The Wooden Boat Museum in Winterton, Trinity Bay has a busy summer underway.
Master boat builder, Jerome Canning says they have a number of programs available to the public to help keep the province’s boat-building traditions alive.
Twice a week they host a Junior Builders program for children ages five to 12, who are taught to use hand tools—something Canning says has proven to be popular and great fun.
It’s a three-hour program that runs Sundays and Thursdays “and they have a great time” says Canning, at a cost of $25 per child.
Meanwhile, they’re also hosting a one-day planking workshop on Saturdays. It’s 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and during that time, Canning shows people how to plank a boat. “We have a couple of punts that we’re working on” he says “it sounds complex, but after that one-day workshop, people are very confident, and almost always they achieve one plank on that boat.” The museum has a 16-foot Rodney they are planking this summer. “We actually have two of them,” says Canning “that at the end of the season will go up for sale.”
Those are just some of the programs being offered by the museum this summer.