Ship's Log: Youth Programs

Shanty Singing and Making Things Shiny

It's only a few days until our sold out fundraiser, She Tells Sea Tales. The girls spent the first half of class rehearsing the shanty they wrote to share at the event. We are excited to share it with you! ...

Readying the Oars

This week the Girls' Boat Project put in a final day of maintenance on our longdory Onward. We split into two groups, with four girls prepping and painting oars and the other four working on our personal projects. It was ...

Service Projects and Sunshine

Today Bravo team started off the day with a focus on developing our environmental service project. We worked in small groups to brainstorm projects that could address four areas we are concerned about: deforestation, ocean acidification, orca populations, and plastics ...

Oily Satisfaction

This week in Girls' Boat Project we worked on Onward's oars. It was a busy and productive day in the shop and our last week to work on the boat before she is launched for the spring. We worked in ...

The Slowest Way to Do Anything

Today was the first sailing day of the the year! And it was full of laughter, slow-ish sailing, and much learning of words and parts of the boat. Sailing involves learning a new language. Some of the words to make ...

The Joy of Rowing Hard

Townshend is in great shape and we hit the bay ready to row after snowpocolypse finally let up. We were all happy to get out on the water again with several new team members to train up! It was a ...

Onward Maintenance Day

This week the Girls' Boat Project jumped into fleet maintenance for our boat, Onward. Onward is the long dory we use for our program. She is coming out for some much needed painting and varnishing as well as a few ...

Floating Our Boat

After a month of maintenance, today was the day we launched our boat Townshend. It was exciting to see all of the results of our hard work. We admired the water beading up on the freshly oiled wood, the shiny ...

Shave and a Haircut

Bravo Team's last day of maintenance was today to complete Townshend's annual 'shave and a haircut.' We got right to work and had all hands on deck complete the last of the hull prep before we vacuumed and wiped ...

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 ...