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2024 SCALLYWAG CAMP

June 24th- July 5th, 2024
Logistics
Welcome and congratulations for joining SCALLYWAG Camp 2024. I hope the build we do together as a team will be a milestone in your life as it has been for so many others. If you haven’t built a boat before you are in for a treat. There is nothing quite like building and sailing your own capable small boat. By building it yourself you can incorporate features that suit your likes and needs. As a team build you will have the opportunity to work with others in a satisfying creative process. At the conclusion of SCALLYWAG Camp you will be able to drive home with a highly accurate hull, remaining components and the skills needed to finish your boat.

The nature of SCALLYWAG Camp is based on the successful SCAMP Camp model. It is in one sense a boat building class but a class that aims to impart knowledge and develop skills through the hands-on process of building your boat as opposed to lecture and modular topic skill development. SCALLYWAG Camp will be a fast-paced team effort designed to produce highly accurate hulls through team work. This means that we work together on all the boats in the build.

Your SCALLYWAG CAMP Instructors
The instructors for the build are Howard Rice and John Welsford with the assistance of Lonnie Black.
Howard has instructed all SCAMP Camp builds to date and has also built a number of custom SCAMP’s and other boats for owners in North America, Europe and Japan.
To date he has had a hand in the build of over 90 SCAMP’s and will continue to support you as you proceed after the initial build of your SCALLYWAG hull. Howard is a former college professor who has a life-long love of boats and boat building. He has taught boat building at the Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building, Chesapeake Light Craft and at various maritime centers across North America.
John Welsford is a highly accomplished designer and boat builder and is viewed by many as the best of the current world wide small boat designers. John is quite unique amongst designers in that he actually sails and voyages on many of the boats he designs giving him valuable first hand real time use information.
Howard currently resides in Japan where he founded and manages a maritime center and boat building school located in the Oki Island UNESCO Global Geopark. John is traveling in from New Zealand for this build.

Where Will SCALLYWAG CAMP 2024 Be Located?
SCALLYWAG Camp is being held in a private shop facility in the small picturesque town of Eaton Rapids, Michigan. The shop is ideally suited to the build and is located on a beautiful 80 acre country site. Lodging is available on site in a shared private home. There is lodging space available for three participants at no charge although a small voluntary donation is suggested to the home owners Dave and Chris Mergener. During past group builds participants shared meals together and on some days we went into town for restaurant meals. Camping is also available on site for anyone who wishes to do so.

The address is- 9792 Kinneville Rd. Eaton Rapids, Michigan 48827.

Lodging
The build site is on an 80 acre private home estate and our hosts offer their home for builders. There are three bedrooms available so please let us know if you would like one. There is also superb camping on site and both instructors plan to camp. If you wish to pitch a tent let us know. The bathroom, kitchen and shower facilities in the house are shared by everyone.

When
SCALLYWAG Camp is scheduled to begin at 8am on Monday morning June 24th, and concludes mid day on July 5th. Builders are welcome to move their tools into the shop on June 23rd between 12 noon and 5pm. Lodging will be available starting June 23rd.

Work Days
The build begins on day one with a short orientation session to help familiarize each builder with the build process and management of the shop space. Each work day will begin at 8am and end at 5pm unless we are having too much fun and decide push on into the evening. Lunch is an hour at noon. Each lunch break will be an opportunity for the group to engage in a small boat chalk talk by the build instructor pertaining to the boats being built, small boat use or other related topics, which builders request.

** Birds Mouth Mast Option **
One of the elements of the SCALLYWAG build that seems a bit daunting to builders is the construction of a hollow, tapered birds mouth mast. Last year before the 2023 SCAMP Camp the option was offered to produce masts during the Camp by working some evenings. As it turned out everyone enrolled selected the option and masts were built during the build. This option is being offered again in 2024 at a cost of $950. This cost covers the cost of materials including Sitka Spruce, epoxy, fillers and the instructors time. By any measure it is a bargain. Please select this option if interested as materials need to be sourced prior to the build.

Boat Trailer
You will need to bring a trailer for your new boat. It is suggested that a galvanized steel boat trailer is the most economical and actually perfectly suited for carrying your new boat. Any trailer with adjustable fore and aft bunks will work. A trailer with a long tongue makes it easy to back up while launching and retrieving.

The SCALLYWAG Kit
There is not a SCALLYWAG kit available so the instructors will arrive early and produced the parts needed for the build. At the conclusion of the build each builder will be able to depart with a highly accurate hull and the patterns to cut out the parts to complete their boat. Lay out skills will be taught enabling each builder to easily produce the final parts on their own. The tuition cost covers the purchase of marine plywood and the hours of labor needed to produce the parts for the build.

Volunteers and Visitors
Volunteers and visitors to the build are always welcome. Typically we have a few folks who want to stop by as volunteers for a few hours or days. Please let us know by email so we can plan ahead. Visitors are of course welcome at any time.

SCALLYWAG Camp Tuition and Materials Fee

$5,500 per builder.

This covers five days of partial parts preparation, building jig construction and twelve days of instruction.

Some builders come as a pair or a team and this means they also benefit from boat building instruction. There is a $500 fee for an additional builder.

Some participants wish to attend SCAMP Camp to learn and then build their own boat at a later date. The tuition for this type of builder is $2,100.
There is a $900 Materials fee.

Materials include epoxy, cleat material, fasteners and consumable build supplies.

My email
thepocketyacht@gmail.com

Payment
A $500 deposit will secure your place in the build. There are only four build slots open so securing your place is important. Please do so as soon as possible.

The balance for the build is due before May 1st, 2024 and can be paid in full at any time up to that date.

Thank you for your deposit or payment in full.

Please send payment via PayPal by May 1st, 2024

My Paypal email is:

prof_rice@yahoo.com

Tuition-                          $5,500
Materials-                          $900
Birdsmouth Mast Build- $950
Additional Builder-          $500
Builder, w/o Boat $2,100

Deposit For each Builder $500

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2024 SCAMP AND SCALLYWAG Camp Tool List

Here is a suggested tool list, which will enable you as a builder to make excellent progress. These are tools you will continue to use as you finish your boat. The items marked ** are tools you will need for SCALLYWAG Camp, although it doesn't hurt to bring all the items on the list.

*If you are flying in to the build we will have tools on site for your use.

**Tape measure

Bevel (for determining angles)

Trim Router with a 1/4 round over bit (if you have one)

**Small Bubble Level

**Japanese hand pull saw

**Small block plane

**Chisels (3/4 and 1”)

**Hammer

**Cordless drill with square and Phillips head bits

**Set of drill bits

**20 or more- F-clamps, and 6 to 10 small spring-clamps

**Vibrating sander- Model of your choice, random orbit is the best choice,

a 4”X4” pad sander is also handy.

Counter set bit set

**Pliers

**Ruler, Steel – 12” to 18” is ideal

**Small wood rasp or Japanese rasp.

Diagonal Wire cutter (Bull nose cutters best)

***Ten straight edge utility knife razor blades

**Tyvek type paper suit and/or multiple pairs of old pants and old shirts

(clothing you do not mind being ruined by epoxy)

**Ear plugs or ear Protectors

**Mask (Dust) - NIOSH/MSHA approved or mask (Respirator) - Filter,

organic fumes rated.

Large box of rags or clean cotton rags

**3 Plastic squeegees spreader for epoxy work (these should be new).

We are very pleased to be doing this as we as your instructors know the joy the little boat has created in so many lives.

Feel free to contact Howard at any time with questions. thepocketyacht@gmail.com

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