Images From a Visit to IYRS: A Trades & Technology School in Newport, RI
Check out these photos from IYRS, a trade and technology school in Newport, RI that blends traditional wooden boatbuilding with modern making techniques.
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MAKE Asks: Bucket List Builds
MAKE Asks: is a weekly column where we ask you, our readers, for responses to maker-related questions. We hope the column sparks interesting conversation and is a way for us to get to know more about each other.
All Aboard 40-foot Steamship at Maker Faire
Romance, power, danger — what’s not to love about a 40-foot stern-wheel paddleboat driven by a boiler full of steam? Stoked by the gang at Kinetic Steam Works, the good ship Wilhelmina is great fun to watch, with its churning red paddles, locomotive linkages, and piercing steam whistles. In the past KSW has exhibited giant […]
A Maker Day in Far Rockaway This Weekend
A parade of pedal-powered maker contraptions and a reception for artists junk boats takes place this Saturday in Far Rockaway, Queens.
The Great Concrete Canoe Race
For me, Concrete Month has been about discovering all kinds of amazing uses for a material that, before, had seemed pretty mundane. But among engineers, that sentiment—that concrete can do so much more than we normally ask of it—is not new. Case in point: the concrete canoe phenomenon.
Open Call for NYC Area Boatmakers, Builders, and Artists
Reported here on makezine last year by Jon Kalish, Marina 59’s “Boatel” in Far Rockaways, Queens, NYC, is expanding their programming this Summer with a 6-week boat-maker residency.
One-Sheet Plywood Boat – Tiny Yellow House
For this episode of “Tiny Yellow House” for Make Magazine, host Derek “Deek” Diedricksen pulls another idea from his book Humble Homes, Simple Shacks. This time, its an easy wooden boat made from little more than one sheet of plywood. More info: http://wp.me/p1CIX9-qLg
