Student Boat Building Project. BROCKWAY SCOW

[Brent]

Clean lines. Any pics of folks using it?

 

[Bryan 2530]

Not yet, when school starts the kids will be water testing various shellfish beds out of it.

 

[Brent]

thanks, please keep posting pics

 

[Bryan 2530]

 

[Bryan 2530]

OK, finally got our class out on the boat.

In the pictures we are taking students out and dredging oysters on grounds that date back to colonial times as far as harvesting them, obviously the oysters were there before that but it points to the history of our area.

If you watch the entire slide show, over 70 pics you can also see purple bags which are loaded wit 26 thousand seed hardshell clams that the students broadcast into various areas of town waters.

Also you can see that the 25 hp motor we had on here gave up the ghost and we had to be towed in, later we found out it was a head gasket. So this winter we are going to try and find funding for a brand new 70 hp something.

All in all a good day and start of a good program, the kids loved it.

 

[Bryan 2530]

I guess the slideshow didn't work, here are some of the pics.

 

[Megabyte]

Awesome! Congratulations... but those sneakers aren't going to cut it on the water in the cold.
They need some white pimp boots!

 

[Bryan 2530]

True, but she is out now for the winter.

Putting on a used 85 Suzuki 2 stroker in the next few weeks, got to take it off the whaler it is currently on.

More pics.

 

[Megabyte]

You should be very proud of that boat, and of your students.
Awesome project! 8)

 

[Parttime]

Bext looking Brockway I've ever seen. Bought my 16' from Mr Earl B. 42 yrs ago. I want to build the 20' scow but I can't get the plans from the school.
I think Susan is trying to obtain them for me at this time.
Parttime

 

[Bryan 2530]

Who's Susan?

We built ours by eye, no plans. Just like Earl. :mrgreen:

 

[Parttime]

All I can tell you is she is an employe of the Sound school.

If no plans are available I guess I'll go by eye as well.

 

[Bryan 2530]

Yeah, Visel was bugging me for the plans of this one so we could publish them, but I never wrote any.

We are on to the next project anyway, a 20' skiff with a V bottom.

 

[Parttime]

Thanks for the input on the plans.

Have you considered a deep v bow with reverse hard chines for your skiff? Should keep some of the flat bottom stability of the scow
and still cut through a heavy chop.

 

[Bryan 2530]

Bottom is already done, and its very shallow, more like a Mod V Parker.

 

[Parttime]

That should be very stable, shallow and a lot better ride than the flat bottom. I'll definately wait for your results before I start building my boat.

 

[Bryan 2530]

I wouldn't do that, students work slow.

The Scow project took 2 years from start to finish. LOL

 

[Parttime]

I understand. Guess I had better get busy. Please keep your project info coming. Very interesting.

 

[Bryan 2530]

We got a little recognition, not just for this project, but for the whole department.

http://www.theday.com/article/20110224/NWS01/302249659



8)

 

[Megabyte]

The ITEEA award is one of the highest honors given to technology and engineering classroom teachers.

Congratulations!!
That is one heck of an achievement! 8)