Ship's Log: Youth Programs

Adventure

[gallery ids="622,557,558" type="rectangular"] Nothing is like an adventure with your friends, to feel the breeze through your hair and the splash of water on your hands and face. Amazing how the beauty of nature can clear your mind, make ...

Sunshine Day!

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 ...

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 ...

We Are All Friends Here!

[gallery ids="731,693,576" type="rectangular"] Someone once quoted "As we grow up we realize it is less important to have lots of friends and more important to have real ones." In the Girls Boat Project all of us are friends ...

Fitting Frames and Cutting Half-Laps

We start each week with a discussion question. This week it seemed apt to ask, "What you thankful for?" Our answers ranged far and wide from family and friends, to lots of kinds of food (cheese, pasta, turkey), to great ...

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 ...

Bowlines, boat frames and grooving.

We started our day with a discussion of brave things we have done such as ways that we stood up for what we believe in or took a risk to achieve our goals. Then the girls learned how to tie ...

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 ...

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 ...

Back in the Boatshop

It was another great day for the Girls' Boat Project. After sailing last week, we headed into the boat shop today. The girls worked on their tool trays and the boat frames, switching groups from last time. [gallery ids="661,662,664,667" type="...