Wooden Surfboard Building Classes Offered
We’re excited to announce a partnership with Wooden Boat Magazine to offer a wooden surfboard building course from June 22-28, 2008 at Wooden Boat’s campus in Brooklin, Maine.
This one-week class will be taught by our own board builders from the Grain Shop. Students will learn basic surfboard design concepts, the simple application of steam to manipulate wood into shapes, adhesive applications, glassing, and effective use of epoxy. Fiberglassing demonstrations will be held in the evenings to help students with the basics. At weeks’ end, each student will take home his/her own brand-new Grain Surfboard with the skills and confidence needed for fiberglassing and finishing (epoxy and glass are included with the course.)
Brooklin, Maine offers everyone who arrives an unbelievably rich environment for learning and relaxing. Located in a breathtakingly beautiful region of the Maine coast (a five-hour drive north of Boston, MA), their 60-acre “saltwater campus” encourages both faculty and students to feel at home and happily immerse themselves in a world of woodworking.
Find out more by clicking here.
If you’re in the metropolitan Philadelphia area and are looking for something to fill your quiet winter weekends, check out the Philadelphia Wooden Boat Factory’s course offerings. They will be offering a wooden surfboard building class starting in late January and running for three consecutive weekends. Find out more about this class by clicking here.
January 7th, 2008 at 7:16 am
Hello Mike and Grain. Iam so excited to take your class this summer!!!!!! I will try to visit your factory before the class. Best wishes for high enrollment. Keep up the good work!!! Dolf up in Damariscottia.
January 7th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Hey grain, i would love to take the course…. coming from new jersey, building my own hollow board ONCE before with my own templates…i would love to learn the professional way of doing so. If i am able to fit it in my schedule with my own company OKOTO, i would be a part of it.
later on
Stay warm
Joe
January 11th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Looking forward to your class this summer in Brooklin, Maine. I was at the Wooden Boat School several years ago for a class on building your own lapstrake canoe. Had a great time.
January 19th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
I just read about you today and have already sent an email t see if I can get on this course? Looks great, I had looked at Wooden Boat courses before but nothing stood out for me until now! hope to see you in June.
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:47 am
Just came across your site while chewing over old boat building ways with a friend. It is really wonderful what you are doing way up there and somewhat of an inspiration to myself. I have been a die hard do it yourselfer when it comes to home remodeling and auto work my whole life. Why has it never transposed into my surfing. I have been buying boards for 20 years? It is one of my new life goals to build one the right way. I will be moving to the east coast soon from my 10 year vacation out here in Hawaii and you can bet I will find my way up there somehow. I thik my daughter needs to experience the north east part of the country anyway. I couldn’t think of a better reason.
Thanks for doing what ever it is you do,
Tom O’Brien
Honolulu, HI
September 28th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Hi
Been looking at your website with much envy for a while now and salivating over all those great boards. I was wondering if your new guys in Ireland are going to be doing any courses in the future, or if you know of any uk courses.
Thanks for your time and enjoy all the work!
Damo