The course teaches the fundamental steps in traditional boat design and demonstrates connections between craft and modern methods. Instructors provide vessel design orientation and then students carve their own shape ideas in the form of a wooden half-hull model. Experts teach the traditional skills of visualizing and carving your model in this phase of the class. After the models are completed, a practicing naval architect guides students in translating shape from models into a lines plan. The final phase of the class is a comparative analysis of the designs generated by the group.

For MIT students, the class is listed as 2.S974/2.S893.  Preregistration required.  Hobby Shop members may sign up via the Hobby Shop.  All others please reach out to museum-reference.mit.edu.

This class is jointly sponsored by the MIT Museum and the Department of Mechanical Engineering’s Center for Ocean Engineering.