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| The Sherbrooke Shipbuilding Shop The website for the Sherbrooke Shipbuilding Shop is now live visit at www.sherbrookeshipbuildingshop.com |
Thursday, 27 March 2014
sherbrookeshipbuildingshop.com
Sunday, 23 March 2014
Courses at the Sherbrooke Shipbuilding Shop
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| Courses at the Sherbrooke Shipbuilding Shop
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 50% 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”
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Wednesday, 19 March 2014
Register now for the Half Hull Model Course
Registrations are now being taken for our Half Hull Model making courses being run 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
Tuesday, 18 March 2014
Advanced Lofting Course
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| Sherbrooke Shipbuilding Shop and Mould Loft |
This will be best suited for those who have completed the fundamental Basic Lofting course or have some experience of Lofting.
Although most boat and yacht designs are now carried out on
some pretty sophisticated CAD programs even most professionals will agree that
it is still best to see the boat layed out full size on the Loft floor. The
lost art of lofting a boat/ship continues at the Sherbrooke Shipbuilding Shop
and you too can further your knowledge on this “Art” by attending one of the
advanced Lofting courses on offer at the Shipbuilding Shop.
See the
difference for instance between a bearding line and a rabbit line, see how to
develop out a raked curved transom or how to set out a nice cambered sheer.
This course would be suitable for someone with a bit of
knowledge on the subject or for someone who has done the Basic Lofting course
previously at the Sherbrooke
Bring along
your own set of offsets and we will help you loft out your own boat.
Anyone who has
attended the Basic lofting course will qualify for a discount on the base price
of the Advanced Lofting course.
Basic Lofting Couse
The Sherbrooke
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The Sherbrooke Shipbuilding Shop, located inside the old Historical Sherbrooke Village
By
the end of my course you will be able to visualise what the boat should look
like and to lay down her lines, and you will be able to talk about plans and
not feel intimidated about being unable to comprehend the Lofting process
involved in bringing these plans to life full size on the Lofting floor.
My
Lofting course is a learning by doing process you only need to know how to
apply yourself and don’t forget to bring your enthusiasm with you. And there is
also quality accommodation on offer along with the courses staying at the
Sherbrooke Village Inn Motel a short two minute walk to the “Shipbuilding Shop
& Mould Loft” so you and your significant other should you choose can also
have a vacation in what is one of the most beautiful parts of the world, a real
undiscovered gem.
When
you break it down, lofting is the process of producing the three required views
of the hull accurately to scale or to full size depending on the size of the
vessel. By this way we can turn 2D into a 3D visualisation.
But
that is just the beginning of the process which you can learn throughout the
course.
The
main focus of the course will be to enable you to understand some of the
concepts and lofting principles behind boat/shipbuilding and in helping you to
develop an eye for a fair shape as it’s not called the art of Lofting for
nothing.
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Monday, 17 March 2014
Registration now open
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| The Sherbrooke Shipbuilding Shop, in the Historical old Sherbrooke Village, Nova Scotia
Registrations are now being taken for what will prove
to be very popular and limited courses at the new Sherbrooke Shipbuilding Shop,
here in
For all courses please call (from outside
+1 902 522 2400
If you are in
1-888-743-7845
Or by email to
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Basic Shipbuilding Knowledge Course-02
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| The Sherbrooke Shipbuilding Shop taking registrations for this year |
Attending the Basic Shipbuilding Knowledge Course is a great
way to boost your career prospects. Many Attendees will participate to develop
themselves in their existing role, while others will attend with a complete
change of career in mind.
Employers large and small understand that studying part time
while managing work and personal commitments shows determination, adaptability,
motivation and a high level of organisational and problem-solving skills –
qualities that they value highly
It seems to be a common misconception that all “outside
trades” can just transfer there skills to working in a shipyard on a new build
shipbuilding project.
While the skills are transferable they are with few
exceptions not directly transferable. Someone with no shipbuilding knowledge
will struggle for some time to be an effective member of a shipbuilding team
The basic shipbuilding knowledge course is based mostly on
my own experiences in shipbuilding but also on what I have learned from many
other sources, as never have I met anyone who knows it all in shipbuilding,
many I have met purport to knowing it all and they are a liability who may just
be passing on the wrong type of information.
This Basic Shipbuilding Knowledge Course will only deal with
the structural build of a ship
If you don’t know or never learn the basics of shipbuilding then how
can you develop pride in what you are doing there is so much more to building a
ship than just welding two pieces of steel together.
Without the basic knowledge of shipbuilding how can you learn to read a
shipbuilding drawing?
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Shipbuilding
knowledge = Interest = Ability = Pride
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Pride in the job
results in better work which in turn results in a better end product with lower
costs
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More accuracy =
Better quality = Better Tradesman.
The more technology
used and the more automation requires a higher understanding of the whole
shipbuilding process which all starts with a basic understanding of
shipbuilding
Failure to understand
shipbuilding basics will produce someone perhaps doing a repetitive job with no
interest whatsoever resulting in poor workmanship standards
To be continued.
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