Description of Program…
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum has developed an impressive portfolio of traditional rowing and sailing small boats that have built in the Apprentice For A Day boat building classes. The boats we build generally have a Chesapeake Bay flavor but we will build any traditionally constructed small boat to order. All the boats built in the program are sold to support the program.
Daniel Sutherland runs our Apprentice For A Day program. Dan is a fourth generation boat builder from the Finger Lakes of New York with 26 years of experiance. Specializing in lapsrake constrution, both new and historic restoration. He has done work for the Antique Boat Museum in Clayton, NY, the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain, NY and the Alexandria Seaport Foundation in, Alexadria, VA.
Some of the boats built to date include:
Pete Culler designed rowing skiff 13’-6”
Pete Culler designed sailing skiff 15’-6”
Two masted crabbing skiff 16’-8”
Crabbing flattie with stick up jib 16’-0”
Double ended Delaware Ducker, sail 16’-0”
Lawley rowing tender, round bilged 9’-6”
New Jersey Melonseed , sail 13’-6”
Once a month we offer one or two day special classes in a particular boat building skill: lofting, spiling planks, steam bending, spar making, painting and varnishing. Please contact the museum boat shop for the schedule of special classes, or visit our web site www.cbmm.org
