Ship's Log: Youth Programs

Kelley Watson and the Port Townsend Maritime Academy Graduation

Kelley Watson reflects on the Port Townsend Maritime Academy school year and graduation. I had forgotten until last night that our first week of school, we didn’t even have classroom space. The eighteen students (from Port Townsend, Chimacum, and ...

Rowing, Sailing and Singing

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. ...

Planning Day

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 ...

What Are Your Echos?

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 ...

Beach Time, Boat Time

February sunshine in the northwest is a magnet like nothing else, drawing sun starved northwesterners outside like moths to a flame. This week it was so nice out that we had a hard time tearing ourselves away from the beach, ...

Good Day Sunshine

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 ...

Onward Winter Maintenance

For the past two weeks, the girls have focused on maintenance of our boat, Onward. We spent time last week sanding and varnishing oars. This week, we painted the hull and thwarts. Painting is a big job, but it goes ...

Environmental Project Planning Day

Bravo Team took advantage of a shore day due to a small craft advisory to dive into planning our environmental project. We also took some time to go out to Point Hudson where we enjoyed our snack and moment of ...

Splash and Haul

Bravo Team has been waiting for this day for over a month. After spending four weeks working on Townshend in the NWMC boatshop, today we were able to splash her back into the water. We also took advantage of the ...

Fun in the Boatshop

This was our third week working in the boatshop on Townshend maintenance. We worked hard even with a smaller crew this week. One of the students had a broken wrist and was still able to get a lot done! Rolling ...