For 10 years at the northwest school of wooden boat building he taught woodworking, boatbuilding, and the new contemporary wooden boat building and yacht interiors curriculum. next came another adventure and move to michigan where pat became director of the new great lakes boat building school.. Farley boat works is a historical boat shop re-established and operated by the port aransas museum a non-profit organization. the mission of the boat works is to carry on the tradition of wooden boat building in port aransas. it is operated as a boat building school and working museum. class size is 4 builders.. Our campus is located on a pristine and protected harbor -- port hadlock -- on the beautiful olympic peninsula of washington state. we launch boats from our shoreline.the northwest school of.