I encourage you to check out what they are up to. The program, run by Brett Hart, hosts inner city youth, working under boatbuilding instructor, Victoria Guidi.
It has been a privilege working with them, and getting to meet and spend time with an exceptional group of kids.
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Stuart K. Hopkins’ sail loft will be making three sets. One for each of the three Factory One Designs now being built at the Philadelphia Wooden Boat Factory.
Just a quick note of explanation for this site’s new tagline.
Carpe Navicula! is a reworking of the Latin stand-by, Carpe Canem!
The Philadelphia Wooden Boat Factory
This is just a teaser for a project that’s beginning to come together, a 24′ lateener that will be sailed in the waters around Southern California’s Channel Islands.
The Schooner Boat project has been moving forward, slowly.
Allowing a design to form in its own time instead of pushing ahead in some frenzy of obsessive work makes for a better design, at least that’s how I see it. It also lets those little whispers – either warnings or leads – have enough time to surface without being overwhelmed by the weight of half-baked work pushed ahead even when there is nothing substantial driving the process.
