Chesapeake Light Craft Expands Schedule of Popular Build-Your-Own-Boat Classes

Annapolis, MD, February 07, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Chesapeake Light Craft, the boat kit experts, will be running thirty of their popular Build-Your-Own-Boat classes in locations around the country in 2010. Over the last 15 years, CLC boatbuilding classes have launched 900 boats and introduced more than a thousand students to the joys of boatbuilding. CLC has been hosting and teaching build-your-own-boat classes since 1994. In CLC classes, talented professional instructors help students assemble their own boat from start to finish. Most classes are 5-1/2 days---a perfect one-week vacation, with a boat to take home at the end, ready for finish work.

Demand for the classes has grown every year as the word spreads. In 2009 CLC ran more than 20 classes at sites in Maine, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maryland, Michigan, and California. CLC's boatbuilding school partners include the famous WoodenBoat School in Brooklin, Maine, the International Yacht Restoration School in Newport, Rhode Island, the Wooden Boat Foundation in Port Townsend, Washington, and the Great Lakes Boatbuilding School in Cedarville, Michigan.

While CLC's precision-cut boat kits are within easy reach of first-time boatbuilders working at home---more than 20,000 completed CLC boats are on the water---a classroom setting still has its advantages. Students work in lavishly equipped shops with a professional boatbuilder at their side and enjoy the positive energy (and extra hands) of a group setting. For those who bring helpers, classes are a rewarding and memorable parent-child or family experience. And all of the boatbuilding classes take place in beautiful maritime locations: Annapolis, Newport, Port Townsend, Maine, and Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

Students in 2010 can select from 13 of CLC's most popular designs. Paddlers get to choose from the sleek Shearwater sea kayaks, award-winning Chesapeake touring kayaks, high-performance Night Herons, nimble Wood Ducks, ultralight Sassafras pack canoes, or Nick Schade's new recreational kayak design, the Ganymede. Sailors may build the Skerry Daysailer, Passagemaker Dinghy, 8-foot Eastport Pram, or CLC's new Northeaster Dory. Two sliding-seat rowing boats are offered in classes this year: the Annapolis Wherry and the Oxford Rowing Shell. Also new in 2010 is a Kaholo Stand-Up Paddleboard Class, which will be held in Newport over the summer.

Those unfamiliar with the magic of stitch-and-glue boatbuilding can see these week-long classes condensed into ninety-second timelapse videos at clcboats.com/timelapse.

Tuition for the week costs $750 and the various kits built in class range from $750 to $2400. Students may bring a helper for the week for an additional $375. More information on Chesapeake Light Craft's Build-Your-Own-Boat classes can be found at clcboats.com/classes.

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