Women and LGBTIQ+ Woodshop NightsKingston N.Y.- Celebrate Pride Month with HRMM. Every Thursday evening in June we will host open, supervised Woodshop hours welcoming all who want to work on personal projects in a friendly and gender-expansive shop environment. This class is designed for makers with some woodshop experience. Participants will have access to a full range of Woodshop tools and are responsible for bringing their own materials and hardware. Instructors Becky Sellinger (she/her) and Liz McClellan (they/them) will be available as helping hands and to offer guidance and instruction developing your skills with tools in the shop as needed for your project. Participants are required to attend one shop orientation and to be checked off on power tool use before or during open shop hours. Students must supply their own materials. All are welcome, though please be mindful this is a safe space created with intention for women and queer folks. Thursdays, 6pm-9pm, June 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 General Registration: $35 Member (Individual Level): $30 Member (Household Level & Above): $30 For Information and Class Schedules: email Wooden Boat School Manager Becky Sellinger, [email protected]  The Wooden Boat School was founded by the Hudson River Maritime Museum in 2015 to preserve the maritime craft traditions of the Hudson Valley and to teach a hands-on interpretation of the living history of the Hudson River. The school offers diverse curriculum and opportunities which inspire skills in woodworking, boat building, and maritime craft. Also available are restoration services for wooden boats. A class calendar and details can be found at www.hrmm.org/woodworking.
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 Hudson River Maritime Museum Wooden Boat School instructor Wayne Ford (right) assists a student with adirondack chair construction in one of the Build Your Own Adirondack Chair classes, fall, 2020. Courtesy Hudson River Maritime Museum. December 3, 2020
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Hudson River Maritime Museum’s Wooden Boat School Announces Winter Classes KINGSTON, N.Y. – The Hudson River Maritime Museum’s Wooden Boat School has released its winter class lineup! In August, the museum’s Wooden Boat School began holding classes on a limited scale after our COVID shutdown. The class sizes were kept small and students were able to learn with plenty of distance between them while following guidelines designed to keep everyone virus free. Several of our popular classes will be returning and we have added several new offerings this winter. Returning classes include Build Your Own Adirondack Chair, Live Edge Table Build, Build Your Own Oval Shaker Boxes, Cigar Box Guitar, and our Foundations of Woodworking five-part series. Classes which are new to our lineup include two different classes on building different styles of tool boxes, pen turning, a basic bookshelf build and others. We have also scheduled a Family Carolina Skiff Build where one lucky family or friend group can build a boat together in one weekend. We normally offer this class to two groups who build two boats at the same time. However, to ensure COVID safety protocols, we are only building one boat with one group this time. The class is open to one group of 2-4 students who are comfortable working together. All the classes this winter are great for beginner woodworkers or anyone looking to improve their skills. Fall classes sold out quickly, so we encourage anyone looking to purchase classes as a gift or for themselves to register early. To learn more about the classes, register, or view the extra safety guidelines we will be following please visit www.hrmm.org/boat-school.html About the Hudson River Maritime Museum. Located along the historic Rondout Creek in downtown Kingston, N.Y., the Hudson River Maritime Museum is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of the maritime history of the Hudson River, its tributaries, and related industries. HRMM opened the Wooden Boat School in 2016. ### Museum Meets Demand with COVID-Safer Protocols
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: KINGSTON, N.Y. – Due to an overwhelming response The Hudson River Maritime Museum is thrilled to announce the Wooden Boat School has added additional sessions of two popular classes. The Live Edge Table class which took place last weekend and the Adirondack Chair class which will be happening later in October both sold out quickly. As a result two additional sessions of these classes have been added to the schedule. We have put in place the appropriate practices to accommodate safe distance teaching techniques so that students can learn and improve their woodworking skills. We urge interested students to sign up soon as classes are limited in size.
