New Bates Boat Building Shop, South Campus

In the early 1990s, LH Bates Vocational Technical Institute was renamed and restructured as Bates Technical College. Sometime in the 1990s, the College built an adjunct campus in South Tacoma and moved a number of programs there, including the Boat Building Program. The photographs here were taken at the new facility in 2003 and 2004. The Boat Building Program was suddenly and unexpectedly terminated in 2012. These photos were scanned from prints rather than the negatives.

Front of Boat Building Shop, South Campus.
Chuck Graydon (Bates Boat Building instructor, ca. 1999 to 2012). Photo taken in 2003 or 2004.
Classroom in the new Bates Boat Building shop.
Rear outdoor storage area, new Bates Boat Building shop, South Campus.
Partial view of new boatbuilding shop.
Partial view of new boatbuilding shop.
Partial view of new boatbuilding shop.
Partial view of new boatbuilding shop.
Partial view of new boatbuilding shop.
Dory presumably built in the new boatbuilding shop.
New Bates boatbuilding shop, with full-sized replica of 24-foot sailboat Seraffyn in the foreground, built as a class project under instructor John Possin.
Toolbox built as a required project by students in the Boat Building Program under Chuck Graydon.

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