Ship's Log: Team Longboat

By Nancy Israel, Bravo Team Co-Captain Bravo Team this year is a group of creative and caring middle and high school students from Port Townsend's alternative learning program, OCEAN. We've really been enjoying the gift of being together during the ...

I have a personal philosophy: all skills are learned and anyone can learn a skill. This doesn't mean that everyone masters a skill easily, but that we all have the capacity to learn what we need or want to know. ...

Each year, Bravo Team studies both maritime expedition skills and our marine environment. As we build our knowledge of the Salish Sea, we consider service projects that we could complete to contribute to a healthy marine environment.  Like many classes, ...

On March 4 Bravo Team students and instructors happily reunited at NWMC! Students from the OCEAN program at Port Townsend School District have been meeting online every Thursday all school year. We will be having outdoor classes every other Thursday for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 is ...

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 so ...

It was sunny, the wind was light, and we had just launched our freshly painted and oiled boat Townshend- what could be better than heading out for an afternoon on the water? We started our day practicing the cleat hitch ...