Hello Friends! I want to introduce you to our newest member of the leadership team: Katie Oman who has just accepted the position of Chief Operations Officer here at the Maritime Center. It’s a big job, with big shoes to … Read More
Studying the Salish Sea
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 … Read More
Bravo Team Adapts to the Times
Greetings! It’s been a while since our last post back in mid-March. Bravo Team started up again in October with a virtual format. We meet every Thursday on Zoom for one hour and have been focusing on Salish Sea environmental … Read More
Rowing, Sailing and Singing
Light north wind, sunshine, flood current and tide rips made for a good longboat adventure today. After settling on a date for our Beach Clean up and picking our sweatshirt color for this year, we headed out on the water. … Read More
GBP: Framing our Skunk Island Skiff
Our March 5th meeting of Girls Boat Project brought teamwork towards progress on our Skunk Island Skiff. Last week we attached the bottom, this week our focus was to install the framing along the sides of the boat from bow … Read More
Planning Day
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 … Read More
Sunshine, Shanties, and Skiff Building
The last meeting for the month of February brought sunny skies for us to enjoy and planning for us to look forward too. As we all assembled, we discussed our weekly board question, “Have you discovered anything new about yourself … Read More
What Are Your Echos?
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 … Read More
Beach Time, Boat Time
February sunshine in the northwest is a magnet like nothing else, drawing sun starved northwesterners outside like moths to a flame. This week it was so nice out that we had a hard time tearing ourselves away from the beach, … Read More