The Centre for Fine Woodworking

New Zealand's premier furniture making, woodworking & design school

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  • Traditional Dinghy Building

    Length: 12 days weeks
    Dates: June 9-20 (including the weekend of June 14-15)
    Fees: $1795, GST included
    Non-refundable deposit: $300
    Material costs: None.
    Prerequisite: Beginning Cabinet Making or similar experience.

    This course has been developed to enable participants to understand and apply all the steps involved in building a clinker/lapstrake dinghy. This will include critical procedures such as lofting bending ribs, planking, fitting of planks at stem and transom, use of copper nails and roves and finishing. Students will work co-operatively in groups to build the dinghy. When completed the dinghy will be available for purchase from the centre and the money raised will become part of a scholarship fund.

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    Street Address
    The Centre for Fine Woodworking, 465 Wakapuaka Road, RD 1, Nelson 7071 (See Map)
    Postal Address
    Centre for Fine Woodworking, PO Box 1452, Nelson 7040, New Zealand. E-mail: info@cfw.co.nz, phone: +64 3 545 2674,