Around the yards

摘要

For some years now, the Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building in Port Hadlock, Washington, has been complementing its traditional boatbuilding programs by adding courses in cold-molded and wood-composite construction. Two projects reaching fruition this year are particularly telling evidence of the transition. The first is the completion of the Bob Perry-designed SLIVER, a slender 62' LOA double-ended daysailer for Puget Sound yachtsman Kim Bottles, who preferred wood construction-a rarity for Perry designs-and brought the project to the school. The hull is strip-built, using 1" × 1" western red cedar sheathed in 24-oz fiberglass cloth set in epoxy, with cored composite decks.