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Drawing on Hampton Roads' rich maritime heritage, TWBW provides unique and exciting experiential learning opportunities. Students learn STEM and other critical life skills as they build wooden boats and are taught to row and sail them on local waters. While participating in these activities, their world expands and learning becomes relevant and fun. They not only learn about boats, they learn about themselves as they master new skills and discover new interests and talents.
Classes Cancelled
Our weekly summer camp programs include various woodworking and nautical activities such as building a model sail boat, leatherworking, steam-bending, learning nautical tools and practices, sewing, painting, an environmental science station, & more. Students are able to take their small projects home. Each session concludes with campers rowing and/or sailing one of our student-built wooden boats.
Classes Cancelled
Our pre-apprentice program is focused on reaching out to disconnected youth ages 17-24. These are students who are no longer attending school and are looking to add experience to their resume to achieve gainful employment. The program follows a specified curriculum, and students receive an educational stipend while in attendance. Each session lasts approximately 20 weeks and concludes with a small graduation ceremony where participants receive completion certificates.
Schedule:
Classes Cancelled
This beginner level course is typically 14 weeks long and intended for anyone with a desire to learn the basics of wooden boatbuilding. Prior woodworking experience is not necessary. Students will learn to properly use both traditional hand- and power- tools throughout the course. You may bring your own tools or use those we have on hand.
Schedule:
Next Session Beginning January 22, 2026
Day / Time: Thursdays 6:00-8:00pm
Target Audience: Adult men & women Class Size: Up to 12
Prerequisites: None
Learn the art of making a beautiful half hull model boat while building your own scaled replica of a Muscongus Bay Sloop. Half Hull models were used prior to the 20th century as a means of planning a ship's design and sheer to ensure that the ship would be symmetrical. Now they are built as decorative nautical art and constructed after a ship is complete.
Schedule:
January 22, 2026
Day / Time: Thursdays 6:00-8:00pm
Target Audience: Adult men & women
Class Size: Up to 12
Prerequisites: None
www.twbw.org
Tidewater Wooden Boat Workshop
910 Ballentine Blvd., Norfolk, VA 23504, US