Reflecting the finer points and the practicalities of boatbuilding, the NZTBS workshops and lectures truly advocate for craftsmanship. The workshops are certainly slanted towards vintage tools, techniques, and timber, but the school is not wedded to the past, and embraces new technology in healthy moderation. Throughout the year you’ll find weekend courses for a variety of skill levels, with expert teachers and small class sizes, at the NZTBS facility in Te Atatu Peninsula, around 20 minutes on the Northwestern Motorway from Auckland’s CBD.
A typical two-day essential workshop skills course covers the use, set-up, and maintenance of hand tools, before moving on to a primer on epoxies, resins, and glues, then a section on gluing or fibreglassing plywood, and an invaluable section on reading plans and drawing components from scale…