Full size Lofting

The way it used to be done, and what a fantastic little boat to begin with as we started the full size lofting of a 12 ft Yacht Tender in the Sherbrooke Shipbuilding Shop.
The small craft has more than enough twists and turns to trick anyone into thinking this is easy, but with patience and enthusiasm it can all be shown even if you have no knowledge at all about boats or Lofting.

Full size Lofting at Sherbrooke Shipbuilding Shop



 

Course Schedule at the Sherbrooke Shipbuilding Shop

The schedule is now on the Sherbrooke Shipbuilding Shop website and with more than

50 yes fifty courses available from May to November 2014 we are sure that you can find the course for you at the time to suit your own schedule.

 

We have a total of 10 Basic Lofting courses on offer, along with one day fundamentals of Lofting courses to let you try them out.

 

We have a total of 7 Advanced Lofting Courses

 

To compliment our Lofting Course we are also running a total of 10 Boatbuilding/Lofting for small boat courses

 

Our Half Hull Model Making Courses are on for a total of 17 courses for you to learn this wonderful skill and produce your own fine model to take away with you.

 

If you want to further your Shipbuilding knowledge then we have a total of 5 running throughout the year and other courses can be arranged if required

 

Registrations are now being taken for all courses at the new Sherbrooke Shipbuilding Shop, here in Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia, Canada

 

For all courses please call (from outside North America)

 +1 902 522 2400

If you are in North America you can call our toll free number at the following

1-888-743-7845

 

Or by email to

info@sherbrookeshipbuildingshop.com

Courses

Courses at the

Sherbrooke Shipbuilding Shop

 

www.sherbrookeshipbuildingshop.com

 

Our courses are set out all week including weekends so if you cannot make it during the week then the weekend which includes the Friday and Monday on some of the courses can be done. We are set up to help you achieve.

All courses can be tailored to suit depending on your circumstance and requirements and must be booked with a 25% deposit.

 

The Half Hull Model course is a 4 day course that can be arranged during the week or at weekends, call for further details.

 

The Fundamentals of Lofting course is a 5 day course which again depending on your own particular circumstance could be tailored to suit, call for further details on how we can help.

 

Our Basic Shipbuilding Knowledge course is a 3 day course and again could be arranged over a week-end; call for further details and to discuss.

 

“Knowledge not passed on is Lost”

Registrations for Half hull Model Courses

The new Sherbrooke Shipbuilding Shop & Mould Loft

Registrations are now being taken for our Half Hull Model Courses, numbers will be limited so pre-register now to ensure your place in our fantastic new course at the new Sherbrooke Shipbuilding Shop, here in Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia, Canada

 

For prices please see the page on Half Hull Models

 

For all courses please call (from outside North America)

 +1 902 522 2400

If you are in North America you can call our toll free number at the following

1-888-743-7845

 

Or by email to

info@sherbrookeshipbuildingshop.com

 

Basic Shipbuilding Knowledge Course

Since moving back into the shipbuilding industry it has amazed me at how little training and knowledge is now passed on for many different reasons, and even though the use of CAD/CAM has resulted in huge advancements in the industry, there is still very much a lack of the basic knowledge of actually building a ship and what it entails, you can be a very fine CAD operator although know little about the basic reality of putting the steel together on the shop floor and the higher level of passed down from design then the higher level of knowledge required about the work including how it all goes together in the real world, not the electronic world.

 

I have even worked in places where the basic knowledge of even reading a tape measure has been lacking.

 

This basic knowledge of shipbuilding and shipyards will be very helpful to anyone who has no knowledge of how a ship is built and offers a basic insight into what is expected and required from someone who wants to secure there future in this amazing industry.

They will receive a good grounding in Basic shipbuilding practice and processes

Such as being able to read a shipbuilding drawing

Knowing and learning about how a ship is designed and built and so much more.

To be continued

Lines, Lofting and Half Hull Models

The Sherbrooke Shipbuilding Shop

After many months of hard work and indeed many years in the making the new unique concept of offering and passing on of acquired knowledge is almost there and ready to take registrations for this year be it the Half Hull Model course or the Basic Lofting course you are interested in all can now be offered in this unexplored part of Eastern Nova Scotia.

All courses could be tailored to suite your particular requirements and should you be thinking of fitting in a course along with some vacation time then we can also offer some very good deals at the local Sherbrooke Village Inn Motel, just two minutes away.

As we move into spring now is the time to be thinking about what the summer can bring and what better way of learning than spending some time in what is a really fantastic location, based right on the bank of the St Mary's River and inside the Historical old Sherbrooke Village, what are you waiting on with similar courses in the U.S.A. at a far higher cost, this is not the type of experience that you can get anywhere else in Canada.

Call or email for further details.

Basic Shipbuilding Knowledge Course-03

How a bulbous bow should look once finished and lofted and plated correctly

Now this is what is known as a “Bulbous Bow” and as you can see it is put together pretty well the way this type of bow should look when finished and there is a young journeyman Loftsman in this picture port side as we look on the bow.

 

Well believe it or not I have actually worked in a “shipyard” which of course must remain nameless where they launched a ship without finishing the plate work on the bulbous bow, they had too much trouble fitting the plates that they ran out of time and just launched her with a large opening in the top of the bulbous bow, she of course was in no danger of sinking or anything like that but she was a bit down by the head shall we say while sitting in the water.

Lack of some basic fundamental shipbuilding knowledge comes to mind when I heard this story, and so easy to rectify if only some time was spent on training and passing on some of the acquired knowledge gathered around such a shipyard, make you wonder eh!
There is a huge demand World Wide for experienced shipbuilders, not for people who only see the industry as just another job only interested in the wage packet, which is very important of course but welded to the wage packet should be pride in the job and any shipbuilder should be able to stand on the quayside as a ship goes by and say with pride that he or she had helped to built a safe and sea worthy vessel.

The apprenticeship system in some countries as it stands makes no allowance for actual shipbuilding and as explained above this is a gross under sight in my humble opinion, spend some time and reap the rewards further down the road instead of worry about micro managing the build process.

Have managers in place who actually know what they are doing would I am certain be of some help in the quest, shipbuilders who have actually been apprenticed as shipbuilders and have built ships not just any ships but ships to be proud of.

 

To be continued.