Current Classes

Hands-On Half Hull Modeling Class

Build the Cape Cod classic wooden vessel the Wianno Senior.
Instructor: Mark Sutherland. A professional craftsman since 1979, Mark Sutherland specializes in models of 19th- and early 20th-century ships and boats, along with scrimshaw artifacts, decorative ship carving and figureheads.
Location: The Cook Boat Shop at CCMM
Date and time: May 1 - 11, Wednesdays 6:30 - 9:30pm and Saturdays 9:30am - 12:30pm
Tuition: $300 non-members, $240 members

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Build a Bevins Skiff

A Youth Boat Building Program designed to teach hands-on math skills.
8-week course:
March 16 - May 8
Wednesdays 6-8 pm, Saturdays 10am-12 pm (first class starts at 9am)
For students grades 6th — 8th grades.
Instructor: Bob Lister
Tuition: $150/student
As a team, students will build one 12’ traditional wooden rowing skiff from a kit, then learn how to build one full kit from scratch.
To register for this class please contact CCMM at 508-775-1723 or e-mail info@capecodmaritimemuseum.org.
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Sailor’s Valentines

Gerda Reid, a self-taught Valentiner with 15 years. experience creates her own unique, one-of-kind, valentine creations using designs that are intricate, precise, bright and cheery, often geomentric, colorful and with attention to shading. The valentine boxes are also Gerda’s design and contructed of mahogany and other select hardwoods. In this workshop you will learn many of Gerda’s creative techniques and applications while making your very own sailor’s valentine.
Instructor: Gerda Reid
Classes: 10am - 2pm, Monday, June 3rd and Friday, June 7th
Tuition: $575/student or Member/$550
All supplies and materials include (9” frame)

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Frequent Class Offerings

Introduction to Lofting

The very basics of lofting for beginners. The course teaches how designers' lines are laid down in three dimensions in order for hull shapes to be lifted in full scale patterns. We will loft a 9' flat bottom skiff, learn to pick up bevels and develop transom bevels, all done with the simple drawing to scale.

Instructor: Tony Davis (of Arey’s Pond Boat Yard)
in the Cook Boat Shop at CCMM

Class dates to be announced.

Intermediate Lofting

This course is designed for the student who has an interest in building a boat on their own with no kits or pre-made construction materials. The course teaches how the designer's lines are laid down in three dimensions in order for hull shapes to be lifted in full scale patterns. Learn to understand offsets and how to fare a line. Learn the meaning of every line an architect uses to create a hull shape. It is here the real construction of the boat begins.

Class dates to be announced.

Intro to Boat Building

This is an entry-level course on boat building, which explores basic lofting, layout and terminology that goes with the construction of a ten-foot skiff. Each student will have the opportunity to build each part of the skiff themselves before it goes into the actual skiff. Students do not need prior experience with boat building, woodworking or tools to participate in this course--only the desire to explore something different!

Class dates to be announced.

Spar Making

Start with a visit to Pleasant Bay Boat & Spar Company, learn the basics of building a spar, understand the process in solid, hollow and box v. round spars. Next you will use basic spar making principles, hands on, in building a 6-8 ft stick, in CCMM's Cook Boat Shop.
Instructor: Suzanne Leahy (of Pleasant Bay Boat & Spar)
Cost: $125 non-members, $100 CCMM Members
Tools: small plane, spoke shave, adjustable square, pencils

Class dates to be announced.