Job Description:

• 1) Fabricates, repairs, or modifies wooden boats, life rafts, and pontoons, according to blueprints, using handtools, power tools, and measuring instruments: Lays out full-scale outline of boat on mold-loft floor, using crayon, scales, and protractor, following blueprints and table of offsets.

• 2) Establishes dimensional reference points on layout and makes templates of parts.

• 3) Scribes dimensional lines on lumber, following templates.

• 4) Cuts and forms parts, such as keel, ribs, and sidings, using carpenter's handtools and power tools.

• 5) May specialize in fabricating particular part of boat and be designated Bulkhead Carpenter; Bulwark Carpenter; Hull Builder; Keel Assembler.