Wooden Boat Building
Clip: Season 1 Episode 29 | 7m 55sVideo has Closed Captions
Take a tour of a school that is preserving the craft of wooden boat building.
The Les Cheneaux Islands are a chain of 36 protected islands along the Northern shore of Lake Huron in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. For nearly a hundred years, wooden boats have been part of life in the islands, but as boat manufacturers turned to fiberglass, there were fewer craftspeople to carry on the wooden boat tradition. So the communities in the Islands came together and opened a school.
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Wooden Boat Building
Clip: Season 1 Episode 29 | 7m 55sVideo has Closed Captions
The Les Cheneaux Islands are a chain of 36 protected islands along the Northern shore of Lake Huron in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. For nearly a hundred years, wooden boats have been part of life in the islands, but as boat manufacturers turned to fiberglass, there were fewer craftspeople to carry on the wooden boat tradition. So the communities in the Islands came together and opened a school.
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