Learn Wooden Boatbuilding in Rockland & Brooklin, Maine

Honest level: Beginner to advanced — ask the school exactly how far that goes in the time you have.

Schools in Rockland & Brooklin, Maine

Checked by hand against each school's own course pages. No school paid to be listed.

• The Apprenticeshop (Rockland)
  12-week Intensive Boatbuilding (and 2-year apprenticeship)
  A nonprofit traditional-craft school on the Rockland waterfront founded in 1972, the Apprenticeshop teaches wooden boatbuilding hands-on, with a 12-week intensive in which students build a lapstrake Susan Skiff and a longer two-year apprenticeship.
  https://www.apprenticeshop.org/
• WoodenBoat School (Brooklin)
  Introduction to Boatbuilding (one-week residential)
  Run by WoodenBoat magazine in Brooklin since 1980, this school offers more than 100 one- and two-week residential courses in boatbuilding, woodworking, and seamanship, including a Fundamentals of Boatbuilding week in which students build small skiffs.
  https://www.thewoodenboatschool.com/
• The Landing School (Arundel)
  Wooden Boatbuilding (9-month accredited program)
  A full-time accredited postsecondary marine-trades school in Arundel founded in 1978, The Landing School offers a nine-month Wooden Boatbuilding program in which each student designs and builds a boat, alongside tracks in composite boatbuilding, yacht design, and marine systems.
  https://www.landingschool.edu/

The credential

IBTC Boatbuilding Diploma / completed traditional boatbuilding apprenticeship · Certifying body: City & Guilds boatbuilding qualifications (IBTC); apprenticeship lineage; UNESCO ICH for Nordic clinker traditions

A recognised qualification an outside body stands behind is not the same as a certificate a school prints itself. We name which it is — you should ask the school the same.

Also for Wooden Boatbuilding

What I check before I send you anywhere

I'm Arnaud. I cook for a living, and I've spent fifteen years on the water — so I know the difference between a real school and a good-looking website. I built the Atlas because I got tired of the second kind. Here is what a place has to clear before it goes on here, and what I'll tell you straight when it doesn't.

• The craft is actually alive there. A working scene, with people who do this every day — not a demo put on for visitors.
• There's a real teacher behind it. Named, still practising, and certified where the craft has certificates.
• The credential is what it claims to be. A state diploma and a certificate a school prints itself are not the same thing. I check which, and I say which.
• I tell you how sure I am. Most pages here are verified by hand. A few say "still checking" — I'd rather admit that than pretend.
• Nobody pays to be here. No commission, no selling the trip. The order on this map is the strength of the community, never the size of the wallet.
• If I wouldn't send a friend, it isn't on the map.