Small Boat School

At Small Boat School, I teach boatbuilding online.

My goal with the school is to help wooden boat lovers gain the skills and the confidence they need to build their first wooden boat – even if you’re someone who doesn’t have a lot of boatbuilding or woodworking experience yet.

Boats are beautiful, complex shapes. And a boat – as a whole – is complex, too.

But each individual step in building a small wooden boat is not as complex as you might think.

It’s all about knowing the various basic techniques and combining them in the right way.

My main focus at the Small Boat School is to help you have fun while you’re building your first boat boat.

I strongly feel that boatbuilding should be stressless and stimulating. Building a boat will take several hundred hours, so the process just *has* to be fun.

The boat itself is a by-product (albeit an absolutely wonderful one) of the boatbuilding process.

Once the boat is done, the workshop (and perhaps your heart?) will feel quite empty. But going on the water in your own beautiful hand-built wooden boat may help drown your sorrows.

My long-term goal for the Small Boat School is to build all my favorite small boats (sail, oar, paddle, power ..) – perhaps one or two each year for the next 30 or 40 years – and document and teach the process as I go. 🙂

– Mikkel Pagh