Boat building has a long, colorful history at Proctor. Since the 1930s, hundreds of rowboats, sailing dinghies, canoes and kayaks have been built here. If you're curious about what it takes to build a boat, here's what one alum had to say.
When Alan Shepard was a boy– long before he became America's first astronaut in space-– he spent a summer building a boat at Proctor. In 1961, when Shepard became a national hero, we named the old shop in his honor!
Today, the top floor is still home to woodshop and boat building classes. Downstairs, metal engineering, blacksmithing, and jewelry classes meet.
Learn more about Proctor's industrial arts program here