After too many weeks of windy small craft advisory weather Bravo Team was back on the water today. Yay! We loaded our gear in the Bosun’s locker and headed down to the boat. Because it had been a while, Captain … Read More
Team building, bilge pumping and persuasion!
Our 4th Thursday in a row with a small craft advisory kept us ashore, but not out of the boats. RAIN has been filling our bilges! Imagine that. We had a bilge pumping party. We love being outside and taking … Read More
We Are All Friends Here!
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. … Read More
Fitting Frames and Cutting Half-Laps
We start each week with a discussion question. This week it seemed apt to ask, “What you thankful for?” Our answers ranged far and wide from family and friends, to lots of kinds of food (cheese, pasta, turkey), to great … Read More
Team Thankful
Another Small Craft Advisory kept us shore-side today. With a mostly full crew, we headed outside for a trust-building and laughter-inducing game called Battle Bots. The purpose of the game is for two teams to communicate with their robot (a … Read More
Bowlines, boat frames and grooving.
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 … Read More
Adapting to Adversity
We started the day with more getting to know each other– Nancy had us write down a hobby, our favorite book and our favorite food on a piece of paper. Then we shuffled them around and had to find the … Read More
Small Craft Advisory & House Cleaning
Today was our first Small Craft Advisory (SCA) of the year and we spent time looking at the actual weather happening outside versus what had been happening earlier in the day and what is predicted to happen later in the … Read More
Back in the Boatshop
It was another great day for the Girls’ Boat Project. After sailing last week, we headed into the boat shop today. The girls worked on their tool trays and the boat frames, switching groups from last time. We ended the … Read More
Thursdays are Better with Bravo Team
I have been working for the NWMC for since 2006, originally hired to teach women’s sailing classes and work with Bravo Team. After 10 years of working with school programs I decided to take a break. I took a year … Read More