Mission: Using boat building and rowing to provide positive direction to youth by encouraging the development of personal and community responsibility.

Helps at-risk youth learn new social, life and job skills through boat building. boat building, rowing lessons.

Students attend semester and year-long boat building classes where they learn to measure, cut, fasten, and paint a traditional twelve-foot wooden skiff or build a larger dory.

Rowing Program: Youth from schools and youth agencies learn to row on our two 4-rowing station dories, and on a Grand Banks Dory. The program has both a teambuilding and recreational component.

Partners:

Portland Public Schools
YMCA
Boys and Girls Club