Location & Facilities

The Landing School Facility and Location

The Landing School Facilities

The Landing School, located in rural Arundel, Maine, occupies several spacious, contemporary buildings in a residential area of the small town. The facility covers more than 50,000 square feet and includes a boat building shop, design studio, systems laboratory, composites shop, classrooms, learning resource center, student lounges and administrative offices.

The boat building shops are true work environments, similar to any other small, modern boat building facility. They are fully equipped with commercial-grade power and hand tools, and well stocked with high-quality wood and composite construction materials. The shops include areas for planing, wood-steaming, vacuum-bagging, lofting and wood storage.

The Marine Systems Program laboratory provides dedicated space for classroom and laboratory instruction. The lab contains workstations equipped with AC and DC electric power, compressed air and water supplies. In addition to its lecture and demonstration area, the lab is equipped with lifts and industrial-grade tools used to teach system assembly and installation.

The Yacht Design Program Studio on the second floor of the boat building shop contains a spacious work studio and separate lecture hall. It is equipped with networked computer workstations, plotters, reference archives and a drafting table for each student.

Because all of The Landing School programs are located under one roof, students are afforded the opportunity to experience programs outside of their chosen course of study. For example, students in the Yacht Design Program come in regular contact with boat shop and marine systems lab activities. This exposure is formalized throughout the academic year with cross-program teaching sessions.

Location

The Landing is a short stretch of the Kennebunk River where The School is located. It was once an internationally famous shipbuilding area and the home of more than 20 shipbuilding firms between 1766 and 1867. As the poor economical effects of the Great Depression descended over the country in the early 20th century, the shipbuilding business throughout Maine began to dwindle. In 1942, The Landing hosted its last official launching of a commercial vessel, a police cruiser. Three and a half decades later, the first class of students at The Landing School launched a Chamberlain dory-skiff in December 1978, and the boatbuilding trade along The Landing was revived.

For more information about the greater Arundel region, visit the Chamber of Commerce.

The Landing School

286 River Road, Arundel, Maine 04046

From Interstate 95, get off via Exit 25 (Kennebunk). After the toll booth, bear left onto Route 35 toward Kennebunk. After passing the local high school, continue straight on Route 35 through the traffic circle. At the next traffic light, turn left, and then bear right at the next light, continuing on Route 35. A couple more miles down the road is The Landing Store on the right, and immediately past it is Durrells Bridge Road on the left; take that left and follow Durrells Bridge Road to the end (less than a half-mile) where it intersects River Road. The Landing School is immediately to the right of the intersection.