Ship's Log: Boatshop

Painting, Varnishing, and Leathering

Today was another maintenance day for the longboat Townshend. Bravo team spends several weeks each winter working on the care of this boat that is our floating classroom. We started the day with a silly dance move name game. It ...

Ship’s Articles, Bench Projects, and Seat Risers

This week in the Girls' Boat Project we took on a variety of tasks. First off, we completed our Ship's Articles or team agreements. This took the form a pennant or flag that we created as a group. We started ...

Cruising Along

As we enter into December, our team has developed a flow. We started the day with a challenge- escaping the Bosun's Handcuffs! Bosun's handcuffs are made by tying two bowlines in a line, slipping one around each wrist, and then ...

Community Matters

We started off today looking at the results of the #GivingTuesday and #GiveLikeAGirl fundraising campaigns which took place yesterday. More than $23,000 was raised to support women and girls maritime programming. We are so proud to be part of this movement. ...

Working With Frustration

While the hard skills of woodworking and boating might be the most tangible things we work on, many days learning the soft skills of how to operate as a human in the world are even more important. This week, our ...

Chamfers, Cuts, and Layout

Halloween is a busy day in Port Townsend, so our shop time was focused and concentrated today. We all wanted to leave a bit early to join the massive Halloween parade downtown. We stayed in our same work groups as ...

Back in the Shop Again!

This week we headed back into the shop. The first part of our day was spent reviewing shop safety and re-orienting ourselves to using the tools. Each girl went through a rotation with our instructors. They practiced lining up cuts ...

February in the Boatshop

10 volunteers 203.5 hours The month of February was as busy as ever in the shop, too much to effectively shine a light on all of the projects, programs and partners, so I will focus on three. I'll start with a new ...