Boatbuilding Classes

Build Your Own Wherry is broadcasting LIVE on the ShopCAM!

A great way to get started as a boatbuilder!

Look for a 2009 CLC class schedule at the end of October!  Lots of new classes in the works.  Something you're looking for next year?  Send us an email.  Scroll down for the current schedule.

Chesapeake Light Craft has been hosting and teaching build-your-own-boat classes since 1994. Through CLC boatbuilding classes, more than 800 boats have been launched and more than a thousand students have been introduced to the joys of boatbuilding.

We hold boatbuilding classes at our fully equipped classroom in Annapolis and at the famous WoodenBoat School in Brooklin, Maine, at IYRS in Newport, RI, as well as at other venues across the US. Classes are small, about eight boats each, so every student receives individualized instruction in every step from a professional boatbuilder.  The perfect way for individuals, buddies, parent-child teams, teenagers, retirees, or anybody to spend a week.

Check out these time lapse animations from our classes:

And don't miss NBC's Today Show segment featuring the Build Your Own Skerry Daysailer class at the WoodenBoat School in Brooklin, Maine!

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Recent Boatbuilding Classes:

• Shearwater | September 22-27, 2008
• Stitch & Glue Night Heron | August 10-16, 2008
• Wood Duck | August 3-9, 2008
• Shellback Dinghy | August 3-9, 2008
• Sassafras Canoe | August 3-9, 2008
• Skerry Daysailer | July 14-19, 2008
• Annapolis Wherry | June 15-21, 2008
• Chesapeake 17LT | May 19-24, 2008
• Skerry Daysailer | April 21-26, 2008
• Passagemaker Dinghy | January 21-26, 2008 | See Timelapse
• Stitch & Glue Night Heron | January 19-21 & 26-28, 2008
• Chesapeake 17LT | October 22-27, 2007
• Annapolis Wherry | October 15-20, 2007

Upcoming Boatbuilding Classes:

	Build Your Own Wood Duck Oct 20, 2008 - Oct 25, 2008 CLC Shop, Annapolis, MD
	Build Your Own Stitch & Glue Night Heron Jan 17, 2009 - Jan 26, 2009 Connecticut Valley School of Woodworking -- Manchester, CT

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Photos from just a few of our classes over the years...

Wood Duck builders launch their boats after class - August 2008.

Build Your Own Wood Duck Class - August 2008

Build Your Own Skerry Class at IYRS - July 2008

      Build Your Own Skerry Class - April 2008

Build Your Own Passagemaker Class - January 2008 

Build Your Own Annapolis Wherry - October 2007 

Build Your Own Chesapeake 17LT Class - October 2007 

Build Your Own Skerry Class, WoodenBoat School, ME - July 2007 

Build Your Own Skerry Class - May 2007 

Build Your Own Annapolis Wherry - January 2007

Build Your Own Skerry Class - May 2006 

Build Your Own Mill Creek - May 2006 

Build Your Own Skerry Class - April 2006 

Build Your Own Annapolis Wherry Class - February 2006 

Build Your Own Chesapeake Class - January 2006 

Build Your Own Skerry Class - November 2005 

Build Your Own Chesapeake Class - August 2005 

 Build Your Own Chesapeake Class - April 2005 

Build Your Own Skerry Class, WoodenBoat School, ME - August 2004