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Twenty students from the Brooklyn School for Collaborative Studies launched the S.S. Lowrider and the Jumbo Jet, two seven-feet-six-inches-long wooden sailboats.

The students worked on their boats once since October in conjunction with Brooklyn Boatworks, a nonprofit that helps city school students develop life skills through the building and use of small boats.

The boats did not have sails yet, so they were pulled by rope between two docks at the home of the Hudson River Community Sailing Program at Pier 66.

"It took a lot of hard work to build it and a lot of patience," said student boat builder Jayvon Francois.

"There is a lot of teamwork involved in building a boat. And it's not just a bunch of materials and plywood, it's a teamwork effort," said student boat builder Dylan Breen.

"It was really fun and it was really great, because we built those boats and we actually got to go across the water with them, and it really just felt great," said student boat builder Eamon Olive.

The students came to a workshop for 90 minutes once a week to turn three sheets of plywood into the seaworthy vessels. Two Brooklyn-based yacht designers developed the program.

"Our chosen profession involves all things in the water and we were looking for a way to give back to our local community," said Carl Persak of Brooklyn Boatworks.

"Putting together a boat requires science and math, a sense of history, a sense of materials and awareness of the world around you," said Jeremy Wurmfeld of Brooklyn Boatworks.

Brooklyn Boatworks is hoping to expand its program into other city schools. For more information on the program, visit brooklynboatworks.org.