Boat Building Classes

This easy to follw step by step video will take you carefully and clearly through every stage of building a beautiful ultralight skin-on-frame boat.

It lists and describes the equipment and materials you will need, leads you through the building of the molds, the construction of the frame, covering it with the skin, varnishing and putting in the finishing touches.   It also equips you with tips and techniques learnt over many years of boat-building experience.  It enables a complete novice to build a boat, but even the seasoned carpenter will find it indispensable!

Using the plans included with the dvd you can build a one or two person canoe, or a three to four person rowboat.

If you choose the View Online option you will receive a link to a page of 12 videos totalling 1 hour and 50 minutes including plans for 1 or 2 person canoes and a 3-4 person rowboat.
If you choose the Hard Copy option you will receive the link and a dvd in the mail containing the same video and plans. This makes a great gift. (price includes shipping)

Receive the supervision and guidance of an experienced boat builder as you build your own beautiful skin-on-frame boat of choice.  No previous experience necessary.

Price does not include the boat kit – tuition only.

There’s no time like the present to build your own beautiful, tough, ultralight, hand-crafted skin-on-frame canoe. Especially when we’ve knocked the price down by $250! Book now for your 20 hour winter class, which includes the supervision, tuition, all materials and equipment needed to create your own canoe, and go boating all summer long, every summer!

Bring a friend or a family member to help – it’s fun! You’ll be surprised how easy it is.
No experience necessary! Hand tools used only.

Valid until February 28th 2012 only.
Price is for a one man open canoe, contact us to enquire about other models.

GET A GROUP OF PEOPLE TOGETHER TO LEARN HOW TO BUILD A BOAT AND YOU GET THE BOAT FREE!
Brian Chandler will teach a group of people how to build a boat for $900.  At the end of the class the boat is yours.  So, for example, if you get 6 people for the class and charge them each $150 you get a free boat.  If you get 9 people for the class, you can charge them $100 each and get a free boat!
This is a limited time offer and applies only in Vancouver, BC.  If you want the same deal elsewhere, just add Brian’s travel and accommodation costs to the $900. Contact us to arrange your free boat today! 

Teaching beginners how to build a boat is one of the great joys of boat building. Dreamcatcher boats are built on the K.I.S.S. principle (keep it simple stupid). These are ideal projects for the beginner boat builder as well as the advanced craftsman.
The Free Lassie (based on J. Henry Rushton’s Wee Lassie) can be built in one weekend by a novice and yet they are beautiful, durable, impressive boats. This is a wonderful project for a parent and child, school group, club event, summer camp, team building or corporate event, or even just for adults who want to get themselves out on the water but have doubts and fears as to their abilities and skill.
Under Brian Chandler’s easy and informal guidance, you will be taught the principles of boat building along with a mystique destroying and problem solving attitude to achieve your final goal — a beautiful self-styled and completed boat.
Before you know it, you will be engaged in building your own canoe or kayak, hands on and marveling at your own newfound skill. You’ll be enrolled in the project to such an extent that Brian’s role will be relegated to providing background encouragement only.
You’ll also learn to:

• Trust your own judgement.
• Use a handsaw to cut accurate compound angles with ease.
• Fair lines and curves, and
• Use your own unique creativity and sense of esthetics.

In this fun and informative class, Brian will supply you with all the encouragement and support you need to get the job done.