Schooner TIMBERWIND from the Boutilier Collection; part of Penobscot Marine Museum’s extensive photo archives.
(Belfast, Maine) On Tuesday, June 21, student boatbuilders from Searsport High School have been invited by Maine DaySail, LLC for a six hour sail aboard the schooner TIMBERWIND with Captain Lance Meadow. The group will leave at 11:00 am from Thompson’s Wharf in Belfast.
Not only will this be a fun experience for the students, but it will give them the chance to try out the 75 blocks they rebuilt, see how sails preform on a larger scale, and put to use their charts and courses knowledge learned in their navigation class.
The ten students worked from mid-January through their boat launch the end of May, with nine community volunteers, and master boat-builder Greg Rossel to build two Shellback Dinghies for the class The Geometry of Boat Building. This is the sixth year for The Geometry of Boat Building, a collaboration between Searsport District High School and Penobscot Marine Museum held at the museum’s Hamilton Learning Center in Searsport.
Wayne Hamilton, owner of Hamilton Marine, teaches a navigation class, and the students travel to Camden to work with sailmaker Grant Gambell to make sails for the dinghies. The class would not be possible without local businesses who donate time and materials: Gambell and Hunter Sailmakers, Hamilton Marine, Epifanes, Maine Coast Lumber, WoodenBoat Store, Chesapeake Light Craft, George Kirby Jr Paint Company.
For more information on the Penobscot Marine Museum, please visit www.PenobscotMarineMuseum.org. For more information on Maine DaySail, please visit http://mainedaysail.com.