Additional classes that still have a few spaces:
To learn more about the classes, register or view the extra guidelines we will be following please visit www.hrmm.org/woodworking. For more or any questions, please contact Wooden Boat School Coordinator, John Phelan at [email protected] or call 845-338-0071 ext 11.  Adirondack chairs built at the Hudson River Maritime Museum's Wooden Boat School. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
KINGSTON, N.Y. – The Hudson River Maritime Museum is thrilled to announce that Wooden Boat School classes will resume this fall! We have made the appropriate changes to accommodate safe distance teaching techniques so that students can once again learn and improve their woodworking skills. We urge interested students to sign up soon as classes are limited in size. Classes which are already open for registration include:
To learn more about the classes, register or view the extra guidelines we will be following please visit www.hrmm.org/woodworking.  Youth Instructor and Boatwright Wayne Ford (left) and Wooden Boat School volunteer Ben Geskie (right) illustrate how the boat looks with people in it for the production crew. Photo courtesy Hudson River Maritime Museum. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE KINGSTON, NY – The Hudson River Maritime Museum is temporarily closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. If you thought you saw a familiar image on Amazon Prime recently, you weren’t alone. Rowboats built at Hudson River Maritime Museum’s Boat Building Challenge were featured in Season 3, Episode 8 of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” available now on Amazon Prime. Last summer, the museum was approached by film producers working in the area looking for boats to use in filming. The museum had several small rowboats – called Carolina bateaus – left over from that spring’s National Boatbuilding Challenge, generously donated by the challenge participants. John Phelan, Hudson River Maritime Museum's Boat School Coordinator and Dockmaster said, “The producers liked the boat and the deal was done. They needed the boats in only a few days. So Wayne Ford went to work with the help of several great volunteers. We cleaned up the boats, faired some rough edges and installed a bow seat. In just one day the boats were ready to go.”  Screenshot from "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" featuring the rowboat from the Hudson River Maritime Museum.  Screenshot from "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" featuring the rowboat from the Hudson River Maritime Museum. The museum was informed of the appearance of the boats in the show by Tom Russell and Rob Dwelley, both organizers of National Boatbuilding Challenges across the country. Russell and Dwelley recognized the distinctive lines of the Carolina bateau – the only design used in the National Boatbuilding Challenge competition – and called the museum immediately. “We are so pleased we were able to accommodate the production’s needs and look forward to potential collaborations with other films in the future,” said Lisa Cline, Executive Director of the Hudson River Maritime Museum. Another museum boat may be featured in an upcoming Netflix film. Stay tuned for more news when the film is released. Those who are able to donate, we encourage you to visit www.hrmm.org/covid19. Thank you for your support. We won’t get through this without you. * * *
For interviews or additional information, please contact Executive Director Lisa Cline at [email protected] or 845-338-0071 ext. 20. The Hudson River Maritime Museum is a 501(c)3 organization established in 1979 to collect, preserve, research, exhibit, and interpret a collection of historical artifacts related to the maritime heritage of the Hudson River and its tributaries. This is the only museum in New York State exclusively dedicated to this mission. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, April 9, 2020 KINGSTON, NY – The Hudson River Maritime Museum is now temporarily closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. PROGRAMS All spring events have been cancelled or postponed until the end of May, 2020. Programs occurring after May will be assessed on a rolling basis. All program registration is currently on hold, but interested parties are encouraged to sign up for a wait list. When the program is opened back up or rescheduled, waitlist applicants will have first choice of confirming their registration with payment. Those who have already paid for cancelled or postponed programs have the option to pause and reschedule for a later date, receive a full refund, or donate their payment to the museum. CAMPUS USE The museum campus is still open for social distancing walking, but all buildings are closed to the public. Our partners at the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater will remain on our docks and in the Kingston Homeport and Education Center for the foreseeable future. Clearwater crew are living on board the boat and we ask that members of the public avoid the areas near the boat and the Homeport building (also known as “The Barn”) for the safety of the crew. The museum docks will be open for limited, pre-arranged seasonal docking. In addition, docks will be available for any transient boaters in need of overnight docking. Transient boaters in need must register online through Dockwa or by calling the museum’s dock phone (845-706-8881). All payments must be made by credit card online or over the phone. All boaters must adhere to social distancing rules. Museum buildings, including restroom/shower facilities, the Wooden Boat School, and the museum itself will not be open to boaters for everyone’s safety. Water and electricity will be available. For more information, visit www.hrmm.org/docking. The museum’s rowing docks will be available to qualified users (contact the museum to see if you qualify), but only for the use of single person boats. No multi-person boats allowed. Members of the public are not allowed on the Museum’s docks for insurance and safety reasons. Docks are for registered boaters only.  