Canoebuilding Workshop — Build Your Own Cod Rib 12 Canoe
Week-Long Residential Workshop
May 3 - 8, 2025
Instructor: Timothy Clark
Skill Level: 1-3, All levels welcome
Build your own Cod Rib 12, skin on frame, double-paddle*, solo canoe. Warm wood and a translucent skin make for a wonderful aesthetic, and its light weight (20 lbs. or less) will make trips to the water a breeze.
This is a boat that can take you on a quick lunch-time paddle or on an extended back-country trip. A fun group project, we will cut fine joints for the pine stringers with Japanese saws and bend the ash or oak ribs. Dacron will be shrunk to a perfect fit on the hull with a household iron, and inwales and outwales will be bent and screwed into place.
The project is well-suited to those with no prior woodworking experience and can be quite fun for experienced woodworkers. At the end of the class, students will each have a canoe that is ready for finishing with coats of polyurethane.
This canoe can be built as a solo-project, or with a partner.
*Please note that this course does not include a paddle. Tuition includes all instruction and materials,. Day student tuition includes lunch for the duration of the session. Residential student tuition includes room & board, including all meals, for the duration of the workshop. The cost of meals included in tuition fees cannot be pro-rated.
Workshop classes are a chance to focus without the distractions of daily life, and to tap into the creative endeavors that sustain us all. The Marlboro Studio School welcomes students to stay on campus for the duration of their stay, and area residents are also invited to participate as commuting Day Students.
For additional details about fees & what to expect during a week-long workshop, please visit our workshop information page. Workshops are available to persons who are 21 years of age and older as of the date of their arrival on campus.
Click here to view our Terms & Conditions.
Select your desired enrollment type from the dropdown menus. Dropdown menu selections will be reflected in the class cost listed at the top of the page.
Week-Long Residential Workshop
May 3 - 8, 2025
Instructor: Timothy Clark
Skill Level: 1-3, All levels welcome
Build your own Cod Rib 12, skin on frame, double-paddle*, solo canoe. Warm wood and a translucent skin make for a wonderful aesthetic, and its light weight (20 lbs. or less) will make trips to the water a breeze.
This is a boat that can take you on a quick lunch-time paddle or on an extended back-country trip. A fun group project, we will cut fine joints for the pine stringers with Japanese saws and bend the ash or oak ribs. Dacron will be shrunk to a perfect fit on the hull with a household iron, and inwales and outwales will be bent and screwed into place.
The project is well-suited to those with no prior woodworking experience and can be quite fun for experienced woodworkers. At the end of the class, students will each have a canoe that is ready for finishing with coats of polyurethane.
This canoe can be built as a solo-project, or with a partner.
*Please note that this course does not include a paddle. Tuition includes all instruction and materials,. Day student tuition includes lunch for the duration of the session. Residential student tuition includes room & board, including all meals, for the duration of the workshop. The cost of meals included in tuition fees cannot be pro-rated.
Workshop classes are a chance to focus without the distractions of daily life, and to tap into the creative endeavors that sustain us all. The Marlboro Studio School welcomes students to stay on campus for the duration of their stay, and area residents are also invited to participate as commuting Day Students.
For additional details about fees & what to expect during a week-long workshop, please visit our workshop information page. Workshops are available to persons who are 21 years of age and older as of the date of their arrival on campus.
Click here to view our Terms & Conditions.
Select your desired enrollment type from the dropdown menus. Dropdown menu selections will be reflected in the class cost listed at the top of the page.
Week-Long Residential Workshop
May 3 - 8, 2025
Instructor: Timothy Clark
Skill Level: 1-3, All levels welcome
Build your own Cod Rib 12, skin on frame, double-paddle*, solo canoe. Warm wood and a translucent skin make for a wonderful aesthetic, and its light weight (20 lbs. or less) will make trips to the water a breeze.
This is a boat that can take you on a quick lunch-time paddle or on an extended back-country trip. A fun group project, we will cut fine joints for the pine stringers with Japanese saws and bend the ash or oak ribs. Dacron will be shrunk to a perfect fit on the hull with a household iron, and inwales and outwales will be bent and screwed into place.
The project is well-suited to those with no prior woodworking experience and can be quite fun for experienced woodworkers. At the end of the class, students will each have a canoe that is ready for finishing with coats of polyurethane.
This canoe can be built as a solo-project, or with a partner.
*Please note that this course does not include a paddle. Tuition includes all instruction and materials,. Day student tuition includes lunch for the duration of the session. Residential student tuition includes room & board, including all meals, for the duration of the workshop. The cost of meals included in tuition fees cannot be pro-rated.
Workshop classes are a chance to focus without the distractions of daily life, and to tap into the creative endeavors that sustain us all. The Marlboro Studio School welcomes students to stay on campus for the duration of their stay, and area residents are also invited to participate as commuting Day Students.
For additional details about fees & what to expect during a week-long workshop, please visit our workshop information page. Workshops are available to persons who are 21 years of age and older as of the date of their arrival on campus.
Click here to view our Terms & Conditions.
Select your desired enrollment type from the dropdown menus. Dropdown menu selections will be reflected in the class cost listed at the top of the page.
Instructor: Timothy Clark
Vermont furniture maker, Timothy Clark designs and builds beautiful Windsor chairs and Shaker-inspired furniture from native hardwoods. He has an eye for graceful elegance and simplicity that is very evident in his work.
Tim’s love of boats began at a young age and has continued to today. His interest in building boats grew hand in hand with sailing and paddling them. He started teaching woodworking in 1992 as the resident woodworker at the Shelburne Craft School where he designed the Cod Rib 12 and since that time he has guided students to build over 100 Cod Rib 12’s. Other skin on frame designs of his were a rowing canoe and a 12’ rowing / sailing dinghy. A couple plywood designs of his were a 15’ rowing/sailing dory and a 15’ electric launch. He also restored and lived part time on a 25’ double ended Yugoslavian sailboat of traditional plank on frame construction. Throughout this time “messing about in boats” has been Tim’s favorite pastime. He has kept a sailboat on Lake Champlain each year since around 1989 and now sails a Caledonia Yawl and an O’Day 23. Both project boats as well as being a joy to sail.