Wooden Boat Restoration Course Now Offered by the New Hampshire Boat MuseumDecember 3, 2009 - Wolfeboro, NH. A new Wooden Boat Restoration Course will be offered by the New Hampshire Boat Museum in Wolfeboro in January. Six classes will run on Mondays and Wednesdays, 9am to 3pm, over a three-week period beginning Monday, January 11. Classes will be held at the Workshop Building adjacent to the museum. The cost for all six classes is $450 per person. No previous experience is required. Space is limited, so sign up today at www.nhbm.org or museum@nhbm.org by January 4.

Classes will evolve around wooden boat restoration using modern technology, tools and materials to repair and rebuild a boat's structure in order to achieve a safe, sound wooden vessel while maintaining the beauty of the riginal factory-shipped boat. The course is designed to remove the mystique of wooden boat restoration and will cover such fundamentals as the assessment of an old wooden boat, planking, steam bending, varnishing and more.

The instructor, Zeke Bly of Wolfeboro Falls, has over 35 years of teaching experience in Industrial Arts and Technology Education, including boat building courses. He has attended the Wooden Boat School in Brooklin, Maine, restored several Chris Craft boats, as well as the Hickman Sea Sled presently on display at NHBM, and built many canoes, kayaks and rowing shells.

For those traveling distances and would like to stay overnight, arrangements have been made with the Allen A Motel next door to the Museum with a reduced rate of $64/night. To make your motel reservation, contact the Allen A directly at 1-800-732-8507 or 603-569-1700. This will be a terrific way to spend your days during the dead of winter and is a great holiday gift for that special someone who is interested in boats and boating restoration.

The New Hampshire Boat Museum is a 501(c)3 nonprofit educational organization focusing on New Hampshire's boating heritage and life on its lakes and rivers. It fulfills this mission through exhibits, events, publications, outreach programs and hands-on activities. The Museum is open seasonally from Memorial Day through Columbus Day Weekend and is located at 397 Center Street (Route 28N), Wolfeboro Falls, 2 miles northeas of downtown Wolfeboro. For further information, contact Ann Sprague at 603-677-2196, asprague@nhbm.org

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