By Sean Bunting, Bravo Team Instructor Sometimes it’s best to start a new year fresh. Bravo Team took this idea and ran with it (rowed with it?) all the way to the travel lift at Boat Haven Marina. During our first class of the new year, we hauled Townshend out for a bit of paint
By Taylor Austin, Girls’ Boat Project Instructor Over the past few weeks in the shop, the group has been focused on skill-building and practicing with various tools as we continue building tool trays and parts of what will be our boat! Big news is we have a transom! Made out of Sapele wood, the process
Speech by Matthew Rothschild, NWMC Program Alumnus & Cal Maritime Academy Student, from Navigator Night Out 2022 I graduated in 2020 from Port Townsend High School and the Port Townsend Maritime Academy in its inaugural year. I will be going into my junior year at Cal Maritime in Vallejo, CA, where I am majoring in
Created by R2AK Film Boss Zach Carver and his team of filmmakers, The Race to Alaska movie is a visceral film showcasing the camaraderie of the racers and the competition of the race. From the quirky to the sublime, from Olympic athletes to high schoolers, the characters in this film show that there’s no one way to
By Sean Bunting, Bravo Team Instructor It’s that time of year again. Driving rains reinvigorate dry ground, bitter winds gust through the land, wood stoves across the state are reawakened—and two captains, a mate, and nine brave teenagers start going out in the fine longboat, Townshend, bow-first into those first two things. Bravo Team is
By Taylor Austin, Girls’ Boat Project Instructor Since our last update about the Girls’ Boat Project return, we have been getting underway familiarizing ourselves with the tools in the shop, the plans for the boat we are going to build, and getting to know each other! Now on our third week, we have eight girls
This week on Wednesday, October 5, we had our first meeting of the Girls’ Boat Project program for this season! With eight students and two instructors, we are stoked to spend time getting to know each other and do some woodworking in the NWMC Boatshop. In the Girls’ Boat Project, middle school girls learn woodworking
The smell of fall is in the air, which means students in Northwest Maritime Center’s (NWMC’s) partner programs are back in the classroom and in the field. In both Port Townsend and Des Moines, NWMC provides access to experiences in the field and in the boatshop. These kinds of hands-on learning experiences can be transformative
By Jake Beattie, Executive Director “The sea is the most powerful teacher we know” is something we say at the Northwest Maritime Center because we believe it to the core. The good news is that we’re not alone. Teaching With Small Boats Alliance (TWSBA) is a grassroots association of 300 or so similarly-minded organizations throughout
By Abbie Smith, SSE Program Manager Back in May, a group consisting of 7th, 8th, and 9th graders from Manson Options School boarded schooner Zodiac for an expedition for the first time in two years. Manson Options School from the Lake Chelan area has been a repeat school group for years—it’s become tradition. With the