By Chrissy McLean, NWM Career Launch Manager The water temperature is 47 degrees, your boat is flooded to the gunnels, and your crew is… smiling? Telling jokes? It sounds like you’ve landed in the middle of the annual longboat capsize drill. Every spring, as part of our annual Certificate of Inspection renewal, we are supervised
By Tracy Thompson, NWM Volunteer Coordinator HAPPY VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION WEEK! Volunteers assist Northwest Maritime in nearly every aspect of our programming, and we are especially grateful to them all during Volunteer Appreciation Week. We are so grateful to our ongoing volunteers who commit to regular shifts in the Welcome Center, the Boatshop, on our Board
By Madison Maxwell, Girls’ Boat Project Instructor What were you doing in middle school? I certainly was not holding power tools while wearing safety goggles in a boatshop. But this group was! We started out with a group of middle school girls who were nervous but eager to learn. To begin, we crafted the ship’s
Port Townsend Maritime Academy’s (PTMA) Class of 2025 have taken to the stage in style, being the largest class size in PTMA history. Our students come from across the western shores of Puget Sound, and meet together every morning at the Northwest Maritime Center. Students began the year by attending a festival—the Wooden Boat Festival
“…And we’re bound away for Austraaaalia!” We are three weeks into Team Longboat (formerly Bravo Team) with a motley crew of brand-new folks and seasoned returners! The returning crew has stepped up into leadership roles to show new folks the ropes (literally), and the crew is working amazingly well together, singing chanteys, rowing hard, and
WA360 is finally back after four long years, and the cannon fires at 11 AM on June 28, 2025. If you missed it the first time or you’re looking for a northwest adventure race that lets you keep your engine aboard, WA360 has your name on it. Starting in Port Townsend, and with four waypoints
What’s the salty equivalent of a jack-of-all-trades? A Maritime Discovery Program student. Master-of-none, however, might only apply since they’re often 5th graders. Each spring and fall, school groups from near and far gather to discover their “spark”—what brings light to their eyes, and what challenges them to think more expansively. In the Boatshop, our team
In their first week of school, Maritime High School (MHS) 12th graders had the opportunity to take their Classroom to the Water and spend the week with Washington State Ferries (WSF). Students were able to engage with the crew—learning about docking, shoreside operations, and the engine room. The students especially loved the tour of the
By Mary Rothschild Because Northwest Maritime has had so much to do with the young man Matt is today, I wanted to update you on where he has landed. After graduating in May from Cal Maritime, he came home to Port Townsend—jobless. He knew that opting for a degree in Oceanography (he was in the
The wait is over. We’ve been dropping hints, teasing the possibilities, and now it’s time to reveal the details of the next bucket list item that Northwest Maritime has cooked up for you: WA360. What? WA360 is a 360-mile, sail, and human-powered race through Washington’s waterways. It’s a test of endurance, strategy, and skill, where