Ship's Log

Adventures on Martha J and a Plank on the Boat

Come see us perform our sea chantey, as well as listen to tales from women mariners at She Tells Sea Tales this Saturday March 11th 2017 at 7pm! Tickets are available at She Tells Sea Tales and the evening is a ...

Counting Down the Classes

We came to the realization today that we only have 8 more classes until we head out on our journey! With that in mind, Sonia and Chrissy made a list of skills we want to work on before then: navigation, anchoring, ...

Planks for the Boat!

To warm up for the day we wrote a chantey called "Girls at Sea" based on the traditional tune "Fish in the Sea." The girls will be performing this chantey at She Tells Sea Tales our fundraising event that is ...

Project Planning Purpose

Planning takes time and that happened today as Bravo Team did not go out on the water due to the Small Craft Advisory. After weather observations showed us that wind speeds were in excess of our COI, we had a ...

First Day Longboating

This Wednesday turned out beautifully for a day on the water. Just a wee bit of wind and a whole lot of sunshine. ? With five girls, three instructors, and the help of Chrissy McLean we loaded the boat headed out ...

Sailing in the Rainshadow

It's Spring! It was hard to believe that we woke to slushy roads and as we checked the weather this sunny afternoon. We took advantage of our light wind and blue skies to get out on the water and set ...

Sharing the Fun

This week the girls continued to make good progress on their projects and shared their experiences with Girls Boat Project donors while they toured the shop. Harper and Linnea carefully used dividers and combination squared to lay out the half-laps ...

Bird watching in the sunshine

[gallery ids="1429,1432,1430,1431" type="rectangular"] Bravo Team reconnected with recently launched Townshend for an afternoon of bird watching in the sunshine. First we had a visit from Ron Sikes from Admiralty Audubon. Ron visited to share his extensive birding experiences and ...

Windy and Watery Work Day

The weather was not in our favor today, so we changed our plans from going out in the longboat, instead we learned about some safety gear and continued to make progress on our boat and tool trays. To start the ...

When Things Flow

Our hope for today was to launch our freshly painted and oiled boat Townshend. A Small Craft Advisory was posted for the day which requires us to stay ashore according to our Coast Guard Certificate of Inspection. We started out ...