Wrangell High School senior Clayton Stokes works on his boat during Marine Fabrication Class last week. The class’ three jet boats are nearly complete and should be ready for the water by the end of the school year next month.
After many months of work, students in Wrangell High School’s (WHS) Marine Fabrication class are nearly finished building three jet boats.
The students began working at the beginning of the school year to create the metal boats, and they should be ready to travel up the river sometime next month.
The leaders of the teams are the students who pay for the approximately $3,000 of aluminum needed to build the18-foot jet boats. To add the boat’s motor is an additional cost, said class teacher Dave Brown. However, the boats would cost students, or other Wrangell residents, nearly $10,000 elsewhere, Brown said.
Those in the marine fabrication class must first complete the welding class offered at WHS.
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