school
is taking a different tack.

“We’ve offered three short courses since September, and they
were, or are, all fully-subscribed,” says Rusty. One of those
courses was an “Introduction to Woodworking for Women”, which
was so successful the school is repeating the course from January
9th-10th, 2010. This past weekend the Picture Framing Workshop
was also fully subscribed.

“We have a concentration on Gabriola of people with boat-building
skills,” says Rusty. Which is why the school will continue to
offer more intensive courses such as the two-week “Introduction
to Marine Woodworking”, the six month “Wooden Boat Building course”,
complete with the launch in April which many Gabriolans are familiar
with, and the three and a half month “Ship’s Cabinetry” course.

“Jen Provencher has come on board to tackle grant applications
and, starting in January, we’re going to host an open house every
Friday afternoon from 1pm-4pm,” says Rusty. Everyone in the community
is welcome to come and see what’s happening behind the school
doors.

And if my experience last Monday afternoon is anything to go
by it’s worth having a peek. At the moment assistant instructor
Trevor Henderson and chief instructor Al Brunt, are guiding seven
students through every step it takes to create a traditional
wooden boat. “The components of a 12 foot boat exist in a 30
foot boat,” says Trevor, so in essence students can take their
skills and work on wooden boats of all sizes once they’ve graduated.

“It’s very traditional building,” says student Michel Lahaya,
who hails from Quebec originally. “We use copper rivets, 3, 000
will be used in total.” Which is a lot when you consider that
the boats are 12 feet long. They’re also learning to build, as
Emil Botham from South Africa points out, with “traditional hand
tools.”

The students all seem fairly confident that, once finished, they
will be able to put their skills to good work. Ian Copper whose
“last port of call” was Vancouver figures that once you can build
a traditional wooden boat “you can build anything” and Dave Roberts
hopes to work at a boat builders in Campbell River, his home
town.

If you’d like more information, check out the new website, again
that’s www.boatschool.com, attend one of the open houses or give
Rusty a call, 250-247-8809; he’d be happy to answer your questions.

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We have constructed a cradle for her to weather the tides in the Shipyards wet slip where she will undergo some systems work, a serious cosmetic update and a few other assorted tasks to bring her up to finish. The use of the wet slip has been graciously donated by the Silva Bay Shipyard – one of the schools sponsors.

The school is also planning to unleash the upcoming Ships Cabinetry class below decks to work on various cabinetry projects and upgrades.

Come on down to the school and take a look!

The Silva Bay Shipyard School's Mascot