By Chrissy McLean, Bravo Team Captain This year’s Bravo Team crew has been practicing the art of shoulder season on the water. We have been lucky in dodging the winter storms and honing our abilities to read winter weather. Being a boater in the winter means that you need to consider additional risk factors like wind
Bravo team ended their year together with a one day journey from Point Hudson to Rat Island (about a mile across the bay). We were excited to spend the day together and use all of the skills we had learned over the year to have a day of adventure. We spent several weeks leading up
By Chrissy McLean, Bravo Team Co-Captain There is a saying that slow is smooth and smooth is fast. According to the internet, the saying originated with the Navy Seals. In any case, the idea is that in order to learn how to do something quickly you often have to slow down, take your time, and perfect
We are so excited to finally restart our Girls Boat Project program this week! In the Girls’ Boat Project, middle school girls gain skills and have fun in the maritime trades. They learn woodworking and boat maintenance techniques in our boatshop as they create their own projects and help care for our fleet of small boats. The program is led by women role
I have a personal philosophy: all skills are learned and anyone can learn a skill. This doesn’t mean that everyone masters a skill easily, but that we all have the capacity to learn what we need or want to know. Learning skills happens in all kinds of formats; sometimes we need direct instruction, sometimes we
Who enjoys a three hour bus ride? Enthusiastic students from Bellevue’s Open Window School that’s who! A group of 31 excited sixth graders came to Northwest Maritime Center on June 10th for a day of hands-on learning and hours of enjoying each other’s company during the bus ride. Students rotated through land and dock based
Each year, Bravo Team studies both maritime expedition skills and our marine environment. As we build our knowledge of the Salish Sea, we consider service projects that we could complete to contribute to a healthy marine environment. Like many classes, learning this year was primarily online. We began learning about the Salish Sea in the
Bravo Team has been meeting weekly online since September. While we’d all prefer to be on the water, we are enjoying this time to learn more about where we live- the Salish Sea. If you haven’t heard that term used before, the Salish Sea refers to the ecological habitat that includes the Puget Sound, the
It was a windy day in Port Townsend Bay and Bravo Team was held ashore. Our COI (Certificate of Inspection) states that we aren’t able to head out in over 18 knots of wind or when a Small Craft Advisory is posted. Both of those things were true today, plus we all agreed it generally
Sunny winter weather continued this week, so Bravo team was out on the water again. We are working towards a 5 day journey this spring and each week we build our skills for that voyage. The wind was perfect today so sailing was our goal. After leaving the dock, we rowed power strokes past the