Hudson River Maritime Museum Wooden Boat School volunteer Ben Geskie with the museum's donation of PPE, including 175 N95 masks, to transport to Vassar Hospital. PPE DONATION The Hudson River Maritime Museum’s Wooden Boat School had a number of nitrile gloves and N95 masks on hand prior to the pandemic. Over the last few weeks museum staff had been coordinating with the state to try to donate them to the state stockpile. At the same time, a Boat School volunteer contacted us, offering to make a donation to cover the cost of any personal protective equipment we could donate to local hospitals. Last week, YouthBoat graduate and Boat School volunteer Ben Geskie asked whether or not the Boat School had any PPE on hand. Ben’s father works as an ICU nurse at Vassar Hospital in Dutchess County and they were in need of supplies. Sometimes, things just come together. On Tuesday, April 7, 2020, Ben and his mother picked up 170 N95 masks and 700 nitrile gloves to transport to Vassar Hospital. The Boat School volunteer (who prefers to remain anonymous) has made a donation to the museum to cover the cost of the supplies. Once the pandemic is over, the museum will be able to restock the Boat School. NEW ONLINE PROGRAMS As the museum is closed, we are working on expanding our online offerings through our history blog (www.hrmm.org/history-blog) and through Museum At Home (www.hrmm.org/museum-at-home), where members of the public can browse online exhibits, articles, oral histories, images, and more, completely free of charge. Museum staff and volunteers are working hard to ensure seven days a week of blog posts, including history articles, steamboat biographies, Throwback Tuesdays, Music Mondays, historic newspaper articles, videos, and travelogues on the Hudson River. We encourage those interested to sign up for our email list to receive updates and blog posts highlighting the history and culture of our valley in their inboxes daily. The museum is also launching a series of social media initiatives, including the Hudson Riverscapes photo contest on Facebook. Participants can submit photos weekly for weekly awards of free museum memberships to photos that garner the most likes and comments. At the end of the pandemic, the photo with the most likes and comments overall will be awarded a free charter aboard museum’s the solar-powered tour boat Solaris. The charter can be redeemed as soon as Solaris is back in the water and allowed to take passengers, or through the end of the 2021 season. The museum will also be launching Hudson River Bingo on Facebook and Instagram, as well as sharing blog posts, videos, historic photos, and more. You can join us at facebook.com/hudsonrivermartimemuseum or instagram.com/hudsonrivermaritimemuseum. FUTURE OF MUSEUM In the past several years the Hudson River Maritime Museum has grown exponentially and programs have grown along with it. The Hudson River Maritime Museum has become a destination for tourists and locals alike, open 7 days a week in the summer and all winter long. History tours, lectures, school field trips, youth boatbuilding, sailing, and rowing programs, along with adult woodworking, boatbuilding, sailing, and rowing programs have all made significant contributions not only to the museum’s coffers but to the revitalization of downtown Kingston. Unfortunately, this increased reliance on program income has meant that the prospect of a closed museum for the spring and potentially the summer has put a huge dent in the museum’s budget. More than 60% of the budget comes directly from program income, with additional funding from general admissions to the museum. For this reason, the museum has been forced to lay off over half of its staff and remaining staff are working at 40% of their normal hours. Even if the museum is able to open in the fall, the winter months provide less income than spring and summer. The museum is in dire financial straits without program income. We are currently applying for federal relief funding under the Small Business Administration, which, if awarded, will help us in the short-term. But the long-term success of the museum and its vibrant community programs depends on individual and business support. As a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, the Hudson River Maritime Museum depends on donations. The newly passed CARES Act has changed tax filings and now allows for those who itemize their taxes to deduct 100% of charitable donations in 2020. Even those who do not itemize can still deduct up to $300. 2020 is the 40th anniversary of the Hudson River Maritime Museum opening its doors on the Rondout and we had planned the best season yet. Sadly, that season as planned is not to be, but the remaining museum staff are working hard to ensure that we can come back stronger than ever to make our 41st year better than ever. The museum is asking the entire Hudson River Valley community to please help ensure that we are around for another 40 years. Our river’s heritage and culture are too valuable to lose. Those who are able to donate, we encourage you to visit www.hrmm.org/covid19. Thank you for your support. We won’t get through this without you. * * *
For interviews or additional information, please contact Lisa Cline at [email protected] or 845-338-0071 ext. 20. The Hudson River Maritime Museum is a 501(c)3 organization established in 1979 to collect, preserve, research, exhibit, and interpret a collection of historical artifacts related to the maritime heritage of the Hudson River and its tributaries. This is the only museum in New York State exclusively dedicated to this mission. |
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