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In April 2008 Northumberland County Council approached boat builder and PuppetShip director Alex Finnegan asking if he could build a small boat with 8 fourteen year old students in a school in Blyth, Northumberland. Alex put together the ApprenticeSHIP Project as an introduction to boat building which needed no prior woodworking skills.

The great success of the initial project, AppSHIP1, has resulted in a second project being comissioned by Northumberland County Council. AppSHIP2 will be a larger vessel, students have already started to design the vessel themselves along the lines of a traditional north east Coble. These lines drawings will now be lofted full size allowing us to begin the construction a modern sailing coble.

AppSHIP1 Images