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
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
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
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
Rowing Enlightenment – Stage 3
The weather today was fluky and when students arrived for class at noon, going out on the water wasn’t likely as the white caps were stacking up in Port Townsend Bay from the morning blow. While waiting for students to … Read More
Stepping Back in Time
Longboats are like time machines- they take us back 200 years to a technology that isn’t sleek, fast, or always efficient, but it’s pretty fun! Today was week two of Bravo Team and we had a chance to hit the … Read More
Bravo Team is back in action!
For our first class of the fall we welcomed OCEAN students back aboard Longboat Townshend on a glorious fall day! We focused on getting to know each other and the boat as well as setting expectations and goals for the … Read More
Our Bravo Team 2017 Bird Zine
BRAVO TEAM ZINE 2017-final Click on the link above to see the full publication! Much work was put into the Zine by Audrey Drake and her mom Kelly Drake. Our very own Anna Molotsky Bravo Team student will be speaking … Read More