Ship's Log: Girls’ Boat Project

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Today was blustery and rainy, a perfect day to spend in the shop. We started off the day with some knot tying practice while we waited for everyone to arrive. Cleat hitches and reef knots were the focus today. [caption ...

Did you know that October 11th is the International Day of the Girl? The UN has declared this day with a mission to "help galvanize worldwide enthusiasm for goals to better girls' lives, providing an opportunity for them to show ...

First days don't get much better than this! We decided to take advantage of the stellar weather this week and go sailing on Dorjun. She is a beautiful double-ended lifeboat that was built in 1905 and she's an amazing way to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To start out this week we played a fun game with a tricky solution. The girls had to think outside of the box to figure out how to separate their ropes without taking their hands out of the bowlines. After ...