Boat Building School
Reviving and teaching the practical and transferable traditional skills of wooden boatbuilding to young people.
Come work on the Ilen
Come and work with some of Ireland's few remaining traditional shipwrights refitting Ireland’s sole surviving sea–going sailing ship.
AK Ilen News
June 24th 2011 - IN THE AMERICAN SPOTLIGHT
New School of Wooden Boat Building workshop chosen for the welcome of visitors from the American Ireland Fund on 23 June. click on heading for full story
(l-r) Gary MacMahon, director AK Ilen Company, Sue-Ann McManus unveiling the handcarved AK Ilen Wooden Boat Building scrolled name plaque
May 27th 2011 - Fitting Out Ceremony
On 27 May 2011, the finished deckhouse was brought from the School in Limerick to the Boatyard, to coincide with the Baltimore wooden sailing boats week-end.
Scroll work
The carved scroll work to be fitted to the transom of the AK Ilen following restoration of the hull.
Framing Out Ceremony
Our ‘framing out’ ceremony is an ancient custom more associated with the fitting of the last frame to an inert wooden building – but on this occasion it will commemorate the placement by the shipwrights of an oak branch on the Ilen’s stem to mark progress with the build of our good ship.
Limerick Launch of Traditional Boats of Ireland Book
This incredible 658 page book is the result of a combined effort by a team of Irish people who are passionate about the rich diversity of traditional boat types throughout the country
In The Media
RTE – TOM MACSWEENEY’S SEASCAPES MARITIME LOG
Preserving Boat Building Skills
Baltimore Wooden Boat Festival - Framing Out Ceremony
The festival is run in conjunction with the Baltimore Seafood Weekend, where some of West Cork’s finest fish smokers, cheese makers and organic gardeners will ply their exotic, world famous wares.
Rebuilding the Ilen on the Ilen River
Anthony Keane OSB
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