Boston Family Boat Building
SAVE THE DATE
JUNE 8, 2010
11:00 AM
BOAT LAUNCHING
JAMAICA POND BOATHOUSE
On Tuesday, June 8 the fifth grade students of the Dennis C. Haley Elementary School
in Roslindale will launch the 8 boats they built this past winter.
It is sure to be a fun event.
 
Check out this video from last year's event.
 
 
More info and details will be coming as the date gets closer.
 
 
 
Contact
 
John Rowse, Executive Director, Boston Family Boat Building, 617-595-8557
 
 
Boston Family Boat Building brings critical academic subjects and skills -- math, science, social studies, spatial thinking, reading and writing -- to life with experiential learning opportunities for school children. It is a unique program serving Boston Public Schools elementary school children that draws on the outstanding natural features of Boston and its rich history. Now in its third year, the program works with 4th and 5th graders to learn navigation skills in the Harbor, construct a seaworthy 10-foot wooden rowing vessel and learn about earlier Bostonians, particularly African Americans, who worked in the maritime trades. Check out all our programs to bring exciting experiential learning opportunities to students of the Boston Public Schools at
  
Boston Family Boat Building is supported by volunteers, individual donors and funding from The Jane B. Cook 1983 Charitable Trust, Lawrence and Lillian Solomon Fund,
Amelia Peabody Foundation, Cabot Family Charitable Trust and
George A Ramlose Foundation. 
 

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BOATS FOR SALE
to support our work with kids
in the Boston Public Schools
 
Some of the boats built by students in past years are pictured above. They are for sale for $1,500 each. We have 15. They are 10ft, carvel planked in Maine cedar, framed in white oak from Orange, MA and have a fir plywood bottom. All materials are sourced from sustainably managed forests by certified loggers and milled in FSC certified facilities.

Contact: 

 John Rowse
Boston Family Boat Building

133 Paul Gore Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130