03/ 26/ 09 Today we put the bottom planking on our boat. First we made the bottom planks by using a planer to cut them to the same thickness. Then we used a hand planer to cut off a corner of the board to make a spot to put the cotton in. The cotton is [...]
March 26, 2009 by Zeb
March 27, 2009 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
The first boat, which we built from a kit made at Mystic Seaport by Mr. Ansel’s son, is nearly complete. We have to put a coat of finish paint on the outside and apply a coat of varnish on the interior. The order of which we put the boat together was: 1. We attached the [...]
March 12, 2009
March 20, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Today we put the ore locks on and erased the marks on the sides of the boat. We were erasing the marks off the boat with a sander, until we decided to use an eraser, it worked perfectly. Then we primed the boat. We didn’t paint the inside of the boat. We did this because [...]
Isabella’s Impressions
March 6, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
This blog is following the production of a boat made by six students from Georgetown Central School. Mr. Ansel was kind enough to offer us this unique opportunity. They started this project on Feb. 28, 2009 and plan to end sometime in April. The blog will be everything from the story of finding the design [...]
The first of two boats takes shape
March 5, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
For the third year running Georgetown Central School is working with local boat builder, Wil Ansel to create a wooden boat. Once completed the boat will be ceremoniously launched and then raffled off over the summer. The funds generated by the raffle go toward supplies for future boat building projects, making this a self sustaining/regenerating [...]
