The students are building the boat in the seventh-floor woodworking studios of the campus' Mosse Humanities Building, carrying out all the steps of construction and aiming at finishing and selling the boat by the end of March.
"The boat name derives from its shape and this rowboat first showed up in the mid-1800s along the Maine coast and was used by lobstermen to tend their lobster pots", says Josh.
Josh, says he is not yet a master boat builder: "No gray hair and too many fingers still on my hand for that. But I am getting pretty good at it."
The images here show the skeletal curve of the peapod rowboat under construction in the woodshop at the Mosse Humanities Building.