Today was about playing games and mastering blades! The girls played some delightful get to know you games and then dived into Shop Time. There everyone worked on their tool trays, with chisels, planes and saws they used their strength and focus to cut straight clean lines for their trays. And learned some excellent skills
“There’s something about these vessels that cause some kind of hypnotism, you do things you’d never dream of doing in your ordinary mind” -Irving Johnson Today was the last day of our fall session, to celebrate we made popcorn and watched “Around Cape Horn.” Filmed in 1929, it depicts the voyage of the 4 masted
Nothing is like an adventure with your friends, to feel the breeze through your hair and the splash of water on your hands and face. Amazing how the beauty of nature can clear your mind, make you forget your worries. “Very little is needed to live a happy life; it is all within yourself; in
Someone once quoted “As we grow up we realize it is less important to have lots of friends and more important to have real ones.” In the Girls Boat Project all of us are friends as well as a team. The Girls Boat Project is truly a honor to be apart of, it is an
We started our day with a discussion of brave things we have done such as ways that we stood up for what we believe in or took a risk to achieve our goals. Then the girls learned how to tie bowlines. It took some practice and teamwork to get good at it. The girls used
During the intensive week of boat building we also wanted to make sure the girls had a little something to take home with them. As a bench project each girl made her very own bevel gauge. Lara headed up the creation of these handy angle measuring tools. She helped the girls to cut out and
In one intensive week of work the Girls Boat Project team was able to make a great amount of progress toward the completion of Otter Pride. We started out with only a few bottom planks on the bottom of the boat, and finished the week with the bottom mostly complete and two new side planks
This summer a crew of eight hardworking girls has gotten together to spend an intensive week working on the work punt. Three hours of hard work each morning. This is how it started out For this week we split up into three groups: side planking, bottom planking, and making personal bevel gauges.
Saturday May 14th – The girls pack up and head out On our day off from school the members of the Girls Boat Project all gave up some extra morning sleep to meet at the Maritime Center at the early time of 9:00 am. After taping the tide tables for the weekend onto our water bottles
This week was the first week of the spring session. For this session we gained a new member. Welcome Emilia! We also had a new instructor join us in place of Kat who had to leave early to go fishing in Alaska. Welcome Emily “Ems”! We started out by playing some games so we could all get