The Havre de Grace Maritime Museum offers adult boat building classes, and a teen boat building camp in partnership with Harford Community College.

The Chesapeake Wooden Boat Builders School preserves the tradition of wooden boat building by teaching this essential maritime skill to apprentices in weekly class sessions. The cooperative agreement between Harford Community College, the Havre de Grace Maritime Museum, and the Chesapeake Wooden Boat Builders supports this goal. The school is for both young and old. A special Teen Boatbuilding School, held in the summer, tutors twelve teens through building their own canoes in one week!

Other students are all very interested amateurs who are looking for building instruction, so they can build their own craft. Generally, there are about 40 men and women working on building and repairing wooden boats and models every Tuesday evening from 7-9 p.m.

What Students Can Learn:

• Basic Wooden Boat Building

• Antique Canoe Repair & Restoration

• Model Ship Building

• Wooden Boat Repair & Restoration

Teen Boat Building School

Teens will learn how to make their own canoe with the help of instructors from the Chesapeake Wooden Boat Builders School. Advance registration and orientation is required.

June 18-23, 2012
9:00 am - 4:00 pm