Inspiration for teachers -
PUTNAM -- The whine of power saws and sanders rang out into the halls of Putnam High School Monday as students meticulously dismantled an 80-year-old sailboat in preparation for its rebirth.
The project, begun in October as part of the school's transportation class, is a ground-up renovation task that includes 10 students, two teachers and a lot of elbow grease. Seth Kelly, an 18-year-old student, crouched atop the inverted vessel, his green-paint-stained hands carefully working a screwdriver into the warped hull.
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The boat, a 12-foot 1920s Beetlecat, was in various stages of renovation, with one group of students prying planks off its weathered and peeling hull, while another crew measured and cut long strips of new wood. Bill Anderson, the school's special-education teacher and overseer of the project, said his lifelong love affair with sailing provided the impetus for the boat-building class.
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PUTNAM -- The whine of power saws and sanders rang out into the halls of Putnam High School Monday as students meticulously dismantled an 80-year-old sailboat in preparation for its rebirth.
The project, begun in October as part of the school's transportation class, is a ground-up renovation task that includes 10 students, two teachers and a lot of elbow grease. Seth Kelly, an 18-year-old student, crouched atop the inverted vessel, his green-paint-stained hands carefully working a screwdriver into the warped hull.
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The boat, a 12-foot 1920s Beetlecat, was in various stages of renovation, with one group of students prying planks off its weathered and peeling hull, while another crew measured and cut long strips of new wood. Bill Anderson, the school's special-education teacher and overseer of the project, said his lifelong love affair with sailing provided the impetus for the boat-building class.
rest of articles and picture at
http://www.norwichbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070426/NEWS01/704260384/1002
