YouthBoat, Fall 2022

YouthBoat is an after-school program for students ages 11-18 that is designed to empower youth, build character, and foster teamwork through the traditional craft of wooden boatbuilding and on-the-water activities. Students from diverse backgrounds put STEM skills to work as they learn alongside skilled shipwrights and craftspeople throughout the boat building process. Check out this video of a past YouthBuild session with Ulster BOCES!  
Dates: ​Tuesdays and Thursdays
Semester 1, Basic: November 1st - January 12th
Semester2, Basic & Advance: February 7th - May 2nd
Instructor: Wayne Ford 
Class Size: 8

Basics of Woodworking for Kids

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Our Summer Sessions for this class are now full. Please check back for future classes. Designed for youth ages 10 - 17, this 2 week series meets 3 days a week Tuesday-Thursday and will introduce students to the basics of woodworking and carpentry. This class is offered twice this summer. Over the course of 6 sessions, each 3 hour class will employ shop safety, measuring, layout,  joinery, and tool use and care. Each class will introduce additional tools and their application. The class will work together to build a small stick framed structure on the museum's campus. As classes progress so will the construction of each student's toolbox that they will take home at the end of the class. 

Building & Sailing Boats

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Our Summer Sessions for this class are now full. Please check back for future classes. ​Offered in two sessions, students will begin the course in the Boat School each morning learning basic woodworking skills. They will learn about the parts of a sailboat and practice their woodworking skills while working on two in-process Optimist Pram sailboats that will be added to the HRMM sailing fleet. After lunch, students will join US Sailing Certified instructors to learn the basics of sailing. Students will practice skipper and crew skills and will sail independently when they are ready to do so. On the fourth day, they will launch a newly completed Optimist Pram, knowing they have helped build this safe, beautiful, functional vessel which will be enjoyed by dozens of young people in future classes.