Boatworks Launch and Fundraiser!

Well, folks, we had a great time at the official launch of our Boatworks program at the Museum last week! We posted up photos here, on our Facebook page: Boatworks at the Brickyard at the Museum! …take a look! Our Tiny Boats got a lot of interest too:

This week we’re officially starting the tooling up process, getting the forms built and getting our teaching staff up to the cutting edge. More on that later, we’ll have some photos this week.

…and a little bit of challenging news. In spite of the fact we raised over $20,000 in matching funds for the program, MassDEV took a pass on our grant request. Some days you make the cut, some days you don’t. This makes it a little more challenging to launch the project, but, along with the funds you’ve donated, we’re going to be working hard to raise more donations. Be assured, your generous donations will go directly to teaching kids to build boats!

Want to help us out? You can, using PayPal, either with your credit or debit card, or your PayPal account, by clicking this link: Donate!

Every dollar counts, and we’re a 501c3, so your donation is tax-deductible!

Stay tuned for more news coming soon!

Build Your Own (tiny) Boat With Us!

That’s right!  You can make your very own little boat if you come on down to see us at Lynn Museum for Lynn Open Studios!  Choose from the Small Dog, either the easy kit or the complete scale model…

These are 5″ long, fully detailed models cut on our Glowforge laser cutter, complete with a video to show how it all fits together.  You can read all about it, here: Build the Small Dog!  We’ll have kits there for you to take home, but also some assembled boats for young artists to decorate.

If that’s not your cuppa tea, we have our fun origami boats!

They come complete with instructions, and if you’re origami-challenged, we’d be more than happy to show you the folds.Don’t forget, 11-3 at the Lynn Museum to see the Boatworks at the Brickyard, including meeting the builders who spent their April vacation building the Periwinkle Jr. a full-sized 10′ long rowboat, you’ll see the 6-hour canoe, learn about our coming builds and a whole lot more!

See you then!

Build the Small Dog!

Want some fun?  Build the Small Dog, either a simple kit, or the full scale model, both shown above!

Laser-cut kits will be at the Lynn Museum for Lynn Open Studios on November 18, and we’ll even have some pre-made kits there for young painters, artists  and illustrators’ fun.

Here are the details of that event:

Here’s a little video showing how to put the Small Dog kit together, both the Simple build and tips for the Full build:

Got a laser cutter?  Want to cut your own Small Dog?  Simple, download the SVG file here: Small Dog SVG v4F

We scaled ours to about 5″ long and cut it out of 1.5mm basswood, but do what you want, have some fun!