Introduction to Wooden Boatbuilding Session 2

Mondays, 4-7 PM (except holidays)

Beginning Monday, June 10th

In this course at Spaulding Marine Center, students will spend the first several weeks developing core safety, woodworking, and tool maintenance skills before beginning to work on a near-full restoration of International One Design hull #82, designed (1936) and built by Bjarne Aas in Norway in 1937.

This boat has an incredible history of class racing on the Bay and elsewhere, and in this boatbuilding class we will work toward returning her to shipshape over an extended period.

About the Instructor:

Daniel Mollet is originally from a farm in South Dakota. How he became a boatbuilder is a long and somewhat incomprehensible story, but after a decade of teaching high school and college English in South Dakota, Montana, Oregon, Chile, and Spain, he decided to apply to the two-year wooden boatbuilding and restoration program at IYRS School of Technology and Trades in Newport, Rhode Island. He graduated in June of 2019 and left a few days later to drive across the country and take a job as the “wooden boat guy” at Spaulding Marine Center, where he stayed for about two years. He worked in custom cabinetry for a while after leaving Spaulding, but at the height of the pandemic he returned to the classroom full time and now teaches elementary school in San Francisco Unified School District. In addition to his commercial woodworking and regular classroom careers, Daniel has been teaching woodworking and boatbuilding classes in Sausalito and San Francisco–for kids and adults–pretty much since the day he arrived in 2019. He is very excited to be back at Spaulding for this project!