Teaching Wooden Canoe Paddle Building
New Brunswick, NJ | April-May 2021
I partnered with a fellow volunteer in a community boat building project to teach a class on building a laminated wooden canoe paddle. As an instructor guiding others through a woodworking project, I learned more than ever before.
All photos by the Lower Raritan Watershed Partnership, the organization that made the class possible.
Preparing to laminate various strips of wood to create a "blank" paddle.
Fellow instructor Amber and I with some model paddles.
Amber and I preparing strips of wood for the students pre-class.